My Smart Goal

From my goals I have set I have learn to do my assignments all on time, I set my self a target which was during holiday time I will have one week of fun and the other week of doing assignment and it has heled me.

College is a life changing adventure, and I want it to be the best experience I can possibly receive. Attending Medgar Evers College, I have set high hopes and expectations. I hope to interact with people of diverse ethnicity. I want to learn more about different cultures and the individualization of people. And so far getting to know people on campus has been one of my greatest experiences. I have met so many wonderfully different people here. I hope to develop more independence. To be more responsible for keeping up with my schoolwork, preparing for tests, and making most out of my classes, even when they start early. Being successful in college is about more than handing your work in on time and passing classes. It’s about staying motivated. I know for a fact there will be a lot of demanding of my time. I know that procrastinating is not the best way of approaching situations. It is my responsibility to try to regularly motivate myself, even if it’s pulling

During my high school days and the last few semesters when I was at Sandhill Community College I was way too comfortable. I slacked off and all I was thinking about was just getting doing the minimum to just be finished already. Recently, I was pushed by the looks of my grades that I just needed to get things done; I wanted to be free, not to do my best, just to finish so I could say I passed all my classes. Now I realize life isn’t about just getting by, but about bringing all you have to be able to become successful in what needs to be done. In the next paragraphs I will explain what I expected to happen, what actually happened, what I learned, and how I will apply what I learned to future plan.

I believe all these strategies are very important to my success. I realize there are a lot of strategies to becoming a better student. Although, I haven’t attempted all the above strategies, the ones I have tried have been very helpful. I am going to follow and come up with new strategies to help further my chance at success in attending college. I’m grateful that I have been given an opportunity to better my life and my son’s life as well. The one thing no one can ever take away, is your

The last goal I set for myself is using my time for wisely. Every time I would come back home from school, instead of doing my homework, I would either turn on the TV or use my phone. Later on, I motivated myself to do something more productive. For example, doing and finishing my homework, because I wanted to maintain good grades. I knew that if I wanted to make my parents proud, I would have to do good in school. My parents were my motivation to always try my hardest no matter what.

The only reason that I am at Spelman College is my scholarship. Without my scholarship, I would not have been able to afford my education so a short term goal for me is to keep my scholarship. I know that I am capable of keeping my scholarship because I was capable of receiving it. This goal relates to my past because I worked extremely hard in high school to make sure that I had to grades to go to any school that I wanted for free. Letting my GPA drop below a 2.8 will disappoint myself especially since I worked so hard to get here and I would have let the opportunity slip through my fingers. I have been working to achieve this goal by getting organized and creating a schedule for myself everyday. This has helped me to create time to study and to work on homework throughout the week so I would not procrastinate and become stressed out. With this schedule, I have seen an improvement in my time management

During the implementation of my health plan I was able only partially meet SMART goals and objectives. My goal was to reduce exposure to harmful noises (higher than 85 dB) to less than 8 hours a day. In order to meet that goal I was using an app on my phone to measure noise level I was exposed to. In the situations where it was possible I was either reducing volume or using protective devices (earplugs and noise cancellation headphones) to reduce harmful effect of noise. I was able to meet my goal only in well controlled environments where I was able to control intensity of noise. For example - when I was driving car alone I could reduce music volume in the car. However in almost all other activities, like during lectures, during walks outside and in movie theaters, I could not control intensity of noises and could not avoid those activities. So in reality it was very difficult to fully implement my health plan.

To begin with, I can work on staying in the classroom, I don’t mean that physically, I mean try not to wander off into my own world. Just trying to stay focused on the topic in class. I will try to be more interactive with the subject. Doing that will help me concentrate in class. The next step to work on is getting assignments in on time throughout the whole year. Usually in the beginning of the year I get everything done and turned in on time, but towards the end of the year I slowly start to turn in assignments late, and they are not my best work. Perhaps I could start assignments right away, when I am first given them, because in the past I sometimes started on assignments really late and that's the reason I wouldn't do my best work on them. I could turn assignments in before they are due, or set my own due date so that I can get work in on time and I am submitting my best work. One last thing I would like to work on is actually studying for tests before I take them. Tests are a tremendous part of a grade and I think that for many times I almost failed a class, it was because I didn't pass a test, or didn't want to take the time to retake it. So, this will be something I can work to head on the path of graduating with a

development and support my weaknesses. My first goal is to obtain my MBA from Western

A Second strategy to reaching my goal is to complete my work on a good timing. The work my teacher gives me in that day to complete do it not taking

Time flies, the first term of my freshmen year is almost to the end. When I first got into college, I didn't know what to do as a college student. It was hard during the first two weeks of my freshmen year. Not to mention, It was right after a long summer's vacation. I was extremely lazy about everything and couldn't focus on school work. After almost failing my first mid-term, I realized I need to focus on studying. I began to get back on track and finished work before the deadline. As time passed, I could still remember when I first got into the Freshmen Inquiry class I was struggling and now my Freshmen Inquiry class is working on our last project of the term and our group is doing great. During Freshmen Inquiry class, I learned many things.

One of the best ways to follow a successful path is to set goals for yourself. They are important to keep yourself on task and to get to a desired point of self fulfillment. The issue can be how to achieve goals in a successful manner. The issue is "Although people may desire or intend to attain some outcome, they are not committed to that as a goal until they are willing to invest affect, cognition, and behavior in attaining it" (Traci Mann, 2013). This is why it is important to have a set path on how to accomplish important goals. I have chosen three goals that I want to accomplish to demonstrate a Process known as SMART, to help accomplish them. There goals are that I want to finally earn a college degree(personal), I want to make it

One thing I’ve learned is to use self-discipline. This was a good topic to learn about in class because I have always got distracted by things that made me fall off track. In the book called “On Course Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life” Skip Downing said “Success takes self-discipline- the willingness to do whatever has to be done, whether you like it or not, until you reach your goals and dreams.” This quote meant a lot to me during my high school year we had to do a Senior Project, let me just say I really didn’t feel like doing it. The more I thought about how important it was to graduate I got it done on time.

I can remember missing 8:05 classes because I stayed out too late the night before. In high school the teacher would constantly remind the students when certain assignments were due, but this was not the case in college. I learned that the hard way my first semester. Sometimes I forgot to turn in an assignment because I didn’t properly read my syllabus and my professor never mentioned it. These were all new problems that could have easily let escalate without taking the proper actions. For the most part I was doing fairly well but a few of my grades began to plummet. I was losing the confidence in myself and started to wonder if going to college had been the best decision. The time had come for me to grow up and become an adult even I didn’t feel the time was right. I immediately began attending tutoring sessions, working with peers and also keeping a daily to-do list. These factors were the eventually led to drastic improvement and success. After my first semester I learned how better manage my time, take advantage of campus resources and also how to organize myself better. These struggles also taught me that sometimes I try and rush through things instead of taking my time. I realized that one of my strong points is being able to really do well when my back is against the wall. Although I was unhappy while facing obstacles I am happy I experienced them. I believe this experience was the reason for my

What is my chosen emotion that I want to improve and what is my SMART goal related to developing the chosen emotion?