Goal Setting: Inevitable for Happiness and Success - James Hilary Sequeira

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  Goal Setting: Inevitable for Happiness and Success - James Hilary Sequeira

Having utmost boredom or unhappiness regarding your learning tasks? Well, it is bound to be that way if you are not all set to achieve what you ought to! Student happiness and success lie in goal setting and a strict adherence to the same throughout the year. It can work wonders only when you follow it from heart and keep excuses at bay. How does that work?
Goals for Learning become Goals for Life:
 

Students who set goals and work sincerely to achieve them come out with flying colours. It gives them a purpose and sets them to work. Practice is a must when it comes to mathematics, science, grammar and other subjects. Usually students feel more attracted to play, TV, mobile phone games etc. which just eats up most of their time and creativity. Setting goals for oneself to achieve makes one serious in one’s work and gives a direction. It sets a purpose. Adults have their job. Home makers have works to accomplish. But students seem to be free, almost all the time, trying to figure out whom to play with or which phone or gadget to stick to. As a result, most of their time is just killed without any purpose. Life goes on without much taste. The fruits are nothing but lack of a sense of achievement, boredom, frustration, failure etc.
 

When students set goals for themselves for their learning, they tend to have a purpose. When they get to the path of accomplishing their goals, it brings in focus which is much required for any student to be successful.
Etymologically, the word student comes from the Latin word studere which means ‘applying oneself to’. There is an aspect of high focus when a person applies oneself to something. There is seriousness which culminates in high results bringing in happiness and a sense of accomplishment. This definitely creates high self-esteem in a student making him or her capable of achieving more by using available time wisely and productively. You become prepared not only for a test or for an exam but also for any task. This is not limited to student life alone. The harvest can be reaped, of course with high dividends, throughout one’s life as the student is already well ground in such a culture.
SMART Goals:
 

Goals should be SMART. They should be Specific; so that they are there in front of your eyes (Stick it on the wall / desktop screen). When you see it, you will find it easy to achieve. Goals should be Measurable; like in percentage or figures. They should be Achievable; in the sense, your goals should be within your reach and aspiration. They should be Realistic; they cannot be fictitious nor just a dream. Finally, your goals should be Time-bound; you should commit yourself to achieve those set goals within a particular period of time.
Final Word:
 

At the end of the year, evaluate your performance as a student. That will tell you where you lagged and where you need to put in more efforts. A good and astute student would not surely wait till the end of the year. At the end of every month he would evaluate himself, only to set finer goals for the coming month. So, at the end of the year, you could fix goals for the new academic year. To
your surprise, if you follow this Best Practice, you will achieve great heights and will be proud of yourself. You will be a happy student.


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