Goals Revived! - And Pwning Life 2.0

So I was in my Student Development class and can you believe the subject? It was goal setting and on my teacher's PowerPoint, he had stated that there are 6 types of goals:

• Social - I want to get married by age 24. Basically anything that has to do with your social life.
• Academics - Ex. I want to get this GPA by September 25.
• Religious - Ex. Pray 2 times a day.
• Personal - Ex. I want to write a novel by the time I'm 50.
• Physical or Health - Basically like losing weight, or and other health related goal.
• Financial - Anything based on money. Ex. Make $1000.00 a month.

And my college professor also stated that there were six characteristics of goal setting. When he brought that up, that caught my eye because most people set goal that are too far-fetched. They set a goal that they most likely wont complete because it sounds like an impossible goal. So if all of your goals had these six characteristics, they would work and you most likely could accomplish them. And these six characteristics are:

• Believable - Is this goal possible for me to do?
• Measurable - How long do I have to complete this goal. Can I complete this goal in a lifetime?
• Adaptable - 
• Reasonable - Is this goal something I could complete?
• Controllable - Can I control whether this goal happens? Example of a non-controllable goal: The New England Patriots will go to the Super Bowl this year.
• Desirable - Is this goal something that I anxiously want?

"You'll notice that Believable and Reasonable are kind of the same thing."

And then now for the difference between a good goal and a bad goal.

An example of a good goal:

• Graduate NVCC with a 3.2 GPA by August 2012.

An example of a bad goal:

• Graduate from college. 

If you notice (which I'm sure you do) the difference between these 2 is pretty easy to spot. The good goal had dates, a GPA to graduate with and even the college. The bad one was just bland and plain. It didn't even  go under any of the Six Characteristics of Goal Setting. I can guarantee you that if you write one of these "bad goals" you will not follow it and complete it. A common example is losing weight. People always say they want to lose weight. But they never say how much, or in what amount of time, or even how they plan on doing it. And that brings me to my last point, adding objectives to your goals. Now your probably asking "what is an objective?" Well and objective is a statement/check list that will help you answer your goal. Now let me give an example with a goal and objectives.

Goal: 

To graduate from GMU in May 2012.

Objectives:

1. Submit my application to GMU by April 1, 2010.

2. Submit my financial aid information to GMU by April 1, 2010.

3. Complete my AS Degree at NVCC in August 2010.

4. Take 15 credits per semester at GMU. 

Now if you will notice these colleges are in Virginia. But that doesn't matter because I got my point across. Goal setting can be the difference between living a healthy, happy life and living a life where you don't know what to do next everyday. So you you regularly WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS, I can guarantee that you will be successful and you will love life and get all that you want out of it.


Oh and I almost forgot, the Pwning Life group has a new site check out Miltownklan.org and sign up for the mailing list and as for the forums. Big news on it, instead of me explaining it in text here, here's a link to the video miltownkid made: Pwning Life Changes