Goals

       Hey everybody! Hope everyone got out and enjoyed the GORGEOUS weather we had this weekend! I know I did, went fishing, riding 4-wheelers, and golfing! Enough about that though, on Tuesday Karen and Zach talked about chapter ten: Planing and Problem solving. For most of the class period we spent our time talking about goals and how they effect us as students and mentors. Goals as a student and as an overall person are very important because I personally believe that if you go through life without ever setting goals, yes you may never be a failure, but at the same time you wont ever be a winner either. How would you ever know if you ever got anything accomplished that you wanted to, or made sure you did certain things that were important to you? While I feel goals are very important at the same time they can be very restricting. They can make you have tunnel vision by only focusing on that goal or making it something that you can never reach. That's why when making your goals its important to have a system that helps you set them.
      To help with this system we talked about how there are also different types of goals as well. The two types of goals we talked about were the four M's and SMART goals. We were then asked to make goals for different situations and use one of the system. Doing this we really familiarized ourselves with these two systems. The four M's system is in my eyes more of a broader system that you can use for setting goals that are in the future. The steps to the four M's is Motivation, Make commitments, Modify environment, and Monitor actions. With these step's you can help develop a long term plan. With the SMART goals it is more detailed oriented and used for short term goals. For students I think that SMART goals are the right choice because you can easily tell if your on track with the goal and is something that is actually reachable. Just while in college you need to make smart goals so you don't let yourself down.