SETTING CLEAR GOALS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
‘‘Success is goals, and all else is commentary’’. Without goals you simply drift and flow on current of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target. –Brian Tracy.
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Your goal should be smart: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound.
- Specific, it should be definite, detailed, exact and precise. Have a clear target for every study session, each subject or course, term or semester and session.
- Measurable, it should be assessable, quantifiable and easily calculated.
- Achievable, it should be a feasible, attainable, and a possible or realizable target. Don’t just build castles in the air.
- Realistic, it should be reasonable, down-to-earth, and must make sense.
- Time-bound, it must have deadline, time limit or cut-off date for its achievement.
In order to achieve your desired unprecedented success, note the followings;
- Goals make you think positively and critically, thereby releasing inert energy, zeal and relevant ideas necessary for their accomplishment.
- Successful people in all areas of life are intensely goal-oriented.
- Some students due to lack of clear goals and vision waste their early years in the college on trivial issues which affect their ultimate performance.
- Before personal study, be specific in your goals in terms of subject/course and topics to be covered as well as evaluation tools.
- Success is goals; every other thing is commentary.
- Have both short term and long term goals and work it out.
- Goal-getters are goal-diggers, so assiduously excavate your goals.
- Having arrays of distinction(As &Bs), making first class and topping your classmates is just a matter of a well defined, properly articulated, passionately pursued and fully accomplished goal. Therefore, lay hold on goal setting; write down clearly your academic goals and do something definite daily in terms of effective study and persevere until you achieve all.