...I. Introduction: Growing up less affluent, I have always set goals for myself. Not long term goals because being modest long-term goals were unimaginable. I had to focus on today’s goals which were attainable. Mother always told me that competition is the key to success. Will, held on to that belief until I got older and needed to rely on goals rather competition. Competition can only carry you to a certain point; however, goal setting is for a lifetime. II. Thesis Statement: Goals setting is a greater predictor of academic success than competition, goals provide a sense of purpose because it gives direction and increases motivation. III. Goals provide a sense of purpose A. Hewerton states that A goal is something we strive for that should be aligned with our purpose and striving for our goal will help us accomplish our purpose (Roxi Hewertson, 2014). B. Finding purpose gives us a passionate reason to follow our goal sets. C. Setting goals with a purpose provide meaning otherwise it just a plan. IV. Goals increase motivation Your motivation is your desire to do something. It is your compass to scribing for your Effective goal setting begins with the characteristics SMART. A. Set specific goals: First you most ask what it is you want to accomplish i.e. Finish college- Then my particular goal with be to finish college. B. Set measurable goals: You should see progress. Such as completing my first online class. Each milestone will give...
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...Academic interests and goals Life is a continuous learning process, which requires a strong method to develop better ways of apprenticeship. Coming from an immigrant family and watching your parents struggling to provide the basic living conditions to you and your siblings isn’t a happy picture. Unfortunately, it follows me every day in school and work. Having in mind what sacrifice my parents did to give me a better education and life, has made me think more seriously about my education, career and personal goals. Thus, being able to obtain a higher education gives me an opportunity to be better in many ways. Everyone should have many goals in life in order to survive, prosper and succeed in every journey that life gives. Education is the most important aspect in people’s life. In today’s society education is essential in order to be successful economically and socially. This is because education provides boundless opportunities. During my days as an undergrad student here at Clark University, I came across various options for a choice of career and perceived chemistry to be challenging, versatile, innovative and evolving preference of many other students. Though it attracts many, only a few are able to make a mark and I want to be amongst them. I always wanted to work in the healthcare industry because it affects people’s life and also it is known worldwide as an industry with a high potential for growth, development and innovation for a better living. Having read...
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...1. Your academic and career goals As I continue my studies at the University of Alabama, I want to maintain a 4.0 GPA and furthermore graduate with honors. Although this goal seems farfetched in many ways, I believe my best effort and hard work can truly make this goal a reality as long as I keep my priorities straight. I enjoy the challenge of a class and I believe it is important to take a step beyond simply going to class and memorizing material for a test. There is so much more to be gained by actually comprehending the material that can further translate to a better understanding of the world as well as becoming a well-rounded person. I also want to take courses in the remainder of my time at the University of Alabama that I would not necessarily consider myself to be interested in. Being at college gives students a chance to diversify and take interest in subjects that they had not been presented with before, and I fully plan on accomplishing that....
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...Personal Academic Goals Terry Cerami GEN/200 April 7, 2014 Joann Iglinski Personal Academic Goals A key component to achieving success, particularly in academics is goal setting. Goal setting is the process of consciously identifying events in which you desire to transpire in the days, weeks and years ahead of you. As I cast off the mooring lines and get my academic journey underway with the University of Phoenix, I first need to establish goals and incorporate a plan to achieve those goals. Therefore, the three main goals that I have set to assist me in the navigation of my voyage are stress management, time management, and personal responsibility. College students are more stressed out than ever before (Szalavitz, 2011), which is why stress management will be at the forefront thought of every endeavor and evolution while I'm at the University of Phoenix. There is a magnitude of factors in pursuing a college education that contribute to unhealthy levels of stress which may include greater academic demands, increased deadlines, new responsibilities, or even finding yourself in a new diverse environment. Managing these factors is paramount, because when stress becomes overwhelming or we maintain a high level of stress over a prolonged period of time, it can impede on our productivity, alter our moods, affect our relationships, interfere with our quality of life, and most importantly cause a decline in our health. As I anticipate assignment deadlines being the main stressor...
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...How academic experience prepares you for college and reaching career goals The key to a child striving to obtain a degree is for his or her parents to really teach the importance of having one. Getting a degree is probably the only thing that I look at totally different as the years has passed. My parents were real old school and they didn’t come from a family of scholars so I was not really pushed in that direction. They made sure I did well in grade school but all I really was told was to get a job. All children should be explained how better life will be for them and their children if they get that degree. I realize it now but I’m not in the situation I would be in if I started fresh out of high school. More opportunities would’ve been available because I would be more mobile. I have children now but back then I didn’t have any. I could have easily moved to another state if I needed to do that for my career. The long term results and values of completing a degree is a sense of accomplishment. Some people do it to make their family proud. Some may do it so that they can personal see their achievements. Whatever pushes and drives you to reach for the stars is positive motivation. When you get a degree you stand a better chance at getting hired for jobs. Once you get hired it doesn’t stop there. With that degree you will get looked at for promotions versus someone who doesn’t have one. The biggest difference that a degree makes once you start working in your career of choice...
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...I have many personal and academic goals that I believe will help me learn and develop as an individual. When it comes to personal goals, I hope to further my community service and time spent giving back to those less fortunate than I. While I do currently participate in service, such as helping organize books at the local library, I want to increase that amount of time even further. It is my hope that this goal will help me develop even more compassion to the lives of others. One of the reasons I want to attend Boston College is the amount of pride they place in service. The fact that service is one of the pillars of the school instantly draws me and many other students to it. Organizations such as 4Boston will help me grow immensely as a...
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...------------------------------------------------- Somatoform disorder From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Somatoform disorder | Classification and external resources | ICD-10 | F45 | ICD-9 | 300.8 | DiseasesDB | 1645 | eMedicine | med/3527 | MeSH | D013001 | In psychology, a somatoform disorder is a mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms that suggest physical illness or injury – symptoms that cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition, direct effect of a substance, or attributable to another mental disorder (e.g. panic disorder).[1] The symptoms that result from a somatoform disorder are due to mental factors. In people who have a somatoform disorder, medical test results are either normal or do not explain the person's symptoms. Patients with this disorder often become worried about their health because the doctors are unable to find a cause for their health problems. This causes severe stress, due to preoccupations with the disorder that portrays an exaggerated belief about the severity of the disorder. [2]Symptoms are sometimes similar to those of other illnesses and may last for several years. Usually, the symptoms begin appearing during adolescence, and patients are diagnosed before the age of 25 years. [3] Somatoform disorders are not the result of conscious malingering (fabricating or exaggerating symptoms for secondary motives) or factitious disorders (deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms) – sufferers...
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...Analysis of data: Goal-setting Theory influence on general The diagram above indicates the correlation between each four components in goal-setting theory and academic performance. There is a positive relationship between each four components in and academic performance. Making specific tasks facilitates to get the direction clearly and to become more efficient to study. With moderate challenging target, students would be motivated to work harder for the feeling of achievement. Commitment has the highest correlation to academic performance among these four components. Without taking actions and efforts, goals are really not goals as they will never be achieved. Feedback provides clear information to compare whether goals are realized or not through endeavor. Goal-setting Theory influence on female and male The diagram above indicates the correlation between each four components in goal-setting theory and academic performance for male and female respectively. There is a positive relationship between each four components and academic performance. Moreover, the four components have stronger influence for female than male, because female are more likely dominated by plans and schedules than male. Males are always more flexible than females that their performance are not determined by only goal-settings. According to the diagram, there are significant different correlation between feedback and academic performance for male and female. Feedback is an influential composition...
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...Personal Responsibility Personal Responsibility is applied when I am self-motivated, I have time management and set personal goals. This will insure academic success. Being self-motivated is the force that drives me to do things. It makes me hold myself accountable for academic success and personal success. Being self-motivated pushes me to achieve my academic goals and pushes me to finish a difficult task. It will help me be sharp and not be influenced by the wrong people, and to be open to positive learning. I will set higher goals than normal people because I am self-motivated. Being self-motivated it will give me the ability to do what needs to be done, without the power or influence from other people. It will give me the strength to complete a task, even when challenging without giving up or someone to encourage me. I will motivate myself not to give up on my academic success, and I will graduate from college. I always told myself that I wanted to go back to school and get a diploma, but I never motivated myself to go back to college. I was always working and taking care of my family, so I always found an excuse not to go back to school. Now that I motivated myself to go back to college, I will not look back and receive my diploma. Self-motivation will be an important factor in my academic success. Having time management is the key to having academic success. Without managing my time due to personal, and work life I cannot be successful in bettering my education. Time management...
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...order to perfrom the job at an acceptable level. The KSA’s for UWA academics can be broken up into three hey areas. These areas are: * Research * Teaching * Service For the teaching part of the role of academics, various KSA’s needed for this include: * Extensive knowledge of the material at hand, including knowledge of real world related problems. * Ability to express information and ideas in ways that students can understand and being able to engage with students. * Ability to be clear about learning outcomes with students and being able to align assessments with those outcomes. * Ability to respond to students queries about the topics covered and provide them with other helpful insight into the industry studied. * Be available for consultation outside class hours to ensure that students may ask questions if there is a lack of understanding. * Competent in literacy and a little bit of technology. The performance standards for the teaching part of consist on focusing on the effectiveness of teaching and the overall effect on the students. These include: * Supporting all students in order to ensure that they have the best chance of succeeding in the course. * Material is made easy to understand and teaching methods are engaging for students. * Assessments align well with outcomes and are marked unbiased. For the research part of the role of an academic requires various skills such as * Relevant experience in research...
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...Continuing Academic Success GEN/201 Dec 15, 2014 Aimee Styers Continuing Academic Success Developing Academic success that will follow you throughout your life starts with planning, understanding your learning style, developing an effective writing and critical thinking process. As I begin my continuing education, continuing academic success is what I want, not only in my academic accomplishments but in all that I do at home and at work. So what is success, in its simplest form it is accomplishing or achieving what you desire or set as a goal. Then academic success is achieving or obtaining that degree and continuing academic success is the process of taking what you learn at school out into everyday life and your job. For me success is taking control of my education, abilities and skills to help me achieve my goals. Before I can do this I must establish a plan and define my goal or goals. So how do I reach this goal? That is a question many of us face, in many aspects of life. In reaching a goal it must first be defined and measureable. Effective goal setting is a key to success in whatever you do. According to (Morisano, Hirsh, Peterson, Pihl, & Shore, 2010), failure to have clear goals has led to students dropping out of college. When establishing a goal, an important question to ask is, why. Not knowing why you desire a goal will lead to a good chance of losing direction and site of the goal. Resulting in either the goal being delayed or worst, never...
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...Personal Responsibility: Only you can hold yourself accountable for academic success. Even though many students believe that they do not need a plan to achieve academic success, planning and goal setting is critical, without having a plan, and setting goals self-accountability for success is difficult. Maintaining a plan to succeed and to hold yourself accountable for both success and failure is the first step in personal responsibility. Students that plan for and take personal responsibility for their education have drastically improved success rate of achieving their educational goals. Personal responsibility is holding yourself accountable for the actions you choose or chose not to take in your pursuit of success. Students that do not take personal responsibility for their success are doomed to fail. Success is a choice and is attained by not only choosing to be successful but by making the correct choices along the way to ensure you are staying on the path to success. Students that take personal responsibility for their education have drastically improved success rate of achieving their academic goals. As a student, you must develop a plan for success and then be self-accountable to using this plan to ensure success. While there may be some outside influences such as Career Advisors, Financial Advisors, Parents, or Employers holding the student accountable to a certain extent, only the student is truly in control of the decisions they make on a day to day basis and lead...
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...Continuing Academic Success Continuing academic success goes further than just being in good standing within a university, or showing adequate progress towards a degree. It also includes creating your own goals that you need to work towards while continuing your education. Whether those goals are purely academically based or those goals pertain to what you want from your schooling to better your career and life, that decision is up to you. In the following paper I will share with you my own personal struggles with continuing my academic success, and the resources I used from my first course at the University of Phoenix to overcome those struggles. My Setbacks with Continuing Academic Success When I started the long journey of returning back to school I had many fears running through my head that made me feel that I may fail on this path of bettering myself. I had a fear of reading. Now that may sound strange, but I have always found focusing on reading a book challenging. I could read the words, and most of the times understand them, but my attention to the book would always drift. I had fears of staying on task and completing assignments on time. I felt that my life may be too busy to go back to school. I’ve always had the fear of writing papers. I’ve prided myself on being able to speak well and sound educated, but to actually sit down and write a professional paper scared me and made me feel ignorant towards a basic step in the academic process. In the past I have also...
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...Material Goal Setting and Time Management Worksheet Using the information from the Goal Setting and Motivation and the Time Management interactive presentations, respond to the following three questions: 1. Describe your time management plan to complete weekly assignments and participation goals. What specific days have you set aside for these activities? Your response must be between 50 and 75 words. My time management plan to complete assigments and participate in class discussion is pretty simple. All of my plans are worked around my school work, I mainly work on class assignments overnight when it's more peaceful in my house. At times, I do wait to the last minute to get things done but now that I have a schedule hopefully i'll get things done on time. I have certain days to do class discussions and those days are usually tuesday, thursdays, and saturdays if able. 2. What is your time management plan to balance your academic, personal, and professional responsibilities? Your response must be between 50 and 75 words. My time management plan to handle my personal, academic, and professional responsibilities would be tough. My professional schedule is contemporary all over the place but I plan to manage with this hassle until I get everything situated so I can have set days off to handle my academic responsibilities. My personal life will work around my professional and academic schedule. 3. In the following chart, choose one of your weekly academic goals, such...
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...Personal Responsibility is Essential for Success John Smith Gen 200 January 25, 2014 Professor Charles Shapiro Lack of personal responsibility will keep some people from achieving goals and dreams. Personal responsibility creates the foundation for success, successful behaviors, and not being dependent on others for success. Some people will blame other individuals or circumstances that may arise instead of their deficient level of personal responsibility for their lack of success. Three main components of personal responsibility that are the core to achieving academic success are time management, stress management, and health. Without following these few key points academics can be more of a challenge than it should be. Taking responsibility for one’s actions is the first step towards building a solid foundation for one’s success. It is likely that one will make some wrong choices, but it is in making wrong decisions that create opportunities to learn valuable lessons. When one admits to being wrong, it creates a vulnerability that is needed to grow in decision-making. Being honest is what will set one free to be able to learn more about one’s self and to become better. Ellis (2011) found “ The principle of telling the truth is applied universally by people who want to turn their lives around” (p. 25). All of these self-evaluation practices will be ineffective without taking action. It is like having a combination to a lock and never using the combination to open that...
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