Day 5- Goals

Today lecture was about goals. Everyone have their own goals in their lives. Goals can be long term goals, medium term goals or short term goals. I also have goals in my life. Below has mentioned some of main goals.

• Complete my BIT degree with a 1st class by next year.
• Be a system analyst 
• Do my MASTERS within next 3 years

Today beginning of the lecture, lecturer asked each student to say their goals in life. A particular goals should be SMART.

Figure 1: Time management

                                                           

A particular goal should be,

• Specific- Mention what exactly going to accomplish
• Measurable- Measure the goals
• Action Oriented- Set up things to be done
• Realistic- Goal is achievable or not
• Timely- Specified the time (Time period cannot be too long)

 In order to have long terms or short term goals need to have life time goals. 

There are different categories of goals. They are,

• Artistic goals- Goals of learn how to play a music instrument etc.
• Attitude goals- Goals that set up to get your mind set right
• Career goals- Need to identify the level of the career
• Educational goals- What you want to acquire within a particular time ex:- Learn a language
• Family goals
• Financial objectives- How much of salary are you planning to earn within a particular time period
• Physical objectives- ex:- Lose 10 kilos of weight within 3 months
• Pleasure- How you want to enjoy yourself
• Public service goals- How much of social works you want to do

From today's lecture I gained knowledge about different types of goals, SMART strategy.

Everyone like to accomplish their life goals. In-order to accomplish goals time management is useful, because when we manage our time we do our work more productively.