It's no secret that I'm not good at setting goals for myself, either I forget about them and don’t go through with them or I just don’t know where to start or how to set a proper goal for myself. This is why when it came to writing my S.M.A.R.T. goals for this year it became a challenge. This year we had to come up with two goals, one for VAM academy and the other for our personal life, when I heard this, I thought no problem, how hard could it possibly be, but then I started to think about what my goals should actually be and I couldn’t come up with anything, especially for my personal life.
I thought about these goals for as long as I could, which wasn’t much because we had a due date on coming up with our goals. Originally I thought that I could make one of my goals about soccer because my indoor soccer season is starting soon, so maybe I could start training and improve my insurance for running so that I could improve my soccer skills. But then I realized that my soccer season is starting sooner than expected, so my goal wasn’t achievable in that time limit. So, I was back to the beginning. I thought that this time I would start with my academy goal. My goal for academy this year is to improve my painting skills, this has been something I've been meaning to work on for quite a while now, and I thought there's no better time to do that than now that I'm in VAM. I plan on working on my painting abilities on a small panel canvas every weekend hopefully for the next 4 months. I hope to use what I learn in VAM about art as a good stepping stone for my goal, and by the end of the 4 months, I want to paint one of my bigger paintings putting to the test some of the skills that I’ve learned by then. I’ll know that I have achieved my goal if by the end of the 4 months I'm happy with most of my paintings and I have improved some of my skills and techniques. I do hope that I will be able to keep up with this goal and that hopefully even after the 4 months I’ll get in the habit of painting more often or even working on some of other skills in art, like my digital art (which I have also been meaning to work on, but I don’t have a computer at the moment so I can’t really work on it). Anyway, with my academy goal out of the way I was still struggling with my personal goal. So I decided that I would keep it simple, something that I could hopefully easily achieve. When I was trying to come up with my goal I thought about what was it in my life that I could probably improve. Was there any little thing that I needed to work on? So I settled on drinking more water, which should be something that we all do on a daily basis but if you think about it, something as simple as drinking water is overlooked by a lot of people and when it comes to myself specifically, I have never been good at drinking water. I will normally choose any other drink except for water unless I have to. On a regular basis I think I would only drink around just one water bottle a week and that is definitely not healthy. I would get dehydrated easily and suffer dizzy spells often, but recently I decided to start drinking more water so I decided that could be one of my goals since it’s definitely something I need to do. I will start slowly by just maybe drinking one bottle of water a day (which might not seem like a lot but for someone like me it is) and then I will make my way by maybe drinking just half a water bottle more a day each week. I will know I have achieved my goal when drinking water hopefully becomes second nature and I’ll probably not be dehydrated anymore. I know that setting goals is an important thing in life, but I don’t think I only speak for myself when I say that actually keeping your goals isn’t easy,.on’t believe me? Then take a look back to New Year's a time where we all set resolutions( goals) on what we hope to achieve during the year ,and if you can confidently say that you have stuck to that resolution then I’ll believe you’re good at setting goals, but I know most people aren’t as much as we want to say we are. In the end, I know that my personal and academy goals are worth keeping and I’ll do my best to actually do them but I would be fooling myself if I didn’t say that there will be times where I forget about them. I guess we’ll see how it goes.
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