CHAPTER 2 : GOAL SETTING & LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

What is goal ? 

     Goal setting is the object of a person's ambition or effort: an aim or desired result. It also can be called as the destination of a journey or a point. 

This particular topic will focus on :

1. Characteristic of goal
2. Academic & personal goals
3. Writing effective goal statements

     Goals are important in varsity life because they help motivate you to do work, attend classes and study for exam. We can actually improve your academic performance in university by learning to set goals that motivate you to do well in the future. Goals are the ends towards which we direct our effort.

    If we want to success, we must set our own goals. Without goals, we are lacked focus and direction. Goal setting is not just only we list our own goals then try to achieve it. It related with our life when sometimes we need to sacrifice something for achieve our goals. All about our goals is on our hand. Either we success or not is on our decision.

   To achieve our goals, we can't only set it just to say "i want". Goal setting is a process that starts with careful consideration of what you want to achieve, and ends with a lot of hard work and sacrifice to actually do and achieve it.

Our goals should be :

CHARACTERISTIC OF GOALS

• Goals should be self chosen.
• It must be moderately challenging.
• It should be realistic.
• It can measurable.
• It must be specific
• It must have a finite (having limits or bounds)
• Goals must be positive.

ACADEMIC GOALS VS PERSONAL GOAL

1. Academic goals.

• Get pointer 3.3 and above.
• Learn korean language.
• Get dean list at least 2 / 3 times in diploma level.

      2. Personal goals.

• Do a part time job for my own experience.
• Travel to Korea.
• Be close to God.
• Give my parents some money after i have got a job.
• Take my family to do haji or umrah.

     Importance for both and well balanced for academic and personal goals. We must disciplined our self and put a lot of effort for make our goals succeed. It is because these two goals is important
 in our life. We cannot focus on just one goal just because we give up.

     In islam, we are in context world and hereafter. We need them both because in our living for example, we need money to buy a books for our own knowledge. We must have a good communication with society for us to give a dakwah. All these mission to get an akhirat, we must have an acknowledge. If we don't get them both, we are nothing.

How to achieves your goals ?

Step 1: Write what you want to achieve.

Step 2: Write the obstacles that you must faces.

Step 3: Write source around you.

Step 4: Review and revise your goals.

Step 5: Polish your goal statement.

                                            This is an example of how i do my own goals.

You achieve or not your goals is put on your decision.

Be positve and make your goals come true.