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The document discusses setting and achieving goals. It provides an example where the goal of improving a golf handicap was not achieved due to a lack of planning and practice, while a work goal of obtaining new loans was achieved through clear planning and motivation. The characteristics of effective goal setting including being specific, measurable, realistic and having a timeline are also discussed.

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Assignment Unit 7

The document discusses setting and achieving goals. It provides an example where the goal of improving a golf handicap was not achieved due to a lack of planning and practice, while a work goal of obtaining new loans was achieved through clear planning and motivation. The characteristics of effective goal setting including being specific, measurable, realistic and having a timeline are also discussed.

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Briefly, share a time when you set a goal and did not accomplish it, and then share a

time when you set a goal and successfully achieved it. Why weren’t you successful in

your first example? Why were you successful in your second example?

 An example I would give when I was unsuccessful in achieving my goal was when I

wanted to improve my golf handicap from 24 to 20 over the year. An example I

would give when I was successful in achieving my goal was when I wrote ￡ 5

thousand of new bank debt during the year for my previous employer.

 The reason why I would consider that I was unsuccessful in achieving my goal of

reducing my handicap was due to planning, motivation, focus, time management, lack

of practice and attitude. Like most sports, it’s about practice however one needs to be

able to plan and allocate enough time to practice, have the right attitude and the

motivation to put in the hours of practice at the driving range and/or on the course to

see the stage by stage improvement. Unfortunately, I wasn’t focused on the task at

hand which leads to me losing interest and procrastinating.

 The reasons why I was successful in achieving the ￡5m of new debt during the year

was because I clearly mapped out my plan at the start of the year, this meant that I

divided the amount/goal into manageable monthly targets which made the amount

seem more realistic & achievable and lastly I was motivated by the fact that by

achieving my goal there would be a financial reward at the end of the year.

Why does effective goal-setting help us achieve goals? What are the characteristics of

good goals?

 ‘A goal is a result we intend to reach mostly through our own actions’ (College

Success, 2015). By setting effective goals, goals become specific and clearly defined.

Specific goals are more effective in improving performance than are general goals or

no goals at all and an effective goal indicates what you need to do to achieve it. This
also means that effective goal-setting should be measurable so that you must be able

to measure the performance that relates to the specific goal. Effective goal setting

make goals realistic and produce better performance than moderate or easy goals. The

higher the goal, the higher the performance, as long as the goal does not exceed what

we are capable of doing and as such goals should not be so difficult you lose

motivation and ultimately fail.

 The characteristics of good goal-setting are: goals should be realistic and at the same

time challenging, goals should be specific and defined, goals should have a defined

time frame, goals should be measurable, goals should be attainable, goals should be

prioritized, one should develop strategies to meet your goals.

Based on your answer to questions 1 and 2, set three goals: one short-term, one

midterm, and one long-term.

1. Short-term: Look to buy or make an offer on a new house within the next 8 weeks so

that we can provide stability for the kids.

2. Medium-term: Look to help the girls settle in their new schools over the next 12

months following our move from the United Kingdom to South Africa.

3. Long-term: Complete my undergraduate degree from the UoPeople within the next 24

months after starting my first term in September 2019.

References:

College Success. (2015). Retrieved from

https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/549879/mod_book/chapter/201988/College-

Success.pdf

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