Goal setting is either your best friend or your worst enemy. But the feeling of accomplishment is even better than the feeling of setting goals and makes it worth it. I did much better with my goals than I expected. I’ve developed an art style, yet I know it will always evolve and change. For now, however, my drawings are how I like them. As for the anatomy part, I’ve learned the basics, which includes someone standing straight or waving. Even then, I’m proud of the progress I made. As for the personal goal, learning to read and write Urdu, I had more struggles but I can say with confidence my speaking skills with the language have improved a lot. I can make out most words and identify the letters, and although I’m setting new goals, I will make sure to work on these until I’m happy with where I’ve gotten. Now the time has come to set new goals, and hopefully, feel that nice sense of accomplishment in a few months.
I read a lot; it’s one of my favourite things to do when boredness hits, or when I’m unable to sleep. But thinking back to it, sometimes I don’t fully understand everything I read. Why did the main character make a bad decision when they had better choices? Why did the author write this paragraph in the way they did, and how were they able to invoke so many emotions? This semester we’ll be doing a novel study, and so my goal is related to that. I want to have a better understanding of what I read, what I’m being told and why the plot is the way it is or why the author wrote it the way they did. This goal seems difficult, but using the SMART method, I’ll hopefully be able to figure out how to improve my reading comprehension skills. We got the ‘S’ part down, but next comes measurable. How will I be able to record my growth and improvement? The idea and the way I was thinking of approaching this, was to reread something I’ve read before, but this time take notes. Look for things I didn’t notice before or look into things that intrigued me. I recently read a book that had a long prologue, and it had bothered me a bit, but thinking to it now, there’s a reason the author had written it like that. Now, how achievable is this goal? I say my grades and how my skills will be put into use for this upcoming unit will tell me how I’ve progressed. This goal isn’t too far off, and this is a skill I’ll need for the rest of my academic life. This also ties into relevance and how realistic this goal is. It’s doable, and it may not be the easiest but to me, the effort counts, and I think I’ll have fun reaching my goal. I get to read, learn about what I read, and understand English better. Win-win. My second goal is for the VAM academy, and this one was hard to think about. There’s a lot I want, a lot that I always want to improve on. However, one thing that bothers me is the waves of creativity and inspiration along with the lack of motivation and no inspiration. Sometimes, I’ll have no ideas yet other times I’ll have too many ideas. To say specifically, my goal is to execute my ideas and do what I can to take my ideas out of my head and put them on a paper or canvas. Whenever I have ideas, whether it would be for an art piece or writing, I’ll never execute them, and I’ll let them rot in my brain until the motivation or inspiration passes. I hope to reach this goal by sketching my ideas when they come to mind, even if it’s something small with my finger and my phone or something big with my sketchbook and pencils. This isn’t something that can be tracked well, but the way I hope to approach this is by starting new with a new sketchbook and a new google doc for my ideas. I want to be able to look at the dates and look at the progress and ideas I had. My experience and time with my goals this year were much better than I expected, yet there’s always room to improve and I hope this semester will leave me with more ways, time and motivation to complete my goals. I’m a bit hard on myself, and it can be frustrating but I can say with confidence I’ve been more positive about my goals, my art and my life, in general, more this year than before. I hope that this positivity will keep up until the rest of the year, and I’ll feel that sweet sense of accomplishment once again.
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