2020 - A New Decade: What Are Your Goals?

January is the time of year that many people make New Year's resolutions.  These are goals or ideas which people want to achieve or strive toward, usually to better their lives.  Some common examples for adults are to lose weight, eat better, stop smoking or exercise.  More often than not, people are really eager to make their resolutions come true and are usually disciplined enough for the first month to really try to reach their goals.  Then people start to realize how difficult it is to maintain their new lifestyle and slowly begin falling back into bad habits.

Children can also make goals for their lives.  They can be related to school, home, extra-curricular activities or health.  For example, maybe you decide that you are finally going to keep your room clean.  How would one reach that goal?  First, you can make sure to hang up all your clothes everyday or you can make sure that you put away things in their proper places so that clutter does not build up.  A school-related goal may be to walk ten laps during indoor R.A.C.  In order to achieve that goal, you must be willing to put forth more effort into speed walking.

Remember that goals must be attainable.  In other words, you should only make goals that you know you have a chance of achieving.  There is no point in saying that you are going to be the fastest runner in your class if you hate running.  Likewise, you would not say that you're going to listen to the teacher more often when much of your day involves talking to your friends.  You must choose a goal that you are willing to work toward.

Choose three goals and describe why those are important to you.  How are you going to achieve those goals?

~The Big Ham
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