{"id":25529,"date":"2016-02-01T13:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T02:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=25529"},"modified":"2018-11-15T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:38:03","slug":"study-skills-handbook-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=25529","title":{"rendered":"Study Skills Handbook &#8211; February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Achieving Your Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A big step towards achieving your goals is developing and maintaining a goal setting mindset<br \/>\nas the attitudes you have learnt and develop will influence the way you view goal setting.<br \/>\nApproaching a task with a negative and self-defeating attitude makes it much harder to<br \/>\nactually be successful at that task.<\/p>\n<p>You need to have a positive attitude when you are setting and trying to achieve your goals. A<br \/>\npositive attitude means you are looking for ways to succeed rather than focusing on the<br \/>\ndifficulties and obstacles that could be in your path.<br \/>\n<strong>To create a more positive attitude:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022\u00a0 Each day note down something you did towards achieving your goals.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Note down any changes someone else has noticed eg. your teacher says well done on<br \/>\nyour work.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Don\u2019t stop trying if something goes wrong, rather reassess your goals or decide you<br \/>\nneed to work harder to achieve them.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Find a mentor or helper to encourage you to achieve your goals, possibly someone who<br \/>\nis interested in the same things or is good at the same subjects, but is a bit further ahead<br \/>\nof you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other reasons why we don\u2019t achieve our goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022\u00a0 No action plan.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 No true commitment to the goal.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Not rewarding yourself along the way.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Trying to focus on too many goals.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Not preparing yourself for success.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Fear of failure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are still not achieving your goal try this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022\u00a0 Clarify your goal.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Write a list of actions.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Analyze, prioritize and prune.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Organise your list into a plan.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Monitor the execution of your plan and review your plan regularly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Achieving Your Goals A big step towards achieving your goals is developing and maintaining a goal setting mindset as the attitudes you have learnt and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25530,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25529\/revisions\/25530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}