{"id":26954,"date":"2016-01-12T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=26954"},"modified":"2016-01-11T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T22:54:00","slug":"goals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2016\/01\/12\/goals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#GOALS"},"content":{"rendered":"Like a new year (hello 2016!!), a new semester never fails to get me in the mood to reflect on my goals. Goals forgotten, goals achieved, #goals that I aspire to move from the murky depths of my Pinterest board to real life and goals that are relevant to what I hope the new semester might hold for me. <\/span>\r\n\r\nAt the beginning of last semester, I spent one particularly quiet night shift at work outlining the academic hopes and dreams that I would \u2018surely<\/em>\u2019 have no trouble fulfilling \u2014<\/span>\u00a0 the steps that would have me on the road to university success in no time. However, upon revisiting said list, I can now safely say that my list was pretty unauthentic and maybe even impractical. My goal for this semester? Setting realistic goals.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLike me, you probably want it all. I want 8 hours of sleep, a 4.0 GPA, an exciting social life, impressive extracurriculars, updated podcasts to listen to while I commute, a weekly volunteer placement, a fitness regimen that just doesn\u2019t quit, a job that I love and on top of all that \u2014<\/span> enough time do all my readings WITH<\/strong> notes, eat three meals a day (healthy snacking included) and watch a show on Netflix before bed. <\/span>\r\n\r\nSadly, I recognize that as much as I might desire to be Superwoman, I am not her. I need goals that are conducive to my lifestyle: a very very busy university student. <\/span>\r\n\r\nTo combat my yearly overzealous goal making extravaganza, I decided to make a list of short-term and long-term goals for myself. I found that organizing my goal making this way allowed me to be realistic about what I might be able to achieve in a semester. I tried to keep in mind that a semester is only four months long and that with all of my mandatory responsibilities, it\u2019s a little crazy to expect myself to make multiple drastic changes to my lifestyle.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\"A<\/a>\r\n\r\nOne goal I am guilty of making every year I have been <\/span>alive<\/span><\/del> in school is to do all my homework no matter what. It\u2019s not unlikely that 16 years ago, I prepared myself for junior kindergarten, notebook in hand with a full page dedicated to how I was adamant about finishing all homework and daily readings if it was the last thing I did. My attitude about the importance of homework has not changed much since, and to this day I still feel a pang of anxiety when I know I don\u2019t have the time or energy to do it all. <\/span>\r\n\r\nThis year I have done away with my all-consuming homework finishing obsession and instead adopted a much kinder homework philosophy: start a week earlier.<\/span>\r\n\r\nStarting my homework, projects and papers a week earlier than I \u201cneed to<\/em>\u201d not only gives me the time to meet with the appropriate people (shoutouts to the Writing Centre<\/a>) but it will hopefully relieve some of that nail-biting, hand-wringing, tear-inducing stress that comes from having less than enough time to finish an assignment properly. <\/span>\r\n\r\nTo inspire you to be kind to yourself while #goal making this semester, I have lovingly drawn you a stick-figure rendition of the video that has delighted many a millennial in its time floating about the internet... \u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\"A<\/a>\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like a new year (hello 2016!!), a new semester never fails to get me in the mood to reflect on my goals. Goals forgotten, goals achieved, #goals that I aspire to move from the murky depths of my Pinterest board to real life and goals that are relevant to what I hope the new semester might hold for me. <\/span>\r\n\r\nAt the beginning of last semester, I spent one particularly quiet night shift at work outlining the academic hopes and dreams that I would \u2018surely<\/em>\u2019 have no trouble fulfilling \u2014<\/span>\u00a0 the steps that would have me on the road to university success in no time. However, upon revisiting said list, I can now safely say that my list was pretty unauthentic and maybe even impractical. My goal for this semester? Setting realistic goals.<\/span>\r\n\r\n
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