Reflective Essay On Short Term Goals

This semester has been a very informative time period due to the many different strategies that we have learned and practiced in our academic journey. I believe the most significant strategies that I demonstrated were utilizing short-term goals by making them clear and specific enough to complete them, creating a schedule to manage my time so tasks could be completed, and lastly exam preparation to see optimum results. I indicated that I needed to work on these strategies because I needed to improve on my job as a student. I believe I had the necessary skills to show optimum results in my academic journey but I did not always showcase these skills. Implementing these strategies have improved how productive I am with my time, the amount of time …show more content…
My short-term goals were more so of a checklist. This checklist was not always completed either. It was more so something that I could look at and get a better understanding of what needed to be completed. When creating this checklist I would write down a whole bunch of stuff that I needed to do and then get overwhelmed by the amount of work I had to do. This then led me to procrastinate all of my tasks because starting it made me feel like I had to complete the assignment in one sitting. It was very easy to talk myself out of starting my checklist because I would say, “ I don’t have enough time to finish this task.” I rarely thought of the idea to just simply start what I could on each task little by little until the task was fully completed. Micah put off assignments just as I said I did, “Prior to doing the short term goal activity, I would put off big assignments and studying till the last minute.” This is a natural occurrence before establishing short-term goals. In order to stop this, it is necessary to develop “self-regulating skills as it is important for permanent learning and gaining strategy-developing skills.” (Hardalac,