The Importance Of Setting Goals
What does your teen want to do? It doesn’t have to be for their entire life, this semester will do or even just today. The point is they set goals. The little goals add up to the big goals, but first they have to be able to know what they would like to do. This is the importance of setting a goal.
If your teen has a problem like poor grades, it helps to break it into little goals. The immediate goal may be getting up early so they arrive at school on time. There is a sense of accomplishment in achieving these little goals. Only your teen understands what a big deal having overcome these tiny obstacles is. Little goals are great practice for setting the big ones that may initially be overwhelming, but it just takes the first step or the first level of goals. This builds confidence for the next level of goals. It may look something like this.
Your teen wants to be on the baseball team, but doesn’t have the grades to do so. The goal is to get on the baseball team and they may start by doing all of their HW assignments and showing up for all classes. This raises their grade significantly, but they still need to work hard. They buckle down and study for quizzes that improve the overall grade and this improves their GPA enough to be on the baseball team; little goals then the big ones. Your encouragement and pride and more importantly their pride in their small and big accomplishments are a huge confidence builder that let’s them know they can do it.
This is a great problem solving skill your teen can learn so they are not overwhelmed to the point of paralysis. Yep! If they can do the small ones like walking up a mountain takes one step at a time, before they know it they’ll be able to turn back and look at how all the little goals got them to achieve very big mountain of a goal they never thought they could accomplish and that can be powerful for a person who doubts themselves.
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