LIFE GOALS

What is a goal?

   "A goal is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envisions, plans and commits to achieve."

      This is the definition of  "Goal " that we can found in  WIKIPEDIA. In other words we can say a goal is Something that we hope to achieve in the future.

Mainly goals can be divided into following categories.

•  Personal goals
• Academic goals 
• Profession goals
• Daily goals

                Actually we can categorize goals in many ways. Above are most common categories among most of the people. 

Now on let's talk about each mentioned category respectively. 

Personal goals

 

                     Personal goals are the goals that we want to achieve for the good of our personal life. As an example we can consider "taking care of  our health". This is a health goal that can be categorized under the title of personal goals. These personal goals are really important and really make an impact to our lives. Because all the other goals like Academic and Profession depend on the personality of the person. If you have a weak personality or a weak life style, then achieving  other goals may not be easy.So it is very important to consider personal goals. In following i have listed few personal goals that i have.

•         Travel the most beautiful places
•         Have a loving and fulfilling marriage
•         Raise good kids
•         Own my own house and car
•         Donate to the children’s fund
•         Have enough money to retire at age 45 if wanted

Academic and Profession goals

 

                                 As the name suggest Academic and profession goals are more linked with our educational and professional procedure.Because both of this categories are flow parallel, i have consider each of them under same topic.

                                   Education is a must for every person.Specially in 21st century , you must have a good educational qualification for survive in really competitive job market.So basically our professional life mainly depend on our education.But sometimes this can be wrong.Because in world there are many people who have achieved at the peak of success without having much education.But for most people this is true.So setting up academic and profession goals is a thing that you can start from now on , if you have not anything yet. It will definitely give you more attraction to your day to day life. Following are the few academic goals that i set to my self. May be you also can have a look at those.      

•   Complete my degree with higher GPA
•   Be a skillful careerist in whatever field i will work
•   Obtain a scholarship for my higher studies from respected university
•   Conduct tuition classes for kids as a part time job

Daily goals

                Daily goals are the goals that we can set to our normal day to living procedure. These are very simple but can be very useful for any one. Sometimes you can see these goals are more likely to be good habits or good feelings.

                In many cases i have heard people say, "I have a bad day". Well then daily goals can be helpful  to convert your bad days to good days. As an example consider  " Work on time". This is very simple right! But yet most of the people have this bad behavior of lateness. And when you used to be late , it is very difficult to abstain from that. And  also it will take time to break this bad habit completely. So if you are a that kind of person ,who are trying hard to be punctual but yet always fail then you can definitely have a daily goal as mine "Always be punctual" . I have listed few daily goals of mine in following.

•         Motivating myself
•      Be punctual
•         Organize my stuff
•      Sleep at least six hours 
•         Be patience

                    As an conclusion we can see that most of the listed goals in this article have already exist in every person's life. those are not completely new. But the truth is we don't pay much attention to those. If you consider the personalities of many successful persons , we can clearly see that they have a clear view of their lives and also they had a good plan during the journey to success. So if you want to be a successful person in the future it is important to have good set of goals. Just start with more simple one's.And at the end you will ended up as a person who achieved his / her life goals and won the world.

GOOD LUCK FOR THE FUTURE!

                  

THE BARTER PUZZLE

                 This is another very challenging activity that we done in our PPD sessions. This is more like Jigsaw puzzle game. But in here there is more additional rules for make the game too hard because this will play as teams. 

What is Barter Puzzle Game?

                As I said this is a team game. Before the game start each team will get a piece of a newspaper. Then all the teams get same amount of time to read the newspaper and to identify special characters and pictures in the page. After that each newspaper piece will be teared into tiny pieces. And some of those pieces will be mixed with the pieces of other teams. Then each team can get their teared pieces of the newspaper back to start the game. The goal is create the newspaper piece as it was before. The fastest team to do that will be the winners.

Rules

• As I mentioned above some pieces will be mixed around in other groups. But It's up to the team to come up with a way to get those pieces back either through negotiating, trading, exchanging team members, etc. Whatever they decide to do, they must decide as a group.
• Each team will be given same set amount of time.

The way we done that

                  First of all we started to match the pieces as we can and create the puzzle as possible.After several minutes we identified missing pieces of our puzzle and some of our members searched those missing pieces in other groups.In that period other members continued completing the puzzle. Then we discussed about the way we should get our missing pieces back.Each member presented their ideas and finally all the members agreed to one method. Making the puzzle was very tough. Somehow after the hard effect we managed to complete our puzzle.

Things I learnt

•  Leadership skills
• Problem solving
• Time management
• Team work 
• Concentration 

STAND ON THE PAPER

                   This is another very interesting game. The game is simple. But it is challenging and really enjoyable.

                  Basically this game is all about managing the space we have and stand each member of the team on the paper.When the game goes on, paper will be teared to exactly the half of the previous size. The team who successful in many rounds or in other words the team who stand on the paper for longer time will be the winners.

Rules

1.   At least one leg of each member should be in the paper area.
2.   Teams can use any method.
3.   After each round ,size of the paper will be minimized in to the half of the size compare to the previous round.
4.   Each team will get the same duration of time. If a team unsuccessful after the given time they will eliminate from the game.

My Experience
 

                   After the game started our first task was find the correct method to balance ourselves. First round many teams were successful as well as mine. But after the few rounds it was really tough.

In the given time we had to think quickly and execute on our plan. Each member of the team done their best for win the contest.

Things I learnt

• Time management
• Team work
• Decision making
• Balancing my body
• Self confidence
• Quick thinking
  
  

LAVA RIVER GAME

                 This is the one of the best games we had in our PPD sessions.It was very interesting and challenging. We enjoyed it and learnt lot of things from this game.From now I will explain you about this game.

                  As the name suggest in this game you have to cross a lava river. The task is cross the river by using given cardboard tiles. Each member of the team should cross the river and then stand on the other side of the river. The quickest team to do that will be  the winners.

My Experience
 

                 First of all our teacher grouped us.Then she gave us 4 cardboard tiles. The size of a tile is just less than A4 paper.After that she marked the brinks of the river. Then she explained the rules.

      Rules

1.   If anyone touch the lava river when the game goes, he/she will eliminate from the game.   Eliminated player can't support his/her team from anyhow.  
2.   When positioning a tile it should be in contact with a members body. You can't throw that and then touch that.
3.   Members can go across the river finite number of time.
4.   The team who cross the river in least time are the winners. 

                   After the game started first we had to find a right method to use. We tried few different methods but we failed. We only managed to go half of the distance and then we were unable to continue. But finally we managed to find a most suitable and accurate method and executed on that. We were successful. But unfortunately we ended the game as the runners up.

Things I learnt

•  Team play
•  Quick decision making
•  Problem solving
•  Time management
•  Accurate communication

PAPER TOWER

     

                Another pleasant experience from the PPD session.first our teacher Miss.Sarasi devided us in to 3 groups. She gave us 12 A4 sheets,pair of scissors,a sello-tape and challenge to built a big paper tower from given papers within 45 minutes.

The following would be checked,

        *longest tower

        *firmness tower

        *straightness of the tower

   First of all we needed to imagine the structure of our tower. All of the members in our group presented their own ideas.We selected the best structure and started to build it all together.Then we rolled the papers like cones and pasted them one by one.When we were building the middle part of the tower , we faced a major problem.When tower's height is increasing,the straightness and strength went down. Even though we continued to build the tower it was not steady it can't stand without any support. So we had to find the way to solve this problem. When the time up somehow we managed to built the tower successfully. 

   At the end of this session Miss.Sarasi showed us our good things and faults. Specially she pointed out that our creativity is not at the best when comparing to other teams.

  

 After this great activity we learned ,

• making decision
• how to respect other's opinions
• leadership
• importance of the plan
• creativity

              The paper tower session is important of develop our personal development skills and it was enjoyable and great activity.