This year we have taken part in a brand new course in the PLP curriculum. This course is called the Personal Growth Plan or PGP for short. This course is designed to help you become a better person in school and in life. This course has taught me a lot of different skills that I can take into my life and change it for the better. There were several parts of this course including the book series called 7 Habits of Mind and the book What Do You Really Want? The final project in the course is called My Time Machine.
The year end final project would have to answer this question. ‘What do I know now that I wish I knew before?’ This is a great question because you can reflect on all of the different skills you learned in the course. There were three main skills that we learned this year. These skills were productivity, goal setting and the 7 Habits Of Mind.
Goal Setting
Goal setting was the most influential part of the three parts of the course for me. This is the part of the Time Machine project that I focused on. While reading one of the books in the PGP arsenal, I learned a great technique that I still use daily. This is called SMART goal setting, but I do it a little differently than others. I use this template that was given to us in the book What do you really want? It is called the goal ladder template and it is designed to break down your goals to make them easier to understand the steps to help you to achieve your goals
For the Time Machine I created this visually-pleasing interactive presentation that resembles a stop-motion technique. It will help you to better understand how to create your own goal ladder and how to take bigger strides to achieve the goals that you want to meet.
Here is the creation
This course has been amazingly life-changing for me. I wish that I had learned these skills at the beginning of Grade 8 so I would have been able to use these skills all through high school. The SMART Goal setting has changed my view on life and how I tackle my day to challenges that I encounter. For example at the beginning of grade 9 I made a goal for myself to be on the senior team for basketball in grade 10. I worked very hard at my goal until I achieved it. Looking back on it now it would have been a lot easier to achieve my goal if I had a goal ladder template to work with to make it easier to understand what steps I had to take. Thank you for reading my blog and I hope that you take part in setting yourself some goals. In fact, I challenge you to fill out the goal ladder sheet and take your goals to the next level.
