I find it much easier to define my personal goals if I think of them in the context of Project Management, my current profession. One of the most important steps in the initial planning of any project is to define clear and concise goals. Without goals there can be no measurement of success or failure. Ironically, this is often the most difficult and therefore most overlooked step in the process. At its simplest level the process of setting goals and targets allows you to choose intelligently between many available options. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you k

now what you have to concentrate on and improve, and what is merely a distraction. Psychologically, goal setting gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to organize and focus your resources. By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals, allowing you to see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind.

Achieving a balance between my personal and professional lives is a goal that has always eluded me. In fact – it is just now that I’ve come to realize that this is a personal goal. I believe that one of the most often overlooked, and arguably the most substantial benefits of higher education is learning the art of successful time and life management. All too often the emphasis is placed on the technical aspects of a degree in a particular subject area when the more general skills are often the most valuable. Working in the Information Technology marketplace for some time now, I’ve come to notice this primarily in employees who have acquired technical certifications from major vendors of hardware and software. They have the credentials attesting to their superb technical skills; more often than not this is the case. What they are lacking are the more “soft-skills” such as leadership, writing, and time-management. Sadly, I find myself in a similar situation, having only recent

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