It's time to do something great.

What shall be my "Great" SMART Goals?

Specific : Raise my grade of B to an A. It's time to dream on, spread my wings and fly the highest I can. With the best of my abilities and MAGIS.

Measurable : I'll keep myself accountable by always having a 1 hour study and practice time for math every day. Then once I get my scores back from my quizzes or even homework, depending on the outcome, it will determine how much more time I need to study for. (The needed grade to be reached for A is always a perfect in HW, -1 in quizzes, and MAX 3 mistakes in Long tests.

Attainable : Without a doubt, it is a challenge, but with listening in class all the time, taking down notes, answering every question during discussion, doing homework, diligently, completing our worksheets, and the minimum 1 hour practice... I truly believe it is possible to get an A. It is now just on me to maintain consistency in my routines. To bounce back on bad days, and capitalize on good days.

Relevant : I find this goal very important as Math and Science are my only 2 grades that are below A. As an achiever who wants an all A grade, this is detrimental to my satisfaction. ;)

Timely : My consistency in my routines determine how much time it will take me to reach my goal. No matter the circumstance or schedule, I need to find time for math. Overall, I believe if I can do this every day, maybe in around 2 weeks I can keep my goals for my scores.

The best is yet to come....

(Evaluation)

The term started out with me filled with confidence... I was feeling myself as soon as the first day struck. The first lesson, I really learned it thoroughly, I practiced every day, I did my homework diligently, had notes, and everything else I mentioned in my SMART goals. Though the day of the test came... From the very moment I turned in my paper, I knew I did things wrong. I knew I had a bad grade. I didn't understand at the time how it happened, and I was crushed. I just had these thoughts of how I ran so hard and did everything I needed to, but this happened... "Why, why why?" was the only thing I had in my mind. Though little did I know this would give me a revelation for an important skills that is essential in day to day life. Though lets talk about what happened after my first trial though. I was definitely affected at that time, my confidence dropped, and it was evident, because my next few scores were below my goals, though not exactly bad scores. After all this though, I held on, and after our Christmas break, I attained the goals of my scores, and kept the dream alive. Overall, I was really happy with what I did. Now, how did I do it exactly?...

Let's come back to the lesson i was talking about. After that "Why, why, why," at the time of our Palig season, when things went all wrong once again... The feeling was so familiar, and I just knew oh... "like that Math test..." Though this time I learned something very important. I realized that not all things will go exactly the way you need or want it to, even if you did seemingly everything. Though you can't stop there, when times like this come, you have to make the most out of the outcome or come back even harder. There are bad days and good days in our lives, and there are so many external factors that can come, so because of that anything can happen. That is why our duty is to do our best no matter the circumstance, the good or the bad. I always tell myself, NO, NOT TODAY! I will fight and never give up. And... knowing that, it is what truly helped me bounce back, I just kept going, kept my head up high even if a wall came. I still did my everything to shine bright. Then guess what, it all worked out.

Every hard work, no matter how much you fall down, it all pays off. Every step, every fall, every rise, it's all part of the beauty of your journey.

Story time, on that day we had so many submissions and tests. First our PALIG Film, our Art Final Commercial, our English poem, our dreaded Science Long Test, and of course this last Math Long Test. Now, that alone sounds bad enough, but on that day, I thought I understudied for Math. Though something even worse happened that day, our first subject was Filipino, and sadly… our PALIG Video would not upload. I was SHOOK, I had nothing else in my mind but that throughout the entire day. I was legit CRYING through some subjects because of it. So just think about how my focus is definitely shaken plus the fact that I understudied. How do you think I felt entering the test?… Definitely I was nervous, but hey, because I practiced every day. That practice helped me still get a good score. The fruit of my hard work came! The constant studying comes in handy for sure!

I studied for this quiz but when I received it, I was rattled by the graph plus the time constraint given to answer the quiz, the result that I wanted did not go well as planned. As seen from what happened, the unexpected happened.

The lesson is - Things don’t go exactly your way, though you have and need to keep going. No matter what. Also moments like these happen to teach you a lesson, I believe they were definitely placed there by God to make us better. As every part of a journey like this makes up the beauty of our lives.