Life Goals Statement DAPPS
Utilizing the DAPPS method, to pursue one of your life goals/dreams. Please ensure that your plan covers the following aspects.
Additionally, please email your plan to me as a word document along with a PowerPoint (2 or 3 slides) and be ready to present your personal goal next week:
1- Visualizing, well defining, and clearing up your Goal (short-term or long-term) the goal could be earning a certificate (e.g., M.A. or Ph.D.), advancing your career, financial objectives, or personal growth aspirations.
2- Requirements for Achievement: Outline the prerequisites for reaching your goal. This could involve acquiring new skills, adopting beneficial habits, discarding detrimental habits, using specific applications or tools, and so forth.
3- Planning and Scheduling: Create a comprehensive plan that includes timing, scheduling, and a logical sequence of steps.
4- Maintaining self-Motivation: Explore methods for self-encouragement and self-motivation to sustain your commitment to the goal.
5- Overcoming Obstacles: Anticipate potential challenges that might hinder your progress toward your goal (e.g., procrastination) and strategize on how to overcome them.
6- Anticipated Outcomes: Outline the rewards and benefits you might gain upon successfully achieving your goal.
7- Rewarding Achievement: Describe how you intend to reward yourself once you’ve accomplished your goal.
Life Goals Statement DAPPS
Writing Requirements:
– A cover page
– APA format
– pagination
– 2 pages in length (excluding cover page)
DAPPS Method:
D- Dated: Setting a clear deadline for our goal.
A- Achievable: Making sure that the goal is realistic and reachable.
P- Personal: Making the goal meaningful to us.
P- Positive: Setting our goal in a positive and progressive way.
S- Specific: Being precise and specific about what you want to attain.
Life Goals Statement DAPPS
3- Planning and Scheduling: Create a comprehensive plan that includes timing, scheduling, and a logical sequence of steps.
4- Maintaining self-Motivation: Explore methods for self-encouragement and self-motivation to sustain your commitment to the goal.
5- Overcoming Obstacles: Anticipate potential challenges that might hinder your progress toward your goal (e.g., procrastination) and strategize on how to overcome them.
6- Anticipated Outcomes: Outline the rewards and benefits you might gain upon successfully achieving your goal.
7- Rewarding Achievement: Describe how you intend to reward yourself once you’ve accomplished your goal. APA.