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valley_girl

What are your personal and professional goals for the new year?

I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. I've decided there will be no "resolutions" for me this year, just goal-setting. My goals for 2006 are:

Personal - work out more, get a better apartment, learn to play bridge (have just started), get better at pool, visit friends more often (just bought a car), try more recipes, take a class in a foreign language, take one vacation out of the country.

Professional - begin studying for my Master's in Applied Linguistics, apply for a coordinator position in my department, conduct a workshop at a local conference.

Et tu?

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

T'is the time of year for reflection, no?

My personal goals are to put more effort into practising the saxophone and to be less of a doormat.

Professional goals...to get back to basics and start writing more.

darkside1 · Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 86 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Personal:

1) most of them would be censored, but they mainly involve the divorcees I bump into in my local salsa club.
2) Organise a charity football tournament and rock gig in benefit of disabled sports.
3) Write a short story about my great uncle who was taken prisoner by the Nazis in France in 1940 when part of the 51st Highland Division and eventually ended up in a camp on the eastern German/ Polish border working (so I am led to believe) in a salt mine. (Learn some basic Polish and visit Poland to this end).

Professional:

1) crack on with the modules in the M. Ed. I am doing.
2) keep on adapting the curriculum in my subject area to permit greater access for disabled pupils.
3) get a couple of notches up the enhanced pay scale- I've just bought a flat and need the money.

All of the above ( and maybe 1 or 2 others) are do- able if I maintain focus and self- discipline.

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Professional goals:
Finish my masters (5 weeks to go)
Publish 1 or 2 more articles
Present at the national JALT conference or at least at a smaller one

Personal goals:
Study Japanese (it's about time)
Learn Kendo
More time with my wife and kids
Exercise more (how original)

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

QatarChic · Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 445 Location: Qatar

Great thread Smile

Personal goal: Travel more
Professional goal: Work hard on Masters

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

My New Year's resolution is to not make any resolutions.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Now THAT'S resolve. Wink

Alto sax by the way.

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

I have the same resolution every year: to be a better person than the year before. Personally and professionally. Difficult to measure it, though!

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kaw · Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:04 am Post subject:

Professional: To start my MA (Applied linguistics and Elt) after deferring it - needed a brain break after the Dip
to hopefully not have to retake the exam for the dip....
to be more creative in my use of Interactive whiteboards
to spend more time on pron work with my students

Personal. - to pass my driving test, save some money, make the most of life

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Professional: Learn more Japanese. Publish more. Get a job by April.

Personal: Learn more Japanese. Get a job by April. Work towards publishing something. Figure out what I want to do with my life before I retire and/or die.

Sherri · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:43 am Post subject:

Professional:
1. Finish my MA thesis by my March end deadline! This is taking up almost all available time, professional and personal (Gordon, you must be almost finished with yours--crunchtime)

2. Whip my school's curriculum into shape.

Personal:
1. Start cycling again
2. Get my son potty trained
3. Various DIY projects around the house

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

professional

possibly start working on a PhD

publish some journal articles

find a full time job lecturing post

personal

exercise more

write a book (this could be listed on professional, but I feel the subject material is also personal)

study Japanese more (again, beneficial for professional, but definately personal day to day stuff too

Cdaniels

1. I resolved to try hard to keep track of my resolutions and my progress in accomplishing them.

2. ???

Wink

Jetgirly · Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 741

Personal

Complete my upcoming three-week detox and teach myself to like the taste of (disgusting) vegetables like brussel sprouts

Volunteer with an organization that works with immigrants when I return to Canada (as my experience as an immigrant in Italy has been so appallingly horrible and difficult)

Professional

Transfer the skills I learned while teaching EFL to my B.Ed in Language Arts Teaching program

Not roll my eyes at the people in my university seminars

Quit my current job tactfully and with diplomacy so as to get an excellent letter of reference