Personal Project Plans: Achieve your goals. A great flexible template and study example
For your use now. A free flexible template and study example that’s simple and printable.
This post is going to show you how I achieved my study goal with a flexible template and study example. You can too, using the same very simple yet great, flexible template I’ve built. I’ve completed my study example in one of the versions, but you can try using it for any goal you want to achieve. Simply download the image and fill in your details.
Why plan?
If you want to achieve something that you haven’t as yet been able to do, putting a plan in place helps you focus.
It ensures you structure your time in a way that allows you to do what is needed to bring you closer to your goal.
Examples of Plans:
I am going to share with you some very basic and simple plans that I have used over my life to get to whatever it is I’ve wanted to achieve.
Let’s start with a very basic plan.
How to plan your studies : Plan accordingly for your study time
Steps:
1. Determine your Goal, i.e. what it is that you want and by when – WRITE IT DOWN.
2. Take accurate stock of where you are at today – WRITE IT DOWN.
3. Ask yourself if you want to get to your Goal using the long way or the short way – DRAW THE PATH.
4. Determine the steps to get you to your goal and then – SCHEDULE THESE STEPS, in bite size chunks.
5. Execute on your plan.
Personal Project Plans: Achieve your goals. A great flexible template and study example
My Detailed Plan for High School:
Here is the plan I used for my final year in high school.
I wanted to get all A results. I thought it was achievable for most subjects, however, one subject was an issue and this was Accounting – Higher Grade, but I still wanted an A in this subject.
Step One: Write down your goal:
An A in Accounting Higher Grade.
Step Two: Accurate stock of where you are at:
Why was this subject an issue for me? I’m mathematically inclined, and my family is very financial, so what was the issue?
1. I went to a public or government school in South Africa for most of my high school. We did not have an accounting teacher for the last two years prior to final year in high school. In the final year they asked a wonderful woman who taught another subject if she could try to assist the final year students with Accounting, and she accepted, but unfortunately was incredibly rusty. The other option was a relatively new Accounting teacher who was made Deputy Principal and was therefore not available to teach the entire batch of students.
2. Textbooks – Did I mention that I went to a public school? So with the numbers what there were in terms of admissions, the school did not have textbooks for everyone, and so for all those years before – no textbooks were handed to students. In the final year, the teacher started the year making copies of her textbook for the examples we would look at in class.
3. Taking stock of where I was at; around this time in the final year, at the end of the first quarter – I had barely passed the subject accounting, I think my mark was 52% – a long way away from my goal.
Step Three: Draw the path:
The shortest path; a straight line.
Step Four: Determine the steps, with applicable times:
1. Need textbooks for the past 2 years and my final year.
2. Require an answerbook for those textbook questions, since there was no teacher.
3. Try to find a tutor for accounts; problem no extra money, clashing times with Physics and Mathematics Tuition.
4. Find the time to do 3 years worth of textbook examples in 6 months.
Step Five: Execute your steps:
1. I completed the Standard 8 – Grade 10 textbook examples over the first holiday period for the year.
2. I caught up on Standard 9 – Grade 11 textbook examples during the second semester, sometimes getting a bit confused with what the teacher was doing for Grade 12 work, but nevertheless persevered.
3. I started working on the Grade 12 Matric Textbook during the June Holiday before the supplementary exams in September, and I managed to complete three-quarters of the book before the final revisions started at school.
4. I achieved 85% for the final year exam. The mistake I made was being nervous for the exam. I left the hard first question for last, so I could build up my confidence by completing the smaller sections. When I went back to the first question, I missed the number of members stated at the start of the question and did the entire problem without that key piece of information. *Sigh – otherwise totally clock-able paper.
5. If I could do this, and it wasn’t that hard – just needed a bit of time, you can do this too.
Study example:
Flexible template:
Lastly, BELIEVE .
My thoughts on extreme project planning:
So the above example is obviously one of an extreme situation, where an extremely rigorous plan had to be built and adhered to for a relatively short period in order to get the results I wanted. I do have additional thoughts on such extremities, see this article here: Side-note: my thoughts on choices for more information on that.
Other links I have found to personal project planning, which you might find useful:
https://www.scotscollege.school.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/PP_guide_2015.pdf
https://www.creativelive.com/blog/the-power-of-personal-projects/
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