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The College and Career Ready Podcast | empowering students for the careers of tomorrow
Join your host Sonia Cacique on a transformative journey preparing high school and college students for real world careers, equipping them with practical skills, professional experiences, and career guidance.
As a dedicated career guidance counselor, career coach, and education leader, Sonia has spent her entire career empowering the next generation for the future workforce. With her expertise, she helps students develop self-awareness, motivation, and career guidance, building the essential skills needed for success in both their educational and future professional journeys.
Coach Sonia is ready to shift the focus from GPA, class rank, and grades to career connections, self-identity, character development, and real-world skills. She aims to challenge the traditional narratives and provide students with a comprehensive approach to education and career readiness. Changing lives for our next gens, one student at a time.
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The College and Career Ready Podcast | empowering students for the careers of tomorrow
Setting goals: Common mistakes, accountability, having fun and taking action!
I know this year is going to be an epic year for all of us without a doubt. And you know why I say that? Because if you're actually listening into this podcast, even though I might not know all of you personally, I know you're here for the right reason. We all want to achieve more, right?
Today's conversation is going to revolve around New Year resolutions. And if you don't already have one, well this might spark a little light in you to take action. It is going to be a real talk, raw conversation. I feel so many of us can all feel like crap when we don't achieve our goal or if we “fail” at it. We will talk about what "failing' actually means and how to change that negative connotation attached to the word "failure".
We will answer some of these questions: Why do we set goals in the 1st place? How can we take action? Does a vision board, planner or agenda help?
Why do we set goals?
- Put it out into the world and universe. If you are Christian, you are letting our God almighty know what is in your heart and what you want to achieve.
- When we write it, read it and talk about we begin to believe more and more that we can reach them. You know the saying, out of sight out of mind. So write them, write somewhere you can see them daily. Vision board is a great idea, but here is my two cents on that, sometimes (including myself) we spend so much creating the board, or beautifying our planner and we actually fail to TAKE ACTION. So don’t get so overwhelmed in the process of jotting it down or creating your vision board that it takes away from the time it takes to take action!
In this episode we will also go over common mistakes that we typically make when we set goals. And trust me my friend, I have probably made all of these mistakes myself.
Common mistakes
- Don't beat down on yourself for not achieving a goal. Remember our definition of failure “FAILing is ones first or first few attempts in learning." So much more liberating right? Always just remember Sonia’s long chapter books of attempts in learning and what I learned each and every time I thought I had failed at something.
- Too broad
- Too many
- Don't give yourself enough grace
- Comparing yourself to others
- This one is for parents, we are too hard on our kids when sometimes we might not be the best example of it either
Best tips
- It needs to achievable
- Accountability
- Make it fun!
- Celebrate the process not just the end result
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