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Ezee Pezee<br />
S kills<br />
Goal Setting<br />
FOR SMART TEENS<br />
A Practical Guide
Preface<br />
Do you ever feel that you have spent the entire day busy and<br />
running and you have not really achieved much and then there<br />
is always someone - brother, sister, roommate or classmate -<br />
who is achieving something great every time you turn around.<br />
Now why is that?<br />
You may have not thought about but if you think about it,<br />
your answer is related to GOAL-SETTING. You may work hard<br />
and keep busy, but if you do not set goals, then the bad news<br />
could be that you will find yourself working hard without any<br />
meaningful results.<br />
Do you remember about an incident in the story of<br />
Alice in Wonderland: at one point Alice asks which<br />
road she should take. The Cheshire Cat asks where she would<br />
like to go, to which Alice replies, “I don’t much care where.”<br />
The Cat’s response? “Then it<br />
doesn’t matter which way<br />
you go.” Alice ends up<br />
wandering aimlessly as a result.<br />
Without goals, we are like<br />
Alice – wandering aimlessly<br />
throughout life. Setting goals<br />
gives us direction, purpose<br />
and focus in our lives. How you<br />
go about setting your goals can be<br />
the most important thing determining<br />
whether or not you achieve them.<br />
So, here we go and find it out!.
Table of Content<br />
1. Rebecca's Dilemma 1-15<br />
2. Go for Goal 16-27<br />
3. Harry and Uncle Tom 28-38<br />
4. S.M.A.R.T Goals 39-49
Chapter 1<br />
Rebecca's Dilemma
Once there lived a Peterson family in a beautiful white<br />
colored bungalow in the outskirts of Okhlahoma city.<br />
It was a beautiful bungalow with a little pond near it.<br />
The pond had crystal clear green water and small fishes in<br />
the water would add its beauty. The lotus flowers in that<br />
pond were a feather on its cap. But this was just not it; the<br />
surrounding of their bungalow was very scenic with a long<br />
stretched belt of Gulmohar tress. Red Gulmohar flowers<br />
would fence the beautiful white house and would soak the<br />
impurity with its essence.<br />
Most of the people passing-by would definitely stop and<br />
admire the white beauty for a while before igniting the<br />
engine of their car. Even the pedestrians would keep<br />
looking at its beauty while walking. Peterson’s who owned<br />
this bungalow were very proud of it.<br />
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Mr. and Mrs. Peterson were very renowned doctors.<br />
They were considered as one of the best doctors of that<br />
area. Mr. Peterson was a surgeon while Mrs. Peterson<br />
was a cardiologist. They had 2 children. Rebecca was<br />
10 year old and Mike was 6 year old. Rebecca was tall,<br />
smart, intelligent and very tomboyish. She was very<br />
presentable and very sensible. Not only this, she was<br />
very good in academics as well. Her teachers were very<br />
fond of her. She was the best in her class and most of the<br />
children in her class would silently compete with her.<br />
But her competition was with herself. She would set a<br />
standard for herself and would work hard to achieve it.<br />
Mike was just like any 6 year old boy. He had his own<br />
world but he was very much inspired by her elder<br />
sister’s victories. She was a role model for him.<br />
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But the only problem with Rebecca was that she would<br />
behave quite lazily in the beginning. It was quite impossible<br />
to move her to get something doing. Right from the<br />
morning alarm, her alarm would keep snoozing after<br />
5 minutes but she would not step out of the bed unless her<br />
mother would come and yell on her. After that, it would be<br />
a rush hour for her. She would at times skip breakfast in<br />
order to catch her school bus. But when in school,<br />
she was very active and sincere student.<br />
She would take active participation in all class activities<br />
and was also the class monitor. Surprisingly, she was not<br />
lazy at all in school but again once<br />
she was home after her school, she<br />
would keep postponing her all<br />
routine tasks. At times she would<br />
not go out in the evening to play<br />
and would keep watching T.V.<br />
for long hours without taking<br />
any interest in completing her<br />
homework or studies.<br />
She would only do it after mother<br />
reminded her about her tasks twice<br />
or thrice. Well, this was her<br />
daily routine.<br />
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Like any mother, Mrs. Peterson was also worried about<br />
Rebecca. She was 10 year old and it was high time for<br />
her to become disciplined and independent in life. Mike<br />
was still young to understand his daily routine tasks but<br />
unlike Rebecca, he was quite disciplined.<br />
He would get up on time, complete bathroom activities<br />
on time and on his own, would sit with his mother to<br />
complete his homework all by himself at night and<br />
he knew that 5.00 p.m. was his time to go out and<br />
play. He never missed his play time. But yes, it was<br />
tough to get him home from the playground.<br />
He could play outside the whole night<br />
if allowed.<br />
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One day, Mrs. and Mr. Peterson had to go out of the<br />
Okhlahoma city for some work. Mrs. Peterson had<br />
called her younger sister, Nicole who was a medical<br />
student, to come and stay with Rebecca and<br />
Mike for a few days.<br />
Mrs. Peterson gave her children’s daily routine<br />
on a paper to her sister before leaving.<br />
Her sister assured Mrs. Peterson not to<br />
worry at all about the kids.<br />
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