Getting kids and teens to set goals is part of teaching them how to achieve success in school and life. I know whenever we attend Parent Teacher Interviews the teacher always encourages our child to set some goals for the coming term. We then review the goals at the following Parent Teacher Interview to see how the child is progressing.
Students are also sometimes asked to consider who they want to be by the end of the year, in five years, by the end of high school, etc. This is pretty heavy stuff and involves teaching them the concept of putting their best effort forward starting today. Or as Stephen Covey puts it, “Begin with the end in mind.”
For yogis this means accepting where, what and who you are today, while working to improve yourself one breath, one pose, one meditation at a time.
To help teach this idea to children there is a fun and interactive website www.futureme.org. It’s an e-mail service called FutureMe which allows individuals to send themselves a future e-mail. E-mails can be sent anywhere from one month to 30 years in the future.
The site is very easy to use. In order to send an e-mail simply:
- Type in your e-mail address
- Write a subject, such as, “Congratulations Graduate”
- Write a message to your future self
- Choose to make your message private or public
- Choose a date on which to receive the e-mail
- Enter the verification code
- Click the ‘Send this to the future’ button
- Check your inbox to verify your e-mail address
Then forget about it until you receive it in your e-mail sometime in the future.
How cool is that!
Applications I can see for this include:
- writing an e-mail at the beginning of the year to receive just before final report cards
- setting a goal for the term, such as, “I will contribute more in class.”
- Grade 1 students writing a message to be received prior to leaving Elementary School
- sending yourself an e-mail at the beginning of a major project detailing how you accomplished this goal and the things you hoped to learn
- Teens writing advice to themselves
The possibilities are limited only by your creativity. Have fun and get motivated to put your best into living today.
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