My Goal

Assignment 1 : Individual Written Assignment
Personal Development Plan

Name : Lim Sue Yean
Course : Digital and Precision Engineering
Course Code : DP 0906
Admission Number : 096399P

First Goal :Improve My Skill In Badminton



SPECIFIC

What is my goal?

Recently, I have been decided to improve my skill in badminton. I love this sport so much since long time ago. However, I didn’t try to learn it seriously due to many factors. When I was studied in secondary school, I always concentrated on my study because I want to get good result in my exams. Although I participated in some sport club such as Archery Club, I always missed the meeting and the practice. I always had many excuse for me to absent the activities. However, I feel regret now because I found that sport will bring me many advantages. So, I have been decided to try my best to improve my skill in the badminton by this chance.



MEASURABLE

How can I find out, at any time, how much I have achieve and how much more I have to go?

I have been planned a few ways which how to know my improvement. I decided to spend the time of the last three weeks to compete with my friends who are excellent than me in playing badminton. I will conduct a few competition among my friends and I in the last three weeks. Therefore, I have to win my friends in the competititon because it can prove that I have been improved after the practice. I think this is the best way to measure my achievement after practising about 10 weeks. Furthermore, I can ask my friends to observe my improvement along the 10 weeks. They will observe whether I can master the technique in playing badminton well after each practice to prove my improvement. So, I must win my friends at least once at the end of week 13th because I never win my friends before because I am really very weak in playing badminton.



AMBITIOUS

Why I choose this goal?

Playing badminton can build up the relationship among my friends and i. I can spend more time with my friends by asking my friends who are excellent in this sport to teach me . After we came to Singapore for study, I found that I didn’t spend much time together with my friends. This situation will happen because we always spent most of the time on study. My friends and I too concentrated on study because we wish to get good result in the exam. Therefore, our relationship became less closer and we didn’t have much topic when we chatted together. After some time, we found that we don’t like this kind of life and wish to change it. Finally, we found that playing badminton can help to closer our relationship because we can spend more time together other than the time which we spend on study.

In addition, we can also maintain good health by playing badminton. Nowadays, majority of the students busy with their study and don’t have enough time to care about their health. They have the same opinion that health is not important if compare to their works. This will cause many health problems occure and many people will get suffer of it. At that time, this situation will be difficult to be solved. I don’t want to be same like them because I know I will get sufferof the health problems in the future. So, I have been decided to maintain good health by playing badminton. Playing badminton can also help me maintain my body condition at the heathy level.

Furthermore, we can fullfill our free time wisely by playing badminton. All students spend their free time with useless things. Most of the boys like to spend their free time on playing computer or online games. This will bring many disadvantages to the students. Long period ot time looking to the computer will harm the eyes and cause the students entrall in the games. On the other hand, most of the girls always go to shopping when they have free time. However, shopping will waste our money. Therefore, I think that we better play a sport at free time than doing such useless things. This is because playing badminton is good for our health whereas the playing online games and shopping will bring us nothing.



REACHABLE

Is it realistic?

I have been play badminton since before. The problem is I am very weak in playing badminton so I decided to improve my skill in playing badminton. So, I think that it is realistic for me to improve my skill in playing badminton and win against my friends after I practise about 13 weeks. This is because I can learn much about the skill and the technique in the period of 13 weeks. So, this goal is reachable if I am hardworking in practising it.

How can I achieve the goal?

I have been planned how to achieve my goal. Firstly, I will spend the weekend’s time to play the badminton. This is because my friends and I don’t have class on the weekend. So, i have enough time to ask my friends to teach me the skill on how to playing badminton. Beside that, I will also have much time for me to practise. This is because I know that I will only improve my skill of badminton if I spend enough time on it. I need to plan the time which my friends and I free so that we can play together. So, I have been confirm with my friends that we will play badminton from 8p.m to 9p.m of every weekend. We have also promise among us that we will follow the time for playing badminton.

Other than that, I think I need extra time for me to improve my skill of playing badminton. Therefore, I will ask my friends whether they can spend some time on the other days which means from Monday to Friday so that they can practise with me. That is good if I can get more time for me to learn from my friends and practise myself because I can improve more. However, I also need to consider about them that they really have time to teach me. We cann’t also neglect our study and spend most of the time in playing badminton. We will make both of the study and the sport to be at a balance condition.



TIME-BOUND

Does the goal have an absolute deadline?

I have only the period of time which is 13 weeks to achieve my goal. So, I have set a time table for the me to follow along this 13 weeks. In the time table, I have planned to achieve which level of playing badminton at which week.


My Time Table

Week 1
- Search for some information from the internet so that I can know more about badminton.

Week 2
-Learn the basic things of the badminton which is how the marks to be counted in the badminton competition.

Week 3 - 10
-Ask my friends to teach me so that I can master all the technique of the badminton.
-Learn how to play badminton by backhand technique, ‘drop’ the shuttlecock, smack it and the others.

Week 11 – 13
-Conduct a few competition among my friends and I to see my improvement.