{"id":768,"date":"2018-02-19T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T23:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=768"},"modified":"2018-02-19T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T23:44:28","slug":"stay-motivated-set-some-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2018\/02\/19\/stay-motivated-set-some-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay motivated: Set some goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining motivation throughout the semester can be hard.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that can help keep you motivated is thinking about your goals.<\/p>\n<p>Start by writing down your long-term goals (think about why you are studying and what you hope to achieve).<\/p>\n<p>Next set some short-term goals (for the next few weeks \u2013 such as study activities, like doing your course readings or organising your time). Keep a copy of your goals near where you study and cross them off when you achieve them.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping a clear focus on your goals will help keep you motivated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more on getting motivated see <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/study-skills\/goals-and-motivation.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/study-skills\/goals-and-motivation.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining motivation throughout the semester can be hard. One thing that can help keep you motivated is thinking about your goals. Start by writing down your long-term goals (think about why you are studying and what you hope to achieve). Next set some short-term goals (for the next few weeks \u2013 such as study activities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orientation","category-time-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}