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Since I am aiming to achieve a successful school year, I have made a few goals for my first year at Pinetree. In this blog post, I will document and discuss my planned goals for grade 9 to improve my relationships, academics, and health moving forward.

To improve my relationships with my family, I am aiming to spend more of my time with them. Although my family holds much value to me, I am frequently too caught up with my studies to join them with enjoyable activities. This impacts my family relationships negatively, so I would strive to reconnect with family more often to improve my relationships with them.

As for strengthening my friendships, I will try to interact and converse with them more often. Having a heavily introverted personality, I tend to only speak when I have to. Therefore, I can appear oddly awkward around small-talk simply because I have no clue how to continue a conversation. This is quite irritating when I actually want to interact with people and make new friendships. I will then strive to improve my communication skills to maintain my friendships.

Additionally, I am striving to complete all my assignments on time, to the best of my ability, and achieve my very best on exams. By studying in a more efficient manner using practical techniques and taking active breaks, I hope to perform well in exams. Since I tend to take a long time to put an enormous amount of effort into each assignment, I sometimes end up past the due date. Therefore, I want to make my work slightly less detailed and work more efficiently so that I can finish my assignments on time.

Finally, I plan to improve both my mental and physical health this school year. Since I am consistently spending my afterschool hours writing assignments, studying, and practising the piano without taking sufficient breaks, my physical health will be negatively impacted. Therefore, I will try to spend time throughout the day stretching to increase flexibility and walking to school to increase physical movement. When I attend physical education during semester 2, I will aim to participate in the activities more frequently. To improve my mental health, I’m attempting to take breaks regularly during afterschool studying to avoid stress and mental burnout. Additionally, I am trying to maintain a more consistent sleep schedule to avoid constantly feeling tired, unmotivated, and stressed. I hope to achieve my goals of strengthening my relationships, building efficient study habits, and improving my health this school year.