All of us dream. We dream about getting a good job, having a happy home, a hefty bank balance, good in-laws and a successful life. And hence the process of developing one's personality and setting goals to achieve more comes into the limelight. Goal setting is indeed an essential practise for one's personal and professional development.

Setting goals and improving your personality is vital to succeed in any endeavour and the essential thing to do is to be SMART while setting your goals.

Most Chennaites feel it necessary to impart personality development classes at the school or college level.

According to Tapas Bhattad, a college student, "Setting goals is one tool to pull oneself from all myriad forms of distractions. I do set goals for myself and I do plan big and long to achieve them. But the toughest part is to move with my plans and live up to my goals. Hardly do things go as planned and rarely do I achieve my goals as desired. Personality development classes will help us overcome the feeling of despair by teaching us how to deal with any fall. An ounce of action is worth more than a ton of theory, but how long it will take for that to sink in is the million dollar question."

Says Malini K, a mother of two, "Children get depressed over things that happen in school or college and they sometimes find it difficult to communicate with their parents about what is happening in their life. At this point, having someone guide them through their problems and helping them reach a decision is needed. And personality development classes conducted by someone who knows how to handle things and who is able to understand what's going on in someone's mind will prove very useful."

It's no longer just Science or Math that is the need of the day in schools and colleges. Personality Development is also absolutely essential to turn a person's life around. As Kalil Gibran has said: "The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain."

K Rashmi