Getting There

What Are Your Goals?

To get anywhere, you need to have goals:

• How much money will I need to make to support myself?
• What jobs best fit my skills and interests?
• How can I achieve a successful career?
• What do I need to do in school to get there?

Why set goals? Goals provide structure and order in your life, allowing you to focus on certain critical events and ignore the less important ones. Careful planning is needed in order to attain the goals you set. If you don’t plan well you may find yourself making bad decisions about what to tackle and when.

Here are some tips for setting goals:

• State your goals in writing
• State your goals in positive terms
• Make goals attainable and realistic
• Make goals personal
• Elaborate on your goals in detail
• Visualize yourself reaching your goals
• Keep your list handy for future reference
• Periodically review your list of goals, evaluate your performance, make adjustments

You can always change goals. But always have some! This section will help.