Setting Goals

Throughout this course you have gone through the process of Education and Career/Life
Planning.

Setting and revising goals is a healthy habit. It is important to plan how you intend to achieve goals in the
short term as well as the long term. The focus of this course has been on Education and Career/Life
planning. Now it is time to set some goals.

What is your long-term goal? In ten years I will see myself…

In the next 10 years my goal is to become stable in life. I will measure this by looking at if I am able to
provide for my family , be able to get the things I want to have in life, able to pay bills ahead of time,
and if I live in a good house or not.

What is your short-term goal? In the next 3 years I see myself…

In 3 years I see myself reaping all of the rewards of highschool as I am prepared for the next chapter
of my life,university. I will measure my success by the following things: if I have an average of 95%+, if
I earn rewards such as honour roll, get the valedictorian award and if I earn a good scholarship to a
university I want to go to.
In order to get yourself there, you will set a series of goals. Complete the chart below in as much detail
as possible. To get you started, use the suggestions to get you thinking.

My Goals…
Personal Social
(wellness and stress management, volunteering, (extra-curricular club, sport or group)
your interests, passions and values)
Always be enlisted in at least one club in high
Volunteer 10 hours every month school
Build good study habits to reduce stress Join the High School Council
Always read for one hour a day Continue doing soccer classes until it gets in the
Continue to public speak as it boosts confidence way of my work
Make One hour a day do you your hobbies
Spend time researching stuff I am passionate Participate in social groups that can fill up my
about every day resume.
Spread what I value(World Hunger/peace) with
other people every month

Educational Career/Life
(course selections, personal profile) (part-time work, networking, experiences)
Always choose the academic branch of learning
Make sure to work a part time job the minute I am
Choose courses that help me become eligible for allowed to
what I want to do in University(Accounting)
Build good connections with people of
Try not to get less than 80% for the rest of my time significance. This can benefit you in stuff such as
in high school work references

Revise all my courses every night instead of only Work in different places in order to built talents in
focusing on one course multiple places
 Financial
(savings, credit building, borrowing, living within your means)

My goal is to buy my house only when i get a salary of $100,000 every year
My goal is to always pay off debts by December 31 of every year
My goal is to save 20% of my income every month
My goal is to pay off all big purchases such as a car and home within 5 years of buying it

Reflection: In a format of your choice, answer the following questions.

● Why is it important to review and evaluate your choices and goals, and possibly revise them on a
regular basis?
It is important to review and evaluate your goals because of the fact that to become better as a human
you have to make changes. When you make a goal you are estimating your abilities and sometimes your
estimate is far from reality. Here is an example, let's say you have made a goal to run 10 KM every day
and you end up only running 5 KM. This means that your goal consists of an estimate that is far from
your current reality. Because of this, you will be unmotivated to achieve your goal because it seems
impossible to do. This can be changed however by revising your goal. In this example you can revise
your goal to running 7 KM a day. This will restore your hope and because you know it isn’t impossible
you will be inclined to push harder to reach that goal which is what you want.

● What have you asked yourself in order to assess if you were on a path that would get you closer
to your goal?
To assess if I was on a path to achieve my goal I asked myself a simple question, am I wasting
time? I think that this question helps me due to the fact that waiting time affects your narrative a
lot. Say if you want to finish something in 2 hours but you start wasting time. After the two hours
are up your brain gives you that false narrative that you have been working very hard on this and
you decide that this task isn’t meant for you causing you to give up.

● What did you learn about yourself and about areas you may need to work on?

One thing I have learned about myself is that I spend a lot of time on my education and I feel like it was
worked out when looking at my grades at school and the fact that most of the work given to me at school
is particularly easy. One thing however I need to work on is my personal life. I feel like I don’t put enough
time into what I want to do and I feel like that because I feel like I have to put education first in order for
me to have some sort of a good career in the long run. I need to work on finding time for me to enjoy
what I want to do rather than what the school system tells me to do.

● How was this information helpful in identifying or rethinking your goals?

This information is helpful in rethinking my goles due to the fact that before thinking about it I felt
like all I had to do in my life to be successful is to just study hard and I just realized that is not the
case. Studying hard is important, yes, but there are many more factors such as your hobbies,the
amount of money you have, and your social life. Moving forward I should turn my goals and make
them so that they consist of all of the categories and not just one.