Goal Setting

Goal Setting and Decision Making: Seeing Through Your Future

Activity:

A. Go over the list of goals. Write ST if it is a short-term goal and LT if it is a long-term goal.

______1. To attend the JS Prom on March 11.

______2. To have my own house and lot.

______3. To have a loving family of my own.

______4. To be able to submit my project in Science.

______5. To be able to save money for the Christmas party.

______6. To be a well-respected leader in my community.

______7. To be a successful doctor.

______8. To represent my country in an educators’ training seminar abroad.

______9. To get a high-paying job.

______10. To convince the girl I am courting that I am the right man for her.

B. Work on the unfinished statements below. Be as realistic as possible. Try to complete the statements to reflect exactly what you want the answers to be in 10 years. Think about all possibilities and what you would like to be doing. Your hopes for the future may be the goals you want to set for yourself.

Your answers are essentially what you would like to tell your friends when you see them again in 10 years.

* In ten years my age will be __________________________.

* My job will be (be as specific as possible) ______________________________ ________________________________________________________________.

* To get my job, I will have to _________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________.

* My specific responsibilities will be ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________.

* My approximate annual income (or family’s) will be ______________________.

* My most important personal possessions will be ______________________ ______________________________________________________________...