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Set Your Goals

The document provides a structured approach for individuals to set and reflect on their personal and professional goals by answering key questions about passions, values, character, and strengths. It emphasizes the importance of writing clear, achievable, and specific long-term and short-term goals that align with one's aspirations. Additionally, it encourages regular review and adjustment of goals as one learns and grows.

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Set Your Goals

The document provides a structured approach for individuals to set and reflect on their personal and professional goals by answering key questions about passions, values, character, and strengths. It emphasizes the importance of writing clear, achievable, and specific long-term and short-term goals that align with one's aspirations. Additionally, it encourages regular review and adjustment of goals as one learns and grows.

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Set Your Goals

Answer the following questions in whatever way works best for you—sticky notes, spreadsheet,
journaling, word cutouts from magazines, etc. You may have some immediate reactions for these
questions, which is great—include those in your response. Then spend some more time exploring and
reflecting on each question to get to the heart of who you are, who you want to become, and where you
want to go.

1. What are you most passionate about? Think about what energizes you, what makes you happy,
and what you care deeply about.

2. What are your values? Think about what drives your priorities and creates harmony in your life.
3. How do you define your character? Think about how people describe you and how you describe
yourself to others.

4. What are your top strengths? Think about what your talents are and the skills you have that
others admire.
5. Based on these answers, where do you want to be in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years?

 1 Year:

 5 Years:

 10 Years:

When you're finished, submit your response here. If you don't have it on your device, take a picture and
upload that.
Write Clear Goals

After you’ve spent time reflecting on who you are and where you’d like to be in the future, it’s time to
write down clear goals for yourself.

Clear goals are:

 Achievable but challenging.


 Descriptive and specific.
 Something you want for yourself and not something someone else wants for you.

Goals are also broken into two parts:

 Long-term goals are something that you’d like to achieve in the future. They usually take at least
a few months but could also be years away.
 Short-term goals are goals you can achieve more quickly, within days or weeks, that help you
reach your long-term goals.

For example:

A long-term goal: “I will get an A in a course I am struggling with.”

Short-term goals: “I will complete all of my assignments on time.” “I will visit the tutoring center on
campus before each test.” “I will attend my instructor’s office hours at least twice.”

A long-term goal: “I will build my social and professional network.”

Short-term goals: “I will meet new people at my institution by joining one extracurricular activity per
year.” “I will connect with at least one person a month on LinkedIn.” “I will attend the job fair on
campus.”

Your goals should reflect what you want in your academic, professional, and personal life. Refer to these
goals regularly to make sure you’re doing things that align with what you want to achieve and who you
want to become. Keep in mind that goals change as you learn and grow, so it’s okay to come back and
adjust your goals whenever you see fit.
Write down your long-term and short-term goals for:

1. This term in school,

2. The next year,

3. For college, overall, and

4. For post-college life.

When you're finished, submit your goals.

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