MUSE - A Spartan Scholar from the Start: Setting Your Goals
Setting Your Goals
Setting goals for yourself is important because the process...
- Causes you to ask yourself what is important to you;
- Helps you to identify and prioritize your daily, weekly and monthly
activities; and
- Helps you to measure your accomplishments.
Setting long-term goals is like having a personal mission statement
to follow. Your mission statement should include your goals for your
education, career and personal life.
Here are some factors to consider in setting and reaching your goals-
- Know what is important to you. What
do you value and enjoy?
- Be sure your goals are as specific as possible.
If your goals are not clear, you won’t know how to reach them
or be able to measure your progress towards reaching them.
- What are the steps that you must take to reach
the goals? What is your plan to reaching your goals? Be sure the
plan is specific and realistic.
- Know what your timeline is for completing the
steps towards your goals.
- Write your goals down and refer to them regularly.
- Don’t forget that you are the one responsible
for reaching your goals.
- Don’t be afraid to periodically rethink
and reevaluate your goals and reset them if necessary.
You will change; the world around you will change.
- Have a positive attitude towards achieving you
goals.
If you have set realistic goals that are your goals (not someone
else’s) and have a plan and a desire to reach them, you will
be surprised at how successful you can be!
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