Your goals should be an ever-present part of your life, offering you direction and encouragement.
Don’t come up with a list of goals, hide them away somewhere, and check back forty years later to see if you reached them. Create them, use them, follow them, update them, live by them.
Connie is a student counselor in Milwaukee. She works with high school students to get them thinking about their future and to begin considering possible careers.
“The biggest thing is to get students started. So many of them have no concept of what they might want to do, which means they never consider the things they will have to do to become what they want to be.”
Says Connie, “We start talking with them, seriously, to give them a reality check so that they can start formulating their goals.
“Career planning is a lifelong process, but the sooner we start, the better chance we have of making decisions that will benefit us down the line,” Connie explains. “Once students have a goal, then they get not only a sense of direction for what they’re doing, but also a sense of purpose.”
Successful people spend at least fifteen minutes every day thinking about what they are doing and can do to improve their lives.
Sigmund 1999