3.3. Creating Goals

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• 3.4. Next Class is a recording: 10/29
• 3.5. Assignment: Create a Career Plan: 10/31

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Recap

3.2.

• Learned about the 16 career clusters;
• Chose a job zone that relates to your future goals;
• Discovered three careers that fit best with your interests and preparation level; and
• Determined which career clusters your top three careers fit within.

3.3.

Creating Goals

• Differentiate between personal goals and career goals, and long-term goals and short-term goals
• Use the Think-Plan-Do-Reflect method to identify a goal and the steps to reach that goal
• Reflect on a time they hit a roadblock

Vocabulary: goals, long-term goals, short-term goals

How to Set Goals

vision Boards

• Look at the image on the right. Have you ever seen a vision board?

A vision board contains desires that people have for themselves. For example, the individual who created the board on the right hopes to have a new car, travel, get a dog, and more! Vision boards are collages of pictures, words, and symbols representing what you want to achieve or experience. Vision boards can be a great tool for visualizing your personal and career goals.

A goal is something that you are trying to do or achieve. Many people have personal goals and career goals.

Personal Goals

Career Goals

Sort the examples between personal goals and career goals.

Personal Goals

Career Goals

Personal and career goals may vary from person to person. For example, some people may have short-term goals and others may have more long-term goals.

you can create short-term goals to help keep you on track for your long-term goals.

Short-term Goals

Long-term Goals

Manageable Chunks

Short-term goals

Short-term goals are very important for long-term goals because they can:

• break down goals into more manageable chunks;
• provide motivation;
• help measure progress; and
• give you time to reflect.

motivation

Measure Progress

time to reflect

Consider another example. Your friend, Andrew, likes to go running sometimes. He decided that he would like to run a marathon in six months. A marathon is 26.2 miles! This is a long-term goal of Andrew's. He is wondering if he should set some short-term goals along the way to help him get there. What do you think? Answer in the poll.

Think-Plan-Do-Reflect

One method for achieving and setting goals is Think-Plan-Do-Reflect. This is a structured approach that allows you to look back on your progress and make adjustments as needed.

Think-Plan-Do-Reflect

Once you have an idea of what you hope to accomplish, be sure that your goal is defined and understandable. One way to do this is to make your goal a PACT goal.

Meet Darius! He got a C in math last marking period and he wants to get at least a B this marking period. So, he is considering his options for how to improve his grade. Darius decides to make a PACT goal. His goal reads: I will attend all of my guided math lessons for the entire marking period.

Think-Plan-Do-Reflect

Just as you need to make sure your goal is understandable and well-defined, it is important to make your plan is as detailed as possible.

Think-Plan-Do-Reflect

Think-Plan-Do-Reflect

Today, you learned about goals and how short-term goals can be helpful for achieving long-term goals. The PACT goal can help you make goals, and the Think-Plan-Do-Reflect method can help you set and reach your goals. Show what you have learned by answering the question below. Meet John. He has wanted to start his own company since he was in high school! In order to achieve this long-term goal, he knows that he needs to carefully plan. John wants to use the Think-Plan-Do-Reflect method to help him! Look at the matching question below and help John break down his long-term goal.

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Summary 3.3.

In today's lesson, you learned about:

• Short-term and long-term goals
• The Think-Plan-Do-Reflect method for setting and achieving goals; and
• The PACT method for creating goals.

In the next lesson, you will learn about creating a career plan.

Thanks!

Answer the poll before you go and have a great rest of your day! See you next time!

Motivation

Sometimes a long-term goal might seem overwhelming and as if you will never get there. Breaking down your long-term goal into short-term goals helps provide a sense of progress and motivation to keep going. Consider the guitar example. If you have practiced the basic chords and chord transitions, that is two out of five steps! You are nearly halfway to mastering the guitar.

Manageable Chunks

Short-term goals can help provide direction for achieving your long-term goals. It breaks bigger goals into smaller more manageable chunks that are easier for you to achieve at one time. For example, consider the long-term goal of playing the guitar. It can take a lot of time to learn how to do this, so breaking it down into smaller chunks can make it more manageable. You could first practice the basic cords for a set amount of time, practice chord transitions afterward, learn strumming patterns next, practice fingerpicking, and lastly practice scales. Each step would have an assigned amount of time, all within the long-term goal timeline.

Measure Progress

Short-term goals can be a benchmark when helping you measure your progress toward a long-term goal. For example, if you aim to pass all of your year-long courses with A's, think about what a quarterly report card does for you! These are check-in points to ensure you are on track to getting the grades you want. The report cards help you measure your progress.

Personal Goals

Personal goals are specific objectives that you set for yourself to achieve in your personal life. Examples include:

• improving your health;
• learning a new hobby;
• traveling;
• improving your financial situation; and
• improving your mental health.

career Goals

Career goals are specific objectives that you set for yourself to achieve in your professional life. Examples include:

• learning new skills;
• earning a promotion;
• changing careers;
• starting a business; and
• improving your work-life balance.

Long-term Goals

Long-term goals are things you want to do in the future, or things that will take a while to achieve. Long-term goals require some time to plan and cannot be achieved this week, this month, or even in the next year. Oftentimes, long-term goals will take multiple years to achieve and may be made up by meeting short-term goals along the way. Examples include:

• graduating from college;
• buying a car; or
• running a business.

Short-term Goals

Short-term goals are things you can do or accomplish in the near future meaning today, this week, or in just a few months. Short-term goals do require planning and determination to achieve them.

• Examples include:
• organizing your desk;
• exercising three times a week; or
• passing your algebra midterm.

PACT Goals

PACT is a method for setting and achieving goals that focus on the outcome (what you want to achieve) and the output (the actions you will take to achieve your goal). This method is great for long-term goals because it helps you define your goals in a way that makes it easy to track progress. A PACT goal is:

• P: purposeful
• A: achievable
• C: continuous
• T: trackable

Step 1: Think

During this stage of the Think-Plan-Do-Reflect method, you will take time to think about what you hope to accomplish or where you want to end up. This step includes identifying what is important to you, what you want to achieve, and why you want to achieve it. It may sound easy, and sometimes it is. However, sometimes it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what your goal is. Press through the gallery below to learn some strategies for determining your goals.

Time to Reflect

Short-term goals allow you to think about your progress and adjust if needed. Sometimes when attempting to reach a long-term goal, you might not make the progress you hoped for. This can be seen through short-term goals. Once you realize progress is not where you want it, you can reflect and consider if you need to change your short-term or long-term goals. For example, maybe you want an A in math class by the end of the school year, but right now you have a C and are halfway through. After reflection, you decide you might need to change your strategy for earning an A. Instead of just making sure you complete work on time, you add that you also want to meet with your teacher weekly until your grade is higher. You created a new short-term goal to reach the long-term goal.

Step 4: Reflect

Throughout your journey, it is important to stop and reflect. Just as a quarterly progress report can help you see the progress you make across a school year, reflecting on your goals allows you to take a step back and reassess where you are and where you are going. Predetermine key points in your journey when you will reflect. If you reflect too often, you might become discouraged about your lack of progress. If you do not reflect often enough, you may get off course and not realize it. The right amount of reflection will depend on you, but some occasions when you should definitely take time to reflect include:

• each time you reach an important milestone or achieve a short-term goal;
• any time you begin to feel that you are not making as much progress as you should; and
• if you start to question your original goal.

Perhaps getting a passing grade in this course is one of your goals. Take a moment to reflect on what you have learned and accomplished so far.

Step 2: Plan

When you plan, you make decisions about how to reach your goal. Planning helps you create a map of how you will get from your starting point to your ending point. This step involves making choices about what route to take to reach your goal. It also involves identifying the short-term goals you will need to accomplish in order to reach your long-term goal.

Step 3: Do

At this step, you are putting into motion the plans that you have created to reach your goal. You have spent time thinking and planning. Now, it is time to take action. This step involves taking the steps that you have planned out. You may be reaching a short-term goal through these actions or working toward your long-term goals. While you are busy “doing” and working toward your goals, you will probably hit some roadblocks along the way. You cannot control everything, but you can control some things. When the unexpected happens, you have three choices.

Finding a new path or creating a new destination are both options that will help you move forward toward a goal. Your goal and priorities may change over time, and that is okay. As long as you are moving forward toward a set destination, you are still acting with self-determination.