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- LIFE GOAL ANALYSIS
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- The ideal life goal will provide inspiration over a lifetime.
- Normally, a life goal is a personal objective that provides greater
- direction in a person's daily life.
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- It is easy to confuse a life goal with other aspirations. Buying a home
- or earning a college degree are not normally life goals.
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- While one's life goal and career may be one in the same, this is not
- always the case. A life goal is usually of a more personal nature and
- of a larger scope. As an example, a life goal may be to help others
- learn, while the actual career may be teaching.
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- Having a life goal can motivate an individual to make the best
- possible career search. Careers can be selected that help support the
- life goal, either in the short term or the long term.
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- Selecting a life goal is seldom easy. However, if you stick with
- it, you can usually bring it to the surface. To help, answer the
- following:
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- 1. What do you really want to accomplish in life that will provide a
- lasting sense of fulfillment? __________________________________
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- 2. Assuming it is the end of your life, what do you wish that you
- had done earlier in your life? _________________________________
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- Before starting a career search, it is important to establish at least
- a tentative life goal. Once selected, a life goal is not set in
- cement. As a person grows older, his/her life goal may change.
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- Your selected life goal, at this time, need not completely satisfy
- you, but it should at least assist you in finding the best possible
- current career choice. A person may have more than one life goal.
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- Spend at least 30 to 60 minutes reviewing the two questions listed
- above, and write your life goal(s) out on a piece of paper.
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- Enter one, two, or three life goals.
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- 1. __________________________________________________________________
- 2. __________________________________________________________________
- 3. __________________________________________________________________