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SET YOUR GOALS

BE SUCCESSFUL

 

ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS!
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Do you know what is important to you? Do you know how to get what you want? Are you unsure of your major? Career? Do you have specific goals on achieving your dreams?

Do not worry if you don't know the answer to these questions. Its o.k. not to know! Just start with wherever you are right now. We continually adjust and change our goals as we grow and learn.

You can use this site to make decisions and feel comfortable choosing your career, major and classes. You will also feel confident about achieving your goals. You can create a plan that you can use when visiting with a career counselor and academic advisor.

Use the Interactive iGoal to begin setting goals based on the provided examples.

link to the IGoal program

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Motivation
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
—RalphWaldo Emerson
Here are strategies to build Motivation:
  1. Focus on the positive, but do not ignore the negative

  2. Develop high self-esteem, believing you have the competence to learn, a sense of personal dignity, worth, and self respect.

  3. Use positive self talk and imagery. For example, I am creative. I can seemyself succeeding in the future.

  4. Focus on clear, specific, purposes and goals.

  5. Acquire skills and habits of success
    Taking responsibility for all areas of my life
    Getting immediate help when I need it
    Committing to following through

  6. Take responsibility

  7. Be in the present

  8. Be well balanced:
    physical
    (sleep, diet, exercise, no drugs)
    mental
    (think critically, alert, and mindfully)
    spiritual
    (sense of purpose and meaning)
    social
    (not overly social nor isolative)

  9. Focus on success not failure; opportunities, not problems

  10. Create support. Listen and spend more time with those whom support you

  11. Strive for excellence not perfection

  12. Reward yourself
Questions to help determine your level of motivation.
Turn each of these statements into goal statements, and you will increase your motivation!
DO YOU:
  1. Set high standards for yourself

  2. Believe in yourself

  3. Have enthusiasm for most of your behaviors

  4. See problems as challenges and opportunities

  5. Have a positive self-image

  6. Do just enough to get by

  7. Find fault easy in self and or others

  8. Balance your life between work / school / fun
 

Last updated: August 8, 2006
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