Question

Choose any two of the areas that you can create lifetime goals in and answer the questions that go along with them from the unit.

Career: What do you want to do? What level do you want to reach in that career?
Financial: How much money do you want to earn by what stage in your career? Is that realistic, based on the career you’ve chosen?
Education: What information and skills do you want to build? What will you need based on the career that you’ve chosen? What other kinds of learning do you want to pursue?
Family: Do you want to be married? Be a parent? What does being successful at that goal look like for you?
Physical: Do you have athletic goals? What do you want your health to be like now and later?
Emotional: Are there any behaviors that you want to change? Things that scare you that you want to conquer or ways that you are getting in your own way?
Leisure: How do you want to play? What hobbies or activities do you want to learn or pursue?
Public service: How do you want to change the world for the better?
The unit tells us that people who write their goals down are statistically more likely to achieve them than those who do not. Why do you think this is? Explain.
Write down a visualization that addresses your five senses for a goal that you have. If you don’t have a previous goal, set a new one!
The unit tells us that failure offers us a chance to really learn and look at our goals and see if they fit as we change. Describe a time in your life where you feel that a failure was actually helpful. Explain.
Why might it be important to consider personal traits when choosing your possible career cluster? What are some possible traits to consider?

Answer 1

Career: My goal is to become a successful software engineer. I want to reach a level where I am able to develop complex solutions for businesses and organizations. Financial: My goal is to be able to earn a salary of at least $100,000 a year by the time I'm 30. I believe this is realistic based on the career I have chosen because software engineering is a highly sought after field.

Education: To reach my goals in software engineering, I need to build a strong foundation in the core principles of computer science, such as algorithms, data structures, and programming languages. I also want to pursue additional learning in related topics such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Family: My goal is to be happily married in the next 5 years and to have children in the next 10 years. Being successful at this goal means finding a loving and fulfilling relationship and having a family who supports each other and is happy and healthy.

Physical: My goal is to stay physically active and maintain a healthy lifestyle. This means exercising regularly, eating healthy, and getting enough sleep.

Emotional: My goal is to be able to handle negative emotions such as stress and anxiety in a healthy way. This means learning how to manage my emotions and not letting them take over.

Leisure: My goal is to explore different hobbies and interests. I want to learn new skills and activities such as photography, cooking, and playing musical instruments.

Public Service: My goal is to use my skills and knowledge to help those in need. This means volunteering my time to help those less fortunate and advocating for social justice causes.

People who write their goals down are more likely to achieve them because it helps them to keep track of their progress and stay motivated. Writing down goals also makes them tangible, which increases the likelihood that they will be accomplished.

A visualization that addresses my five senses for a goal I have is to become a successful software engineer. I see myself coding on my laptop and creating complex solutions. I feel the satisfaction of having a successful project completed. I hear the sounds of the keyboard and the notification of a successful build. I smell the coffee I’m drinking to help me stay focused. I taste the food I’m eating to help me stay energized.

A time I felt that a failure was actually helpful was when I was trying to learn a new coding language. I was having difficulty understanding it and felt very frustrated. I eventually decided to take a step back