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Setting goals is important for people of all ages.  Get in the habit of setting both short-term and long-term goals. Setting goals helps you determine where you want to go and what you want to accomplish.  Goals give you focus, direction, and purpose.  Having a goal also helps you determine a plan of action.  If, for example, your goal is to go to college, then there are specific things that you need to do to achieve that goal. While goals can be short-term (get a B on tomorrow’s World Geography test) or long-term (graduate with a 3.5 GPA), every goal that you set should be:

1) specific,

 

2) measurable, and

 

3) attainable.

At the beginning of each semester, set some academic and some non-academic goals for yourself.  Once you’ve set your goals, come up with specific things that you need to do to reach each goal.