Setting Goals

GEN105 Week 5 Checkpoint

CheckPoint: Setting Goals

 Due Date: Day 4 [Individual] forum

 Follow the steps listed below:

1. Identify two of your long-term education or career goals. Your goals may be career-oriented, academic, or personal in nature. (“I will become the head of my company’s graphics department” is an example of a long-term goal.)

2. Break these two long-term goals into several short-term goals that you hope to accomplish within a relatively short time. (“I will learn how to use my company’s new graphics software” is one short-term goal that would need to be accomplished before someone could become the head of a graphics department.)

3. For each of your short-term goals, list a specific deadline you wish to accomplish the goal by (for example, “I will accomplish this goal by the end of next month”). Describe how you will accomplish the goal (for example, “I will enroll in a professional development course”).

4. Prioritize all goals in order of importance.

5. Describe how each goal is specific, is moderately difficult but not impossible to achieve, and aligns to your values.

 Post your completed list to the Individual forum

One long term goal is to build my own home.  To accomplish this, a few of my short term goals are to improve my credit score by the end of 2010 which should be slightly complicated.  My other short term goal is to save for an initial investment.  I am hoping to accomplish that by summer of 2010.  That is going to be difficult to achieve since I have two children to support while saving money.  One other short term goal is to learn what it takes to build my own home.   I have already made a floor plan and am learning the specifics of house design in order to achieve my dream of building my own house.  Hopefully I can learn all I need to know before I am ready to start building.

One long term goal is to become a Certified Public Accountant.  To accomplish this, two short term goals are to complete my associates by summer 2011 then bachelors by summer 2013.  Then, I will take my CPA exam after achieving my bachelors in Accounting. My goal of becoming a CPA should be accomplished by the end of 2013.  School is going to be difficult to complete as I have other priorities to consider. 

I am hoping going back to school will help me obtain a well paying job in order to accomplish my other goal of owning my own house.