                          LIFE  GOAL(S)

One of the primary reasons people have a hard time determining their
best career choice is because they have never determined what
their life goal is.  A well defined life goal will provide both
direction and enthusiasm.  A life goal should be clear and to the
point.

The ideal life goal will provide inspiration over a lifetime.
Normally, a life goal is a personal desire that provides greater
direction and purpose in a person's daily life.

It is easy to confuse a life goal with other aspirations.  Buying a
home or earning a college degree are not normally life goals.

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.

Your life goal could be to:
  Raise a happy family.
  Raise animals.
  Become wealthy.
  Help humanity.
  Make people happy.
  Build a dream house, ranch, or business.
  Achieve recognition for creative effort.
  Gain power.
  Prepare for a carefree retirement.

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.

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:

1.  What do you really want to accomplish in life that will provide
    a lasting sense of fulfillment?

2.  Assuming it is the end of your life, what do you wish that you
    had done earlier in your life?

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.

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 will often have more than one life
goal.

Spend at least 30 to 60 minutes reviewing the two questions listed
above, and write your life goal(s) out on the "Life Goal Analysis"
form printed earlier in the print section.


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