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1. Unit 4: What’s Possible?
Defining your plan for the future

2. What Will We
Cover?
Planning and goal setting
• How do I plan/set goals?
• How do I achieve success?
Identifying possibilities
• What is out there for me?
• What will I do after school?
Creating a plan for me
• Charting a course from here and
now, to where I want to be
• Researching careers and career
paths
• Researching education and
education paths
• What do I want and what do I
need to do to get there?

3. • Do you struggle with
focusing?
• How can you help yourself
become more focused?

4. Learning Goals:
• Identify and describe key decisions and experiences in your life
that have shaped the person you are now
• Identify and describe some of the key decisions you will have to
make and experiences you may have, that will shape the person
you will become
• Identify strategies and skills that you can use in your own life to
help you achieve your goals
• Explain the importance of having a good decision-making
process, and identify ways you can incorporate this skill into your
own life
• Set short-term goals for yourself and act on them

5. Your Life is a Journey
Each step is a decision you must choose to
take.
What journey are YOU
on?

6. Thinking Exercise:
The Course of Your Life
(so far…)
Think of your life to this point
What major events or decisions
have affected the course of your
life?
Create flow chart of decisions that
show how you went from “A”
(your past) to “B” (today) in your
life.
A
B
A
B
B

7. 4 TED Talks on Goals and Success…

8. 1: The Power of the 30 Day
Challenge
Heard this one before?
Have you tried it yet?

9. 2: Grit –The Key to Success
What does it mean to
have “grit?”
How will that help
you succeed?

10. 3: Keep Your Goals to Yourself?
Why keep your goals to
yourself?
How might sharing your
goals help you achieve
them?

11. 4: Success is a Continuous
Journey
How does this change
what you think about
success?
How is success really
achieved?

12. Choices and
Reactions
Complete the handout on choices and
reactions.
Thinking about your honest answers, how do
your choices and reactions influence your
ability to accomplish your goals?

13. Strength in
Numbers:
In this game you are trying to get
the largest group possible.
1. Write down 3 goals you have
on a piece of paper
2. Find a group (one or more)
who shares a similar goal to
yours (you decide if its
similar enough). If you have
a match, the smaller group
joins the bigger one. If the
groups are the same size,
rock paper scissors to see
who wins.
3. You may only use a goal on
your sheet once to find a
match. If you run out, use
goals other members of your
group have.

14. So what do you think?
• Reflect on how you set goals in your life, do you effectively set and accomplish your goals?
• How do you use goal-setting in your school life/home life/extra-curricular life?
• What is success for you?
• How do you know when you are successful?
• Think about and write a goal for yourself to accomplish:
• This month
• This school year
• This summer

15. Learning Goals:
• Identify and describe key decisions and experiences in your life
that have shaped the person you are now
• Identify and describe some of the key decisions you will have to
make and experiences you may have, that will shape the person
you will become
• Identify strategies and skills that you can use in your own life to
help you achieve your goals
• Explain the importance of having a good decision-making
process, and identify ways you can incorporate this skill into your
own life
• Set short-term goals for yourself and act on them