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1. LIFE GOALS
Where you end up and what you accomplish should largely depend on your…

2. Learning Goals:
• Define and give examples of goals and life goals
• Explain how goals and life goals are different
from each other
• Describe the roles of mentors and role models in
establishing goals/life goals
• Identify the six basic motivators behind life goals
• Identify the kinds of motivators you have in life
and compare them to life goals you have (or
think you would like to have)

3. First: A Short Exercise
• What is a Role Model?
– What is a positive role
model?
• At the top of the sheet
provided, write the
names of people who
you would consider as
positive role models
• Now write the
characteristics of those
role models in the
boxes below
–think creatively!

4. Think of Your Role Models…
Would you like your life to be like
theirs?
How can you get your life to be
like theirs?

5. What is a Goal?

6. How are Goals and Life Goals Different?
Life Goals:
• Begin a career in a chosen field
• Owning a home / business
• Becoming a pillar of your community
Goals:
• Get an A in this course
• Getting a summer / part-time job
• Joining a club or team

7. Discuss in the Forum:
• What are some good life goals?
• Are there different types of life goals?
– If so, what are they?
• How are life goals achieved?
• How will you know when/if you have
achieved them?

8. Think and Write:
• Identify 3 life goals
you have
• For each life goal,
identify 3 goals
that can guide you
to reach them
• What help or
resources are out
there to help you
reach your goals /
life goals?

9. MY LIFE
GOALS
Life Goals
How Do I Get There?
(guiding goals)
How Do I Know When I’ve
Accomplished My Goal?
Meaningful
Teaching Career
University
Teacher’s
College
Volunteering
Employment
Life-long
Learning
Student
Achievement
Great
Clubs
Students
Become
Great Adults

10. The Life Goals Inventory
This inventory categorizes life goals into 6 groups:
• Financial Success:
– Placing central value on personal wealth and material possessions
• Social Recognition:
– Placing relatively high value on admiration from others and fame
• Attractiveness:
– Placing relatively high value on appearing physically attractive and having an image that
appeals to others
• Affiliation:
– Placing relatively high value on relationships, including those with family,
friends, and potentially one's romantic partner
• Community Involvement:
– Placing relatively high value on improving the world and providing help to individuals in need
• Self-Acceptance:
– placing relatively high value on feeling autonomous and possessing a stable core of self-
regard that is not contingent on the opinions of other people

11. Take the Life Goals Inventory
• Take your time
and think about
each answer
before you
answer
• You only need to
answer the first
section of the
questionnaire
• Click here to
begin
• Copy your
answers in an
email and email it
to yourself
• When you are
done, reflect on
the following:
– What values are
your most
connected to your
life goals?
– How do your
results reflect
what you have
written on your
life goals wheel?

12. Learning Goals:
• Define and give examples of goals and life goals
• Explain how goals and life goals are different
from each other
• Describe the roles of mentors and role models in
establishing goals/life goals
• Identify the six basic motivators behind life goals
• Identify the kinds of motivators you have in life
and compare them to life goals you have (or
think you would like to have)