Work for something you really want, not just something that sounds good. Keep them consistent with your values.
Don't let one goal contradict others.
Develop goals in 6 areas:
Family and Home
Finance and Career
Spiritual and Ethical
Physical and Health
Social and Cultural
Mental and Educational
Set performance, rather than outcome goals to maintain as much control as possible.
Write goal in as much detail as possible. Provide dates, times, amounts...
Keep goals realistic in terms of your interests, skills, performance level, and prepration involved.
Make sure goal is high enough. Failure isn't missing your goals -- it's not making the attempt!
Write your goals down...and review them frequently to help you both focus and revise as necessary.

Write your main goal first -- what you want to achieve in the long term. Next, write what you need to accomplish in ten years to make positive progress toward that goal. Then, write what you need to accomplish in five years to make progress towards your ten-year intermediate goals. Write what you need to accomplish this next year to make those 5-year goals. Lastly, write a to-do list for the current day or week. Include not only those tasks directly relating to those goals, but also other tasks and chores you need to accomplish.

Study Skills

Read about upcoming topics ahead of time to prepare and understand the basics.
Listen not just to the instructor, but to the input of your peers.
Write examples or themes.
Take Notes of ideas connecting or explaining main points.
- underline/highlight key or unfamiliar words
- diagrams
- leave space to fill in later
- Note-taking methods:
  Outline - linear, logical, major headings and subcategories
  Mind-Mapping -- relationship lines from central idea to subtopics
  Cornell: Record notes on right side; Reduce to key words in left column; Recite using key words to test yourself; Reflect on material and relate to what you know; Review regularly.

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