1. Setting Lifestyle Goals

2. Lifestyle Goals
Lifestyle goals are the way you want to spend your time, energy, and resources in the future.
Ask Yourself
What do you want to accomplish in life?
Do you want to raise a family?
Where do you want to live?
Do you want to travel?
How much money do you want to make?
Do you want to own your own business?

3. What are values?
Values are the principles that you want to live by and the beliefs that really matter to you.
Your values could include...
Responsibility
Relationships
Compassion
Courage
Achievement
Recognition
Artistic Expression

4. What are your interests?
Data
working with information
working with facts & figures
working with statistics
People
working with people
working with animals
Things
working with physical objects
working with instruments or machinery
working with tools or equipment
Which one interests you most?

5. Careers Related to Data, People, and Things
Web site designer
Bookkeeper
Translator
Statistical Clerk
Proofreader
PEOPLE
Fitness Trainer
Nurse
Sales Representative
Physician Assistant
Hairstylist
PEOPLE
Video Producer
Computer Technician
Landscaper
Recording Engineer
Cabinetmaker
THINGS

6. Are Your Goals Realistic?

7. Aptitudes and Abilities
Aptitude is your potential for learning a certain skill.
Ability is a skill you have already developed.
If you continue to study and train within the areas of your aptitudes, they will become your skills.

8. Your Personality and Learning Styles
Personality is the combination of your attitudes, behaviors, and characteristics.
Self-concept is the way you see yourself.
Learning styles are the different ways that people think and learn.

9. Journal Entry #3: What are your three most important values?
Write a 5-sentence or longer paragraph on each explaining why it is important to you and how that might affect your career choices in the future.