1. Advice for My Child

2. Write an advice letter to your teen
Imagine your teen is your age right now.
Include in the letter any goals you had at this age, and what those goals did for you.
Write to your teen about taking risks – what kinds of risks are good to take and what kind are not. Discuss any memorable risks you took as a teen.
Tell your teen how to deal with failure and disappointment, so they won’t be discouraged when things don’t work out the way they want.
Tell them any other advice you have from living through your own teen years.

3. Questions What are some of your life goals?
What do you want to achieve in your life before you have children?
How can you look at mistakes as successes?
How do you define success?

4. “Success is the quality of the journey.”
- Jennifer James

5. Innovative Goal Setting Technique
Write down what it is that you would like to achieve
Write about how your goal:
- Inspires you
- Helps other people
- Makes a difference
Take 3 steps backwards from goal to present
Create a to-do list
Work out the details and direct actions towards each milestone
Keep each action as simple as possible

6. Assignment Practice this goal-setting technique with a career goal
Use CIS to help you find the pertinent information you need
Identify a short-term component of this goal that can be achieved this term
Prepare to share this with the class