Title: Develop short- and long-term personal goals.
Course: Independent Living (22904-36) > Section: Managing Resources to Achieve Goals

Developing goals should include

- defining the term goal
- visualizing one’s future
- determining the relationship between goals and success
- identifying resources to achieve goals (e.g., educational, financial, environmental, physical, community connections, relationship network)
- identifying management skills (e.g., time management, task prioritization, project management)
- creating a list of long-term and short-term goals, using the specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) goal format
- selecting an important long-term goal and writing short-term goals to support it
- defining value and identifying the relationships among values, goals, and behavior
- examining factors that affect goals.

Teacher Resources:

- FCCLA Planning Process Worksheet
- Power of One, FCCLA

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What factors influence one’s short- and long-term personal goals?
- What are consequences of failing to set goals?

Communication

- How does communicating one’s goals with others influence one’s success?
- Why is it important to write short-term goals to support a long-term goal?

Leadership

- How do one’s values affect one’s goals?
- How do goals contribute to success?

Management

- What circumstances would make one feel it is necessary to re-evaluate goals?
- How can using the SMART goal format contribute to success?