Setting Goals - Strategies for Success - Lecture Notes, Study notes of Career Counseling

Download Setting Goals - Strategies for Success - Lecture Notes and more Study notes Career Counseling in PDF only on Docsity! Lecture Notes UNIV 099 (Spring 2013) Today • Goals and Goal Setting Reading • Victims and Creators • Ch. 2 (“The Desire to Learn”, Armstrong) Homework • Journal 2: motivation, victims and creators • HW 2: goals S. Bowers 1 of 5 Lecture Notes UNIV 099 (Spring 2013) Setting goals Q: Why think about and articulate goals? • focus attention (future) • clarify objectives (needs, desires) • drive performance – sometimes goals not meant to be reached – they simply serve as something to aim at If you don’t explicitly define goals, what drives your choices? • people are “goal driven” • you have implicit goals even if you don’t explicitly define them S. Bowers 2 of 5