Personal Responsibility

Goals
Long-term goals.Long-term goals represent major targets in your life. These goals can take 5 to 20 years to achieve. In some cases, they will take a lifetime. They can include goals in education, careers, personal relationships, travel, financial security
What do you want to accomplish in your life? Do you want your life to make a statement? If so, what is that statement?

Mid-term goals.Mid-term goals are objectives you can accomplish in 1 to 5 years. They include goals such as completing a course of education, paying off a car loan or achieving a specific career level. These goals usually support your long-term goals.

Short-term goals.Short-term goals are the ones you can accomplish in a year or less. These goals are specific achievements, such as completing a particular course or group of courses hiking down the Appalachian Trail, or organizing a family reunion. A short-term financial goal would probably include an exact dollar amount. Whatever your short-term goals are, they will require action now or in the near future.
To avoid this outcome, set goals in a variety of categories. Consider what you want to experience in your: * education career financial life family life social life * level of health
One of the most effective ways to stay on track and actually get things done is to use a daily to-do list. choosing your overall direction and taking charge of your life

What is one task I can accomplish toward achieving my goal?” you should be able to answer the following questions before you begin to write: * What do I want my readers to know? * Why am I writing (to analyze, to explain, etc.)? * How can I best fulfill the assignment?
The answers to these questions create your objective. When you can state your objective in a single sentence, you have created a tentative thesis sentence.