MODULE 3

• A job is like a sprint, whereas your career is like a marathon
• The Importance of Effective Goal Setting

  • Effective Goal Setting: Learn to create and achieve goals
  • Goals help you move forward with positive reinforcement
  • You want to have a winning mentality
  • Create long and short-term career goals
• Job vs. Career

  • Job: A work situation in which you earn money
  • Career: A profession built on one’s skills, passions, experiences, education, and preferences
  • Avocation: An activity or hobby done for enjoyment in addition to one’s regular work
• Career Management

  1. Should be a lifelong process

  2. You want to be in control

  3. Reflects on your values, passions, gifts, and talents
• Mental chatter


  • Should include words such as: Want to, desire, or enjoy
• Attitude and Self-Talk
• Creating a Portfolio

  1. Helps keep your career documents organized and easy to find

  2. Serves as a professional presentation of career documents

  3. Can be hard copies or stored electronically
• Achieving Your Goals

  1. Step 1: Write down what you don’t want

  2. Step 2: Write down what you do want

  3. Step 3: Write your goal statement SMART

  4. Step 4: Use tools

  5. Step 5: Focus, Get Clear, Take Action
• Affirmations


  • A conscious, positive statement you say to yourself even if it is not true at the moment
  • Work best when using positive, first person, present tense language
• SMART Goals

  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Attainable
  • Realistic
  • Tangible
• Career Mission Statement

  • Career Plan - A series of steps taken over a period of time in order to achieve a desired career
  • Career Mission Statement - A brief description of your overall career purpose
  • Ask yourself? - “Am I doing what I say I want to do with my career life?”
• How SMART Goals Work

  • Be specific in your goal setting
  • Use numbers to create a goal that can be measured
  • Set attainable, realistic goals
  • Stretch Goals - A goal that is large enough to create the energy and motivation needed to achieve it, but not so lofty that it is unattainable
• Mental chatter


  • The mental chatter that you say to yourself on a constant basis
  • Controlling your thoughts leads to self mastery