Making Specific Goals

Which one of these goals will most likely be accomplisehd?

• Get better at science.

• Get along better with my brother.

• Learn to play an instrument.

• Learn 3 new songs on my guitar by the end of the month.

• Help the garden look nice in the spring.

Which 2 goals are short-term goals?

• Play on a college basketball team.

• Become a professional artist.

• Get on the honor roll this quarter.

• Score a goal in my next hockey game.

Can you think of a short-term goal right now?

• Yes

• No

Which 3 things make your goals specific?

• The goal describes exactly what you are going to do.

• The goal is for school.

• The goal has a realistic deadline for when you are going to do it.

• You know when you have reached your goal.

Make this goal more specific: I will improve my short story.

Which goal makes: I will improve my short story, more specific?

• I will improve my short story by making it better.

• I will add 3 new details to describe the setting in my short story by the end of the day.

Use the checklist to write 1 specific goal for yourself to work on next week.