Goals

Vocabulary

• Needs: things you have to have in order to live/survive. • (For example: air, food, water, shelter,

clothes, safety, love)

• Wants: things that you would like to have to make your life easier -- things you can live without. • (For example: CDs, new clothes, TV set)

• Values : guidelines on how you live; your beliefs about right and wrong; (For example: freedom, honesty, trust, health, friendship, fun, money, power, love)

• Goals: Where you want to go – something you want in the future that will make you happy.

• Short-term – will happen soon (days or weeks). • (For example: To get an A in a class.)

• Long-term – wlll happen later (months or years). • For example: Graduate from high school.)

• Reaching short-term goals will help you reach long-term goals.

• Resources: something used to help you achieve a goal. • For example: money, time,

knowledge, things, people

• Decision: a choice you make between 2 or more possibilities