Outcome: Defining Goals

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

—Yogi Berra, baseball player and coach

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Explain how time management plays a factor in goal setting, leading to short-term, medium-term, and long-term objectives
Identify overall academic goals
Identify and apply motivational strategies to support goal achievement
Describe how a social network can help accomplish goals
Consider factors that might hinder goal achievement and possible ways to address these issues