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4. Budget R200 per month to finance a new personal computer.

The first step in effectively developing a personal career plan is to

develop a statement of your long-term goals.

Where do you see yourself in five years time?

What would you like to achieve?

This statement of goals will allow you to set shorter range goals and to

prioritise specific activities according to how much they contribute to your
goals. Setting these long-range goals may be more difficult than you imagine.

The process can force you to confront decisions that you have been putting
off or to deal with issues that you don't want to handle.

Setting goals is so important because your life is a sequence of big and small
choices and decisions.

PROPERTIES OF WELL-FORMULATED GOALS

An effective expression of the important goal setting
guidelines is that you should set SMART goals. What the

SMART goal-setting guidelines actually mean is that your goals should be:

• Specific

• Measurable

• Attainable

• Rewarding

• Timely

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