Defining career goals

A key to staying motivated is being able to see and measure your progress toward that goal.…Let's take a few minutes to figure out what success is to you because it's…not the same for everybody.…I prepared a worksheet to help you.…It's named Goals in the exercise files.…It's broken into two parts.…The first is a list of common reasons for freelancing.…I gave 12 among them;…to make more money, to work fewer hours, to do a bigger variety of work, to be…able to work wherever you are, and so forth.…I also included a few spaces for you to add your own goals.…

Start by ranking at least the top three.…My main goal was to be free to travel and to work wherever I was.…Having a greater variety of work was also important to me, as was having…a flexible schedule.…When you're done filling it out according to your goals, the things you'll have…ranked are still just dreams--that is, vague wishes about the future.…The difference between dreams and goals is that goals are specific.…So, now we'll move down to the bottom section of the worksheet to make our…