From the course: Defining and Achieving Professional Goals

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Review your goals every three to six months

Review your goals every three to six months

From the course: Defining and Achieving Professional Goals

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Review your goals every three to six months

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- Almost every five-year-old wants to be a firefighter or an astronaut when they grow up. Personally, I wanted to be a spy. But most of us don't end up doing those things as adults. Your goals and priorities change. Even thinking back to more recent times when I was in college, I thought I'd either be a professional activist or a college professor. My work touches on those things now, but the picture still looks very different than I imagined when I was 18. Case in point, there's now something called the internet. You can't simply treat your goals as something to set and forget. You might have a professional ambition you desperately wanted do achieve at a certain point so you started working toward it. But it's important to make a habit of checking back in on your goals every three to six months because circumstances might change in the interim. And you have attached yourself to a flawed plan of action. Check out the…

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