Create specific long-term goals. Start by thinking about your values and what’s important to you. Write down at least one or two specific goals that you could achieve that align with what’s important to you. A specific goal has a clearly defined benchmark of success, so at some point in the future you will know definitively whether or not you have achieved it. Do the goals on your list inspire or motivate you? If not, think harder about some different goals. If you have found some specific, meaningful goals, do you believe you can achieve any of them? If not, break them down into smaller goals
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