Career Goals: How to Plan a Lifetime of Success (With Examples)

Wondering why your career goals keep falling flat? Well, it’s simple. You’ve been doing it all wrong.

Setting your career goals can make or break your success in your professional life.

Do you want to work aimlessly for decades, achieving nothing? Probably not.

Without career goals, we lack direction, focus, and motivation. Success won’t fall in your lap. At least, this shouldn’t be the plan. It takes years of consistent progress toward known goals.

Maybe you have set career goals in the past but failed to achieve them. Why? You don’t know how to set your career goals.

Career goals are the best tools to make better decisions every time. You make choices every day. You prioritize and let some opportunities pass. There must be a framework in place to show what is worthwhile. You need systems for scheduling time and resources. Career goals do this better than any other tool.

Here’s everything you’re going to learn:

1. What are career goals?
2. Why are career goals important?
3. Categories of career goals
4. How to set career goals (with examples)