Family Life Management 7400.360
Take Home Assignment 5
LIFETIME GOALS - 2-3 pages

In this assignment, your job is to think about your personal situation in life (i.e., where you are and where/what you want to become after college). We've talked about goals and planning all throughout the class. Now it is time to prioritize your goals and set the stage for their acheivement long term.

1. Identify your center: a value or principle of highest priority to you. This might require that you list out the five most important aspects of your personhood that you value highly and then put them in order from the highest valued to the less valued.

2.Write a personal mission statement demonstrating these values and explain how these values with help you in defining what you want to be (your  character) and what you want to achieve in life.

3. Identify your family's (or your family-to-be) value or principle of the highest priority that your whole family should hold true. If you havent' started your family as yet, you get to imagine the family that you want here.

4. Write a family mission statement demonstrating the values or principles most important to the family membership. Include what a family should be, what a family should do, roles of individuals, and goals of families as units.

Back to the syllabus.