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Select 8 or more goals from this category. These
goals help you become more self-reliant, develop talents, and gain
leadership qualities.
_ 1. Continue your education, and develop
additional skills in reading, writing, and mathematics.
_ 2. Improve your reading skills by reading at
least 6 issues of a Church magazine.
_ 3. Choose 3 careers that interest you. Think
of several questions you have about each career, and discuss them with your
parents, a priesthood leader, or others who can help you learn about these
careers. Emphasize the positive aspects of each career as they relate to
your personal characteristics and life goals.
_ 4. Visit at least 3 places where people
perform work you might enjoy. Find out what they like and dislike about
their work and how they prepared themselves to do it. Describe to your
parents or a priesthood leader how you would feel about working at such a
job.
_ 5. If a vocational interest test is
available, take it, and discuss the results with your parents. If classes
are offered at your school that could help you prepare for a potential
career, discuss with your parents or a priesthood leader how they could
help you do this.
_ 6. Discuss how your chosen career would allow
you to maintain the moral standards of the Church.
_ 7. Learn and explain the entrance
requirements for a technical school, college, or university; describe to
your parents or a priesthood leader at least 5 classes that interest you.
_ 8. Learn to play a musical instrument.
_ 9. Attend a “career night” where a guest
speaker describes the steps a person should take to apply for a job and
what characteristics employers look for in new employees.
_ 10. Collect 3 different job applications, and
fill them out as practice.
_ 11. In a language other than your own, learn
to bear your testimony, and momorize the first 6 articles of faith.
_ 12. Use a computer to prepare a Church talk,
a school assignment, or another similar task.
_ 13. Create your own goal with approval from
your parents and Aaronic Priesthood leaders.
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