Your Attitude Is Showing: A Primer of Human Relations, Tenth Edition

Balance Your Goals

The right balance of immediate and long-term goals works best for most people.

Each individual needs to design a goal “pattern” that produces the best results and attitude over the long term. Cameron provides us with an excellent example.

Cameron. Now 32 years of age and in a middle management position with a large utility firm, Cameron was asked to state the most important thing he had learned in college. His reply: “This may sound strange, but looking back, it was learning how to organize myself. I had many goals. First, of course, was earning a good GPA. I had some tough courses, so I had to concentrate. Then I needed some work goals because I had to pay my own way, and I wanted to establish myself as a responsible worker ...