Psy 100 Life Action Plan

My life role – Identify your life plan role (this may be you as a student or professional).

To become a practicing counselor or psychiatrist professional. "Psychologists try to describe, predict, and explain human behavior and mental processes." (Feldman, 2010, p. 4).

My long-term goals in this role – Identify one outcome you plan to achieve within the next 2 to 10 years in this role.

1. Graduate with Master’s degree in psychology.

2. Pass with required or greater grade in every class to achieve my degree.

3. I am given the tools and resources such as the GCU library, the professors and my peers to achieve success in my classes. I am also given a schedule to achieve this and keep my professional and personal living unstressed

4. To help people in need, make more money doing what I like to do and make a better life for my son and me.

5. Graduate in 2025 with my Master’s degree in psychology and start my own practice.

My short term goals in this role – These are outcomes you plan to achieve in 1 day, 1 week, and 1 month. Each one should bring you closer to achieving your long term goals.

1. Work hard to pass my courses.

2. I will complete all assignments in an orderly, timely and correct manner to GCU standards each week.

3. the schedule given gives me the time to manage my time for work, family and school. It also allows me the time to get my work and studying done for school, so I can get it in on time and correct anything if needed.

4. I will pass all my current courses and work hard to pass all future courses until I graduate.

5. To complete and pass my current course PSY-100 which ends on 11-19-2017, my new course starts 11-20-2017

Identify your goal.

My goal is to become a counselor or a psychiatrist.

Identify benefits from reaching the goal.

Awesome education that I can share what I have learned with the world! I can help people that need assistance! I can get a better job, more money and better living for my son and me.

Describe obstacles and mountains to climb to reach this goal.

1. Achieving a passing grade in all courses.

2. Emergency due to family or work (Life)

3. Late night studying, homework, test, essays, getting assignments done and turned in on time.

Describe skills or knowledge required to reach the goal.

1. Determination

2. Promptness

3. Good communication

4. Must be prone to detail and understand the instructions you must follow to accomplish these goals

5. And you must be able to work on your own, very well and must be able to complete all given assignments and get them turned in.

Identify groups, individuals, companies, and organizations that can help you reach this goal.

1. My professors, my peers and GCU

2. The only person that can help me is myself, I am my own motivator and the only person who can complete this goal.

Plan of action to reach this goal (What specific steps will you take to accomplish this – these should be chronological steps (e.g., A, B, C, etc.)

1. Complete all my courses I am given in a passing or better grade to receive my degree.

2. To receive my degree and get a job that will let me start using the knowledge I have learned in my education after I receive my bachelor’s degree.

3. Once I get some on the job experience under my belt, get my name into the counselor and psychologist world and building up my cliental, I should have my master’s degree by then. Then get ready to find how I can open my own practice

4. Find out what cost will be to open my new practice. Where I should locate it and to see if I would have enough cliental and assistance to open my own practice.

5. Open my own practice by 2026 or 2027.

SMART is one method used for goal setting, which means specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely. This plan is to set a more powerful and purpose driven goal or goals (Lecture 7, 2017).

Date of completing the goal:

New Year’s resolution 01/01/2027 open my own practice.