Now you’re ready to write a one- to two-page essay on the following topic: What is your long-term goal and how do you plan to achieve it?

Before you begin, review the writing process. After drafting your essay, use this checklist to review it:

In the introduction, discuss your long-term goal and the process through which you arrived at that goal.
Discuss how your strengths will help you meet your long-term goal.
Discuss the challenges to meeting your goal and how you plan to overcome them.
Explain how each of your short-term goals brings you one step closer to your long-term goal.
Discuss why these short-term goals will also help your motivation toward your long-term goal.
Include a rough timeline for achieving your short-term goals and, ultimately, your long-term goal.
Analyze the practicality of your goal.
End by connecting the parts of your long-term goal process.
(for a psychologist)