California State University,

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California State University, Los Angeles College
of Business and Economics - Advisement Center
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Your Values

• Values - beliefs that guide your choices
• Examine sources - help define
• Yours alone own choice
• Continue to evaluate, change
• Goals enable put values into practice
• How do you set and achieve goals

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Why do you go to college?

• Learn to think and communicate better
• Able to deal with advances in knowledge and
  technology changing world
• Learn to adapt to new situations
• Better prepared to live in a world of diversity
• Make learning a lifelong habit
• Understand the meaning of your own contribution
  to world

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Why do you set goals?

• Give life direction
• Organize daily life
• See path ahead of you
• Define lifes purpose, mission
• Understand purpose of daily activities/obligations
  
• Control course of your life
• Get things done
• Reduce guilt
• Pass class

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Personal mission statement

• Way to stay focused on bigger picture
• Establishes goals, sets standards for
  accomplishing goals
• Idea of ultimate destination
• Once understand big picture relatively easy to
  define steps get end result
• Long term goals lifelong
• Short term goals narrow focus, smaller, more
  manageable
• Values guide you
• As life changes, alter your values

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Priorities

• Focus on whats most important
• Help organize goals most important first
• Five areas personal, family, school/career,
  finances, lifestyle
• Effective time management based on identifying
  priorities, making appropriate choices and
  understanding ones learning style preferences
• Priorities reflect personal goals

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Manage your time?

• 3 ways
• Set daily and weekly goals time management,
  daily lists
• Write everything down - 1 key to successful
  scheduling writing down, free brain from
  unnecessary clutter
• Prioritize evaluate, choose
• Building a schedule keep you responsible
• Two advantages
• Allocate segments of time
• Serve as a concrete reminder

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• Prioritize goals, activities
• Some things are more important than others
• Plan when to get things done
• Time management strategies
• Procrastination problem?
• Postpone unpleasant or burdensome tasks
• Strategies
• Avoid what dont want to do reasons?
• Managing procrastination
• Traps

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• Assign 7 pg. 79-80 3.1, pg. 80 3.2

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• Acct
• 320A, 320B, 321, 322, 325, 424A, 495, 2 electives
• Prelegal
• Fin 305, 325, 5 electives
• Economics
• 415, 458, 491, 303 or 310, 3 electives
• Entrepreneurship
• Acct 426, Fin 494, Mgmt 468, Mkt 325, 443, 2 elec
• Finance
• 325, 331, 332, 434, 3 electives

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• Human Resources Management
• 473, 474, 477, 489, 472, 2 electives
• International Business
• Mkt 325, 358, 456, Fin 431, Mgmt 462, 2 electives
• Management
• 460, 462, 479, 489, 3 electives
• Marketing Management
• 325, 342, 442, 446, 3 electives
• Operations Management
• 460, 464, 489, 4 electives
• Real Estate
• 325, 338, 381, 438, 439, 493, 1 elective

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• Retailing
• Mkt 325, 342, 344, 349, 3 electives
• Special Business
• Mgmt 489 or Mkt 325, 6 electives
• CIS Information Technology, Business Systems
  4 electives
• Economics Applied Economics, Social and
  Behavioral Sciences