15 Year Plan for your LIFE
   •Why write a fifteen year plan?
    ▫to help you realize your goals and dreams
    ▫to teach you a systematic process for 
     choosing your future career and life 
     direction.  
  Chapter 1 Envisioning Your 
  Future
   How do you define success? 
     What to get out of this chapter
      • To help students realize         • To allow students to 
        that success does not come         recognize the scope and 
        just from daydreaming, but         diversity of every 
        from combining a vision            individual’s 
        with appropriate and               accomplishments on a 
        necessary actions.                 daily basis.
      • To have students begin           • To help students identify 
        imagining the kind of future       their own decision-making 
        they would find most               patterns and evaluate 
        satisfying.                        their effectiveness.
      • To illustrate that work is not 
        just a way to earn a living, 
        but an important part of 
        most people’s identity.
  Chapter 1 Vocab
   •Copy vocab into workbook 
   •Read vocab words once a night for 
    homework
    ▫To prepare for vocab test at the end of the 
     chapter.
 elaborate: to explain in detail
 gamut: the full or complete range of things
 vision: a dream
 realization: to make something real
 frustration: a feeling arising when hindered in trying to reach a goal
 security: feeling safe and certain; no apprehension or anxiety
 discrimination: wrongful treatment of a person (or group) due to a bias or prejudice
 achievement: accomplishing something rewarding
 fanatic: someone excessively devoted to or enthusiastic about a cause or activity
 excess: more of something than is necessary
 flaunt: to exhibit something (an achievement or prize) a little too proudly
 prima donna: an overly vain person
 integrity: free from corruption or vice; honesty
 humility: a lack of false pride; feeling modest or unassuming
 intuition: instinctive knowing; a feeling that something might happen; second sight
 impulsive: actions typified by a lack of planning or preparing
 procrastination: putting an assignment or task off until a later time; dawdling
 compliant: easily persuaded or swayed; submissive
 rational: logical or sensible
 interchangeable: being able to change places or replace something else