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Identify two goals and describe how each goal is specific, is moderately difficult but not impossible to achieve and aligns to most people's values.

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This paper identifies two goals and how they are aligned to people's values.

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Goal 1: Have all of my student loans paid off by the time I am forty years old.
Goal 2: Compete in and complete the Boston Marathon by 2012.

Goal one is a specific goal because it has a predetermined time period in which the goal should be complete. The student loans need to be paid off by the time I am forty years old, or the goal will not have been met. This goal is not impossible to achieve as long as I am physically and mentally ...

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