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As I See It.. (It's a Vision Thing)
You Gotta Have Goals. Only if you have vision and purpose are you ready to begin planning whether in CES or in your life. Got 'em? OK! Now you need goals. These are big long-term ambitions that will take awhile. In fact, you may never achieve them. Suppose one of your goals is to ensure every transgendered teenager in the Baltimore-Washington area gets the information and support they need to make good life decisions. Too big? Not at all! You will probably never complete that goal, but it serves to guide in establishing things you can accomplish, that is, your objectives.
Objectives are things you can accomplish. Perhaps you decide that one of your objectives is to assemble a "Transgender Education Kit" that can be posted on the CES website. Then you email the link to every high school and junior high counseling office in the area with short note about CES and our education and outreach programs.
You Gotta Have a Plan. To achieve an objective you need an action plan. An action plan contains as much detail as needed to know who, what, when, where and how you will go about accomplishing your objective. An action plan may be simply a "do list" of things you need to complete. Or it may be a complex plan coordinating a lot of moving parts.
