personal goal

collocation in English

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personal
adjective
uk
/ˈpɜː.sən.əl/us
/ˈpɝː.sən.əl/
relating or belonging to a single or particular person rather than to a group or ...
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goal
noun[C]
uk
/ɡəʊl/us
/ɡoʊl/
an area on a playing field, that usually has two posts with a net fixed behind them, where players try to send the ball in order to score in sports such as football ...
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(Definition ofpersonalandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpersonal goal

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Hispersonalgoalwas to earn 200 caps.
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Once the tour was finished, she returned to the studio to complete the album, feeling that completing it was apersonalgoalshe had set.
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This device is wearable on the wrist and allows one to set apersonalgoalfor a daily energy burn.
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Reaching the sacred as apersonalgoal, also called spiritual striving, has been found to correlate highest with well-being compared to other forms or striving.
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The first notable difference lies in these devotees' respective attitudes towards spiritual striving as a legitimatepersonalgoal.
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Mypersonalgoalis for biomedical researchers to accept into their daily thinking what they already know from their training.
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In other words, interactants must deal with at least two goals: thepersonalgoalof getting something done, and the social goal of meeting the norms and expectations of society.
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While all facilitate social interaction, some additionally offer the opportunity to pursue apersonalgoal(such as health maintenance) or to make a recognised social contribution through community activity.
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It can be apersonalgoalbased task of getting a credit card, to an organization goal of based task of filling a timesheet.
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He then made a second attempt, largely because hispersonalgoalwas 360 feet.
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Mypersonalgoalis to get it within five years after his passing.
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For many of the individuals involved, it became a primary andpersonalgoalto create the first computer generated feature.
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Nowadays, this incident is often mentioned every time a player has an opportunity to pad statistics for the sake of apersonalgoal.
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The measure of belief that people have in their ability to achieve apersonalgoalalso affects that achievement.
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Nevyan makes it herpersonalgoaland project to do so.
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A morepersonalgoalin war was simple profit.
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He was five films short of hispersonalgoal.
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When his own farm was ransacked with his family home, he made it apersonalgoalto hunt down all involved.
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