"Luck is simply the end result of a consistent, persistent effort towards a meaningful goal."

Through authentic tasks across multiple domains, educators present situations that require students to create or adopt meaningful goals (intentions).

When your time perspective shortens, as it does when you come closer to the ends of things, you tend to focus on emotionally meaningful goals.

Rather, they are partners, motivators and confidants who help their clients establish meaningful goals, create action plans and break them down into achievable steps.

It just takes commitment and effort, as with any meaningful goal in life.

The theory maintains that as time horizons shrink, as they typically do with age, people become increasingly selective, investing greater resources in emotionally meaningful goals and activities.

Waterford Middle School guides students toward increased independence by helping them set and achieve meaningful goals, keep track of assignments and study independently.

Striving for a fishable and swimmable harbor, on the other hand, would be a far more meaningful goal, and one that every New Yorker could benefit from.

According to the city's report, the survey questions in this category addressed whether "the school develops rigorous and meaningful academic goals that encourage students to do their best."

Avolition is a psychological state characterized by general lack of drive, or motivation to pursue meaningful goals.