Set goals. In a conference address, President Kimball said the following,

It is most appropriate for Aaronic Priesthood youth, as well as Melchizedek Priesthood men [and I would add, the women of the Church], to quietly, and with determination, set some serious personal goals in which they will seek to improve by selecting certain things that they will accomplish within a specified period of time. (Ensign, May 1976, 46)

Goals are the “yeses” of the future that allow us to say “no” to the temptations of today. Decide now to set good, timely, and well-thought-out goals, and then work towards them. Remember the Lord’s counsel to the prophet Joseph Smith when He said the following:

Let the solemnities of eternity rest on your minds forever. (D&C 43:34)

As you set good goals, seek the Lord’s help to achieve them. Keep eternity on your mind; you will not only achieve the goals you must achieve, but you will be successful as well.