"makes the goal real"
which goal-setting step is described by this sentence?

write it down
locate resources
identify obstacles
set a time line
check in on your progress

The answer is Write it down on edgeniuty :)

The correct answer is the following: option a.  Writing down any type of goal is one of the most important goal-setting steps. When the person writes down the goal, it is making it real in some way. Although of course the person will now have to put on the work needed in order to fulfill that goal, the first step of writing it down has already be done, the goal is not real and official. This goal-setting step is a way to encourage the person to be serious about the goals he/she is achieving.

b. his ability to use formal language to stress strong feelings

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing