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When you include your career, academic, and personal goals in your portfolio, you have the opportunity to explore your progress and proclivities toward achieving those goals -- short term and long term, alike -- all while documenting those aspects of your academic, professional, and personal lives that support or undermine your goals.
You guessed it -- "Reflection in Action"!   As you consider including your goals in your portfolio, ask yourself: 

• •What are my goals at this point in time? Why do I have these goals? How did they come about?
• •What are my plans to achieve them?
• •What are my obstacles? What are my strengths?
• •What happens when I achieve my goals? Or, even, if I fail to achieve my goals? 
• •What are my next steps? Why?

example : Whether or not we clearly articulate them, we all have goals. Some goals are short-term ("My goal is to walk 10,000 steps today"), while other goals are long-term ("My goal is to graduate from college"). 

Naturally, our goals may change over time. When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. This is a perfectly reasonable long term goal; however, I re-evaluated that career choice as I grew older, deciding I would become a circus acrobat, then a lawyer. 

As I learned more about each of the professions -- and came to the realization that I can't handle the sight of blood, I'm afraid of heights, I have a terrible sense of balance, and I really dislike debating -- my goals changed. When I decided I wanted to become a College Professor, it was time to commit to my goal and make a plan.