What one word would you use to describe a decision which was made with a clear goal at the end of it. For example, 'my decision to attend university was [blank]. ' In the context that the individual went as a means to an end, but a way of describing it which does not have negative connotations, i.e. in pursuit of a passion.
I don't know how much help this will be: "Concrete" as an adjective might work. Also I like the phrases "nailed down" and "set in stone". If you're trying for something more formal perhaps" established ".
Strategic is a plan with a long-term outcome. Tactical has a short-term outcome. I guess it's all a matter of perception. Is a degree short or long term? Depends on how those years drag on.
My decision to attend university was fortuitous. I'd originally considered it only as a means to an end--a waste of the time that I could have spent drinking with my friends at Charlie's. Of course, only an idiot would think such a thing, and no one would argue my skills in that category. Regardless, had I not gone, I never would have met...her. Fortuitous. Yes, that was the right word.
Affirmed. Certain. Clear. Forsworn. Definite, evident, lucid, obvious, palpable, conspicuous, manifest, bald, unmistakable, distinct. Fated, apportioned, inevitable, predestined, karmic, doomful. Fully fathomed. Luculent, perspicuous, unambiguous. Consummate, unqualified, essential. Unhampered. Sure, secure, expectant.
