Tennis Ball Take a tennis ball and know what ball you have. When I say start, throw your tennis ball as high in the air as you can without touching the ceiling and catch it. How many balls touched the ground? This time, you are to catch someone else’s ball. Start!

Was it harder to catch your own ball or someone else’s? How could you have been more successful to catch someone else’s ball? How is this related to goal setting? If you zero in on just one goal, is it easier or harder to accomplish the goal?

“First we dream the dream, and then we build the wings to fly.” Goal Setting “First we dream the dream, and then we build the wings to fly.”

Learning Targets I can discuss the importance of setting and achieving a goal. I can set a long term goal with several short term “checkpoints”.

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“First we dream the dream, and then we build the wings to fly.”

Goals Goal – something you aim for that takes planning and work Having and setting goals is one way to help shape your future in a positive way Short term – to be achieved within a week Long term – usually achieved after an extended period of time Setting short term goals can help you achieve long term goals

Your Lifetime Goals The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime - setting lifetime goals gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making. Assign priorities to your goals. Be sure that the goals you have set are the goals that you want to achieve, not what your parents or family want.

Your Lifetime Goals To give a broad, balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in all of the following areas: Attitude: Is there any way that you behave that upsets you? Career and Financial: What level do you want to reach in your career? How much do you want to earn by what stage? Education: Is there any knowledge you want to acquire? What information and skills will you need to achieve other goals? Family and Home: Do you want to be a parent? Do you want to keep close family ties? Physical: What steps are you going to take to achieve good health? Spiritual: Are you living your morals?

Setting Goals Select on goal to work toward List what you will do to reach this goal Identify others who can help you and support you efforts Give yourself an identified period of time to reach your goal Build in several check points to evaluate how you are doing Give yourself a reward once you have achieved your goal.

Setting Goals State each goal as a positive statement. Be precise: put in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure it. If you do this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal. Set priorities: where you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones. Write goals down: this crystallizes them and gives them more force.

Setting Goals Keep goals small: If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not making progress towards it. Set performance goals, not outcome goals: There is nothing more disappointing than failing to achieve a personal goal for reasons beyond your control. If you base your goals on personal performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals.

Setting Goals Set realistic goals: it is important to set goals that you can achieve. Do not set goals too low: just as it is important not to set goals unrealistically high, do not set them too low. People tend to do this where they are afraid of failure or where they are lazy! You should set goals so that they are slightly out of your immediate grasp, but not so far that there is no hope of achieving them.

Achieving Goals When you have achieved a goal, take the time to enjoy the satisfaction of having done so. If the goal was a significant one, reward yourself appropriately. With the experience of having achieved this goal, review the rest of your goal plans. If you achieved the goal too easily, make your next goals harder. If the goal took a dispiriting length of time to achieve, make the next goals a little easier.

Achieving Goals If you learned something that would lead you to change other goals, do so. If while achieving the goal you noticed a deficit in your skills, decide whether to set goals to fix this. Failure to meet goals does not matter as long as you learn from it.   Remember too that your goals will change as you mature - adjust them regularly to reflect this growth in your personality. If goals do not hold any attraction any longer, then let them go. Goal-setting is your servant, not your master.

Key points Goal setting is an important method of: Deciding what is important for you to achieve in your life Separating what is important from what is irrelevant Motivating yourself to achievement Building your self-confidence based on measured achievement of goals You should allow yourself to enjoy the achievement of goals and reward yourself. If you do not already set goals now is a great time to start!

Don’t Be Afraid to Fail Many times, although you may not remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn’t you? Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat? Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot. R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on. English novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips Before he published 564 books. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs. Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.

“My Goals” Due May 20, 2016

How are your Goals Coming? Seven C’s of Success Clear conception of what you want Strong confidence that you can attain your goals Focused concentration on what it takes to reach your goals Stubborn consistency in pursuing your goal An emotional commitment to the importance of what you’re doing Good character to guide us Capacity to enjoy the process along the way.

Get Your Goals Off the Ground You need 1 ½ pieces of construction paper, string, scissors, tape and markers. Use the whole sheet of construction paper to make a kite representing your long-term goal. Cut your ½ sheet into three pieces to tape to the string to represent your short-term goals. Write your goals on the kite and the three pieces. Tape your string to the kite and put your name on the back of it. Share your kite with the class and then staple it to the bulletin board.