Review Statements Long-term goals are easier to achieve if you have set short-term goals. Reachable goals are specific, measurable, and realistic. The goal setting process should be based on your personal values.

Goals Value = Goals = Behavior = Self-esteem

“If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend 6 sharpening my ax” Abraham Lincoln

What is a goal? Discussion Activity: Shrinking Circle –Discuss outcome of the Shrinking Circle What happened when the circle got smaller and harder to fit? How does this relate to our lives? What are some things that prevent us from reaching our goals?

Long vs. Short A short term goal is achieved quickly (finish term paper, wash dishes, mail Christmas cards by Friday, etc.). They help you achieve your long term goals. Long term goals will take months, years, all your life. For example: graduate from college, become a pilot, lose ___ pounds, etc.

Creating Goals and Changing Behaviors  You achieved your goal  Your problem is resolved or gone  You have a new behavior or skill.  Do it! (more effectively each time)  Role-plays  Imagine yourself doing it.  Action Plan  First Step  Map from here to there  Gives you purpose  Be specific about what you want  Your dream. Vision What To Do Practice Success

Do you believe you can achieve? We need to learn how to dream. Keep the dream alive, reach your goals Some people don’t decide or have a vision of what they want out of life. NO GOALS!! People with goals can see what they eventually want to achieve and they can see just how to get there.

“What If” Question 1.What would you like to do, have, or accomplish? 2.What do you wish would happen? 3.What would like to do better? 4.What do you wish you had more time or money to do? 5.What have you complained about recently? What would you like to have happen about it? 6.With whom would you like to get along better? 7.What takes you too long? 8.What are you wasting? What would happen if you did not waste it? 9.What would you like to organize better? 10.What do you want to do more effectively?

What are your goals? List some of your education, social/ family, and health/ physical goals. The “What” Questions answers can give you some ideas.

What goals are the most important to YOU? Choose the two goals from each category that are the most important to you. Identify each goal as a –short-term goals, –intermediate-goal, –or a long-term goal. Prioritize your goals. –List and prioritize three of your most important goals. –After each goal, identify what you could be doing now to work toward the goal, and what resources you need to achieve each goal.

Things to remember: Goals must be realistic – you can’t lose 40 pounds in one month Must prioritize – rank in order of importance you, can’t accomplish it all at once. Do you have the resources you need to reach your goals (money, information, health, energy, skill, etc.).

Short term goals(steps) which lead to Long term goals (vision). Map From here to there. The steps Action plan for the first step. –Write a short term goal that you can accomplish within two weeks. Include the what, where, when, how, & with whom.

“Success is in the bag”. You need purse-severance You need purse-severance It requires the same amount of energy to be successful as it does to be unsuccessful. It requires the same amount of energy to be successful as it does to be unsuccessful. 99% of your assets are standing in your shoes. 99% of your assets are standing in your shoes. 80% of success is showing up 80% of success is showing up

If you are not working to where you want to be, you are AUTOMATICALLY working to where you don’t want to be. Keep your most important values in mind at all times when you are making LESS important decisions. Don’t sacrifice what matters most for something that doesn’t matter that much to you. There are always trade-offs

Build a bridge and get over it You will have challenges You will have roadblocks You can have excuses or success but not both

There are three types of people Ones that make things happen Those that let it happen And the ones that don’t know what happened. What one are you going to be?

There is very little difference between mediocre and greatness. The boiling point is only 1 degree different than very warm water. – The difference is tremendous. Steam can power many things. The difference between a race horse that wins first place and a second place is often fractions of a second.

Seven goal areas Family/home Social Educational Religious Achievement/recognition Career Physical/health

Writing goals – SPECIFIC! written down MEASURABLE TIME FRAME read out loud frequently posted visibly