1. The Most Important of all Personal Improvement ideas
Goal Setting
The Most Important of all Personal Improvement ideas

2. Goals
Fun
Personal
Business
Physical

3. Benefits of Goal Setting. They Help…
You discover your own personal uniqueness.
You overcome negative conditioning.
Add to the excitement of life.
You make better decisions.
You to live your life the way you want (if you don’t set your goals, someone else will set them for you).
Goals help you bring out the “best” in you.

4. Some Reasons Why Goal Setting May Fail
Goals are not specific.
Your goals are not personal to you.
There is no feedback.
There is no regular measure of progress

5. A(S+K) + Goals = PBC > IR V&B 88%B f(c)
Goals Fail
The Formula
A(S+K) + Goals = PBC > IR
V&B 88%B f(c)

6. Goal Setting… Goals Gives us a sense of purpose and direction.
A process to keep score.
Gives us the confidence that only comes from knowing where you’re going.
Help us to overcome obstacles to success.

7. Goal Setting…
When you have goals, you develop an almost mystical ability to achieve them. You begin to develop that insatiable desire to do whatever it takes, to develop whatever you need to develop, to achieve your goal.

8. Goal Setting…
Goals that are not written or specific, when we have no plan, our defense is our own self-image, self-doubt and procrastination.

9. Goal Setting…
When your goals are clearly defined, problems become “opportunities for solutions” and determination becomes our dominant characteristics. Our attitude becomes positive and confident.

10. SMART Goals

11. A SMART Goal is…
A positively written statement that specifically describes what you are setting out to achieve/want.
Harmonious with your dreams and purpose.
Reflect your desires.

12. Rewards and Consequences = the “why”
People normally do things to gain a benefit or to avoid a loss. People will only be motivated to achieve a goal if they really desire the rewards they will receive by attaining it, or to avoid the negative consequences they will experience by not attaining the goal.

13. Possible Obstacles Identify the obstacles that might block your path.
Honesty about the risk.
Obstacles are why we haven’t already achieved the goal.
Writing down the obstacles that stand between you and your goal.

14. Possible Solutions Develop solutions for each obstacle.
Action steps for every solution regardless of how small it seems.
Convert solutions from your list into an observable and measureable action step. Make it part of your daily activity.

15. Necessary action steps
Requires action.
Something that you can and will do or act on to implement the solution.

16. Delegation & Dates
Some goals can not be accomplished alone, if you need the assistance or input of others record their names.
Review start dates, target dates and dates along the way.

17. Affirmations
A positive statement written in the first person singular which describes the “you” you want to become.
Telling yourself in times of doubt that which we know to be true at other times.
Express your worth and ability to accomplish this goal.
Designed to get the subconscious working with us and not against us.

18. The Importance of Goals
Goals are essential for establishing direction, defining actions, and measuring progress.
As you travel on the most important journey of all, your journey through time, goals will give your life direction and control which leads to success.

19. The Importance of Goal Setting
“If one advances confidently in the direction of her dreams, and endeavors to live the life which she imagined, she will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

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