Goal Setting Preparation for a Personal Success

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Goal Setting Preparation for a Personal
Success!

• Sheila Chadwick
• Fall 2008

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What Are Goals?

• Goals have different elements in that there is an
  accomplishment that is to be achieved, there is a
  measurable outcome to the goal, a specific time
  frame is established for reaching that goal and
  specific cost constraints, rather it be money,
  time or resources is taken into account therefore
  the expanded definition is that
• a goal is a specific and measurable
  accomplishment to be achieved within a specific
  time and under specific cost constraints.

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This Course

• As your instructor
• My Personal Mission Statement - My mission is to
  take an active leadership role in educating adult
  learners.
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• My Personal Goal Statement - My Goal as a program
  developer is to create a positive environment for
  learning with a program that will help
  individuals increase their awareness of goal
  planning so that they are able to set and achieve
  personal goals.
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• My Personal Objective - To motivate, mentor and
  coach adult learners with obtaining their
  personal and professional goals. 

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The Program

• The Program Objective is to provide education
  support for adults with five major outcomes
• 1. Understanding the importance of goal setting.
• 2. Analyzing yourself in a case study.
• 3. Critique your analysis so that it accurately
  reflects your true goals.
• 4. Set an action plan to obtain your personal
  goals. 
• 5. Follow up with the measurable and
  un-measurable achievements made. (Did you or did
  you not meet your goals?)

The Primary Outcome The result of an individual
changed related to acquisition of obtaining new
knowledge, building on personal skills and an
examination of personal beliefs. 
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• Individuals who attend this class will be able
  to
• 1. Define what a goal is
• 2. Identify goals
• 3. Learn the importance of goal setting
• 4. Locate opportunities for goals
• 5. Learn how to effectively reach goals in order
  to accomplish what you set out to achieve.
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• Required Text
• None

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Course Requirements

• Participation and quality of contributions via
  the web. Active participants produce ownership of
  their commitment to define the accomplishment,
  determine the outcome, created a realistic
  timeline and identify the resources needed to
  meet their goals.  
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• As the instructor, my role in this process is as
  a Guidant and director, managing both the goal
  setting and the achievement process.   The
  three-step process of analysis will include
  discussions, compromise and agreement as well as
  assistance with participants using the Goal
  Setting Worksheet keeping the SMART (Specific,
  Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Tangible)
  approach in mind.

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The Instruction Plan
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Goal Setting Theory

• A life filled with happiness, satisfaction and
  self-love begins with understanding ones
  personal wants and needs.  Setting goals helps us
  to identify exactly what those wants and needs
  are. 
• Dr. Richard Carlson (2005) elucidates it
  perfectly when he states The beauty of paving
  your own way is that you become empowered to make
  independent decisionswhen you think
  independently, you choose a career, find a
  relationship partner, and make other important
  life decisions based on your own values, wisdom,
  and critical thinkingyou alone decide whats
  important 
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• Goal setting is important to the end result of
  all aspects that the participant is involved with
  including business interactions and family
  obligations.  Business goals are achieved through
  the efforts of the individual person and family
  obligations often commitment of the individual to
  do their share of various tasks (physically and
  emotionally speaking). 
• The key to commitment is through staying
  motivated so any person with hopes of achieving
  goals must find personal motivation to do so.

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The Pros of Great Goal Setting

• Goals put you in the drivers seat and they
  motivate you to stay on the road with a clear
  destination in mind.  You steer the course than
  drift along it allowing life to happen to you. 
  Without goals you are betting on luck with no
  clear direction.  Goals put the power in your
  hands.  Goals indicate progress.
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The Cons of Goals Targeted in the Wrong Area
The worst thing a person can do is to spend a
great amount of time working towards a goal that
in unobtainable, unrealistic and out of reach. 
Although we go through life hearing that the
sky is the limit, there are situations where
limits that will prevent us from doing the things
that wed like to do.  For example, I have a goal
in life to travel the world.  This is a realistic
long term goal for me but unfortunately it is an
unobtainable, unrealistic and out of reach short
term goal because I cant afford to travel the
world and because of my parental obligations
which prevent me from leaving my children
unattended while I travel the world. Understand
which goals you can realistically achieve and the
time it will take you to do so.  Dont be afraid
to be generous on the time.  You are your own
measuring stick for success and you are
functioning on your own biological clock and
ability.
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How Goal Setting Works

• Setting your goals should be driven by passion
  not by fad.  What works for Jane or John Doe may
  not be what is best for you.  Make sure that your
  goal is something that you really want and are
  willing to work towards, not just something that
  sounds good.
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• Your goal cannot contradict any of your other
  goals.  For example, its unrealistic to be a
  freelance painter making an average of 20,000 a
  year with a goal to purchase a 750,000 boat by
  the end of the following year.  The numbers dont
  add up.  You can, however research ways and set a
  goal to sell your paintings at a higher rate in
  order to earn more money to purchase a boat.
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• Dont be afraid to set goals in more than one
  area in your life.  You can set goals in the
  areas of
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• Family and Home              
  Financial and Career
• Spiritual and Ethical          
  Physical and Health
• Social and Cultural            
  Mental and Educational
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• Write your goal in the positive instead of the
  negative.
• Write your goal out in complete detail
• Set your goal high enough.
• Write out all of the benefits you will receive
  and enjoy by accomplishing your goals.

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Improving the Success of Goal Setting

• Set a deadline. Decide exactly when you are going
  to accomplish your goals and put it down on
  paper.
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• Identify the obstacles you will have to overcome
  to achieve your goals. You will discover major
  lingering obstacles in your mind.
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• Clearly define the knowledge you will need to
  learn in order to accomplish your goals.
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• Get a clear mental picture of your goals as if
  they are already attained. Picture in your mind
  repeatedly seeing yourself succeeding and
  achieving your goals. Just let your imagination
  run wild.
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• Think of alternative routes that you could take
  in order to reach your goal.  For example, you
  may want to start a business in horticulture but
  you dont have the money to take the class at
  your local Community college.  You could always
  learn by independent learning.  Visit your local
  library and check out books on the subject matter
  for free. 
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• Network with people that have already reached the
  goal you are seeking.  Sometimes, there are
  certain resources available to you that you might
  otherwise not know about if you werent
  introduced to it through someone else.

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Key Concepts/Definitions

• Short-term 1 day to 3 month
• Mid-term / Intermediate/In between/halfway 3
  months to 9 months
• Long-term/ Long-range 1 year to span of
  lifetime.

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Homework due November 11th

• Answer the following questions.   You may share
  your answers of these questions with me as I can
  help you to identify if your goal is specific
  enough and if you have it categorized correctly
  (short/long, etc).  You are not required to share
  your goals with me.  Feel free to email me any
  questions that you may have.
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• My short-term goal is to _________________________
  _____________.
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• My Midterm goal is to ____________________________
  ____________.
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• My Long-term goal is to __________________________
  ____________.

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Examples of Homework

• My Short-term goal is to paint the kitchen and
  bathroom in my home.
• My Midterm goal is to take a class on candle
  making.
• My Long-term goal is to travel to the UK.

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SMART Goals

• When you set SMART Goals, you set goals that are
  Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic
  Time-Related.
• For each that you have chosen, ask yourself if
  they meet these criteria.  Once that has been
  established, you need to set an Action Plan. 
• What steps are you going to take to reach your
  goal?  You may already know exactly what you need
  to do or maybe this is the area where things get
  a little foggy. 
• Please keep in mind that there are a ton of
  resources that can help you.  You can check books
  out of your local library and read up on the
  subject or you can converse with someone whom has
  already reached your intended goal. 
• Feel free to check with me and I can give you
  more info on resources if you need it.

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Worksheets

• You will receive various worksheets that are
  designed to help you move forward with your goal
  setting commitment. 
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• The Sheet that is titled 246mygoals.pdf is the
  main sheet of them all that you will be working
  with.  You will need three copies, one of each of
  your goals or however many you need for each goal
  you have set.  This is the main sheet you will
  look at everyday to keep your goals fresh in your
  mind so you may want to first write it out on a
  separate sheet of paper.  Once it is filled out,
  place this sheet someplace where you can see it
  daily like a bathroom mirror or some other place
  you often frequent.
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• The next sheet titled 072actionplan.pdf is the
  next sheet that you will be working with.  If
  there is any field that seems foreign to you,
  email me or skip it.  You may not need this form
  but its here to use in case you do.
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• Form 057visualizegoalexercise.pdf is used to help
  you to visualize and prioritize your goals. 
  Again, you are not required to fill this out but
  doing so is helpful.
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• Finally, for those of you that have set goals
  related to your business or starting a business,
  I am including form 333businessmissionstate which
  is designed to help you formulate a Business
  Mission Statement.  Mission statements are not
  only used with businesses.  You can create a
  personal mission statement.

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Some time ago, I created a personal ethics action
plan that contained a personal mission statement
and here is how it reads

• To find happiness, fulfillment, and value in
  living I will
• LEAD a life centered on the principles of
  honesty, humility, fairness, and service.
• REMEMBER what's important in life is family,
  happiness, health, contribution, and personal
  growth.
• REVERE admirable characteristics in others, such
  as being compassionate, balanced, giving,
  trustworthy, ambitious, and respectful, and
  attempt to implement similar characteristics in
  my own life.
• RECOGNIZE my strengths and develop talents as a
  person who is a leader, a writer, spiritual, a
  philosopher, kind, and confident.
• HUMBLE myself by acknowledging that I can be
  selfish, prideful, and unaware and by constantly
  striving to transform my weaknesses into
  strengths.
• ENVISION myself becoming a person who
• My husband thinks is courageous, committed, and
  forgiving.
• My children think is compassionate, witty, and
  independent.
• My friends think is caring, creative, and
  dependable.
• Society thinks is a responsible leader who lives
  by a meaningful code of ethics.

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• I have this posted in my bathroom where I can
  refer upon it everyday as a reminder of what I
  stand for as a woman and where I need to be.  As
  I mature and grow my statement could change but
  thus far, it is still right on target for me.
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• You are required to submit any of these forms to
  me as they are an important part of the goal
  setting process.  Writing your goals down gives
  them Definiteness of Purpose. 
• Definiteness of Purpose is the starting point of
  all achievement. All achievement begins with the
  adoption of a definite major purpose and specific
  plan for its attainment.
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• GOOD LUCK!