Transcript Goals

Your Turn
• In your logbook, list at least three things
you’d like to accomplish in your life
• Objectives:
• To understand the importance of setting
goals
• To set effective and meaningful goals
Goals
If You Don’t Know
Where You’re
Going, You’ll End
Up Somewhere Else
If you don’t set yourself goals,
you are adrift and at the mercy of
the goals that other people set for
you.
Most people aim at nothing in
life and hit it with amazing
accuracy
Why goal-setting works:
There is magic in your brain
Reticular Activating System
Keys to Activating
Your Reticular Activating
System
• Write down your goals
(and look at them often)
• Make SMART goals:
S = Specific
M = Measurable
A = Action–oriented
R = Realistic
T = Timely
On being specific and
measurable: A goal must be both,
or it is merely a wish
• “I will be rich someday” is a wish. “I will
make $150,000 a year by the time I’m 28”
is a goal
• “I want to lose weight” is a wish. “I will
lose 20 pounds by Christmas” is a goal
Another hint: The best goals are
stated in the positive:
• Not “I will ‘try’ to stop biting my
fingernails,” but “I will grow my fingernails
out”
• Not “I will stop smoking,” or “I will not
smoke,” but I will take good care of my
lungs. (In the first two examples, “stop” and
“not” are negative)
Types of Goals
• Short-Term: Usually accomplished in a few
days or weeks. Example: I’m going to get a
great grade on my first health test
• Long-Term: Accomplished over time –
usually months or years. Example: I will
travel to 14 countries by the time I’m 25
Warm Up
• In your notes, list five memories from your
childhood that were powerful. They can be
happy, sad, exciting, etc.
A complete SMART Goal:
• By the time I’m 25, I will have traveled to 5 countries. I
will get there by researching destinations, saving $100
each month, planning the trips and completing travel. I
can take steps toward this goal now by:
1.
2.
3.
Taking a world language class
Learning history
Volunteering or working at a travel or tourism agency.
It’s easier to meet goals if you break
them into small steps:
Example: Possible steps for becoming a
veterinarian:
Step 1: Do well in all science and math courses
Step 2: Keep overall GPA high
Step 3: Research the profession; take
skills/interest inventories in the Career Center
to be sure it’s a good fit
Step 4: Find volunteer work at the humane
society, zoo, a veterinary office or pet store
Step 5: Research colleges
Step 6: Apply for scholarships
Step 7: Apply to three veterinary schools
And now for some champion
goal setters
Scott Adams
Claim to Fame: Syndicated
cartoonist – Dilbert
Goal-Setting Secret:
Repetition
Every morning, he repeated: “I will be a syndicated
cartoonist, I will be a syndicated cartoonist, I will be a
syndicated cartoonist… 15 times.
Jim Carrey
Claim to Fame:
Actor/Comedian
Goal-setting secret: A fake
check
Oprah Learned from Jim
Oprah Winfrey
• Goal-setting secret: Don’t let others dictate
your path!
• Oprah's Path
Donna Shirley
Claim to Fame: She boldly
went where no woman had
gone before
Goal-setting secret: Never give
up, no matter what ANYONE
says
Bruce Lee
• Goal-setting secret: Write yourself a
letter & focus on giving as well as getting
• I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid
Oriental super star in the United States. In
return, I will give the most exciting
performances and render the best quality
in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I
will achieve world fame and from then
onwards till the end of 1980 I will have in
my possession $10,000,000. I will live the
way I please and achieve inner harmony
and happiness.-- Bruce Lee, Jan 1969
Richard Santana
• Goal setting secret: Choose hope over
hopelessness
• Went from 3rd generation gang member to
Harvard graduate
• Founder of Harvard to Homeboy
Toby Keith
Claim to Fame:
Country music
SUPERSTAR
Goal-setting
secret: Be
willing to take
action (work
hard!)
Suze Orman
Claim to Fame:
Financial
expert &
author
Goal-setting
secret: Write
your goal on a
Post-It note and
stick it where
you will see it
every single
day.
Warm up
• Begin completing the Focus on Goals sheet.
John Goddard
• Claim to Fame:
Champion Goalsetter Extraordinaire
& Motivational
Speaker
• Goal-setting secret:
Write them down!
(and use them as a
checklist)
From Tama Kieves
“First you are inspired. Then you
are nervous or disappointed.
Somehow you started to believe in
fear more than love. It’s time to
choose again. What you knew
when you were inspired is what’s
true.” – Author, This Time I’ll
Dance
You!
Claim to Fame:
Whatever you set your
sights on
More Goal-setting
secrets:
• You’ll get there faster
if you enlist people to
help you
• Never give up!
• You are the one who
has to live with you –
so make your life the
way you want it to be!
Warm-Up
• Grab a handout
• Begin to fill-out your goals in the 7 listed
areas
Warm-Up
• In your logbook, write two memories and
explain their influence. Be detailed!
• Write at least one smart goal for your vision
book