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1 Life Planning
3 Goal Setting Tips The process of setting goals helps you decide where you want
to go in life. By mapping out precisely what you want to
achieve, you will be able to determine where to concentrate
your efforts. You'll also be able to spot the distractions that
4 Daily Planning
would otherwise tempt you off course.
As you get into the habit of setting and achieving goals, you'll
find that your self-confidence builds quickly and soon you will
be setting even loftier goals for yourself.
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Lifetime goals
Most people focus
exclusively on the short –
term because long-term goals
seem too daunting
goals you want to achieve. personal goals is to really your life, you might want to
spend some time thinking use the worksheet on the next
Second, you will want to
about what it is you want to page to help shape your
break these larger goals down
achieve in your life. If your goals.
into smaller and smaller
entire lifetime seems far too
targets, so that achieving your
long to contemplate, you can,
lifetime goals begins to seem
if you prefer, start by thinking
within your reach.
about the next 10 years. The
Finally, once you have your key is to ensure that you
plan, you take your first small choose a period that is long
step towards achieving it. enough to give you a strong
sense of what matters most to
Let’s begin then with your you. Your long-term goals
Lifetime Goals, before will provide you with an
drilling down to the specific overall perspective that will
actions that you can achieve help to shape all other aspects
today. of the goal setting process.
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State of mind:
Do you lack confidence or tend towards negativity? If so, your most important goal may be to improve
your state of mind.
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Career:
Are you happy with the direction of your professional career? Do you want to see any changes?
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Education:
Do you thirst for knowledge? Perhaps you want to learn a new language or play an instrument?
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Family:
Are you a parent? Do you want to start a family? If so, do you have parenting goals?
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Financial:
Do you feel that your needs (however you define them) are satisfied on your current income?
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Physical:
Do you want to enjoy good health in your old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?
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Pleasure:
How do you enjoy yourself? Can you ensure that you have time in your life to do the things you love?
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Once you have completed determine what needs to be based on the list that came
this worksheet, read through achieved within the next 5 before it.
it again to ensure that the years in order for you to
You may decide to read
goals that you have chosen accomplish the long-term
books and gather additional
for yourself are goals that you goal.
information about particular
truly want to achieve. Of
Then, drill down within each goals, to ensure you know
course the opinions of those
of those goals to decide what what it will take to achieve
close to you, such as parents,
you would like to accomplish them.
family, or colleagues might
this year, and this month if
matter to you a great deal, but Once you have finished the
you are to reach your lifetime
try to make this exercise a drilling down process, review
goal. By setting progressively
true reflection of what it is your goals to ensure that they
smaller goals you will turn
YOU want. are achievable within the time
each seemingly impossible
period you have allocated to
task into a series of
them.
manageable items that can
Drilling Down slot right into your daily To Finally, ask yourself whether
Do list. your goals are consistent with
Once you have set your
lifetime goals, begin the your values and lifestyle and
You can use the worksheet
process of examining each whether they represent your
on the next page for this task.
goal individually, in order to most cherished desires.
Each of these lists should be
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Within 5 years__________________________________________________________
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Achieving Goals
When you achieve a goal, no
matter how small, take the
time to enjoy the satisfaction
of a job well done. Think
about the long-term
implications of your
achievement, and chart the
progress you have made
towards your overarching
goals. If the goal you have
achieved is a significant one, Remember to review your from every mistake.
make sure you reward goals periodically.
If you have not engaged in
yourself appropriately! This
• Have your priorities active goal-setting previously,
will help to keep you
changed? Do you need to you should prepare to be
motivated and build up your adjust your goals amazed by the results you can
self-confidence so that you accordingly? If a goal no achieve using these simple
can continue on your path of techniques.
longer holds an attraction for
achievement! you, then let it go.
As you make goal-setting part
Use the space below to make
• If you achieved your goal of your daily life, you will
a list of the ways in which very easily, make your next find fulfillment professionally
you will reward yourself for goals a bit harder. and personally and you may
achieving your next weekly,
begin to wonder how you
monthly and yearly goals: • If the goal took such a long
ever lived without it!
time to achieve that you felt
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discouraged along the way, If you intend to commit
_________________________ make the next goal something yourself to the practice of
_________________________ you can achieve more goal setting, consider this
_________________________ quickly. document as a contract with
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yourself, and sign your name
_________________________ View any failure to meet a
below. Congratulations!
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but try to learn something _________________________
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