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Goal Setting Lesson Plans |
A first and important step in setting personal goals is to consider what you
want to achieve in your lifetime, as setting lifetime goals will
give you the overall perspective to shape all other aspects of
your decision making process.
To help give you both a balanced and a broad coverage of all the important
areas in your life, try to set goals in some or all of the following
categories:
Artistic:
Do you want to achieve any artistic goals? If so, what is it? Do you
want to write a book; paint a masterpiece, or write a song?
Attitude:
Does your own mindset hold you back from making progress? Is there
any part of the way that you behave that upsets you for example, do
you talk too much? If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or
find a solution to the problem.
Career:
What level do you want to reach in your career? Is it your goal to
be the boss or own your own company someday, or do you want to be
the president of someone elses company?
Education:
Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular or some
area of study that you would like to pursue? What information and
skills will you need to achieve these goals?
Family:
Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good
parent? How do you want your partner or family members to see you?
Financial:
How much do you want to earn by what age in your life? What can you
do to make that come about?
Physical:
Are there any athletic goals you want to achieve, or do you want
good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to
achieve this?
Pleasure:
How do you want to enjoy yourself? You should ensure that some of
your life is geared toward making yourself happy for no reason other
than being happy.
Service:
Do you want to make the world a better place by your existence? If
so, how?
Once you have decided your goals in these categories, you have to
assign a priority to them if you want to succeed.
Then review the goals and re-prioritize until you are satisfied that
they reflect the shape of the life that you want to lead.
Also, you should ensure that the goals that you have set are the
goals that you want to achieve, and not what your parents, spouse,
family, or employers want them to be.
Success only happens when you are working for your own well being
and from your own goal setting lesson plans because doing it for
others will ensure that you sabotage your own success.
