This document outlines key points from a goal setting session, including reviewing homework, why set goals, how to set effective goals, and mapping goals. The session teaches that goals should be specific, realistic, stretch the individual, and one must be committed. Goals must be mapped out in detail and progress should be measured to stay accountable and motivated. Homework is to continue working on goals by mapping daily steps to reach each goal and do something new.

1. THE POWER
OF
GOAL SETTING
SESSION 2
July 7th 2012

2. REVIEW HOMEWORK
1. Follow up on taking responsibility
exercise
2. Take 5 to 10 minutes to hear from the
class the goals they have written down
from the homework assignment.

3. WHY SET GOALS?
“I AM THOROUGHLY CONVINCED THAT IF WE
DON’T SET GOALS IN OUR LIFE AND LEARN
TO MASTER THE TECHNIQUES OF LIVING TO
REACH OUR GOALS, WE CAN REACH A RIPE
OLD AGE AND LOOK BACK ON OUR LIFE ONLY
TO SEE THAT WE HAVE REACHED BUT A
SMALL PART OF OUR POTENTIAL. WHEN ONE
LEARNS TO MASTER THE PRINCIPLES OF
SETTING A GOAL, HE WILL THEN BE ABLE TO
MAKE A GREAT DIFFRENECE IN THE RESULTS
HE ATTAINS IN THIS LIFE”
- Elder M. Russell Ballard

4. BELIEVE IT’S POSSIBLE
“Before setting any goal you must first
believe in yourself. This belief in yourself will
help you to set goals that will stretch you
and help you to grow.”
“Be not afraid, only believe”
-Mark 5:36

5. YOU GET WHAT YOU EXPECT
“Remember what you think about most is
what you will most likely get. Make sure you
always think about and expect to reach
your goals, this will go a long way in
achieving all that you desire”

6. The Comfort Zone
“Learn to get outside your comfort zone.
When you get outside your comfort zone
you will learn and expand more quickly and
see quicker results.”

7. Vision Exercise - see page 32
Describe everything in great detail :
Church/Religious –
callings, serving members, temple…
Relationships/family/friends –
How is your relationship, how many children,
Financial/Career –
what is your career, your income, your
home, do you own your own business?
Free Time/Personal –
what are you doing with family, traveling,
hobbies, what do you do for fun?

8. HOW TO SET GOALS
“Carefully considered goals will give you
clear direction and will help you fill your
days with opportunities to strengthen
yourself and those around you.”
-Preach My Gospel

9. HOW TO SET GOALS
Is the goal specific?
Is the goal realistic?
Does the goal make you stretch?
Are you committed to this goal?

10. Specific Goals
When making a goal you need to be as
specific as possible.
Example 1: I want to own my own home
Example 2: I will own my own home by July
7th 2015.

11. Realistic Goals
Don’t set a goal that is impossible to
achieve.
If you want to purchase a house but you
have no money or plans to buy one, it
would be unrealistic to make a goal to buy
a house in one month.

12. Goals That Make Us Stretch
“shoot for the moon, and even if you miss
you will land amongst the stars”
“The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is to high and we miss it, but
that it is too low and we reach it”
-Michelangelo

13. Being Committed
When setting a goal you must be committed to
seeing it through.
“And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent,
that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all
things must be done in wisdom and order.”
- Mosiah 4:27
“All victory is brought to pass unto you through your
diligence, faithfulness, and prayers of faith”
D&C 103:36

14. Mapping your Goals
After making a goal we must map out how we
will reach it. When we map out our goals it helps
them to be more easily achievable. We can
visualize them and take them one piece at a
time by making many smaller goals.
“By small and simple things are great things
brought to pass”
-Alma 37:6

15. Mapping your goals activity
Take a few minutes to draw out a map of
everything that must go into reaching your
goal. And then create goals for each
section.

16. Measure Your Progress
Look back often at how far you have
come. By seeing your progress from where
you started from it will serve as a motivator
to help you to keep pursuing your goals.

17. BEING ACCOUNTABLE
“When performance is measured,
performance improves. When performance
is measured and reported, the rate of
improvement accelerates”
-President Thomas S. Monson

18. HOMEWORK
Continue working on your goals and mapping
them out in detail writing down how you will go
about accomplishing each daily step until the
final goal is reached.
Enjoy the week and do something you have
never done before.
Report to class next week. SATURDAY AT 5:30 PM