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1. Setting and Achieving Your
Goals
By
Dean Berry, Ed. D.
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3. How do you envision your future ten years from now?
What kind of job do you want? Do you plan to have a
family? Will you get career training? Where will you live?

4. Think about your goals. What do you want your life
to be like in the future? How can you establish the
steps that will help you reach your goals?

5. Discuss these five characteristics of well
stated goals. Why should they be
measurable?

6. Read these sample goals. Many adults
have these kinds of goals. However,
achieving these goals is difficult.

7. What kind of mistakes do people make
when they write goals?

8. Review these Personal Goal Areas
Use one of theses areas(or create your
own)to write a goal for yourself.
• Physical fitness: Health, nutrition, weight control
• Physical Skill development: softball, basketball, soccer, etc.
• Social Skills: Broadening friendships
• Leadership Skills: Increasing influence and persuasion
• Music Skills: Guitar, voice, composition, woodwind, brass, drums, etc.
• Visual Arts: Drawing, painting, graphics
• Computer Expertise: Programming, graphics,
• Academic Skills: Language, writing, math, science
• Engineering Skills: Building skateboards, small engines, customizing autos,
robots, drones

9. Use your own paper and write one long term goal. In
addition, write three short term goals that will help you
reach your goal.

10. Use your own paper and write an
evaluation of your goal, and determine if
it is attainable and relevant.

11. Some goals are never attained because of distractions,
lack of focus, and insufficient motivation. How would
immediate gratification be a dream killer?

12. Some students are unable to win the battle
between immediate and delayed gratification.

13. Reaching long term goals requires controlling
emotional needs and planning ahead for the future.

14. Long term goals cannot be achieved without
learning how to delay gratification.

15. Younger children often demand that they get
something now or they throw a tantrum.

16. The vast majority of successful people will tell you that developing
important skills and working hard are necessary for success.

17. Life presents many obstacles and disappointments. Those who give
up easily, will accomplish far less than those who learn to tough it
out. Psychologists refer to this trait as GRIT.

18. What is Grit?

19. Doing homework late at night. Dealing with interruptions
at home. Coping with dysfunctional people in your life.
These are the issues that test our strength and
challenge our commitment to succeed in life.

20. If we give up in the face of adversity, our progress slows to a
crawl. We look for relief by taking the easy way out.
Immediate gratification wins the day.

21. Meet in Groups and Discuss
• What kind of obstacles get in your way?
• How do you cope with the issues that get in your
way?
• What strategies might be used to keep your head
above water when those around you are losing
theirs?
• How can you survive the daily hassles of modern
life?

22. Quick Write
Write a paragraph with a
minimum of ten sentences
describing the kinds of obstacles
that young people face and the
strategies that can be used to
succeed in the face of adversity.

23. Read the following information. Explain what you
think is meant by resilience. Give some examples.

24. Meet in Small Groups and Discuss
Do you think that those who tough it out have a much
higher probability of success? Why? Why Not?

25. It is important to learn to stand your ground and
persevere in the face of difficult challenges.

26. Do you agree with these ideas?
Why is it that many people are
unable to follow this advice?

27. Life has many ups and downs and challenges. It
sometimes resembles an obstacle course. Inability
to cope with life’s obstacles can produce stress
and result in dysfunctional behaviors. Survival
requires grit and positive thinking.

28. Some people cope with difficulty by
focusing on why they can’t do something
and making excuses to rationalize their
inability to get things done. Do you know
anybody like that?

29. What are the consequences of making excuses?

30. Many things in our life can be done today or put off for
another day. What are the consequences of putting
things off to another time?

31. Read the six steps of procrastination beginning
with yellow and continuing with blue, red, brown
and green. How well does it turn out?

32. Once in a while we have to do some heavy lifting in
order to get things done. If we wimp out and engage
in avoidance behavior, we fall in a hole too deep to
climb out. Have you ever felt overwhelmed by all the
things you need to do?

33. Getting things done in a timely manner keeps us from
getting over whelmed and stressed out. However,
getting things done requires a certain amount of self
discipline and commitment to our goals.

34. What is self discipline? What are some examples
of people’s behavior that demonstrates self
discipline? How does self discipline help us
attain our goals?

35. One of the key ingredients for self
discipline is will power. Do you have the will
power to choose the healthy option? Do you have
the will power to tell your friends that you can’t
hang out because you have homework to complete?

36. What kind situations require will
power?

37. Having the will power to make hard decisions can be
uncomfortable. Sometimes we have to choose between
pleasure and pain. Why is it smart to choose a little pain
today as part of a long term game plan?

38. Do you believe that when there
is a will there’s a way?

39. Continuing your education requires sacrifices. Post secondary training
and college programs require time commitments and hard work.
What will you gain by putting off some daily pleasures and
concentrating on your future? What else? How much more does a
person with a Master’s degree make over a high school graduate?

40. If the average high school graduate makes about
two million dollars in a lifetime, how much would the
average worker with a four year college degree
make?

41. How much determination do you have? Do you
procrastinate too much? Are you in the habit of making
excuses? Do you have the GRIT to succeed? You can
change! Tomorrow is a new day. Set new, short term goals.
You can do it “one step at a time”.