The document discusses guidelines for effective goal setting. It recommends beginning with long-term life goals and working backwards, then establishing short-term goals that lead to the long-term goals. Short-term goals should be specific, measurable, and achievable within six months. Goals should be prioritized based on values, relationships, and time, and can be educational, career-related, or personal in nature. The document provides broad guidelines for writing goals and reviewing them regularly.

1. Goal Setting

2. Time Frame for Goals
 Begin with Long-term Goals
 Goals with the largest scope.
 Think first about life-long goals and work
backwards.
 Think about who you are and what you want
out of life.
 Keep your values in mind in setting goals.

3. Short-Term Goals
 After setting your long-term goals, work on
your short-term goals.
 Short-term goals are smaller, more
manageable goals that lead to your achieving
your long-term goals.
 Short-term goals are goals that can be
reached in six months or less and should
reflect actions that lead to reaching long-term
goals.

4. Prioritize Goals Based On:
 Your values.
 Your relationship with others.
 Your time.

5. Types of Goals
 Educational goals.
 Career goals.
 Personal goals.

6. Broad Guidelines for Goal Setting
 State each goal as a positive statement.
 Be specific. Include dates, times, and
measurable achievements.
 Set priorities.
 Write goals down.
 Keep short-term goals small.

7. Broad Guidelines for Goal Setting (cont.)
 Set realistic goals.
 Do not set goals too low.
 Set performance goals, not outcome goals.
Some goals may not be reached because of
reasons beyond your control, but if you have
done your best, you can still have that sense
of accomplishment.
 Reward yourself when you have achieved a
goal.

8. Steps in Successful Goal Setting by
Gene Donohue (1)
 Make sure your goal is yours, not someone
else’s.
 One goal cannot contradict any other goal.
 Develop goals in 6 different areas of life:
 Family
 Financial/Career
 Spiritual/Ethical
 Physical/Health
 Social/Cultural
 Educational

9. Steps in Successful Goal Setting
by Gene Donohue (2)
 Write your goals in the positive, not the
negative.
 Write your goals in complete details.
 Make sure your goal is high enough.
 WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS.

10. Steps in Successful Goal Setting by
Gene Donohue (3)
 Share your goals only with the people in your
life you can count on for support.
 Revise goals as circumstances in your life
affecting those goals change.
 Review your goals daily.
 Visualize achieved goals to make them real.
 Ask yourself as you make any decision,
“Does this move me closer, or further away
from my goal?”

11. Some Specific Steps in Goal-Setting
 Identify lifelong goals in each of the 6 broad
categories.
 Thoughtfully assign a priority to each goal.
 Set a 5-year plan of smaller goals to
complete that will help you reach your life-
long goals.
 Set a 6-month plan of progressively smaller
goals.
 Identify specific actions you can take this
week that will help you reach your goals.