The document discusses goals and how achieving goals leads to higher self-esteem. It defines short-term and long-term goals and provides tips for setting realistic and meaningful goals, such as making sure goals fit one's values, are flexible, and have rewards worth the effort. The document encourages believing in one's ability to achieve goals and setting written, specific, measurable goals with time frames to help ensure success.

1. Goals
Value = Goals = Behavior = Self-esteem

2. “If I had 8 hours to chop
down a tree,
I’d spend 6 sharpening
my ax”
Abraham Lincoln

3. What is a goal?
• Discussion
• Activity: Shrinking Circle
– Discuss outcome of the Shrinking Circle
• What happened when the circle got smaller and
harder to fit?
• How does this relate to our lives?
• What are some things that prevent us from reaching
our goals?

4. Long vs. Short
 A short term goal is  Long term goals will
achieved quickly (finish take months, years, all
term paper, wash your life.
dishes, mail Christmas
cards by Friday, etc.). For example: graduate
They help you achieve from college, become a
your long term goals. pilot, lose ___ pounds,
etc.

5. Do you believe you can
achieve?
• We need to learn how to dream.
• Keep the dream alive, reach your goals
• Some people don’t decide or have a vision
of what they want out of life. NO GOALS!!
• People with goals can see what they
eventually want to achieve and they can
see just how to get there.

6. Things to remember:
• Goals must be realistic – you
can’t lose 40 pounds in one
month
• Must prioritize – rank in order of
importance you, can’t
accomplish it all at once.
• Do you have the resources you
need to reach your goals
(money, information, health,
energy, skill, etc.).

7. Individual Assignment:
• Write a long list of the goals you think
would be important and worthwhile for you
to accomplish. (a dream list)
• Now have them look at their list and ask
themselves the following questions:
– Does it fit your values?
– Is it realistic?
– Is it flexible?
– Does it fit in with your other goals?
– Will the rewards be worth what you put in to
it?
– Is it what you want?

8. Belief
Activity: The “I can’t funeral”
write down on a piece a paper everything
you can’t do.
Next write a list of ‘I CAN’. Keep this in
your note book/journal.
Play song: “I Believe I Can Fly”

9. “Success is in the
bag”.
• You need purse-severance
• It requires the same amount of energy to
be successful as it does to be
unsuccessful.
• 99% of your assets are standing in your
shoes.
• 80% of success is showing up

10. • If you are not working to where you
want to be, you are AUTOMATICALLY
working to where you don’t want to be.
• Keep your most important values in
mind at all times when you are making
LESS important decisions.
• Don’t sacrifice what matters most for
something that doesn’t matter that
much to you. There are always trade-
offs

11. Build a bridge and get over it
 You will have challenges
 You will have roadblocks
 You can have excuses or success but not
both
Story: “Circus Elephants and Limitations”

12. There are three types of people
 Ones that make things happen
 Those that let it happen
 And the ones that don’t know what
happened.
What one are you going to be?

13. There is very little difference between
mediocre and greatness.
 The boiling point is only 1 degree different
than very warm water.
– The difference is tremendous. Steam can power
many things.
 The difference between a race horse that
wins first place and a second place is often
fractions of a second.

14. Seven goal areas
Family/home
Social
Educational
Religious
Achievement/recognition
Career
Physical/health

15. Writing goals –
 SPECIFIC!
 writtendown
 MEASURABLE
 TIME FRAME
 read out loud frequently
 posted visibly

16. Student Assignment:
Set a goal and fill out the goal
contract.

17. Show video:
“The Blue Vase”