This document provides tips and strategies for setting and achieving goals in 2011. It discusses reviewing one's 2010 goals, overcoming procrastination, and being ready for goal success. It outlines steps for creating goals including knowing your motivations or "why", setting SMART goals, creating detailed plans, and taking action through structuring one's week and avoiding procrastination. The overall message is on dreaming big but also having clear, achievable goals and plans to guide progress towards dreams.
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Anyone who does anything worthwhile anywhere has consciously or unknowingly followed through on a goal.
Goals keep us focused on a purpose.
They help us through difficult times when many others less motivated would give up.
A person who wants to get the most out of life often has a number of goals simmering at the same time, in their personal and business lives.
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Anyone who does anything worthwhile anywhere has consciously or unknowingly followed through on a goal.
Goals keep us focused on a purpose.
They help us through difficult times when many others less motivated would give up.
A person who wants to get the most out of life often has a number of goals simmering at the same time, in their personal and business lives.
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According to Donn Preister, there are 3 habits that every massively successful person lives by in order to create multi-million dollar businesses from scratch.
creating the perfect vision board is all about right focus and envisioning. if it isn't in you to create something leave it off rather than devalue your board. make it specific and make it you. if you are flowery make it flowery, what you are after is feeling pleased and happy every time you look at it rather than stressed, under pressure or worse,, inadequate.
Failure. It’s a taboo subject. When starting university, you may be overwhelmed with study support, extra assessment assistance and resources, as well as being provided with multiple opportunities to accept help from your lecturers. But what happens if you fail, or don’t do as well as you had hoped? What happens when you accept that failure without learning from it? In this free one-hour webinar, you’ll hear about why learning from different types of failure is important, how to positively reframe that failure for future success and how to incorporate strategies to cope with any study let downs you may experience in future.
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The One Thing explains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the seven thieves that steal time, and leverage the laws of purpose, priority, and productivity.
CS113 Unit 7 Reading page 1
Reading
There are four items to complete in this reading area:
1. Reading
2. Challenge Activity
3. Powerful Words for a Powerful Vocabulary
4. Successories
I. Reading: Why Set Goals?
Why set goals? Having a clear direction for your future and a picture of what you plan to do is
extremely important for maintaining a positive attitude. Having clear goals is a key to creating and
maintaining a positive mindset even when “things get tough.”
Qualities of Goals
In order for goals to be useful, they need to have the following qualities:
The goals that you set for yourself must be based on your values and beliefs.
No one else can choose goals for you. Others can make suggestions, but you must "own" your
goals for them to be useful.
You must decide what you want to achieve.
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CS113 Unit 7 Reading page 2
Life Lesson: Chinese Proverb
Goal Setting and Planning
In this unit, you will be focusing on goal setting and planning. In order to set realistic goals for yourself, you must first have a clear
understanding of what is important to you.
You will also begin planning ahead for your Unit 8 project by setting up an interview with a professional in your chosen field.
Goal Setting
In Unit 7 you investigate the power of setting goals. You seek to recognize the importance of goal setting and actually apply this
S.M.A.R.T. concept to your Unit 7 interview with completion and submission of your project in Unit 8. Goal setting will assist you and
motivate you to reach for success.
Why is Goal Setting Important?
Imagine you decide to build a house. You do not bother with setting any goals for its completion. Wow. What a mess. Imagine you want
to be a doctor when you grow up, but never thought you needed to take a science class in high school, or did not even plan on going to
college.
Goals motivate us.
Goals stimulate your creativity. You use one of the best creative words possible — you visualize. When you engage in visualization,
you are on the top step of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy. You are fully engaged in critical thinking. Without goals, you will not achieve that
visualization.
Goals guide you.
CS113 Unit 7 Reading page 3
Goals are set to lead you as you move from beginning to end. They carry you along your way.
Goals inspire you.
Goals help you to recognize that you are the creator of your own stories. You can achieve anything that you want to achieve with the
inspiration you will get from goal setting. You will take things one step at a time and with each step you feel the power of completion.
Goals challenge you.
If not for the challenge involved in accomplishing a goal, you would not get past the first step. Goals do not have to be extremely hard to
reach, and they should not be too simple either, as there is no challenge in that. You reach when you set goals. You want that object,
job, or future that.
In doing big things or setting and achieving big goals for yourself; you need to distinguish the desired outcome that made all your efforts worthwhile.
1. Make 2011 your best year ever Steve Scholey stevescholey@actioncoach.com 1
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3. Studies show that 20% of population worldwide are chronic procrastinators where their procrastination has a serious impact on their productivity & happinessstevescholey@actioncoach.com 2
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6. What would you do if money was no object? (such as winning the lottery)
7. What do you want your friends & family to say about you at your funeral?Knowing why you want to achieve your goals will give you motivation. With a big enough WHY we can overcome many obstacles (think of what Jane Tomlinson overcame to raise money for cancer research) “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eye off the goal” Henry Ford stevescholey@actioncoach.com 4
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9. Balance the benefits of achieving the goal with a realistic assessment of the problems you might encounter along the way
10. Visualisation has been shown to be about 20% more effective if you visualise yourself as others see you (adopt a third person perspective)
11. Create a dream chart to remind you of your dreams but only use it when you are feeling positive about your goal (e.g. After you have successfully achieved one of your sub-goals). Using it when you are discouraged can lead you to believe that the goal is unobtainable and encourage you to give upstevescholey@actioncoach.com 5
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13. To have a balanced life we need to have goals in each of the areas of our life (e.g. Father, husband, investor, entrepreneur, manager)
14. Goals should be written and shared (tell a friend & you’re more likely to succeed)
20. The rewards you will get for completing each step along the way stevescholey@actioncoach.com 6
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24. Plans need to be short-term and practical. Detailed quarterly plans work best.
25. Set a theme for the quarter and make sure everyone knows what they need to do to help achieve the quarterly goal.
26. Break every goal down into short action steps. Action steps should ideally take 1 hour or less to complete
27. Review your plan regularly“Plans are nothing; planning is everything” Dwight D. Eisenhower stevescholey@actioncoach.com 8
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29. Default Diary – block time for the important things or they won’t get done
30. Daily To Do lists – set 3 objectivesfor the next day before you finish each night
31. Eat a frog for breakfast – clear off a task you are dreading first thing and boost your energy for the day.
32. Friday Review - What worked? What could have gone better? What lessons carry forward into next week’s Monday Review?
33. Don’t beat yourself up just focus on getting better every weekPlans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker stevescholey@actioncoach.com 9
37. Will power (self regulation) is like a muscle, it is easily fatigued but it can be developed
38. Create Implementation Intentions by deciding in advance what you will do in the situations where you know you will be tempted to put things off. E.g. I will switch off my phone, email & internet before sitting down to start the report
39. If we are not completely sure of the very next step we need to take we are likely to do nothing. Break tasks into the smallest pieces possible.
40. Get someone to hold you accountablestevescholey@actioncoach.com 10