Planning Your Future: Goal Setting

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Planning Your FutureGoal Setting

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Agenda

• Why Set Goals?
• Dream vs. Goal
• The 7 Steps
• Set your School Goals
• Do it!

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Why Set Goals?

• You pack your car and its ready to go. Youre
  setting off on your first cross-country trip ever
  from Irving, Texas to Colorado to Vancouver,
  Canada. First stop, Carlsbad Caverns in New
  Mexico.

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• You head toward west Texas on 114, and drive
  almost to Wichita Falls. Several highways
  intersect and youre not sure which one to take.
• You stop to check your map in the middle of
  nowhere and panic for a moment because youve
  forgotten your map.

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• You say the heck with it because you know where
  youre going. You follow the highway where most
  of the other cars are going and keep driving.
  Unfortunately you never reach your destination.
• Too many people treat life the same way. We
  dream about where we want to go, but we dont
  have a map (a plan or goals) to know how to get
  there.

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Dream vs. Goal

• A dream is the idea in your mind
• A goal is a written word or phrase
• A goal is not just ideas scribbled on a piece of
  paper
• A goal is focused it is your road for your future

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Goal Setting Step 1
Make sure the goal you are working for is
something you really want, not just something
that sounds good.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all
day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Goal Setting Step 2

• A goal cant contradict any other goals.
• For example, you cant afford a 200,000 house
  if youre earning 30,000 a year.

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Goal Setting Step 3

• Develop goals in the 6 areas of life
• Family and Home
• Financial and Career
• Spiritual and Ethical
• Physical and Health
• Social and Cultural
• Mental and Educational
• Develop goals in each area of your life to be
  more balanced

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Goal Setting Step 4

• Write your goals positively, not negatively.
• Your subconscious mind doesnt judge right from
  wrong, it only does what its told.
• So tell your mind only positive things to get
  positive results.

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Goal Setting Step 5

• Write your goal out in complete detail.
• The more detail your mind has, the better it
  functions. Instead of good grades, write a
  90 in English and an A in citizenship.

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Goal Setting Step 6

• Make sure your goal is high enough.
• If you shoot for As, and you miss, youll have
  Bs. If you shoot for 70s and you miss, what
  happens?

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Goal Setting Step 7

• This is the most important goal
• Write your goals down!
• Writing your goals down helps set the process in
  motion. Visualize your goals, cut out pictures
  and put them where you can see them every day.

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Now what?

• Every decision you make should be in line with
  your goals
• Dont discuss them with people who will tell you
  it cant be done!

• The difference between a goal and a
  dream is the written word.
• Gene Donohue

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Set Your GoalsACADEMIC / CAREER / PERSONAL

• Write down short term goals, such as
• What do you want to do or accomplish
  during high school?
• Write down long term goals, such as
• What do you want to do when you finish high
  school?

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Goal Setting

• Planning Your Future