Planning to reach your goals

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Planning to reach your goals
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Coming up with a plan.

• Does one plan work with every goal?
• What is an efficient plan?
• It is the balancing act between what you need
  want and are able to pay.
• Should it be easy to tell which plan will be the
  most efficient?
• Does one plan work for everybody?

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Is a good plan guaranteed to work?

• What can go wrong?
• No flexibility
• Procrastination
• Things do go wrong

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Taking Action

• Starting down the road to reach your goal.
• In order to reach your destination, you must
  first start.

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Procrastination

• What causes it?
• Fear of failure
• Fear of success
• Lazy
• Easily distracted

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How do we prevent procrastination?

• Develop a goal and a plan to fight
  procrastination.

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The Goal Setting Process

• Step 1 Identify the goal.
• Step 2 Set a specific date for
• achievement.
• Step 3 List the benefits.
• Step 4 List the obstacles to
  overcome.
• Step 5 List the skills and knowledge
• required.

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The Goal Setting Process

• Step 6 Identify the people and
• organizations to work with.
• Step 7 Develop a plan of action

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The Goal Setting Process

• As you identify each goal, can you answer yes to
  each of these questions?
• 1. Is it really MY goal? Yes No
• 2. It is morally right and fair
• to everyone? Yes No
• 3. Will this goal help to improve
• me or benefit others? Yes No

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The Goal Setting Process

• Can I commit myself to
• start and finish the project?
• Yes No

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The Goal Setting Process

• My Goal
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• Steps leading to my Goal.
• _________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  ______

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The Goal Setting Process

• Positive Factors
• _________________________________________________
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• Obstacles
• _________________________________________________
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Reading Assignment Card

• Date Book
• Starting Page
• Ending Page No. of pages
• Time Allotment
• Time started Time Finished __
• Page Reached ___
• Goal achieved Yes No
• Reason(s) if no

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Types of Goals

• 1. Family
• 2. Personal
• a. Mental
• b. Moral
• c. Physical
• d. School
• 3. Work

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Length of Goals

• Short Term Goals.
• Intermediate Term Goals.
• Long Term Goals.

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Always aim for the 10 range.
Always aim for the 10 range.
Always aim for the 10 range.

Always aim for the 10 range
Always aim for the 10 range.