Goal Setting Process
Ensure that your dreams are the greatest influence on 6. Transfer the 16 goals and the reasons you
your daily activities and decisions. want to obtain them to a portable journal
Make sure that ë greatest pull on you is the pull of ë /notebook in paragraphs.
future.
Such a future must be well planned and organized.
To design ua future, u must have goals. 7. Set aside some time every week to do some
Well defined and designed goals are like a magnet. reflecting, refining and revising in order to
The better the design, description and how hard u work review all your goals, rearrange them, redo
on them, the stronger they pull u thru all kinds of them, restructure them to add or even to tear
difficulty. up ë whole list and start over.
Without goals, it’s easy to let life deteriorate to ë point 8. Have a list of short-range goals. (Goals that
where you’re just making a living. can be achieved in a year)
It’s not difficult to get trapped by economic necessity Break down the list by week, month according
and settle for existence rather than substance. to what works for you.
We all have a choice. Either make a living or design a They are confidence builders.
life.
Have enough reasons to do incredible things.
Reasons come first, answers come second. We grow from two experiences: the joy of winning
Life has a strange way of hiding all the answers and and the pain of losing. Make losing painful.
disclosing them only to people who have been inspired Be a good planner and goal setter.
to look for them, who have reasons to look for them. The future doesn’t get better by hope but by planning.
What drives us to look for answers is necessity. Hope unaided by clear plans can finally become an
Goal setting is a heavy work. illness.
The major purpose of having a goal is not just to
8-step goal setting process acquire the goal but to compel yourself to become ë
person it takes to achieve them.
1. Start by taking time to answer the following Achieving ë goal is of secondary importance. What
thought starter questions. you become in ë pursuit of it is far more important.
a) What do I want to do? Better than having is being.
b) What do I want to see? Big Q: What kind of a person will I have to become to
c) What do I want to be? get all I want? (This question gives you
d) What do I want to have? personal development goals)
e) Where do I want to go?
f) What do I want to share? Income does not far exceed personal development.
Ability grows to match your strong dreams.
Write as many answers as you can to the above
questions and compile a list thereof. The more you work on goal setting process, ë more
2. Go through each item on your list writing at ideas u get on how u can ∆, how u can grow.
the end what time it will take to accomplish
each item. You have untapped talents and potential that you
Group the time in this categories: 1 year, 3 haven’t even reached for yet. These can be sparked by
years, 5 years and 10 years. the goal setting process.
3. Pick four (4) most important goals in each
category and have another list.
4. Describe each goal in your new list fully.
How high, how long, how much, what
model, what size and what colour.
5. Describe why each goal is important to you.
You can either talk yourself into or out of it if
it’s not important.
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