3. Goal Setting 2015
•Goal setting is the master skill of all lifelong success, yet it is
practiced by less than 3 percent of the population.
•Investing the time and brain power to set meaningful
goals in each area of your life will produce internal,
permanent motivation.
•Goals provide you with clarity of outcome, which is the
prerequisite for becoming an outstanding decision maker.
4. Goal Setting 2015
•Learning to set goals and crafting plans for their
accomplishment will have more of a positive impact on your
life than anything else you could possibly do.
•Pursuing your goals should be fun and interesting, like a
cherished hobby. In other words, you need to design goals
that really inspire you—that are so interesting, motivating,
and stimulating that you’ll get up by 5 a.m. and stay up
burning the midnight oil.
5. Goal Setting 2015
•Many have called goal setting the master skill of success
because it is the essential ingredient for successful living.
•The primary benefit of mastering the skill of goal
setting is that you begin to take personal control of your
life.
7. Psychological Blocks to Goal Setting
• Don’t set goals because they have not yet accepted
personal responsibility for their lives.
• Fear of Success
• Fear of Failure
• Curse of early success
• They don’t know how to
• Fear of Criticism
8. Top Ten Reasons
10.Written goals strengthen your character by promoting a long-term
perspective
9. Written goals allow you to lead your life as opposed to simply
managing it.
8. Written goals provide internal, permanent, and consistent
motivation.
7. Written goals help you stay focused
6. Written goals enhance your decision making ability
9. Goal Setting 2015
4. Written goals help you create the future in advance.
3. Written goals help you to control changes to adjust your sails, to work
with the wind rather than against it.
2. Written goals heighten your awareness of opportunities that are
consistent with your goal.
1. The most important benefit of setting effective goals is the person you
become as a result of the pursuit!
5. Written goals simultaneously require and build self-confidence.
10. Where Do I Start?
•Outcomes
•Priorities
•Action Plans
11. Goal Setting 2015
Outcomes
Begin With The End In Mind!
Priorities
What is most important to you?
How do I want them to remember me?
Now, Select key audiences that matter to you.
Need to Identify & Prioritize Your Life Accounts:
18. Give 70% of your time to your areas of strength
How to Manage your Strengths &
What to Work On!
Give 25% of your time to the areas you want to improve
Give 5% of your time to the areas of your weakness.
19. –Newberry
“Self-Discipline is an acquired virtue that
directs our appetite and passions in a
productive, joy-producing direction. Self-
Discipline occurs in moments when intention
defeats indulgence, when mission trumps
mood, and when spirit conquers sentiment.”
20.
21. References
• Success is Not an Accident – Tommy Newberry
• One Word – Jon Gordon, Dan Britton, Jimmy Page
• Life Planning Guide – Michael Hyatt
Notes de l'éditeur
Those without clearly defined goals are continually tempted by every fashionable trend society serves up. Mediocrity is best defined as failing to set big goals for your life and neglecting to live the life God gave you. If we don’t routinely set challenging goals, we can become satisfied with surprisingly little. It’s easy to descend gradually into complacency and start accepting less than the best for yourself and your family.
Albert Schweitzer - Man Must cease to attributing his problems to his environment and learn to again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
Top ten reason to establish written goals in your life.
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Now pick your key audiences: Spouse | Children | Parents | Colleagues | Friends
Write in the first Note Section - How you want them to remember you.
Let’s call these your life accounts. We need to identify and prioritize your “life accounts.”
Each has a certain value. A few have large balances, and one or two might be overdrawn.