Achieving Goals: Unlocking Potential and Overcoming Limitations

1. Goals Value = Goals = Behavior = Self-esteem

2. “If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend 6 sharpening my ax” Abraham Lincoln

3. What is a goal? • Discussion • Activity: Shrinking Circle • Discuss outcome of the Shrinking Circle • What happened when the circle got smaller and harder to fit? • How does this relate to our lives? • What are some things that prevent us from reaching our goals?

4. Long vs. Short • A short term goal is achieved quickly (finish term paper, wash dishes, mail Christmas cards by Friday, etc.). They help you achieve your long term goals. • Long term goals will take months, years, all your life. For example: graduate from college, become a pilot, lose ___ pounds, etc. why do we set goals?

5. Do you believe you can achieve? • We need to learn how to dream. • Keep the dream alive, reach your goals • Some people don’t decide or have a vision of what they want out of life. NO GOALS!! • People with goals can see what they eventually want to achieve and they can see just how to get there.

6. There are 5 things that can help each of us achieve our dreams.

7. The first thing is a cloud: This represents CLOUD 9

8. We need to learn how to dream, Dream Snatchers put them away, or steal them. Keep the dreams alive, reach your goals. Story: “Another Check Mark on the List” John Goddard

9. Another Check Mark On The List One rainy afternoon an inspired 15-year-old Boy name John Goddard sat down at his kitchen table in Los Angeles and wrote three words at the top of a yellow pad, “My life List.” Under that heading he wrote down 127 goals. Since then he has completed 108 of those goals. Some of the goals he listed included:

10. #38 Visit Every Country in the World #1 Explore the Nile River #21 Climb Mount Everest # 49 Explore the Great Barrier Reef Underwater #12 Study Primitive Cultures in Borneo #117 Milk a poisonous snake. # 76 Fly in a blimp, hot air ballon and glider #41 Ride a horse int the Rose Parade # 126 Marry and have children # 81 Type 50 words a minute # 118 Light a match with a 22 rifle # 113 Become proficient in the use of a plane, motorcycle, tractor, surfboard, rifle, pistol, canoe, microscope, football, basketball, bow and arrow, lariat and boomerang

11. Make a list of things you’d like to do before you die.

12. Individual Assignment: • Write a long list of the goals you think would be important and worthwhile for you to accomplish. (a dream list) • Now have them look at their list and ask themselves the following questions: • Does it fit your values? • Is it realistic? • Is it flexible? • Does it fit in with your other goals? • Will the rewards be worth what you put in to it? • Is it what you want?

13. Activity: Garbage Can • Discuss the results: • One Student had a clear view of where to shoot, the other couldn’t see. • One had a purpose, the other wasn’t certain. Some people are like this. They don’t decide or have a vision of what they want out of life. NO GOALS!! People with goals can see what they eventually want to achieve and they can see just how to get there.

14. Things to remember: • Goals must be realistic – you can’t lose 40 pounds in one month • Must prioritize – rank in order of importance you, can’t accomplish it all at once. • Do you have the resources you need to reach your goals (money, information, health, energy, skill, etc.).

15. 2&3 ELEPHANT AND FEATHER

16. This represents belief-Dumbo believed in the feather. He believed he could fly if he had the feather. Did the feather really make him able to fly or was it the belief in something? Hold on to someone else’s belief in you until you believe in yourself. If you do not believe you can do it, this is why you don’t succeed.

17. 4. A PURSE

18. “Success is in the bag”. • You need purse-severance • It requires the same amount of energy to be successful as it does to be unsuccessful. • 99% of your assets are standing in your shoes. • 80% of success is showing up

19. If you are not working to where you want to be, you are AUTOMATICALLY working to where you don’t want to be. • Keep your most important values in mind at all times when you are making LESS important decisions. • Don’t sacrifice what matters most for something that doesn’t matter that much to you. There are always trade-offs

20. 5. BRIDGE

21. Build a bridge and get over it • You will have challenges • You will have roadblocks • You can have excuses or success but not both Story:“Circus Elephants and Limitations”

22. "An elephant with his trunk, can easily pick up a one ton load. Rut have you ever visited a circus, and seen these huge creatures standing quietly, while tied to a small, wooden stake? When still young and weak, an elephant is tied by a heavy chain to an immovable iron stake. No matter how hard he tries, he can't break the chain or move the stake. Then, no matter how large and strong an elephant becomes, he continues to BELIEVE he cannot move AS LONG AS HE CAN SEE THE STAKE in the ground beside him. Many intelligent adults are like circus elephants. They are restrained in their thoughts, actions and results. They never move out any further than the extent of their own self-imposed limitations."

23. If this is happening in your life, resolve NOW to uproot those stakes that hold you back. Break your chains of habit and conditioning. BECOME THE PERSON YOU KNOW YOU CAN BECOME. BECOME THE PERSON YOU WANT TO OR NEED TO BECOME FOR YOUR OWN WELL-BEING OR BETTERMENT."

24. There are three types of people • Ones that make things happen • Those that let it happen • And the ones that don’t know what happened. Which one are you going to be?

25. There is very little difference between mediocre and greatness. • The boiling point is only 1 degree different than very warm water. • The difference is tremendous. Steam can power many things. • The difference between a race horse that wins first place and a second place is often fractions of a second.

26. Seven goal areas Family/home Social Educational Religious Achievement/recognition Career Physical/health

27. Writing goals – • SPECIFIC! • M EASURABLE • Attainable • Realistic • TIMELY

28. Student Assignment: Set a goal and fill out the goal contract.