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Achieving Your Dreams Through Setting Goals
Part IV: Set Short-Term Goals

''To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads - such is the behavior of the multitude.'' (Menclus)

"I visualized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become.  I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there." (Michael Jordan)

The Magic of Short-Term Goals

Get out your calculators! How could you read 100 books in a field? How could you learn to play the guitar? How much would you need to invest to get rich?

Discussion: A good way to set goals is to look back and ask, “What do I wish I’d done each day for the past five years?” Lifted weights? Practiced an instrument? Learned a language?

Personal

Family

Work/Vocation

Life Impact

Spiritual


Examples:

1. Lift weights 15 minutes per day.
2. Practice guitar 15 minutes per day.

Your Goals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Example:

1. Read at least one book on relation- ships each year.

Your Goals

 

 

 

 


Example:

1. Learn something new on PhotoShop each week.
2. Read 10 minutes per day on some book outside of school.

Your Goals


Example:

1. Find a ministry I can be involved with each week.
2. Give 10% of my income to a worthy cause.
3. Wake up each morning thinking of something I can do to help someone else.

Your Goals


Example:

1. Read a personal devotion each day.

2. Meditate or pray 5 minutes each day.  

Your Goals

Discussion: Let's help each other out here. Share with us some goals you've written down. This may give ideas to the rest of us.

Next Session: Tricks to help you pursue your goals.