personal goal setting - manu melwin joy
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Personal Goal setting
Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
Phone – 9744551114Mail – [email protected]
1001 SkillsMMJ’s Management Skills Archive
Planning to Live Your Life Your Way
• Goal setting is a powerful
process for thinking
about your ideal future,
and for motivating
yourself to turn your
vision of this future into
reality.
Why Set Goals?
• Setting goals gives you long-
term vision and short-term
motivation. It focuses your
acquisition of knowledge, and
helps you to organize your
time and your resources so
that you can make the very
most of your life.
Why Set Goals?• By setting sharp, clearly defined
goals, you can measure and take
pride in the achievement of
those goals, and you'll see
forward progress in what might
previously have seemed a long
pointless grind. You will also raise
your self confidence , as you
recognize your own ability and
competence in achieving the
goals that you've set.
Starting to Set Personal Goals• First you create your "bigpicture" of what you want todo with your life (or over, say,the next 10 years), and identifythe large-scale goals that youwant to achieve.
• Then, you break these downinto the smaller and smallertargets that you must hit toreach your lifetime goals.
• Finally, once you have yourplan, you start working on it toachieve these goals.
Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals• The first step in settingpersonal goals is toconsider what you wantto achieve in your lifetime(or at least, by asignificant and distant agein the future). Settinglifetime goals gives youthe overall perspectivethat shapes all otheraspects of your decisionmaking.
Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals• Career – What level do youwant to reach in yourcareer, or what do you wantto achieve?
• Financial – How much doyou want to earn, by whatstage? How is this relatedto your career goals?
• Education – Is there anyknowledge you want toacquire in particular? Whatinformation and skills willyou need to have in orderto achieve other goals?
Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals• Family – Do you want tobe a parent? If so, howare you going to be agood parent? How do youwant to be seen by apartner or by members ofyour extended family?
• Artistic – Do you want toachieve any artistic goals?
Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals• Attitude – Is any part of yourmindset holding you back? Isthere any part of the way thatyou behave that upsets you? (Ifso, set a goal to improve yourbehavior or find a solution tothe problem.)
• Physical – Are there anyathletic goals that you want toachieve, or do you want goodhealth deep into old age?What steps are you going totake to achieve this?
Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals• Pleasure – How do youwant to enjoy yourself?(You should ensure thatsome of your life is foryou!)
• Public Service – Do youwant to make the world abetter place? If so, how?
Step 2: Setting Smaller Goals• Once you have set yourlifetime goals, set a five-year plan of smaller goalsthat you need to completeif you are to reach yourlifetime plan.
• Then create a one-yearplan, six-month plan, and aone-month plan ofprogressively smaller goalsthat you should reach toachieve your lifetime goals.Each of these should bebased on the previous plan.
Step 2: Setting Smaller Goals• Then create a daily To-Do listof things that you should dotoday to work towards yourlifetime goals.
• At an early stage, your smallergoals might be to read booksand gather information on theachievement of your higherlevel goals. This will help youto improve the quality andrealism of your goal setting.
• Finally review your plans, andmake sure that they fit the wayin which you want to live yourlife.
Staying on Course• Once you've decided onyour first set of goals,keep the process going byreviewing and updatingyour To-Do List on a dailybasis.
• Periodically review thelonger term plans, andmodify them to reflectyour changing prioritiesand experience.
SMART Goals
• A useful way of making
goals more powerful is to
use the SMART
mnemonic. While there
are plenty of variants
(some of which we've
included in parenthesis).
SMART Goals
• SMART usually stands for:
– S – Specific (or Significant).
– M –Measurable (or Meaningful).
– A – Attainable (or Action-Oriented).
– R – Relevant (or Rewarding).
– T – Time-bound (or Trackable).
Key Points• Goal setting is an importantmethod of:
– Deciding what you want toachieve in your life.
– Separating what's importantfrom what's irrelevant, or adistraction.
–Motivating yourself.
– Building your self-confidence,based on successfulachievement of goals
Key Points• Set your lifetime goals first.Then, set a five-year plan ofsmaller goals that you needto complete if you are toreach your lifetime plan.Keep the process going byregularly reviewing andupdating your goals. Andremember to take time toenjoy the satisfaction ofachieving your goals whenyou do so.
Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
Phone – 9744551114Mail – [email protected]
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