Goal Setting Lesson Plan

1. Uncover your real desires and enable you to better focus and articulate them. If you don't know where you're going, you'll never get there.

2. Develop a solid action plan. Once you get clear on your goals, you can then go about creating your action plan to achieve them.

How does goal setting help us? Without goals, we tend to be less focused and get too easily sidetracked.

But goal setting does more than keep us focused, it brings into play a number of powerful drivers. Among them are the power of congruency, the power of leverage, and the power of relationships.

When you set goals and make a plan, as opposed to just wishing, it sets forces in motion to move you further and further toward your desired outcome. Wishing or hoping for an outcome is kind of like writing a letter but never sending it.

Very few people write down their goals, and those that do often don't create an action plan to go with them. Creating an action plan and tracking your results holds you accountable and makes it much more likely that you'll continue to move forward toward the achievement of your goals.

Creating and following an action plan is not only like sending the letter, but it adds a return receipt requested.

So one of the objectives of this goal setting lesson plan is to introduce you to a number of thought provoking exercises and activities. These activities will show you new ways of looking at your future and how to shape it.

You'll be able to really internalize and articulate your goals. Another objective is to get those goals down on paper with a plan. After that, you'll be able to predict your future in advance.

Next, share your goals online with this goal setting form.

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