Goal Setting, Planning and Decision Making

GOAL SETTING
A. Goal Setting: This is a very powerful technique that can garner strong
returns in all areas of your life. At its most basic level, the process of setting
goals and targets allows you to choose where you want to go in life. By knowing
precisely what you want to achieve, you know what you have to concentrate on
and improve. Goal setting provides you with long term vision, and short- term
motivation. It focuses the knowledge you acquire and helps organize your
resources.
1. By Setting Goals you can:
• Achieve more
• Improve Performance
• Increase your motivation to achieve
• Improve your self-confidence
• Plan to eliminate attitudes that hold you back and cause
unhappiness.
2. The advantages of effective goal setting for the goal setter:
• Suffer less from stress and anxiety
• Concentrate better
• Show more self-confidence
• Perform better
• Are happier and more satisfied.
3. Goal Setting Helps Self-confidence: By setting goals, and measuring
their achievement, you are able to see what you have done and what you
are capable of. The process of achieving goals gives you the confidence
and self-belief that you need when contemplating higher or more difficult
goals.
B. Establishing Lifetime Goals: Setting lifetime goals helps place your
decision-making activities in perspective.
1. Categorical Goals: Take a look at the following areas for lifetime goal
setting.
• Artistic
Do you want to achieve any artistic goals If so, what
• Attitude
Is there any part of your mental attitude that is holding you back
Is there any part of the way you behave that upsets you If so, set
goals to cure the problem, even if that goal is only to get help.
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