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Source: Zone Positive* Tag: goals, goal setting, action plan, life satisfaction
Short description: Follow up exercise to the Good Life Survey—how to raise your scores. A worksheet is
provided below.
Step 1: Go to the Zone Positive website (www.zonepositive.com) and register as a guest to access the
survey. Once this is done, go to the top navigation bar under Free Resources then click the Good Life
Survey.
Step 2: After you have taken the survey, you will receive your scores and an explanation of the results
Step 3: With your results in hand, use the worksheet down below. Start filling in the information starting with
your goal(s), your score for each pathway (positive emotion etc.), your action plan for each pathway and
finally, the strengths you believe you will be using.
Latham, G. P. (2000). Motivate Employee Performance through goal setting. Handbook of Principles of Organizational
Behavior. Blackwell.
King, L. A. (2001). The health benefits of writing about life goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 798-
807.
References:
Locke, E. A. (1996). Motivation through conscious goal setting, Applied & Preventive Psychology 5, 117-124.
GPS Exercise: Goals, Pathways, Strength-based Strategies-- WORKSHEET
This exercise makes use of the Good Life Survey, and the Positive GPS Model--a tool
designed to bring you closer to “the Good Life”.