“If I had 8 hours to chop

down a tree,
I’d spend 6 sharpening
my ax”
Abraham Lincoln
Do you believe you can
achieve?
• We need to learn how to dream.
• Keep the dream alive, reach your goals
• Some people don’t decide or have a vision
of what they want out of life. NO GOALS!!
• People with goals can see what they
eventually want to achieve and they can
see just how to get there.
 Goals
Value = Goals = Behavior = Self-esteem
 What is a goal?
• Discussion

Definition: A goal is something that you set

for yourself to achieve.

DREAMS = GOALS
 Individual Assignment:
• Write a long list of the goals you think would be
important and worthwhile for you to accomplish. List
must contain 15 different dreams. (a dream list)
• Now have them look at their list and ask themselves
the following questions:
– Does it fit your values?
– Is it realistic?
– Is it flexible?
– Does it fit in with your other goals?
– Will the rewards be worth what you put in to it?
– Is it what you want?
Belief
Activity: The “I can’t funeral”

write down on a piece a paper everything

you can’t do.

Next write a list of ‘I CAN’. Keep this in

your note book/journal.

Play song: “I Believe I Can Fly”

Long vs. Short

 A short term goal is  Long term goals will

achieved quickly (finish take months, years, all
term paper, wash your life.
dishes, mail Christmas
cards by Friday, etc.).
For example: graduate
They help you achieve
from college, become a
your long term goals.
pilot, lose ___ pounds,
etc.
 Things to remember:
• Assign priorities to your goals. Be sure that the goals you
have set are the goals that you want to achieve, not what
your parents or family want.
• Once you have set your lifetime goals, set a 25 year plan of
smaller goals to complete if you are to reach your lifetime
plan. Then set a 5 year plan, 1 year plan, 6 month plan, and
1 month plan of progressively smaller goals that you should
reach to achieve your lifetime goals. Each of these should
be based on the previous plan.
• Finally set a daily to-do list of things that you should do
today to work towards your lifetime goals.
• Finally review your plans, and make sure that they fit the
way in which you want to live your life.
“Success…….”

• You need purse-severance

• It requires the same amount of energy to
be successful as it does to be
unsuccessful.
• 99% of your assets are standing in your
shoes.
• 80% of success is showing up
There are three types of people

 Ones that make things happen

 Those that let it happen
 And the ones that don’t know what
happened.

What one are you going to be?

There is very little difference between
mediocre and greatness.

 The boiling point is only 1 degree different

than very warm water.
– The difference is tremendous. Steam can power
many things.
 The difference between a race horse that
wins first place and a second place is often
fractions of a second.
 Seven goal areas

Family/home
Social
Educational
Religious
Achievement/recognition
Career
Physical/health
 Goal Setting Keys
– State each goal as a positive statement.
– Be precise: put in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure it. If you do this, you will
know exactly when you have achieved the goal.
– Set priorities: where you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling
overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.
– Write goals down: this crystallizes them and gives them more force.
– Keep goals small: If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not making progress
towards it.
– Set performance goals, not outcome goals: There is nothing more disappointing than failing to
achieve a personal goal for reasons beyond your control. If you base your goals on personal
performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals.
– Set realistic goals: it is important to set goals that you can achieve.
– Do not set goals too low: just as it is important not to set goals unrealistically high, do not set
them too low. People tend to do this where they are afraid of failure or where they are lazy! You
should set goals so that they are slightly out of your immediate grasp, but not so far that there is
no hope of achieving them.
Writing goals –

 SPECIFIC!
 written down
 MEASURABLE
 TIME FRAME
 read out loud frequently
 posted visibly
Student Assignment:

Set a goal and fill out the goal

contract.
Show video:
“The Blue Vase”