Goal setting
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Goal setting is a powerful tool for personal planning and empowerment.
The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in your lilfe. In knowing more precisely what you want to achieve, you know where to concentrate your efforts and can quickly identify distractions.
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Setting personal goals can be integrated into any and all of these
areas of life:
All goal-setting strategies emphasize that you are more successful in achieving goals when you
Internet resources on goal setting are plentiful, ranging from specialised software, courses, articles and inspirational stories about successful people.
To get you started in effective goal setting, Conscious Life Skills recommends some background reading and a short tutorial as part of assisting you in making your dream come true. Contact us with a dream that is dear to your heart and we will help you forumulate a clear statement of your goal and a plan of action for making the dream a reality.
Setting goals helps you
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create long term vision and short term motivation |
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focus your information gathering and analysis |
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organise your time and your resources more effectively |
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measure progress towards your goal by accomplishing the smaller tasks identified as realistic steps in making it happen |
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increase your feelings of competence and self-confidence |
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Family and home |
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Financial and career |
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Spiritual and ethical |
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Physical and health |
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Social and cultural |
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Intellectual and educational |
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write your goal in the positive, focusing on what you want to achieve, not what you want to leave behind |
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write out your goal in complete and specific detail, so your subconscious mind has a clear set of instructions to work with . If you want a new car, describe the car in more detail such as colour, model, and engine size |
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make sure your goals are realistic and achievable in the context of your life, slightly out of your immediate grasp, yet still a beneficial challenge to you |
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write your goals down and include time lines and target dates |
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review your goals. Sometimes, goals need to be revised because of a change in circumstances and priorities. |
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