If I had hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend sharpening my ax

Goals

• Value = Goals = Behavior = Self-esteem

• “If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree,
• I’d spend 6 sharpening
• my ax”
• Abraham Lincoln

What is a goal?

• Discussion
• Activity: Shrinking Circle
• Discuss outcome of the Shrinking Circle
• What happened when the circle got smaller and harder to fit?
• How does this relate to our lives?
• What are some things that prevent us from reaching our goals?

Long vs. Short

• A short term goal is achieved quickly (finish term paper, wash dishes, mail Christmas cards by Friday, etc.). They help you achieve your long term goals.

• Long term goals will take months, years, all your life.
• For example: graduate from college, become a pilot, lose ___ pounds, etc.

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.

Things to remember:

• Goals must be realistic – you can’t lose 40 pounds in one month
• Must prioritize – rank in order of importance you, can’t accomplish it all at once.
• Do you have the resources you need to reach your goals (money, information, health, energy, skill, etc.).

Individual Assignment:

• Write a long list of the goals you think would be important and worthwhile for you to accomplish. (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”

“Success is in the bag”.

• 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

If you are not working to where you want to be, you are AUTOMATICALLY working to where you don’t want to be.

• If you are not working to where you want to be, you are AUTOMATICALLY working to where you don’t want to be.
• Keep your most important values in mind at all times when you are making LESS important decisions.
• Don’t sacrifice what matters most for something that doesn’t matter that much to you. There are always trade-offs

Build a bridge and get over it

• You will have challenges
• You will have roadblocks
• You can have excuses or success but not both
• Story: “Circus Elephants and Limitations”

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

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:

• Show video:
• “The Blue Vase”