Goal Setting
Goal Setting
1) State the goal in positive terms.
Describe the Present Situation and compare it with the desired future goal.
- Where are you now?
- Where do you want to be?
- What do you want?
- State it in the positive (what you want to achieve).
- What are you going toward?
2) Specify the goal in Sensory Based Terms.
- What will you see, hear, feel, etc., when you have it?
- What steps or stages are involved in reaching this goal?
- Engage all of your senses in this description process to employ more of your brain and nervous system.
- Have you broken down your goal into small enough chunks so that each is do-able?
- What are the sizes of the behavioural chunks? Could the size possibly overwhelm you?
3) Specify the goal in a way that you find compelling.
Is the goal compelling? Does it pull on you? Make it a compelling future representation that’s dissociated (When you see your goal make sure you see yourself having obtained your goal.).
4) Run a Quality Control check on your Goal to make sure it is for you in all areas of your life.
- Is the desired goal right for you in all circumstances of your life?
- Is your goal appropriate in all your personal relationships?
- What will having your goal give you that you do not now have?
- What will having your goal cause you to lose?
- Is your goal achievable?
- Does it respect your health, relationships, etc?
Run a quality check to make sure that your goal fits every part. Ask, “Are there any parts of me that objects to actualizing this desired goal?” If so, address those unconscious frames of mind.
Pay attention to how your whole self responds to the question in terms of images, sounds, words, and sensations within you.
5) Self-initiated and maintained.
Is the goal something that you can initiate yourself and maintain?
Test your goal by asking if it is something that you have within your power or ability to do.
- Is it within your control?
Your goal must be something that you can initiate and maintain. It must not be something dependent on other people. Make sure that your goal reflects things that you can directly affect.
- Is it self initiated and maintained?
6) State the Context of the goal.
- Where, when, how, with whom, etc. will you get this goal?
- Is the goal appropriately contextualized?
Test your goal by applying it to a context: when, where, with who, etc. to make sure that it is going to be fitting and appropriate. Readjust your goal to make sure that it fits.
7) State the Resources needed to achieve the goal.
- What resources will you need in order to get this goal?
- Who will you have to become?
- Who else has achieved this goal?
- Have you ever had or done this before?
- Do you know anyone who has?
- What prevents you from moving toward it and attaining it now?
Evidence Procedure.
- How will you know that your goal has been realized?
- What will let you know that you have attained that desired state?
MAKING GOALS SMART
S – Simple as possible
- Specific as possible
M – Meaningful to you
- Measurable, so that you know when you’ve gotten it! What will you see/hear/feel when you have it?
- More than one way to achieve outcome
A – Achievable – make it a stretch, but not impossible
- As if now ie write the goals in the present tense (eg 31/12/10 – I have scored 20 goals this year and played 30 first team matches.)
R – Realistic – use your own definition of realistic, but watch for selling yourself short
- Responsible – make sure it’s in line with your values and those of other people involved. (The more it’s in line with, or at least not against, others, the less resistance there will be).
- Right for you? Is it worth the effort, time and money? Is it in keeping with you sense of self? Does it increase choice?
- Retains the positive by-products (if any) of existing situation
T – Timed – set a time frame by when it shall be