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Goal Setting For Success,

Clarity and Happiness

Goal Setting is a powerful process for thinking about what you want your life to be and a tool
for turning this vision into reality. The process of setting goals helps you choose where you
want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have
to concentrate your efforts and gain clarity, success and happiness.

Why Set Goals? Setting Smaller

Setting goals gives you a long-term vision and short-term motivation. It helps to Goals
organise time and set priorities. By Setting clear goals you can measure and take
Once you have set your
pride in your achievements and progress. You will also raise your confidence and
self esteem as you recognise your own ability and confidence in achieving the lifetime plan, you need a
goals that you have set. plan of smaller goals that
need to be completed if you
are to reach your lifetime
You can set your own goals on a number of levels:
plan.
• First you create your vision of what you want to do with your life such as
large-scale goals that you want to achieve Start by creating a one-year
• These can be broken down into smaller grounds plan, six-month plan, and a
• Once you have your plan, you can start focusing on how to achieve these one month plan of
goals. progressively smaller goals
that you should reach to
achieve your lifetime plan.
Setting long-term goals Finally review your plans,
and make sure that they fit
The first step in setting personal calls is to consider what you want to achieve.
Setting lifetime goal gives you clarity over all aspects of your decision making. with the way in which you
want to live your life.
Here are some important aspects of your life and can help reflect on which areas
you may want to set some goals:
Creating a goal – setting action
plans
• Work and Career – what do you want to achieve? Use the following headings to create
• Money and Finances – what do you need to feel secure? an action plan
• Health and well being – how do you want your mind and body to be? 1.Area of focus
• Education – is there any knowledge that you want to acquire? 2.What my long term goal is?
• Relationships – what do you want/need from you relationships?
3.What I will achieve in the next 12
• Fun and Leisure - how is your work/life balanced? months
• Friends and family – do you make enough time for them?
4.What I will achieve in the next
• Community / giving back – are you involved or an outsider? six months
5.What I will achieve in
Spend some time reflecting on these areas, and then select a goal from each area.
Be mindful that the goals you have set are ones that you genuinely want to - Month 1
achieve – be true to yourself. - Month 2
- Month 3
Questions to reflect on when setting goals - Month 4
- Month 5
• When you think about achieving the goal does it fill you with a
- Month 6
sense of happiness and excitement?
6. What I will need to help me
• Is the goal something you really want or something you feel you
reach my goal.
should be doing?
7. Who will help me reach my goal
• Is the goal in line with your true values?
(accountability friend
• Will the goal get you closer to your overall life plan and vision?
• ! Does the goal fit into your lifestyle?
“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals in the future, and live in the only mo-
ment of time over which you have any control: NOW” – Dennis Waitley

1. Pick 2 - 3 goals that you would like to start working towards today (see the ‘setting long-term goals’
list on page 1 for reference).

• Visualise what you want to be, do and have. What does it feel like? What do you see and hear?
• Write down your goal in detail as an “I am ... (verb)...” positive statement

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2. Look at the goals you have chosen and ask yourself the reflection questions (from sheet 1) about
each one. You can write down your observations below.

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3. Decide on one step towards each of your selected goals that you can commit to completing this
week. Write them down.

• What resources do you have or need to achieve your goal? People? Skills? Knowledge?

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