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What is Your Next Step: An action plan begins by doing. From
the following, try to determine what you need to do first.
Goals: In order to put your action plan to work, you must set
goals.
Goals should be:
Specific: What exactly are you going to do?
Timed: When are you going to do it? How long will it take?
Weeks, months, or years. This provides a checkpoint for measuring
progress.
Realistic: Is this a reasonable goal relative to some of the
skills you already have? What are your personal limitations? How realistic
is the goal in terms of your present position and your previous experience?
Relevant: Do the goals reflect your personal preferences about
work environment, work activities, and values?
Visble: Your goals should be shared and made public. When others
know your goals, they may be able to help you along the way.
Goal Setting:
10 Reasons For Goal Setting:
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1. To create a climate for motivation.
2. To enable you to plan and gain greater control of your future.
3. To add challenge and a sense of achievement to your life.
4. To provide a means of self-evaluation.
5. To help focus on results so you work smarter, not harder.
6. To add a new dimension of meaning to your daily routine.
7. To enable you to manage your time more effectively.
8. To reduce the stress normally attributed to the feeling of
"not getting anywhere."
9. To increase the chances of success.
10. To allow you to determine whether your job is compatible
with the things you really want out of life. |
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Write Down Your Goals
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Make sure each goal is:
SPECIFIC
RELEVANT
TIMED
VISIBLE
REALISTIC
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Goal Setting Exercise:
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If you're having difficulty setting goals, complete the following sentences:
I want to learn
I want to start
I want to stop
I want to have
I want to become
I will now
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Identifying Barriers To Reaching Your goals:
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Is there anything that could prevent you from reaching your goals? It is important to identify potential barriers now, so that you can plan ways of dealing with them. |
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1. IDENTIFYING PERSONAL BARRIERS:
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In what ways might you stop yourself from getting what you want (for example, fear of failure, lack of skills, and so on)?
Barrier
What I Can Do About It
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2. IDENTIFYING EXTERNAL BARRIERS:
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In what way do other people, organizations, society, and so on, hinder you from achieving your goals (for example, family pressures, security, finances, and so on)?
Barrier
What I Can Do About It
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