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I. Personal Development Goals






 

Step 1: On the chart provided (or on additional sheets of paper when you need more room) write down everything that you'd like to improve in your life that relates to your own personal growth. How would you like to improve your physical body? What are your goals for your mental and social development? Would you like to learn, for example, to speak another language? Become a speed reader? Would there be value in reading all of Shakespeare's works? Emotionally, what would you like to experience, achieve, or master in your life? Maybe you want to be able to instantly break patterns of frustration or rejection. Maybe you want to feel compassion for those people you used to feel anger toward. What are some of your spiritual goals? Do you want to feel a greater sense of connection with your Creator? Or have an expanded feeling of compassion for your neighbor?

The key in writing these goals is to write down everything and anything you can imagine without letting your mind stop. They can be short-term goals—something you want to accomplish this week, this year—or they can be long-term goals, something you want to accomplish any time between now and the next twenty years. Brainstorm for a minimum of five minutes. Don't stop writing at any time. Be silly, be crazy, be a kid—sometimes a weird idea leads to a great destiny! Here are a few questions you may want to review just before beginning, but after you review them, go to work and begin your goal setting right now!

 

What would you like to leam?

What are some skills you want to master in your lifetime?

What are some character traits you'd like to develop?

Who do you want your friends to be?

Who do you want to be?

 

What could you do for your physical well-being?

Get a massage every week? Every day?

Create the body of your dreams?

Join a gym—and actually use it?

Hire a vegetarian chef?

Complete the Iron Man Triathlon in Honolulu?

 

Would you like to conquer your fear of flying?

Or of public speaking?

Or of swimming?

 

What would you want to learn?

To speak French?

Study the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Dance and/or sing?

Study with violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman?

Who else would you like to study with?

Would you like to take in a foreign exchange student?

 

 

Step 2: Now that you've got a list of goals for your personal development that you can get excited about, take a minute now to give a time line to each and every one of these. At this stage, it's not important to know how you're going to accomplish these goals. Just give yourself a time frame from which to operate. Remember that goals are dreams with a deadline. The simple act of deciding when you'll achieve a goal sets in motion conscious and unconscious forces to make your goals a reality. So if you're committed to accomplishing a goal within one year or less, put a 1 next to it. If you're committed to accomplishing it within three years, put a 3 next to it, and so on for five, ten, and twenty years.

Step 3: Now choose your single most important one-year goal in this category —a goal that, if you were to accomplish it this year, would give you tremendous excitement and make you feel that the year was well invested. Take two minutes to write a paragraph about why you are absolutely committed to achieving this goal within the year. Why is this compelling for you? What will you gain by achieving it? What would you miss out on if you didn't achieve it? Are these reasons strong enough to get you to actually follow through? If not, either come up with a better goal or better reasons. The most important distinction that I made about goals years ago was that if I had a big enough why to do something—a strong enough set of reasons—I could always figure out how to achieve it. Goals alone can inspire, but knowing the deepest reasons why you want them in the first place can provide you with the long-lasting drive and motivation necessary to persist and achieve.

 

 






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