Tips for Parents: Real Life Habits for Success: The Way to Set & Achieve Your Goals
Scala, J.
Davidson Institute for Talent Development - Parent Seminar
2007

Juli Scala gives tips on setting and achieving goals.

If you think life could be more fulfilling, satisfying, and productive, you're right!
This program was developed for people who want more out of life.

The Way to Set & Achieve Goals teaches that the most significant aspect of life is to know and to define what you want, then shows you how to get there. The driving force or purpose is to allow you to overcome obstacles, break through barriers, and achieve the life you deserve.

The Way to Set & Achieve Goals provides applicable tools. It doesn’t matter who you are or how advanced you may be, we all need proven information, inspiration, motivation and the proper direction in our lives that allow us to achieve and produce effective results. Wouldn't you agree?

Here are some tips:

Step 1: Write your goal on paper considering all five areas of life: 1) Development Goals: Anything you want to learn, skills you want to possess, character traits you want to acquire. 2) Business Goals: Anything you want to achieve in your business, career, or financial life. 3) Health Goals: Anything you want to achieve in your health and fitness life. 4) Anything you want to achieve in your family, spiritual or community life. 5) Recreational Goals: Anything you want for your leisure time or places you want to visit Recreational Goals: If it's not on paper it doesn't exist. Put it in writing!

Step 2: Break the goal into smaller goals. Breaking goals into smaller, more manageable goals helps dismantle feelings of being overwhelmed. It also provides a system for achieving a series of smaller goals that builds feelings of success.

Step 3: Know why you want to achieve your goal. Understanding the benefits you will receive from attaining your goal helps motivate you toward its fulfillment.

Step 4: Program your brain using auditory. Choose an affirmation that supports the outcome of your goal. Remember to phrase it in present tense, make it personal, state it in the positive, and make it powerful.

Step 5: Program your brain using visual. Create a picture in your mind of you achieving the goal. What does it look like? Who is there? What are you wearing?

Step 6: Program your brain using kinesthetic. What are you doing? How are you standing? What does your body feel like?

Step 7: Set a completion date. When are you going to achieve your goal?

These 7 steps will help to further advance your ability to achieve the things you want, while paying close attention to the things that are the most important to you.

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