![]() Every family could use a small amount of help in setting family goals. Perhaps your family wants to go on a really fantastic vacation together; that three day romantic getaway only for the parents that never generally seems to happen; or the home improvement project no one ever seems to have time for. Most families are now living on a certain budget. Living within that budget can help your household pay off those credit cards forever and realize your child’s dreams of college or your dream of getting a bigger and better residence. Perhaps your family’s goal is to see your kids go from a ‘C’ average to a ‘B’ or to have quality family time together. Maybe you want to commence your own home-based business to enable you to spend more time with your household. Yet, each and every one of these brilliant worthy goals can be easily achieved in a somewhat remarkable and FUN approach. In fact, when you discover how working toward a goal may be more fun than achieving the particular goal. If you desire to add some real teamwork within your family and deepen your familial interactions, you must set goals along with your whole family together. Just make sure that anyone who participates with the goal setting process is motivated enough to follow through with the plan of action. Anyone who is not fully focused on achieving the goal really should not be allowed to participate or reap the rewards. If you really want to instruct your kids in something worthwhile that can help them with every aspect of their lives, teach them how to set goals successfully. Here's the goal-setting system that generally seems to work for everyone who has experimented with it. It will work with basically any goal you can imagine and especially, family goals you could achieve together. It is a powerful way to get the whole family working together toward a successful plan of action and a set goal. If nothing else, your family will have an enjoyable experience trying. 1. Dream it. Make a list of precisely what you each think you need... all the goals you think you would like to achieve. They may involve funds, or material things, or far better relationships, or a special getaway, or a change in your own personal attitudes or habits. Get some paper and any pen and go somewhere to be completely alone and uninterrupted. Write down everything, being careful not to judge or dismiss any ideas. Remember that everyone in the family should do this. You will all compare and compromise on which goals will be most effective to work towards achieving first. After you have this long list written down, put the list away for a couple days. Some of the things you wrote down may begin creating a burning energy in your head. Review your list in of a week and see which goals you're still interested in. Remove anything that you don't feel strongly about from the list. Goal setting will not work if you are not really motivated to that goal. Have your family members do the same. After you identify the goal or goals that you would like to work on, start writing everything down. A notebook only for your goals might be beneficial. Write down your goal around the first page of your notebook and you may all start determining which goals are least to most critical. 2. Identify the obstacles After you've set the goal, make a list of items that may threaten the successful good results of the goal and what you can do to remove those threats. As an example, are you and your husband or wife or child fighting over many of these goals? Write down ALL the obstacles which you feel may prevent you from reaching your goal. This is a particularly magical section of goal setting because it takes every one of the obstacles that seemed so huge before and reduces them to little notations that form words on paper. Once the obstacles are usually clearly defined, they are most of the time, easily resolved. 3. Identify things that will help. After you've identified the road blocks, make a written list with the things you will need to experience your goal. This list should include the people whose cooperation can assist you work toward your goal. A number of the items on this list can include some things that will represent answers to the problems you wrote down earlier. 4. Set a date. Setting a date for the attainment of one's goal is the ignition for the goal-seeking missile in your head. Make sure that your time is realistic... not so soon that it is impossible, but not so delayed that it is not interesting. Make sure you write the completion date for the goal down next to the goal. Once you've set this kind of date, you should never change it unless it is absolutely essential. 5. Goal Reminders. Once you have your goal and the date written, make more reminders of the goal. Put these reminders all over your house, your car, your bathroom. Notes or postings will remind you of the goal and the date the goal will be achieved, and each time you see this information you will end up programming your mind to act toward your goal. This can be an important step.
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Cynthia A NahinI live in Southwest Michigan and am excited at being able to create and share this blog with you. I hope you return often as I will provide you with many creative concepts that I have learned and put to practice successfully to achieve my end set goals! Believe me, you can do it, too! Blog Archives
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