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What Are Goals - Why Have Them?
A goal is a target to aim for, something that when achieved will enhance your life in some way.
It is a statement of positive intent, something you are absolutely committed to, and something
you work towards by taking daily action.
Can you imagine a football match that had no goalposts or nets, or a race with no finish line?
Simplistic perhaps, but it wouldn’t work would it? Without the goals or finish line, the whole
purpose of the match or race is lost. Without goals, your life lacks purposeful direction – or at the
very least it’s extremely diluted.
Goals, quite simply are :

· What we want to BE
· What we want to HAVE

· What we want to DO

The purpose of this session is to bring together all that you have learned before, combined with
your own experience and knowledge, to give you tools to turbo-boost your goal setting ability,
so that you may more purposefully attract what you want into your life that will enhance your
experience of happiness.
Types of goals

So, we’ve established what goals are and why it’s important to have them – it’s also important
to have different types of goals. Why? Quite simply because we have different areas of our lives
to balance, and some journeys take longer than others.
For example, clearing the clutter in your living room is a goal that should take no more than a
few days (one hopes!), whereas leaving law school with a goal to becoming a fully-fledged
High Court barrister or Queens Counsel, will take a number of years.
The best way to split goals is :

· Short term (1-3 months)
· Medium term (3 months to 1 year)

· Long term (1 – 3 years)
That’s not to say that any goal which takes longer than three years is not to be considered – it is.
You need to really think about your long term vision for your future, because one day you’ll
arrive there and unless you are working on shaping your future right now, those goals and visions
will always remain somewhere out in the distance. These goals need to be ‘chunked down’ into
time frames starting from today.
Goals into plans of action

Working backwards from your year three target, establish what needs to be done in year 3, then
year 2, then this year. From your list of what needs to be achieved this year, break it down into
what needs to be done in the fourth quarter, the third quarter, the second quarter, and then in
the next three months.
From your three month list, break it down into what needs to be done in the third month, the
second month, and then this month. From your ‘this month’ list break it down into what needs to
be done in the fourth, third, second and finally this week.
From your goal list, schedule your daily tasks, write them in a weekly planner or diary and tick
them as they are accomplished. Any unaccomplished goals should be transferred forward into
the next period. Do not punish yourself for goals you haven’t been able to achieve yet, learn
from the experience and move on.