Goal setting and prioritizing
- 1. Photo by cubby http://stickerthing.blogspot.com/2010/07/achievable-goals.html The Goal of Time Management in Your Life & The Management of Life Goals in Your Time
- 2. The purpose to this presentation is to give you some essential skills and knowledge to be a successful student, including skills to effectively support and balance your responsibilities and goals for family, work, and education.
- 3. What are key aspects of effective goals? • Write specific goals, measurable goals • Write goals in several time frames: long- term, mid-term, and short-term (5 years to life, 1 to 5 years, 1 year or less, respectively) Give goals a deadline or target date or a target length of time • Write goals in several areas of life: education, career, finance, family, spiritual, social, health
- 4. Example Goals: • In the fall of 2014 transfer to 4 year university with the 1st choices being JMU, VT, and UR • Retire at 72 years old with a million dollar retirement fund • In 2 to 3 years become general manager of company store in Virginia Beach or the Outer Banks • Have my children demonstrate ample emotional intelligence and maturity by 18th birthdays • Be fit enough to go body surfing with my grandchildren when they are 10 and I am 80 • Lose 10 pounds in 90 days • Run 2 miles in 20 minutes by Memorial Day • Attend church 3 times a month and volunteer once a month • Endow a $50,000 scholarship fund at alma mater on 50th birthday • Retire the debt on my home equity loan by 2016
- 5. TIME MANAGEMENT GOALS • Do the most difficult vital task first • Stay with the vital task until it is done • Accept 100% responsibility for communication • Prioritize daily activities/ To Do List • Go out of your comfort zone at least 3 times a day • Set deadlines for goals and tasks
- 6. To identify high priority goals in the daily To Do list ask: • Of my long range and intermediate high priority goals, which should I work on today? • What projects will give the highest return for my time invested? • What projects will be the greatest threat to my survival or that of my company/ family if I don’t do them? • What does my boss/ instructor/parent consider most vital? • Which items on my previous day To Do list and master To Do list should I work on today? • What do my values and principles suggest? What does company policy suggest? • What has not been considered that will help yield long-term significant results?
- 7. • Write a daily To Do list • Designate each chosen task by writing the letters A, B, or C next to it • For the most vital, essential, critical, urgent tasks mark them with an A • For the important tasks mark them with a B • For the tasks with some value you hope to get to that day mark with C • If you have multiple A tasks and or B and C tasks prioritize each task as A1, A2, A3, etc., B1, B2, etc., and C1, C2, C3, etc. Example: Today’s To Do List A1 -contact admissions counselors at JMU and VT A2 -complete outline of social studies term paper B1 -research majors C -return library books C -wash car
- 8. Time has come today Young hearts can go their way Can't put it off another day I don't care what others say They say we don't listen anyway Time has come today Chambers Brothers 1966
Editor's Notes
- #2: How do you know what to do?You have to know what you really want.
- #3: The purpose to this presentation is to give you some essential skills and knowledge to be a successful student, including skills to effectively support and balance your responsibilities and goals for family, work, and education.
- #4: So to manage your time you have to know what you really, really want; what is essential in making yours a life well lived, a life of significance. What are your goals? What is a goal? Are your goals dreams? Only if they are very vivid dreams that you write down. Effective goals are the first step to effective time management. Effective goals are specific and measurable, they are attainable and relevant, and they must include a time frame in which to be attained. A well lived life of significance is going to result from diverse and balanced achievement in they many areas of your life.Write your goals down and describe them specifically enough to be able to measure their completion. Goals should have a deadline, or target date, or range of time in which they should be attained. Additionally, build to your main goals with short term , less than a year, mid-term, one to five years, and long term over five years or a lifetime.Look to balance your life by writing goals for all areas of your life such as, education, your career, finance, family, spiritual, social, health and fitness.
- #5: Here are some examples of effectively written goals. Pay attention to how they are written, the types to things included.You’ll see they are fairly specific, naming schools, cities; there are measurable amounts of money, time and weight.They all have an expected time to be accomplishedAnd they cover different aspects of a life.
- #6: For effective time management I recommend these daily time management goals. Accomplishing these goals daily will ensure you have time for your big important goals. They will reduce time wasting activities and procrastination. And they will increase your personal effectiveness and productivity.Do the most difficult vital task first and stay with it until it is done. Put the stress and biggest potential for procrastination behind you early.Accepting 100% responsibility for communication means taking the time to be clear, accurate, complete and confirming you have been understood. By taking the time and making the effort to communicate effectively you will waste less time having to explain and completing a task again.Going out of your comfort zone will reduce procrastination and help you increase your effectiveness. Also your self confidence, but that’s an added benefit.Prioritizing your daily activities is the key. How do you do that?......
- #7: After compiling a master To Do list of your goals, tasks, meetings, activities and things life throws at you; prioritize them and schedule them on a daily basis . You prioritize them by assessing the importance and the urgency they present in relation to your most important long term goals. You evaluate and choose the things you do each day by asking and answering these questions. Write down these questions and keep them with your To Do list and calendar. Refer to them every day. Review your important long term goals each day as you do this.The questions are:Of my long range and intermediate high priority goals, which should I work on today?work on long range and very important goals daily, even if only for a very short time tokeep moving forward. This is important. What projects will give the highest return for my time invested?What projects will be the greatest threat to my survival or that of my company/ family if I don’t do them?What does my boss/ instructor/parent consider most vital?Which items on my previous day To Do list and master To Do list should I work on today?What do my values and principles suggest? What does company policy suggest?What has not been considered that will help yield long-term significant results?
- #8: Now to keep you on track , write a daily To Do listDesignate each chosen task by writing the letters A, B, or C next to that taskFor the most vital, essential, critical, urgent tasks mark them with an AFor the important tasks mark them with a BFor the tasks with some value you hope to get to that day mark with CIf you have multiple A tasks and or B and C tasks prioritize each task as A1, A2, A3, etc., B1, B2, etc., and C1, C2, C3, etc.
- #9: Focusing on your high priority goals, your time management goals, and planning and prioritizing daily are never more important than when you seem overwhelmed with the demands of life. But remember to remain flexible constantly reassessing your goals but sticking with the process.