Goal Setting Topics List

Objective.......................................................................................................................................................2
STEP 1: LOCK ON........................................................................................................................................3
STEP 2: ACT.................................................................................................................................................9
STEP 3: MANAGE YOUR PROGRESS....................................................................................................13
STEP 4: PERSIST........................................................................................................................................15

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 Goals Setting
Objective
Upon completion of this module, you should
understand L.A.M.P. process:
Step 1. Lock on:
1. Decide what you want
2. Think of it as choosing the effect you want to
cause

Step 2. Act:
3. Set in motion the cause that will make you
achieve your goal

• Step 3: Manage your progress:

4. Track the causes to ensure they are producing
desired results
5. If they aren’t, adjust what you’re doing

• Step 4: Persist:
6. Finish what you start

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 STEP 1: LOCK ON
A. What do you want?
• Brainstorming
7. Write the topic you want to brainstorm in the
form of a question
8. Write whatever pops up into your head
9. Accept with gratitude what pops up in your
head
10. Keep the pen moving
11. Give yourself a fixed amount of time
12. Save your criticism for later
13. Write, judge later
14. Brainstorming is a tool to generate ideas, not
evaluate them
• Priorities
15. Prioritize goals using the “bubble sort”
technique
• Tough Choices
16. When you are not able to choose between A
or B

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 17. Ask yourself “How would it feel to live
without either one”
18. If you still can’t decide, “flip a coin”
B. Are you willing to pay the price?

• See how much will it cost in terms of money and

effort

• Ask yourself “are you willing to pay the price”

• Ask yourself “why are you willing to pay the

price”

C. Make your goals presentable

• Write it

• Be specific
19. You should be able to track your progress
20. Avoid ambiguity
21. Avoid unintended results
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 22. Focus your brainpower

• Set a deadline
23. Deadline imparts a sense of urgency
24. It’s not meant to panic but focus
25. Make it something that you can measure
1. This helps you to know how much progress you
have already made and how far you have to go

• Set goals which you can control

• Wish for what you want, not what you don’t

want. Speak positively.
26. Rather than saying, “I wish I wasn’t broke,”
tell yourself, “I choose to have Rs.100,000 in the
bank.”

• Believe in it
27. Make it emotional
28. With belief comes action. With action comes
result.
• Be brief
• Take immediate action
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 D. Plan

• Setup a Plan of Action

• Set reasonable deadlines

• Set milestones (Intermediate targets)

• The limiting factor

• Schedule Progress Reports

• End your plan with the next goal

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 FUN ACTIVITY
LATERAL THINKING PUZZLE
Procedure

Ask participants to work in pairs on this exercise, which will test their
lateral thinking ability and creativity. Either read out the story, display
it as an OHP, or distribute it as a handout (given on next page).

Allow 10-15 minutes and then go around the group asking participants
to read out their answers or conclusions.

You might choose to provide short yes or no answers to participants

questions, although be careful not to lead them too quickly to the
answer. Encourage participants to explore all possible options,
thinking as laterally and creatively as possible.

The Answer
The lawyer and the accountant were women. The postman was
therefore the only person who could have been called John.

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A hotel detective was walking along a corridor of a large
hotel one day. Suddenly he heard a woman’s voice cry
out, “For God’s sake, don’t shoot me, John!” Then there
was a shot.

He ran to the room from where the shot had come and
burst in. In one corner of the room lay a woman who had
ThetheHotel
been shot through heart. InDetective
the middle of the room was
a gun that had been used to shoot her.

On the other side of the room stood a postman, a lawyer,

and an accountant. The detective looked at then for a
moment and then walked towards the postman, grabbed
him, and said, “I’m arresting you for the murder of that
woman.” It was, in fact, the postman who had murdered
the woman, but how did the detective know?

The detective had not seen any of the people in the room
before.

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 STEP 2: ACT

A. Inertia

• Inertia in the wrong direction is the single

greatest barrier to success

• It is also the easiest to overcome

• Any action you take, no matter how trivial, will

do the trick

• You can never finish what you never start

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 B. Managing Time

• Figure out the most important thing for you to

be doing right now. Then do it.

• Understand the difference between Important

& Urgent

• Category 1: Both important and urgent

• Category 2: Important, but not urgent

• Category 3: Urgent, but not important

• Category 4: Neither important nor urgent

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 C. Problems

• Decide what problem you want to solve

• Choose the solution

29. Look for two solutions (alternatives)

30. Look for the obvious (simple) solution
31. When struck, try a fresh perspective

• Take action to implement your solution

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 D. Ask for help

• Ask for something specific

32. Help your helper help you
33. Don’t make your helper fill in the blanks,
he’ll probably fill them wrong

• Ask someone who can help you get it

34. Don’t ask the person you know, ask the
person who knows

• Make it worthwhile for the person you ask

• Be sincere (not just act sincere)

35. You should really want what you are asking
for

• Keep asking until you get what you want

36. Maybe you have not approached the right
person
37. Maybe you have not asked the right question

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 STEP 3: MANAGE YOUR PROGRESS

A. Focus

• Keep your goal in front of you

38. Write it down

39. Pin it up on your desk/refrigerator

• Affirm your goal

40. Repeat it every day, like an affirmation

• Work on one goal at a time

• Refocus when you go off track

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 B. Flexibility

• If what you’re doing is not working, try

something else

C. Struggle

• Struggle presents you with an opportunity to

become more than what you are

• It makes the end result more valuable

D. Attitude

• Think of your attitude as a skill, instead of an

emotion

• Concentrate on acting positive and thinking

positive, you will start feeling positive

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• We tend to get what we expect from life, and
what we expect is simply a matter of attitude

STEP 4: PERSIST

A. Persistence
• Believe in what you are doing
• Persist with your efforts even if you fail once
• Belief causes persistence, persistence causes
success

B. Beware of the wish killers

• Fear
41. The more you focus on what you fear, the
more likely you are to make it happen
42. Think of what worst can happen
43. Try and change the act

• Thinking like a Victim

44. It is easy to think like a victim
45. It lets you off the hook
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46. Do not blame it on the world
47. Go for it, you’re the only one who can do it
for you

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 C. Passion
• You should be in love with your goal
• If you have to force yourself to achieve your
goal, you’re working on the wrong goal.
• Look for ways to enjoy achieving your goals
• Be passionate about them

D. Play the pauses

• Do not burn yourself out
• Take a break

E. Follow through
• Plan your finish
• Finish your plan
• Know what comes next
• Anticipate your progress

F. Patience
• It is the world’s oldest cliché, but it is a virtue
• Everything comes in due time
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 FUN ACTIVITY

Goal Visualization

Purpose
To allow participants to practice the skills of visualizing key skills and behaviors, goals,
and ambitions. It can be linked to the topic or skills being presented in the course.

Procedure
Ask participants to work individually and be ready to contribute their results to the group
discussion that will follow.

Next ask participants to select a specific goal or behavior. Distribute the handout given on
the next page or display the OPH slide.

Once a goal or new behavior has been selected, it is vital to form a vivid mental picture of
yourself doing or having something that you want to do, or have.

In the visualization, three things are important; first, include details by engaging all your
senses; second, imagine yourself enjoying the scenario you wish for yourself; and third,
picture the scene happening on a specific date. By encouraging you to focus on your
objectives, this visualization helps to stir up your motivation. Start with a small, easy-to-
reach goal and work up to larger, more encompassing goals.

Ask participants to make detailed notes on these images.

After 10-15 minutes, go around the room and ask each participant to share their images
and goals.

Discussion Points
➲ Did the images and scenes begin to “flow” after you had focused on a goal?
➲ How much detail were you able to generate?
➲ Have you used this technique in the past?

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 Goal Visualization
From a mental picture of yourself doing or having something that you
wanted to have or wanted to do. You could picture yourself in a new suit
or working at a new job, or playing your favorite sport.
In this visualization, three things are important:

1. Include details by engaging all your senses.

2. Imagine yourself enjoying the scenario you wish for yourself.

3. Picture the scene happening on a specific date. By

encouraging you to focus on your objectives this visualization
helps to stir up your motivation.

Start with a small,

easy-to-reach goal
and work up to
larger, more
encompassing
goals.

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