- Another Perspective on Wealth
- Setting Personal Goals
- Introduction
- Learn How Wise Financial Planning Can Help You Achieve Your Goals
- Understand The Requirements for Your Personal Financial Plan
- Identify What You Want to Accomplish in Life
- Understand and Apply the Principles of Effective Goal Setting
- First: Strive to Learn What Heavenly Father Wants You to Do.
- Second: Seek Heavenly Father's Help in Setting Goals
- Third: Start With the End in Mind
- Fourth: Write Down Your Goals
- Fifth: Keep Your Goals SMART
- Sixth: Review Your Goals Often
- Seventh: Remember That Some of Your Goals Will Change
- Eighth: Set Some Fun Goals
- Ninth: Remember Success is Not Measured by Achievement, but by Striving
- Summary
- Assignments
- Understanding and Managing Credit
- Conclusions 1: Learning to Give
- Conclusions 2: Decide to Decide
Understand and Apply the Principles of Effective Goal Setting
Understanding goals and goal setting is one of the biggest challenges in life. And understanding how to set good goals is even more challenging. Elder M. Russell Ballard reminded us of the pitfalls that may come from not setting goals when he said:
I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our potential. When one learns to master the principles of setting a goal, he will then be able to make a great difference in the results he attains in this life” (M. Russel Ballard, Preach My Gospel, Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2004, 146).
The challenge then is learning to master the principles of setting a goal. In my own experience, I have found the following nine principles helpful in setting realistic and effective goals—goals that will make a great difference in the results we attain in this life.
