Personal Goal Setting: Planning To Live Your Life Your Ways

Setting goals allows for one to choose what they want to do in life. The process of goal setting helps boost confidence and concentration on what truly matters in life. In the article Personal Goal Setting: Planning to Live Your Life Your Way by Sarah Pavey, Pavey lists many reasons on why goal setting is of such importance and also provides many useful tips on how to begin goal setting. Setting specific goals, whether it is a one month plan or one year plan, allows for less distractions in life and helps guide a path to what is important. Goal setting offers motivation and allows one to focus efforts to help organize time and resources toward making life more meaningful. Additionally, by having defined goals, one will have raised their self confidence because they are able to recognize their ability to achieve goals. There are many goals to set, such as personal and lifetime goals. First, when setting goals, one should consider what they want to achieve in their lifetime. Career, financial, education, family, artistic, attitude, physical, pleasure and public service are all necessary aspects of life that need to be evaluated when setting goals. Sarah Pavey notes, “make sure that the goals that you have set are ones …show more content…
Reviewing long term plans and adjusting them to your current life situation is useful for staying on the right track of goal setting and not losing focus on the lifetime goal. Indeed, setting priorities, writing down goals and staying positive, yet realistic about your goals are all needed to satisfy one's end mission. When a goal has been achieved, make sure to reward yourself and enjoy the satisfaction of having achieved the goal. “It is important to remember that failing to meet goals does not matter much, just as long as you learn from the experience,” says Pavey (Pavey 6). Particularly, looking back into the process of setting goals will help improve your well being and you allow time to