An important step on the path to successful self-management is the search for goals, their setting and formulation.

The goals are characterized by the following features:

Acceptability for participants in the process of achieving them;

Measurability (the ability to measure quantitatively and qualitatively, evaluate);

Certainty in time, deadlines for achievement (at what point in time it is planned to achieve a particular goal). If the goal is not oriented in time, then this is the same as its absence;

Achievable (the goal must be realistic). If goals are unattainable, then motivation suffers;

Flexibility (goals should provide the opportunity to adjust them in accordance with changes that may occur);

Specificity (goals must have such characteristics that it is possible to unambiguously determine in which direction the movement should take place);

Mutual support (one should strive to ensure that different goals complement each other and “work” with each other). Different goals must not be allowed to come into conflict with each other.

There are different types of goals. Let's consider their classification (Table 3).

Any developing organism, be it an enterprise or a person, involves setting goals. Since we are talking about self-management, it is necessary to take a closer look at the meaning of goal setting for the personal sphere. Setting a goal means looking to the future, that is, orienting and concentrating our strength and activity on what needs to be achieved. Thus, the goal describes the end result. It's not about what needs to be done, but about why it's being done.

Table 3

Classification of targets

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Classification criteria	Goal groups
Time period required to achieve goals	Long-term goals are goals that are expected to be achieved within a period exceeding five years. Medium-term goals are goals that are expected to be achieved within five years. Short-term goals - the achievement of which is expected within one to two years. They are characterized by much greater specificity and detail than long-term goals.
	Professional
Priority	Particularly priority Priority
Measurability	Quantitative Quality
Repeatability	Permanent

Goals are what one strives for, what is intended to be achieved, a limit, an intention that must be realized, a guideline towards which our activities are directed, which leads us through the difficulties and obstacles of reality. Goals do not allow a person to relax.

Goal setting requires expressing our explicit and hidden needs, interests, desires and goals in the form of clear intentions and in precise formulations, as well as orienting our actions and actions towards these goals and their implementation.

Based on this, goal setting mainly consists of correct evaluation of work. If there are no criteria or measurement tools for such an assessment, then it is impossible to know whether it has been performed well or poorly.

Goals are visions directed toward the future. To achieve them, you need to conceive something and implement it. Otherwise, these are not goals, but only plans or intentions. Without goals, there is no evaluation criterion by which effort can be measured. Goals, in addition, are also a scale for assessing what has been achieved. Even the best method of work is worthless if what needs to be achieved is not clearly and unambiguously defined in advance.

Goals are the “instigators” of actions, the motives that determine human activity. If an individual has set a goal for himself, then as a result a state of tension arises which acts as a driving force and which disappears only when the goal is achieved.

To set goals, you need to think about the future. Traditional thinking in terms of specific tasks risks losing sight of the goal. Thinking in terms of goals promotes the subordination of the particulars to the whole. Therefore, every day, when doing any work, you need to ask yourself the question: is what you are currently doing bringing you closer to achieving your goal?

Setting goals means consciously carrying out one's actions in accordance with a guiding line or guideline. For self-management, it is fundamentally important to realize where we need to go and where we don’t want to go (that is, self-determination), so as not to end up where others want to take us.

Setting personal goals allows you to:

Become more aware of your career choices;

Make sure the chosen path is correct;

Better evaluate the appropriateness of actions and experiences;

Convince others of the correctness of your point of view;

Get extra strength, relax;

Strengthen the sense of order and peace;

Increase the likelihood of achieving desired results;

Concentrate efforts on key areas.

Setting goals is a constant, ongoing process because they are not set once and for all. Goals may change over time, for example, if in the process of monitoring their implementation it turns out that previous ideas were essentially incorrect or that requests turned out to be too high or too low.

Due to instability in the economy, society and other areas, changeability of events in a person’s life, goals can also change, since the external environment has a significant impact on people. But the problem of changing goals should be approached as follows: goals are adjusted whenever circumstances require it. In this case, the process of changing goals is purely situational in nature.

Choosing clear, clear and, most importantly, correct goals is a very important process for every person. Not everyone can clearly identify the main aspirations in their life and career.

When striving for long-term goals, one must take into account changing external conditions and the emergence of new trends. Therefore, along with general goals from the point of view of psychological motivation, it is important to set short-term achievable subgoals and achieve intermediate successes. It is necessary that the specific short-term goals that are set are consistent with the achievement of long-term global goals. Let us note that you need to have a certain type of thinking in order to put private goals at the service of the general ones.

ACS: learn to think strategically

Why do some people invariably leave others behind? It is not luck, chance, talent or increased willingness to take risks that distinguishes people who have achieved success in life from the average person. The fact that these people generate the right ideas at the right time and know who can take these ideas further also has nothing to do with chance. This is the only question of strategy.

If a person has a conscious goal, his unconscious forces are also directed towards it. The goals serve to concentrate forces on truly key areas. Knowing your goals and pursuing them consistently means focusing your energy on what really matters, rather than wasting your energy.

Researcher Wolfgang Mewes developed a model in the 1970s that contained the cornerstone of this strategy, which he called the narrow lane concentration strategy (NCS). The basic principles of this strategy are as follows.

1st principle of access control: concentration instead of scatteredness. Only by concentrating on the area in which a person feels most competent can he achieve the highest results. In sports, only the first result is valuable, and only the success of the winner is worth a lot. The second one is of no interest to anyone. This means that if you try to work in different areas at the same time, you can only achieve average results. True specialists who are always ahead work using all their strength to improve their knowledge in a particular field.

2nd principle of access control: highlight the main problem. Organizations, like biological organisms, are interconnected systems. This means that any change in the system affects all its constituent elements. Therefore, it is worth seriously thinking about what you should concentrate your energy on. It is not enough to determine your specialization; you need to clearly know where to direct your energy. Otherwise, efforts will not bring the desired effect.

3rd principle of ACS: identify the most difficult place (narrow path) and eliminate it. You need to make every effort to identify the key problem in your work and try to eliminate it, which will make it easier to solve all other problems.

4th principle of access control: measure the benefits received by others. Most businesses, and many people, focus on what brings them the most benefit. However, the secret to success is exactly the opposite: you need to solve the problems of others and thereby remain the biggest winner. Taking your own goals into account while focusing on the problems of others is a task that will pay off in all respects. This principle was used by the ancient Greeks, who said: “Always ask yourself what the other wants.” Knowing your goals can mean significant self-motivation for your work. Random successes are good, but rare. Planned successes are better because they are manageable and happen more often.

The prerequisite for planning, and therefore success, is knowing exactly what, when, and to what extent needs to be achieved. Goal setting is an absolute prerequisite for planning, decision-making and daily work. The following goal setting process should be the basis (Figure 4).

Rice. 4. Setting goals

For every person, self-determination and self-affirmation in life is always very important, and therefore people who know exactly “what and how to do?” are the most successful. To achieve something and be successful, you need to spend time and money. It is necessary to use suitable methods in order to achieve the set goal as successfully as possible and within an acceptable time frame. First of all, you need to answer the following questions:

What are the goals to be achieved?

Do they agree with each other?

Are there a so-called highest goal and certain intermediate goals on the way to the main one?

What can be done for this (strengths) and what still needs to be worked on (weaknesses)?

Finding goals is an absolute fundamental prerequisite for success in work and in life. Finding and defining personal life goals means giving your life direction and meaning, as a result of which you can realize your own life values. A person who clearly sees his goal will certainly achieve it with some effort and developed abilities.

Before approaching the question of how you can achieve the desired result, you should think about why you set this goal and want to achieve it. Few people know exactly what their life's task really is. Americans call it a person’s “big idea,” the motive of why he lives.

From life vision to goal inventory

Our future is shaped in close connection with our past. On the one hand, we are influenced by our development to this day: parents, school, social connections, education. Professional development and all our experience have a direct impact on our entire personal value system, on our desires and set of life guidelines. In most cases this happens unconsciously. Therefore, many people do not think about what is valuable to them, and in case of failure they bitterly admit that their life is not going along the path they like, and if something suddenly succeeds, they believe that they are lucky.

We need to clearly understand what images and influences of our past have left their mark on us, what our life attitudes and values ​​are, that is, move from general ideas about life aspirations to an inventory of goals.

Finding personal goals can be accomplished in the following four steps:

Developing general ideas about life aspirations,

Differentiation of life goals over time,

Development of guiding ideas in the professional field,

Inventory of goals.

Developing general ideas about life aspirations

In order to develop general ideas about life aspirations, you need to try to imagine a possible picture of your future life. You should not grieve over failures and defeats in the past: this cannot be changed in any case, but you can learn from what has happened. Then you will have a much more complete idea than before about which habits, contacts, and actions you would like to maintain in the future, and which you will certainly need to change. Below is a list of questions, by answering which you can clearly imagine what is most valuable in life for each specific person.

Checklist: vision of life

1. What is associated with the first experience of success in childhood, which can be recalled in detail in memory?

2. What can you say when you think about your parents’ home, your place in the family and your upbringing?

3. How did your relationship with your father develop? What qualities did you admire or admire about him? Were there any occasions when he tried to interfere with your plans and why?

4. How did you feel or feel about your mother? What fascinated or fascinates you about her? Were there any cases when she put a spoke in your wheels? If yes, then in connection with what?

5. Which parent dominated your life and what influence did they have? What do you remember most?

6. How can you generally assess the relationship between parents? Was there harmony or disharmony in the family?

7. What faith were you raised in, and what does it mean to you today?

8. What role have cultural factors played in your life until today? How deep are your interests in literature, music and art?

9. What personalities in economics, politics, culture, sports, etc. admired and why (for example, because of their achievements, lifestyle or other qualities)?

10. Do you have someone like a “spiritual guide” or leader, so that at certain moments in your life you would ask yourself what he would do in a given situation?

11. In the company of which people (friends, business partners, colleagues, members of a sports club) do you feel comfortable and at ease, and what consequences does this circumstance have for your personal and professional life?

12. In what society do you feel constrained and tense, and how does this affect your personal and professional life?

13. When and in case of carrying out what tasks do you feel confident or even “strong” and what results have you achieved by performing such tasks?

14. What special knowledge in what area, experience in what activities (related to practice) and abilities do you have?

Record your answers on a separate sheet of paper and score them as in the example below.

Answer to question 14: my abilities

Over the past ten years, I have become a more qualified specialist and have a good understanding of modern know-how in my professional activities.

I am quite sociable and can express and defend my own opinions during discussions.

I am an extremely organized person.

15. What is your greatest success to date and what have you achieved?

16. When and in case of carrying out what tasks do you feel insecure or even “weak”, what failures have overtaken you?

17. What problems (insufficient personal opportunities, further training, overload, competition, threat to business activity) currently exist in your professional field and what can be done to overcome them?

18. What are the problems in your personal life and how can they be solved?

a) marriage and partnerships __________________________

b) children _________________________________________________

c) parents, relatives, friends _________________________

d) free time activities ______________________________

19. If you were asked to make three wishes, they would be the following:

A) _____________________________________________________

b) _____________________________________________________

V) _____________________________________________________

Differentiation of life goals over time

It does not matter whether the ideas about life presented above turn out to be realistic or utopian. It is much more important to find out what the “life lines” are that determine our existence, as well as what are the desires that we will strive to fulfill in the coming years. Even goals that seem utopian at first can become incentives and guidelines for subsequent work and future life.

You should find out what events need to be taken into account in the next 20 years of your personal time series, taking into account people from your immediate environment (partners, children, parents, boss, friends, etc.) and your age. Such special events may include: children entering school or reaching adulthood; retirement of father or mother; retirement of the immediate superior, expiration of payment terms on long-term loans; release of invested funds, etc.

Development of key concepts in the professional field

At this stage, it is necessary to determine personal and professional goals:

Long-term (life goals),

Medium-term (5 years),

Short-term (1-2 years).

This will prioritize goals and create order. To determine key ideas in the professional field, the following questions should be answered:

What would you most like to do professionally?

If you could choose your job title, function, title, industry, organization, enterprise or institution, what would you most prefer to be?

For example:

Become a manager in a medium-sized company.

Become a member of the board of company X.

Establish or manage a foreign branch.

Be ranked among the leading experts.

Reach a high position in the government apparatus.

Achieve the title of candidate or doctor of science.

Hold your current position until retirement and strengthen your position.

Work independently (self-employed) as...

Make a political career as...

After five years, “leave the game” and grow cabbage like Diocletian, etc.

A professional guideline is the key to professional and personal success, as it strengthens the motivation for work achievements and directs activity, professional aspirations and decisions when choosing a profession and career in a certain direction.

Inventory of goals

Now you should review the answers to the questions and create an inventory of your goals. Such an inventory of goals brings together personal and professional guidelines. Then you need to filter out the most important positions, that is, those life and career goals that you want to achieve. At the same time, one must keep in mind those desires and youthful dreams that could only be realized through a significant one-time investment of time and financial resources. (For example, travel around the world, live for six months on an island in a warm sea, etc.). If you keep these goals under the heading “Things Still to Be Done,” then such bold desires will become more specific and form the basis of a plan for later in life. Thus, ideas about goals are given a “challenging” character, which encourages one day to finally realize them.

In order for a person to determine life goals for the near and distant future, it is necessary to proceed from the situation in which he is now and the circumstances that may arise in the future. Usually goals are set for a specific period, so it is useful to observe the process of their definition, approval and implementation in the following sequence:

1. Clarification of needs. You need to set goals in a situation that does not satisfy you or may become so. Setting personal goals requires analyzing your current situation and answering the question of what you would like to achieve in the future.

2. Clarification of possibilities. It is better to identify all available possibilities.

3. Decide what you need. To do this, you need to answer three questions:

What is important to you?

How much risk are you willing to take?

How will your decisions affect those around you?

4. Choice. Setting goals is an active step, so at the moment of choice you make a commitment that the chosen course of action will produce a satisfactory outcome. It also means you can take the next steps by using your energy and problem-solving skills to fulfill your commitments.

5. Clarification of the goal. It is necessary to remind yourself once again what goal was chosen in order to avoid working with maximum effort of all forces in order to achieve success and in the absence of results. Mapping logical connections between common tasks and specific workflows can reduce unnecessary effort.

6. Establishing time boundaries. Doing too many things at once makes it difficult to achieve equally good results in everything, so you need to manage your time wisely. This process is influenced by many factors:

Normal job requirements;

Extraordinary or additional requirements arising from work;

Expectations of others;

Personal hopes and aspirations;

A sense of duty and obligations already undertaken;

Common practice.

People should treat time as a valuable resource, like money. Goals containing a direction of action must also indicate the speed of movement. This is necessary so that people can properly allocate their time and other resources. If the goal has no time limits, there is no way to monitor your progress.

7. Monitoring your achievements, thanks to which:

There is feedback on work efficiency,

There is a feeling of satisfaction as you move towards your goal,

There is dissatisfaction when failure occurs,

An opportunity is created to rethink the chosen strategy and plan a new course of action.

Once the issue of personal and professional goals has been clarified, personal resources, that is, the means to achieve goals, should be addressed within the framework of the compiled “inventory”. A situation analysis is a kind of inventory of personal resources (means to achieve goals) and allows you to find out what should be encouraged (strengths) and what still needs to be worked on (weaknesses).

By analyzing his abilities, a person determines what he can do in general, that is, what personal potential he has to achieve his goals. On the other hand, he must clearly understand his weaknesses in order to avoid actions that may contribute to the manifestation of such “qualities”, or to take measures to get rid of these shortcomings. This can be helped by drawing up a balance of your biggest failures and defeats and highlighting what qualities they were a consequence of the lack of. Knowing your weaknesses means strengthening your strengths.

In this case, it is necessary to move forward in four stages:

1. Using guiding questions for situational analysis.

2. Developing a personal balance between successes and failures.

3. Determination of strengths and weaknesses.

4. “End-means” analysis.

Such a situational analysis will help identify weaknesses and strengths and determine which areas can be developed and what still needs to be worked on. What needs to be done to positively influence the life line? Below we will present a number of guiding questions for situational analysis in the personal and professional sphere, which should help determine one’s own “location” (Fig. 5).

Rice. 5. Goal setting process

Guiding questions for situational analysis in the personal sphere

My life journey: what were my biggest successes and failures?

Family influence: childhood? youth? parents? brothers and sisters? loved ones?

My personality parameters, character traits and strengths?

My harmony? What are my conflicts with the outside world? How do I explain them?

Friendship connections? Enmity?

Under what circumstances do I feel strong, defeated, weak?

What have I still not been able to achieve? For what reasons?

What dangers, difficulties, problems, etc. may arise for me? In what areas?

What measures should be taken to prevent them?

Who among those around me stimulates my vital activity? Who is stopping her?

Where can my opportunities be revealed? Where can't they? What can you do?

What negative extraneous influences should be eliminated for me?

What positive influences need to be supported and used?

What do others want? What can I give them?

Who can I benefit now and in the future?

What can you do specifically to benefit others?

How much money could I sacrifice for my friends?

Am I bringing the most benefit to the people who bring the most benefit to me?

To whom and what joy can I bring immediately?

Guiding questions for situational analysis in the professional field

Do I know the tasks of my position?

Do I know what is expected of me?

Are my goals aligned with management?

Do I know the routine, monotonous things related to my field of activity?

Am I planning these things?

Do I have an idea of ​​the tasks that lie ahead?

Do I know the urgency and importance of these tasks?

Am I setting priorities?

Am I completing the tasks assigned to me in a timely manner?

Do I often feel pressured while doing this?

Do I need reminders to perform my duties?

Am I procrastinating?

Am I independent in my affairs?

Do I complete tasks completely and completely?

Do I receive complaints about unsatisfactory performance?

How much influence does work have on my personal life?

What benefit do I bring through my actions?

What counter-effect can I expect (increased earnings, promotion, networking, etc.)?

What successes, including in the personal sphere, can I achieve in the foreseeable future?

What are the main benefits of my job?

Personal balance of successes and failures

Having determined “where should we go?”, it is necessary to answer the question: “where are we?” To do this, you need to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your personality. Using the following list, you can identify the biggest successes in your work and personal life that have been achieved in the past. What abilities, knowledge, experience, etc. were needed to achieve these successes? In this case, you need to try to establish those abilities that led to the corresponding result.

Personal knowledge and abilities

Special knowledge:

production knowledge,

sales techniques,

management,

special production and economic knowledge,

general erudition,

contacts and connections.

Personal qualities:

physical constitution, ability to stay in shape, endurance, demeanor, activity, endurance;

communication skills, listening skills, intuition,

adaptability, willingness to help,

receptivity to criticism, self-criticism.

Leader abilities:

penetrating power, ability to persuade;

ability to distribute responsibilities and give instructions;

the ability to stimulate and motivate the work of individuals and teams;

ability to work “in a team” and in cooperation.

Intellectual abilities:

prudence;

creative potential;

logical thinking;

structural, systems thinking.

Working methods:

rationality and consistency in work;

technique for making decisions and “removing” problems;

ability to concentrate;

work methods, labor organization;

speaking skills, discussion and negotiation techniques;

rational reading.

Then, the advantages and disadvantages determined through a situational analysis should be tried to group and highlight two or three most important strengths and weaknesses. Such a “cut” of personal qualities (Table 4) is a prerequisite for planning further steps and measures to achieve goals.

Table 4

Analysis of personal qualities

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"Slice" abilities	Strengths (+)	Weak sides (-)
Professional knowledge and experience	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________
Social and communication skills	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________
Personal abilities	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________
Manager's abilities	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________
Intellectual abilities, working techniques	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________
	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________	1 _______________ 2 _______________ 3 _______________

After this, you can draw up a personal balance of successes and failures (Table 5).

Table 5

Personal balance of successes and failures

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Situational analysis can be carried out using the SWOT analysis method, which is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the person himself or the issue that he has to solve. Weaknesses are important because they represent a source of increased attention and require corrective action. External favorable opportunities and threats should be taken into account, since a good strategy, direction of activity, life should contribute to the accumulation of positive opportunities and protection from possible threats. The abbreviation SWOT stands for the following: S - strengths - strengths; W - weaknesses - weaknesses; O - opportunities - opportunities; T - treaty - threats.

Strength can lie in skills, experience, personal achievements, or the availability of financial resources.

Opportunities may consist, for example, of getting a new job, transferring to another position, etc.

The weakness may lie in insufficient awareness of issues related to the new position, etc.

Threats may consist, for example, of bankruptcy of the selected company or lack of stability.

The analysis of possible situations is carried out using the SWOT analysis matrix (Table 6).

Table 6

SWOT Analysis Matrix

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The SWOT analysis matrix is ​​built on two vectors - the state of the external environment (horizontal axis) and the state of the internal environment (vertical axis). Each vector is divided into two levels of state: opportunities and threats emanating from the state of the external environment; strengths and weaknesses. When intersecting, four fields are obtained, resulting in the following groups of situations:

In the SO field - “strength - opportunities” - those strengths of a person are noted that ensure that he uses the opportunities that present themselves.

The ST field - “strength - threats” - includes those weaknesses of a person that do not give him a chance to use the opportunities that present themselves.

The WT field - "weakness - threats" - is the worst combination for a manager. Reducing threats is only possible by developing strategies for developing one’s internal potential.

In the WO field - “weakness - opportunities” - it is necessary to determine either the feasibility of finding other ways to achieve the goal, or the feasibility of using opportunities in the presence of identified weaknesses.

By identifying his strengths and weaknesses and weighing factors in order of importance, a person can determine what prevents him from achieving goals or requires immediate intervention, or can wait, as well as those opportunities that can be relied on when setting goals and achieving them.

End-means analysis

During the analysis process, the means necessary to achieve the desired goals (personal, financial resources, time resources) are compared with the real situation (Table 7). To do this, you should turn to the compiled “inventory” of goals and select the five most important ones from them. Then determine the means necessary to achieve these goals and check what else needs to be achieved or what needs to be started in order to approach the corresponding goal.

Take a trip around the world

1 year free time

Money for travel expenses

Knowledge of languages

Become a member of the board of directors in your company

The specific formulation of practical goals for the subsequent planning stage is the last phase of the goal setting process.

Any goal makes sense only when the deadlines for its implementation are set and the desired results are formulated. Each goal should be formulated in relation to your own desires and double-check your plans in terms of how realistic they are. When setting realistic criteria, one should also remember such aspects as physical condition and health, since this is a prerequisite for an active life and successful self-management. To do this, plans for separate periods of time (year, month, week and day) need to include activities to improve health: ski runs, sports holidays, treatment, swimming every week, daily jogging in the fresh air, yoga classes, etc. as well as preventive medical examinations.

We should also not forget about self-education, increasing the level of knowledge and qualifications, and cultural enlightenment (travel, participation in cultural events, etc.).

You should only plan for achievable goals. There is no need to take on too much, since unrealistic tasks have little chance of being completed. The more goals you set, the more you will have to change in your previous life, the more activity you will have to develop.

You should always write down your goals. Our brain needs clear instructions to function. Written registration contributes to the fact that more or less bold ideas and desires are often recorded. In writing, goals are also visually captured and are less likely to be forgotten. Goals that are not written down may remain on the list of eternal desires. Clearly defined goals automatically become binding: recorded on paper, they encourage permanent analysis, double-checking and revision. Anyone who doesn't write down their goals doesn't really believe that they will ever achieve them.

What is the most likely (next-term) opportunity for promotion in the next 2 to 3 years?

Job title_________________________________

Area of ​​responsibility____________________________________

Additionally required:

business qualities_________________________________________

qualities of a leader__________________________________________

personal abilities_______________________________________________

Other criteria_______________________________________________

For career planning, it is important to know that a small step taken right away sometimes gives more effect than extensive, strategic and grandiose plans followed by protracted actions. What should be the next step?

Active target (nearest step)___________________________

Required information__________________________________________

Necessary resources, outside help, etc. ____________

Expected difficulties, problems___________________________

Promotions, events _________________________ Dates ______

Other_________________________________________________

Now all that remains is to capture this first immediate step in your career plan.

Established goals must certainly be converted into direct actions. Specific, action-oriented goals can be directly planned, for example, recorded in a time diary for specific days or weeks, and implemented in stages. A list of what needs to be done, formulating specific goals, helps to identify a variety of techniques that significantly facilitate everyday life. These include the use of the SMART formula technique.

SMART formula for setting goals

The SMART formula technique helps you formulate your goals in a way that will allow you to achieve them. Leo B. Hoelzel of the University of California said: “A goal is a dream that has a deadline.” With this formulation he very accurately expresses the essence of the goal. Most people think they have a picture of their goals. When asked about this, they answer: “I want to stay healthy” or “I want to have a career.” However, this is not the goal, since without specific efforts and deadlines such good intentions remain unrealized.

The SMART formula is a technique that can be used to specify and formulate goals. It applies to any goal, regardless of whether the specific goal is long-term, designed for the next ten years, intermediate, which can be achieved within a year, or partial for the next week. The abbreviation SMART stands for as follows:

S - specific - specific: a specific formulation is determined for each goal so that it sounds clear and specific, otherwise the goal will not go beyond the level of desire.

Example: let's say one of the desires is a harmonious partnership. To turn a desire into a goal, you need to specifically determine what should be done for this.

M - measurable - measurable: the goal must be formulated in such a way that the degree of its achievability can be measured. Otherwise, you may lose sight of the goal.

Example: Let's say your goal is to go for a morning run. To make it measurable, you need to determine exactly how many times a week you will do this.

A - achievable - achievable: there should always be a chance to achieve the intended goal. The basic principle is: ambitious but achievable.

Example: run four times a week in order to build up your level of physical fitness over the course of a year to the point where you can run 12 kilometers in a year. It would be unrealistic to set a goal to take part in a marathon in a year.

R - result-oriented - result-oriented: the goal statement must contain starting points for achieving positive changes. You should not include in the formulation something that you have no desire to implement.

Example: the goal is only healthy eating. Then the goal statement will be: “Include salad, fruits or vegetables in your menu every day.” The incorrect formulation would be: “Never mindlessly indulge in gluttony.”

T - time-bound - limited by deadlines: each goal must have a clear time frame so that the established deadlines can be measured.

Example: to achieve a harmonious partnership, go to the theater or exhibition together every second week of the month.

The SMART formula may seem long-winded and difficult at first, but when you put it into practice, you can achieve a lot.

Good day, dear readers of my blog! We discussed the need for goal setting many times, learned to do it correctly and point by point, adhering to the plan and classification. And today, for example and motivation, I have prepared a list of 100 goals in a person’s life, some points of which may be useful and inspiring to you. After all, if you remember the article “”, such an irresponsible and unconscious way of life can lead to depression. And so, when there is a plan for many years, there is no time to even get sick.

Basic Rules

For successful , harmonious development and advancement, and this is precisely why a person sets a goal, I have identified 5 main areas, ignoring which will not provide a feeling of fullness and quality of life. The main rule is not to keep this list in your head; you must put it on paper. This will add responsibility to the process, and will also remind you of some things that can easily be forgotten when trying to fulfill your most pressing dreams for a given period.

The list can be hung in your room or office so that it is in front of your eyes, or kept from prying eyes if there is information that you do not want to share with others. I wrote down other people's goals, they can serve as examples for you, because everyone has different interests and needs. Just try on each item for yourself and listen whether it suits you or not.

Let me remind you that I write about my goals.

Spheres

1.Spiritual development

To better understand why we need it, I recommend reading the article. In short, I can say that it is thanks to him that we can call ourselves not just a person, but an individual, and raise our self-esteem and level of self-confidence.

1. Practice positive affirmations
2. Start/finish learning a foreign language
3. Deal with accumulated grievances, realize them and let them go
4. Read the 100 best books for development
5. Listen to your feelings and sensations in order to correctly recognize, every evening remembering at least 5 feelings that you experienced during the day
6. Learn to concentrate for a long time by practicing meditation daily
7. Take a driving course
8. Create a collage with wishes
9. Attend church once a week
10. Practice the alpha visualization method daily
11. Learn to come to terms with the imperfections of other people, accepting them for who they are.
12. Realize the meaning of your purpose
13. Get to know yourself better by researching using various techniques and noticing your mistakes and analyzing them
14. Watch 50 films based on real events and motivating achievements
15. Start keeping a diary, writing down the most significant events and thoughts
16. Meet a new and interesting person once a week
17. Conquer your fear of public speaking
18. Learn to argue your opinion
19. Learn sign language and basic manipulation techniques
20. Learn to play the guitar

2.Physical development

In order to have enough energy for accomplishments, it is very important to monitor your health and maintain physical fitness.

1. Do the splits
2. Learn to walk on your hands
3. Visit the gym at least 2 times a week
4. Stop drinking, smoking
5. Add healthy foods to your diet and minimize the consumption of fatty and sweet foods
6. Take a self-defense course
7. Take a contrast shower daily
8. Walk for at least 30 minutes a day
9. Learn to swim in different styles
10. Go to the mountains and snowboard
11. Visit the sauna once a week
12. Try yourself as a vegetarian for a month
13. Go camping all alone for two weeks
14. Pass a full medical examination
15. Once every three months, arrange a cleansing diet
16. Do exercises for 10 minutes in the morning
17. Learn to do push-ups with clapping and on one hand
18. Stand in plank position for 5 minutes
19. Take part in a marathon
20. Lose 5 kilograms of excess weight

3.Financial development

1. Buy a car
2. Create an alternative, passive source of income (rent out an apartment, for example)
3. Increase your monthly income several times
4. Pay off your last bank loan and never take out a new one
5. Make repairs in the apartment
6. Buy a plot on which to build a summer house
7. Control waste by making only necessary and intentional purchases, without reacting to supermarket marketing tricks
8. Create your own business
9. Save money and put it in the bank at interest
10. Invest in a good idea
11. Save money for a trip around the world
12. Start additional work in the IT field, in your free time, creating and promoting websites
13. Give parents a ticket to a sanatorium
14. Give children a good education
15. Buy a house on the seashore and rent it out
16. Travel with loved ones to a sanatorium every year
17. Do charity work (donate money for treatment to those in need, distribute toys and unnecessary things)
18. Purchase food for nurseries once a month
19. Start a charity organization
20. Purchase several hectares of land and rent it out to farmers
21. Improve your financial literacy. (Take a course on financial literacy).

4.Family development

The role of the goal is to strengthen relationships with the family, not only your own, but also your parents’. This is the foundation, so to speak, the foundation thanks to which we accomplish feats and survive during the difficulties that fate presents.

1. Give your wife a small gift or treat every day
2. Celebrate your wedding anniversary by the ocean
3. Get together with the whole family for every holiday
4. On weekends, visit parents and help with household chores
5. Babysit grandchildren
6. Celebrate your golden wedding with your wife
7. Raise happy and loving children
8. Travel with family
9. Be sure to spend every weekend with your family outside the home, in nature, on a trip or to the cinema.
10. Help my son master martial art and support him at championships
11. Play games with family on Saturday nights
12. Teach children to ride a bike
13. Once a month, arrange a romantic evening for your wife
14. Teach children to drive and repair a car
15. Together with my wife and children, draw a family tree and tell the kids stories about their ancestors that we ourselves remember
16. Several times a week, instead of my wife, helping the children with homework
17. Once a month, my wife and I rent a hotel room so that the two of us can relax and have a change of scenery.
18. Write letters of gratitude to your relatives for some holiday
19. On weekends, go to a restaurant, or cook lunch and dinner with the whole family
20. Go with your sons to the kennel and choose a dog for them

5.Pleasure

In order to feel joy and have an interest in life, it is important to take care of yourself, do unexpected things and allow yourself to relax. In this case, there will be enough energy to realize other goals, and the level of pleasure and value of life will go through the roof. Allow yourself to fulfill even minor fantasies, some childhood dreams, and you will feel how your well-being changes. You can see what they are like in my examples:

1. Visit Antarctica
2. Feed the sharks
3. Ride in a tank
4. Swim with dolphins
5. Go to a desert island
6. Visit some festival, for example, Oktoberfest in Germany
7. Swim in 4 oceans
8. Hitchhiking
9. Visit the base camp at the summit of Everest
10. Go on a cruise
11. Fly in a hot air balloon
12. Live in an eco village for a couple of days
13. Milk a cow
14. Jump with a parachute
15. Ride a horse yourself
16. Travel to Tibet and chat with the Dalai Lama
17. Visit Las Vegas
18. Ride through the desert on quad bikes
19. Try scuba diving
20. Take a general massage course

Conclusion

Each checkmark placed opposite an item will bring satisfaction, joy and pride from the fact that I was able to achieve what I wanted. Life is very multifaceted, so add your own areas, your own options, and to speed up the process of realizing your desire, I recommend reading the article. Don't forget to subscribe to blog updates.

Whenever possible, I write reports on achieving my goals, perhaps you will be interested or you will simply decide to support me with a comment on the article. to my articles about moving towards goals. Good luck to you and make your dreams come true!

INTRODUCTION 3

1. THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF SEARCHING LIFE GOALS 4

1.1. The Importance of Setting Life Goals 4

1.2. Analysis of knowledge on setting life goals 7

1.3. The role of personal strategic management in setting life goals 10

2. TECHNOLOGY OF SEARCHING LIFE GOALS 14

2.1. The main stages of searching for life goals 14

2.2. The process of finding goals by L. Seiwert 18

2.3. Technology for constructing and implementing a life strategy 23

3. FORMULATION OF LIFE GOALS AS THE FINAL STAGE OF THEIR SETTING 27

CONCLUSION 34

REFERENCES 35

APPENDIX 36

INTRODUCTION

For the comprehensive and harmonious development of an individual, his achievement of life success in all spheres of life, an important component is the setting and achievement of worthy goals. Nowadays in society, few people set goals and few people appreciate the importance of setting goals in life. But for every person, self-determination and self-affirmation in life is always very important, and therefore people who know exactly “what and how to do?” are the most successful. That is why the study of the technology of searching for life goals has now acquired particular relevance.

The purpose of the work is to study the theoretical and practical aspects of the technology of searching for life goals.

To achieve this goal, a range of tasks has been defined:

1. Study of the theoretical aspects of searching for life goals.

2. Research into technologies for searching for life goals.

3. Consideration of the formulation of life goals as the final stage of their setting.

The object of the course work is life goals.

The subject of the course work is the technology of searching for life goals.

The course work consists of an introduction, main content, including three chapters, conclusions and appendices. The course work contains 5 tables and 1 illustration. The list of used literature includes 15 titles.

1. THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF SEARCHING LIFE GOALS

1.1. The Importance of Setting Life Goals

For every person, self-determination and self-affirmation in life is always very important, and therefore people who know exactly “what and how to do?” are the most successful.

Prominent manager Lee Iacocca states: “To succeed in business, as in almost everything else, the most important thing is to be able to focus and manage your time wisely. And in order to use your time wisely, you must firmly understand what is most important in your work, and then devote yourself entirely to the implementation of this main thing.”

A person who clearly sees his goal will certainly achieve it with some effort and developed abilities.

When we want to achieve something, we will sooner or later do it if we do not hesitate or be lazy. We are driven by a goal that does not allow us to relax. The goal is our guideline, towards which our life activity is directed, which leads us through the difficulties and obstacles of reality. Goals are the motivators of our actions, the motives that determine our activity.

Setting goals means looking to the future, orienting and concentrating our energies and activities on what needs to be achieved. To keep up with the pace of social and economic change, each person needs to carefully and regularly reassess his goals. Every person is different and everyone operates in a unique environment, so the work of setting goals must be individualized.

Goal setting requires expressing explicit and hidden needs, interests, desires and goals in the form of clear intentions and in precise formulations, as well as orienting actions and actions towards these goals and their implementation. Without goals, there is no benchmark against which you can measure your efforts. Goals are also a criterion for assessing what has been achieved. Even the best method of work is worthless if you do not clearly and unambiguously define what you want in advance.

Goals are not set once and for all. Setting goals is an ongoing process. They may change over time, for example if, during implementation monitoring, it turns out that previous ideas were incorrect or that requests turned out to be too high or too low.

Goal setting is an absolute prerequisite for planning, decision-making and daily work.

Thus, setting personal goals allows you to:

Become more aware of your career choices;

Make sure the chosen path is correct;

Better evaluate the effectiveness of actions and experiences;

Convince others of the correctness of your point of view;

Get additional strength and motivation;

Increase the likelihood of achieving desired results;

Concentrate forces on strategic areas. The goals serve to concentrate forces on key areas.

Knowing your goals and pursuing them consistently means focusing your energy on what really matters, rather than wasting your energy. Awareness of your goals can determine significant self-motivation for work.

People who do not have clear personal goals are usually dominated by the demands of the moment; they are more occupied with routine than with important, promising problems.

Setting goals helps us insulate ourselves from demands made by situations or other people, achieving goals that are important to us personally.

There are stages in a leader's life when he especially needs to clarify his personal goals. Typically these stages coincide with age ranges, for example:

stage 1: 20–24 years – beginning of a career;

stage 2: about 30 years – acquisition of certain competence;

stage 3: about 40 years - analysis of achievements and consideration of opportunities for serious changes;

stage 4: about 50 years old - summing up the results of a professional career and preparing for its completion;

stage 5: around 60–65 years – transition to non-work life activities.

The importance of setting personal goals increases as you navigate one of these life stages. At the same time, a creative approach to life requires constant openness to everything unexpected and a willingness to analyze and search for the best solutions achievable at one time or another.

Setting specific goals increases productivity because a person in this sense has clear expectations about the result. According to probability theory, if people have a clear idea of ​​what performance is expected of them, and if they perceive a strong likelihood that with some effort they will be able to achieve a given level of performance and receive the corresponding reward, then their motivation to perform a task will increase significantly. If you truly believe in what you are doing, you should persevere even in the face of obstacles.

Setting a goal means looking to the future, orienting and concentrating our energies and activities on what needs to be achieved. There is a huge difference between a solid self, which is necessary, and an exorbitant self, which can be destructive. A person with a strong self knows his strengths. He's confident. He has a clear idea of ​​what he can achieve and is determined to achieve his goal.

Thus, the goal describes the end result, i.e. it's not about what you do, but about why and for what you do it.

1.2. Analysis of theoretical knowledge on setting life goals

Let's consider what knowledge exists in our society according to goals, how it is conveyed to people and how accessible it is to everyone.

Let's take science. Philosophy should deal with issues of goals; its section, ethics, as a rule, does not consider goals as such, but as part of the category “goal setting,” either in the historical aspect, or from the standpoint of some philosophical direction, for example, determinism. If you look at dissertations on goals and textbooks on ethics, they are written in complex professional language with a lot of special terms, are practically inaccessible to a wide audience, and what is written in them does not give people the vital knowledge of how to guide themselves when setting goals and how to achieve them. Philosophy textbooks for universities also do not discuss issues of setting and achieving goals. That is, philosophical treatises serve the philosophers themselves, but do not bring practical knowledge to society. Psychologists also do not highlight the goal separately, but consider it in the motivation section, paying more attention to the study of the needs and motives of human behavior and activity, without offering a person scientific knowledge on achieving goals. Even in the recent methodological manuals such as “The ABC of Psychology”, intended for schoolchildren and offering the introduction of a course in the fundamentals of psychology as an elective class in schools, issues related to the study of personality are discussed: temperament, character, abilities, professional orientation, etc. , and no attention is paid to the issues of goal setting, while goal setting is the most difficult task for thinking, the result of knowing oneself and this world and the main question that every person must answer - the meaning of his life. Thus, science does not provide specific practical knowledge to achieve goals that are vital for every person, whereas it is science that should bring true knowledge about the world, man, to education (at all its levels), and give answers to the main questions - for what it is worth to live, what to believe in, what to strive for, what goals lead to a decent life and give respect to people and recognition of society, personal development and full disclosure of one’s potential.

In popular scientific literature, issues of setting and achieving goals are addressed mainly in books on management, solving practical problems of “search technology” and achieving goals for career management and achieving life success in professional activities - in the field of self-realization, and the question of goals, how usually takes up approximately 1/100 of the entire text.

There are a lot of different schools and success centers, leadership schools, positive psychology centers, training academies, etc., which develop psychotrainings, business technologies, provide consultations, and, as a rule, offer to turn an ordinary person into a leader in a few days of classes. , which initially does not inspire confidence, since the process of forming new qualities cannot be instantaneous and depends on many factors. Working with goals is a small part of the overall program and does not provide complete coverage of all issues related to goals.

How much attention and time is paid to issues of working with media targets - newspapers, magazines, television? It is difficult to remember at least one program on the TV screen where the issues of setting and achieving life goals were even slightly touched upon. And in the education system there are no programs based on goals. Modern schools and universities provide deep professional knowledge, but they do not teach the art of life on earth, although the success of people is determined not by their profession, but by their achievements in it and their attitude towards life in general. The education system practically does not teach future citizens of society what is worth living for, moral ideals, spiritual culture, ethics of relationships, how to set and achieve goals, how to reveal your potential and develop your abilities. At the same time, programs for setting and achieving goals are vital; they must be created and implemented at all levels of the education system and upbringing of the younger generation if we want to have spiritually developed people in the future and live in a beautiful, highly developed country. Teaching spirituality, forming in a person a system of spiritual values, norms, ideals, and aspirations should become one of the main tasks of education.

Let's summarize what has been said and outline several global problems that exist in society according to goals.

Many problems of society (drug addiction, drunkenness, etc.) are directly related to the aimlessness of people’s existence, selfishness, and consumerist attitude to life.

Few people in society nowadays appreciate the importance of setting life goals for the purposeful formation of a harmoniously developed, highly moral, happy personality and the further development of society.

The media and books pay little attention to the issue of goals; they usually talk only about goals for self-realization. There is no completeness of goals - coverage of all spheres of human life in the available information. The goal is development, the goal is service (to God, society), the goal is relationships - few people even think about this, much less consider them as a goal.

There is practically no scientific knowledge about setting and achieving goals that are complete, structured, and accessible to a wide audience.

In the education system, there are also no programs for teaching how to set and achieve Goals, how to form oneself as an individual, a citizen.

Ways to solve problems include introducing into education (at all levels) programs for teaching how to set and achieve life goals.

What will this give a person - finding the meaning of life, instead of despondency, depression and dependence on external circumstances - shaping himself and his life - a feeling of its fullness and richness, inspiration and satisfaction in the heart. This knowledge will help a person not to be afraid of life, but to enjoy it - “to be the master of his destiny.”

What will this give to society – its progress, the growth of positivity, the emergence of society to a new level of development. Society does not exist on its own. Society is a collection of human individuals who directly or indirectly influence its development. There is a critical mass of individual manifestations of people, which shapes the direction of development of society, its mental health and prosperity, its spiritual and material life. Therefore, a very important concern of society should be concern for the spiritual health and development of its members. Society must form a system of life values, which are the launching pad for the take-off of a person’s soul, the maximum disclosure of his potential - creative, intellectual, social, thereby forming for himself a new member of society, capable of influencing the further development of society itself. A person must be taught to set goals, including socially significant ones, to awaken the desire to live not only for himself, but also to do something important for this world.

1.3. The role of personal strategic management in setting life goals

Personal strategic management represents a set of means, forms and methods for a person to achieve his life goals. Using this toolkit, a person can try to optimally form and effectively implement a personal life strategy.

The ideology of personal strategic management (PSM) is based on the idea that every person wants to achieve something in life. Realizing his needs, he sets and solves certain problems, thus achieving his goals.

The nature of actions to set and achieve goals varies from person to person, and it also changes from person to person over time. But despite this, these processes have common features and patterns, which makes it possible, based on the analysis of empirical information regarding individual ways of developing and implementing life strategies, to formulate a uniform toolkit.

Thus, many Western researchers talk about a three-phase model of the human life cycle, while Japanese experts distinguish four phases (from birth to graduation from school; entering the workforce and starting a family; working life; old age). By purposefully managing the qualitative and quantitative parameters of phase changes, a person can maximize the usefulness of the return from each stage.

The content of self-government at different stages of the life cycle has different content. In childhood, a person is completely dependent on his parents; he, as a rule, is not able to make the most important decisions on his own. In adulthood, independence is gained, and the degree of responsibility for decision-making increases significantly. In general, PSM must be divided into exogenous (exo-PSM), when third parties help a person develop and implement a life strategy (at an early stage - usually parents, later friends, teachers, managers and respected people join them), and endogenous (endo-PSM). PSM), when a person engages in this work relatively independently.

The key factors in achieving personal life goals are the following:

Having a life strategy;

Knowledge of technologies for its implementation;

Ability to work with tools for managing the formation of personal human capital.

Having a life strategy is important because in order to achieve some life goals it is necessary to take a number of sequential steps, and sometimes to sacrifice the current consumption of individual goods in order to obtain a greater quantity and variety of goods in the future.

Investments in human capital are usually highly profitable. Moreover, the more developed it is, the greater the amount of resources that can be involved in the process of personal investment. According to the American economist W. Bowen: “Investments in human capital are similar to investments in physical capital in several important respects. Both accumulate as a result of the application of economic resources that could be used to produce other goods and services for current consumption; over a long period of time both produce profits; finally, both are limited by their lifespan: machines wear out, people die.”

Sociologists define the concept of “life strategy” as a symbolically mediated and, in its impact, ideal formation that goes beyond the limits of consciousness, realizing in a person’s behavior his guidelines and priorities. In everyday life, the three most common types of such strategies are:

Well-being. It is based on the receptive (acquisition) activity of the individual, aimed at providing complete necessary benefits, a calm, comfortable, measured and stable life;

Good luck. This strategy is designed for public recognition of the activities of its carrier and assumes an active, eventful, prosperous life;

Self-realization. It is characterized by creative activity aimed at creating new forms of life, regardless of their external recognition (non-recognition), and presupposes a beautiful, harmonious, free life, close in its content to art.

A generalized model of the mechanism for developing and implementing a strategy for human life is presented in Fig. 1. It reflects the relationship between the main stages of the personal strategic management cycle.

Rice. 1. Main stages of the personal strategic management cycle

2. TECHNOLOGY FOR SEARCHING LIFE GOALS

2.1. The main stages of finding life goals

So you want to achieve more in your life. Do you realize that the realization of your intentions will require complete dedication from you, giving up something familiar to you and exerting all your spiritual and physical strength, perhaps for a long time? Is this really what you want? Otherwise, all your efforts may be in vain.

However, just the desire to work with complete dedication is not enough; you will immediately be faced with dozens of questions that you must answer. Here are at least the first of them:

What goals do you want to achieve?

Do they agree with each other?

Are there a so-called highest goal and certain intermediate goals on the way to the main one?

Do you know what you can do for this yourself (strengths) and what you still need to work on (weaknesses)?

To find personal and professional guidelines, first of all find out what exactly you want, i.e. achieve clarity of purpose. This is a prerequisite for success in business and in your personal life. Finding and defining personal life goals means giving your life direction. For example, one of the conditions for a successful career is the right choice of profession. In this case, you can bring your own values ​​into reality.

Failure or lack of a life goal is the strongest psychological trauma. Anyone who does not know for what and for whom he lives is not satisfied with fate. However, disappointment often befalls those who set unrealistic goals that are unattainable for subjective and objective reasons.

A solid procedure for expressing an idea in writing is the first step towards its implementation. In a conversation, you can, often without realizing it, express all sorts of vague and absurd ideas. When you put your thoughts down on paper, something happens that encourages you to delve into specific details. At the same time, it is much more difficult to mislead yourself or anyone else.

Typically, goals are set for a specific period, so it is useful to observe the process of their definition, approval and implementation in the following sequence.

Step one is to clarify your needs.

You need to set goals in a situation that does not satisfy you or may become so. Setting personal goals requires analyzing your current situation and answering the question of what you would like to achieve. This requires imagination and a certain freedom from those unreasonable restrictions that were previously accepted without any objection.

Step two is clarifying the possibilities.

Most managers choose from a range of options in all areas of life. Some of these opportunities may conflict with your values ​​or cause difficulties for those around you. The first step in clarifying the possibilities is to identify as many of them as possible. This can be partially achieved by exerting one’s own thoughts, but the list can be expanded by studying the situation and involving others. Intelligent choices cannot be made until all available options have been identified.

Step three is deciding what you need.

A list of features is not enough; you need to know what you are striving for and what you want to achieve. It may seem obvious, but determining what you need isn't always easy. There are 3 key questions to answer:

What is important to you?

How much risk are you willing to take?

How will your decisions affect those around you?

In this case, the first question is related to determining your personal values ​​and positions. Here it is only necessary to emphasize that the quality of decisions about choosing a lifestyle largely depends on the depth of self-study.

The second question will help you identify personal boundaries and limits that influence your choices. You may decide that some opportunities are too risky and it is better to turn to methods of action with more reliable results. However, this causes people to avoid risky opportunities without even assessing the actual degree of risk.

The third question explores who might be affected by your decisions and how. It is necessary to determine whether the result is worth the costs caused by this influence on others. Discussing ideas and possible actions with those likely to be affected by them, and observing their reactions, can help make difficult decisions more precise.

Step four - choice.

Once the range of available options has been identified and needs and desires are clear, a choice must be made. Setting a goal is an active step, so at the moment of choice you make a commitment that the chosen course of action will produce a satisfactory outcome. In addition, this means that the following steps can be taken.

Step five – clarifying the goal.

Goals are useful as reminders of why actions are being taken. Often multiple actions are needed to achieve the same goal. At the same time, you can lose sight of the desired end result and plunge into routine. When this happens, a manager can usually work for hours, straining to achieve success, and still get little done. Mapping logical connections between general tasks and specific work processes can reduce unnecessary effort in clarifying goals.

Step six is ​​setting time boundaries.

Time is a resource that should be used wisely, but can also be seriously abused. Doing too much at the same time makes it difficult to achieve results in everything, so you need to manage your time wisely. This process is influenced by many factors, including the following:

Normal job requirements;

Extraordinary or additional requirements arising from work;

Expectations of others;

Personal hopes and aspirations;

A sense of duty and obligations already undertaken;

Common practice.

Since many decisions about the use of time are made spontaneously, time is often wasted without any assessment of the actual utility of such expenditure.

People should treat time as a valuable resource, like money in the bank. Time provides opportunities, and time management will ensure the expansion of these opportunities.

Step seven – monitoring your achievements.

The benefits of tracking personal achievements include:

Feedback on the results of work appears;

There is a feeling of satisfaction as you move towards the goal;

An opportunity is created to rethink the chosen strategy and plan a new method of action.

The seven steps discussed above can serve as a guide to clarifying your goals.

2.2. The process of finding goals by L. Seiwert

1. Development of general ideas about life aspirations.

4. Inventory of goals. Let's take a closer look at this process.

1. Developing ideas about life aspirations

Try to depict for yourself the present and possible (future) picture of your life, for example, in the form of a so-called “crooked” life, noting the greatest successes and defeats in the personal and professional spheres. Mark on the “curve” the place where you are now, and also write key words characterizing success or failure next to the extreme points of your “life curve”. Try to imagine your future and continue the “curve” further.

Then name the five most important points (goals) you want to achieve.

2. Differentiation in time of life goals.

Divide your life goals according to time criteria, for which you can use a time series (Table 1). In this case, you should take into account people from your immediate environment (partners, children, parents, boss, friends, etc.) and events that you must take into account.

Table 1

Time series for finding personal goals

3. Development of key ideas in the professional field.

Determine your personal and professional goals (guidelines) according to the following scheme:

personal wishes:

Medium-term (5 years);

Short-term (next 12 months); professional goals:

Long-term (life goals);

Medium-term (5 years);

Short-term (next 12 months).

This way, you will take inventory of your ideas, while filtering out the most important items, i.e., life's personal and career goals.

Be sure to highlight your professional guidelines, because if there is something fateful in life, it is the choice of profession, which is one of the main conditions for a successful career.

Try answering the following questions:

What would you most like to do professionally?

If you could freely choose your job title, title, industry, organization, enterprise or institution, what would you most like to become?

It is very important to give objective answers, because professional guidance is the key to professional and personal success, since it:

Strengthens motivation for work achievements;

Directs your activity and professional aspirations in a certain direction when choosing a profession;

It is a guide for the subsequent performance of your official duties.

Once you have determined your personal and professional goals, take care of your personal resources, i.e., the means to achieve your goals. L. Seiwert calls this process situational analysis.

A person’s abilities are determined by a combination of various factors: heredity, upbringing, health, and habitat. Moreover, abilities do not remain unchanged; they can be developed, but they can also be lost.

You should determine where you are currently on your life curve, noting your biggest successes and failures, while identifying what qualities were needed and what was missing. When determining your current location, answer the questions.

In the personal sphere:

My life journey: what were my biggest successes and failures?

What is the influence of family (childhood, adolescence, parents, siblings, loved ones)?

What are the friendships like? Hostile relationship?

Under what circumstances do I feel strong, defeated, weak?

What measures do I want to take to prevent dangers, difficulties, problems?

What are my potential? What can they not do? What can I do?

What specifically do I want to do to benefit others?

In the professional field:

Do I know the tasks of my position?

Do I know what is expected of me?

Do I know the routine, monotonous things related to my field of activity? Do I plan for them?

Am I setting priorities?

Am I completing my tasks on time?

What are the main benefits of my job?

4. Inventory of goals.

The next step is to group your strengths and weaknesses and highlight your two or three most important strengths and weaknesses (Table 2).

table 2

Balance of personal successes and failures

Such an analysis of personal qualities is a prerequisite for planning further steps and measures to achieve goals.

It is very important to evaluate yourself correctly, which can be done by special testing systems that give you the opportunity to understand your strengths and weaknesses (Table 3).

During the analysis process, the means necessary to achieve the desired goals (personal, financial, time resources) are compared with the real situation. For example, select five most important goals and determine the means necessary for them (Table 4).

Table 3

Test "my abilities"

Check what else you need to achieve or start to get closer to the corresponding goal, indicate the qualifications necessary to achieve the goals. Now set specific, realistic, practical goals for acquiring the experience and abilities that you still lack.

Table 4

End-means analysis

Using these tabular forms, you can determine the relationship between your desires and your personal qualities and abilities and, based on the results obtained, develop your own individual technology algorithm for searching for personal and professional goals.

2.2. Technology for constructing and implementing a life strategy

Environmental analysis is usually considered the initial process of strategic management, as it provides the basis for defining the mission and goals, and also allows you to develop a behavioral strategy that makes it possible to carry out your mission and achieve your goals.

This analysis involves studying two components:

Macroenvironment;

Internal capabilities of the individual.

By studying aspects of his external environment, a person needs to make sure what opportunities life opens up for him, what areas of social and economic functioning attract him, what obstacles he may encounter on his life path and what consequences certain steps he will take in life may have. life.

By analyzing his internal capabilities, a person needs to find out what strategic competitive advantages he can count on in the future, developing the potential that he currently possesses.

A person’s mission can be called the main goal of his life, which, according to A. Thompson and A. Strickland, should be formulated “primarily from the point of view of increasing the social role” of a given individual.

A vision is an ideal image of a future state of life that a person can achieve under the most favorable conditions. According to B. Karlof, it “can serve as a basis for determining the level of aspirations in the strategic planning process.”

In the concept of PSM, the key factor that can radically influence the formation of the entire life strategy, along with the analysis of the environment, is the presence of a person’s formed personal ideology. This term is usually understood as “a system of ideas and views: political, legal, philosophical, moral, religious, aesthetic, in which people’s attitudes to reality are recognized and assessed.” In PSM, the validity of making and implementing both strategic and operational decisions depends on the quality of personal ideology.

At the stage of determining strategic goals, the primary decomposition (sectorization) of the mission is carried out into two logically separate groups depending on the sphere of life - professional and social. Further decomposition and operationalization of life mission takes place within the framework of these areas. Strategic goals in the PSM concept are long-term in nature and are formed based on the state of a person’s life within the maximum possible time horizon.

In general, the process of determining a person’s strategic life goals according to the concept of PSM is described by a scheme developed on the basis of an algorithm for the stage-by-stage reconstruction of an individual’s life strategy, in the form of “gradual updating of the life strategy through the consistent “development” and “assembly” of its initial components - images, meanings of life, life values, norms and goals" (Appendix).

In the figure, the stages of goal formation are presented in the form of a series of structurally related procedures, similar to the sequence of elements of the strategic orientation system:

transformation – combines an emotionally sensitive perception of real life and the search for new images; at this stage, the strategic choice of an individual is characterized by a radical change in the way of perceiving life and the corresponding figurative ideas;

rethinking - accompanied by a person’s refusal (partial or complete) of previous life-meaning orientations and the formation of a new idea of ​​the meaning of life;

revaluation – there is a change in value orientations adopted for the long term, resulting in a change in the value paradigm of the individual, his higher dispositions;

normative reorientation (“renormalization”) – characterized by a revision of life norms, as well as the principles and rules corresponding to them;

target reorientation (“retargeting”) means the selection and development of strategic life goals, i.e. formation of new target orientations.

At the development stage, the formation of general and private tools for implementing a life strategy is underway. First of all, a concept for achieving strategic goals is created (it is a generalized statement of the main approaches, principles and methods). Then a general life strategy is developed. After this, it is decomposed into a number of interrelated component strategies that pursue their goals. Thus, there is a consistent operationalization of the stages of all component strategies with a unified temporal and qualitative interconnection. On this basis, a general program for implementing a life strategy is created. Moreover, the component subroutines operate with a number of specific and general PSM technologies, which are used in both exogenous and endogenous personal strategic management.

At this stage, the operationalization of the three main strategic assets of a person available at the time of strategy development is also carried out: human capital; financial resources; time. In light of this, among the subroutines developed at the stage, I will note the following:

Investing in personal human capital;

Effective distribution of personal time based on its opportunity cost;

Optimization of personal finances;

Educational and labor (helping to optimize costs in obtaining the necessary education and pursuing a professional career).

The implementation of the strategy developed at the previous stage occurs through the implementation of component subprograms on time while simultaneously achieving the parameters provided for by the strategic goals.

At the stage of adjusting the life strategy, it is adapted to new strategic guidelines, modern requirements and challenges of the external environment, as well as to the qualities that a person has discovered in himself.

A person, realizing his capabilities, using the positive aspects of nature and consciously adjusting individual qualities in one direction or another, can radically change the course of his life in the desired direction.

3. FORMULATION OF LIFE GOALS AS

FINAL STAGE OF GOALS SETTING

The last phase of the goal-setting process is the specific formulation of practical goals for the subsequent planning stage. “Goal”, in its deepest essence, is an advance of real events in reality. Every goal is translated into action. At the same time, putting a goal into action is a complex process.

When explaining his actions, a person usually refers to certain reasons that forced him to act this way and not otherwise, and tells himself and all the people interested in this that he was striving to achieve some goal.

Analysis of human behavior shows that there is no one-to-one correspondence between goal and action. The same goal can be achieved in many ways, and one path leads to different goals. Each person must have a more or less stable system of goals: some goals are more preferable, others are relegated to the background. In the totality of the goals of each person, main and intermediate goals are found, subordinate to the main ones, but without which it is impossible to achieve the final goal. A person shows extreme interest in some goals and is ready to sacrifice what is dearest to achieve them, while other goals concern him little, without affecting the emotional sphere. In the language of management theory, such a system of subordinate goals is called a goal tree.

The French sociologist B. Gurney identifies four types of personal goals of a person who has joined a management organization:

1. The desire for safety, to eliminate threats of risk to oneself personally.

2. The desire to improve living standards. To understand this goal, it should be borne in mind that employee satisfaction with their salary depends not only on the absolute value of the remuneration, but also on the ratio with the salaries of their colleagues.

3. The desire for power. This goal breaks down into a number of interrelated subgoals: the desire to expand the range of one’s powers, achieve autonomy, and move up the career ladder.

4. The desire to increase and strengthen prestige. This goal is divided into two subgoals: strengthening personal prestige and the prestige of the organization itself.

The chances of success in setting goals increase if the following potential weaknesses are avoided:

1. Lack of realism. Goals should be achievable, although it is preferable that they require some effort of human capabilities.

2. Uncertain time frame. Well-set goals contain a time frame for achieving them. The latter may be revised periodically.

3. Lack of measurability. Whenever possible, goals should be expressed in measurable terms. This allows you to clearly evaluate what has been achieved.

4. Inefficiency. Goals are only meaningful if they clearly fit into the broader objectives of the job. Therefore, the main criterion here is efficiency, not showiness, and such goals should have their place in the objectives of the organization.

5. Lack of shared interest. People who come together to work together toward a common goal can gain additional strength from working as a group.

6. Conflict with others. The goals of individual or group work are defined in such a way that they contradict each other. There are few ways to overcome these conflicts, and a lot of effort is wasted.

7. Lack of awareness. Large organizations are particularly vulnerable to disruptions in the dissemination of information. The board of directors sets goals, often expressed in financial terms, but then fails to communicate them. Perhaps some fragmentary news filters down to subordinates, but they lack convincing goals expressed in universal human concepts.

8. Use as punishment. Setting targets can be used to persecute and punish people. When such a philosophy is widely disseminated, the process of goal setting is perceived negatively and skillfully sabotaged.

9. Lack of analysis. A big benefit of setting goals is that it provides a basis for systematic analysis. Consultation allows people to be trained, resulting in changes to resources and systems.

There are usually 5–8 main positions for achieving a goal. The main positions are, in a sense, a more detailed purpose. For the greatest success in achieving your goal, write down for yourself your general goals and the main positions for achieving them.

Goals set the direction of movement. You can imagine a large ocean-going ship. Although it has everything you need to carry a heavy load from one point to another, it cannot move without a steering wheel. Goals are the steering wheel in individual and group movement. Without it, existing abilities are misdirected and consequently wasted.

Each goal makes sense when the deadlines for its implementation are established and the desired results are formulated. Try to frame them in relation to your desired and practical goals and check your plans for realism.

An example is the following life plan (Table 5).

Table 5

Life plan

When specifically formulating practical goals, it is necessary to remember such aspects as physical condition, since good health is a prerequisite for an active life and successful self-management. To do this, it is necessary to include in your periodic plans (annual, monthly, weekly and daily) activities to improve health: daily jogging in the fresh air, treatment, swimming, ski runs, preventive examinations, etc.

We should not forget about self-education, increasing the level of knowledge and qualifications, and our cultural education (travel, participation in cultural events, etc.).

Many managers believe that personal goals help achieve great change if they meet the following criteria:

The person feels personally interested in achieving them.

It is possible to successfully move towards them in small steps.

Time limits have been set.

The specific end result is clearly established.

The main characteristics of the goal: accuracy of definition, ability to measure, achievability, realism, indication of time intervals for its implementation.

Let's briefly look at each of these components.

Accuracy of target determination. Leads to a specific result.

Possibility to measure. It is intended to use numbers and other generally accepted standards to clearly compare what happened before and after the goal was achieved.

Reachability. The question arises: how to achieve this goal? If you have little experience or low qualifications, then you should think about it and sign up for special courses.

Realism. Remember that it will take more than one evening to achieve your goal.

Specifying time intervals. Determine exactly how long your goal is for.

The constancy and importance of goals in a person’s life vary. Some of them are fundamental in nature and persist throughout generations (for example, the desire for profit), other goals are more superficial and temporary in nature (for example, the desire to have a pleasant Christmas).

One way or another, consciously or not, you think about your life goals all your life. However, thinking about them and writing them down on paper are two different things. Unwritten goals often remain vague and utopian dreams, such as thoughts such as “it would be nice to travel,” “it would be nice to become a millionaire.” Writing requires you to be more specific in your expression, your goals are narrowed: you must express your aspirations in a few words, and not in the multitude that has passed through your thoughts.

A document that will help you establish what you really want to achieve is a Declaration of Life Goals. It will give your life purposeful direction and help you feel like you are in control of your destiny.

Everyone knows that it is easier to set goals than to achieve them. Many people are careless and unrealistic in setting goals because they take their obligations too lightly and are ready to forget about them at any moment. The behavior of a person who is effective in setting goals is characterized by careful consideration of possible obligations and the reality of their implementation before he takes them upon himself. Such a person is responsible for his obligations and the efforts required to achieve his goals, no matter what difficulties he encounters. Such an attitude is also valuable if it extends to goals adopted jointly with others.

A goal stated in general terms can be a useful guide, but it may not always focus attention on what needs to be done to achieve success.

Here are some examples of personal goals formulated in general terms:

Be lucky at work.

Have a good relationship with your work group.

Learn to relax at home.

Enjoy playing sports.

These statements cannot be said to be sufficiently specific and time-bound, although they indicate a general goal and an area in which success can be achieved. For such statements to be useful, they must be turned into something more specific by asking questions about how these general goals can be achieved and setting specific, time-bound goals.

You should set realistic goals. At the same time, do not take on too much, since in this case personal tasks have little chance of being completed. The more goals you set for yourself, the more you will have to change in your previous life, the more activity you will have to develop.

It is also necessary to set short-term goals that are aligned with the achievement of your long-term global goals. When pursuing long-term goals, you must take into account changing external conditions and the emergence of new trends. Therefore, along with general goals, it is important from the point of view of psychological motivation to set short-term achievable subgoals and achieve intermediate successes.

Setting goals introduces elements of directive planning into people's lives. Attempts to set clear goals must not be allowed to stifle spontaneity and limit freedom to respond to new situations. The best defined goals are those that allow you to be more open to the possibilities available.

When you discover obstacles to achieving your goals that you think are insurmountable, you need to ask yourself the following questions:

Are your goals really important to you? Goals that are not truly sought after are usually not achieved.

Are your goals realistic? It happens that people set goals that are almost impossible to achieve, and then are surprised at their failure.

Have you put enough effort and attention into achieving your goals?

Quite achievable goals may not be realized due to the fact that sufficient effort was not made to overcome obstacles.

Are your goals still relevant? New circumstances may make some of your goals obsolete.

Have you attracted enough people around you to your cause? Without help and support, many projects are doomed to failure. Establishing relationships with others early in your work helps you move forward.

Are you wanting to give up too soon? In many cases, people “admit defeat” too early, when perseverance could lead to success.

Choosing clear, clear and, most importantly, correct goals is a very important process for every leader. Not every person can clearly identify the main aspirations in their life and career. To do this, it is necessary to have a certain type of thinking in order to put private goals at the service of general ones.

CONCLUSION

So, as a result of the course work, the theoretical and practical aspects of the technology for searching for life goals were investigated.

In conclusion, it is worth noting the following.

Goal setting is not just a useful activity, but an absolutely necessary element of successful activity. Winners in life know where they are heading. Losers only go where they are sent, or stay put. They spend their lives working to achieve the goals of others. Purpose organizes effort. Fixed in the mind and permeating the entire subconscious, it begins to automatically influence your behavior, directing it to achieve results. The psychological effect of this will be that the task will become so entrenched in your subconscious that it will be accepted as a model and plan of action, which will eventually dominate your entire life and consistently lead you to achieve the goal.

There are various technologies for finding life goals. Each person chooses the right to choose any of them. As the saying goes: “Your life is in your hands, and you can make it whatever you want.”

The technologies outlined above will allow you to concentrate all your attention, strength, and energy on achieving your goal, and will help you show your best side.

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Striving for a goal in life in itself is meaningless. It is important what the goal leads to, what values ​​are brought to life. There are goals - dreams that everybody wants, and there is little benefit from achieving them. And even more so, there is no point in putting them on – they don’t motivate.

Look at this list of goals on the MYTH blog:

Such goals give rise to flawed motivation. You can’t set goals like that. You can get crazy when you reach them, or it’s not at all clear why someone needs them in the present tense.

The list of goals is typical, which is offered to blog readers. The authors, trying to give readers examples of long-term goals, give a set of loops. To strive for such goals without having anything behind them is an inquisition of the remnants of a healthy psyche.

Vital Goals

The goals that we set for ourselves should develop us, bring us experience, increased awareness and personal responsibility. And don’t send him to a mental hospital, intensive care unit or a cemetery.

Vital goals are those the pursuit of which will develop us. Expand our capabilities, increase our sense of happiness, improve our psyche and relationships with others.

The world needs a hundred space explorers. If someone truly aspires to be an astronaut, go ahead! Better is a happy, wise, responsible person, and at the same time also our messenger from the Earth. What an astronaut is - unhappy, scared, training and tormenting himself, only because he is not ready to love himself and understand his desires.

I am not against struggle and “achievement”, but struggle especially with oneself should not be meaningless. There's no need for a dummy in a spacesuit taking a selfie with the Earth in the background.

The main vital goal of a person is to be healthy physically and psychologically.. There are not so many people who are self-confident, with positive self-esteem, who know their worth and are able to realize their desires. They are able to set a goal in life, to take on the solution of a vital problem for all humanity. They have the courage and strength to solve it and live happily.

Human development goals

To realize the goal of life, a person needs only average abilities, but not enough average courage. Strength of mind is needed less than courage to resist the circumstances and prejudices of others.

A person is ineffective at achieving a goal that does not lead him to something greater than the goal itself. Therefore, it is so important to practice understanding your desires, needs, values, know your strengths and be able to work for pleasure.

Set short-term goals for self-exploration, searching for your untapped talents. Learn to overcome preconceptions about yourself and what you already “know.” Develop self-confidence, form an opinion based on personal experience. Develop courage and ability to work. You will need all this when you are ready to solve an important problem or implement a complex project.

Example: list of 50 goals

Coming up with goals can be difficult if there is little practice and awareness. Therefore, it is useful to look through examples of general development goals and adapt the ones you like.

We offer examples that lead to personal development, to the acquisition of experience, and to the expansion of ideas about oneself and the universe. It is advisable to have something else behind these goals, but they will already develop you if you decide to achieve them. I collected goals that are more environmentally friendly for our little head.

Health, sports

1. Step by step course. Draw a mind map of your health.
2. Swim 500 meters. Dive to 8 meters.
3. Eliminate 2-3 unhealthy foods from your diet.
4. Run 10 km.
5. For a whole week, eat only home-cooked food.
6. Strengthen your position in life: I am ok, others are ok.
7. Learn to play table tennis and tennis.
8. Rocking chair. Work out for 2–3 months. Get a rank.

Goals in work, in career. Financial goals

1. Understand the element of your calling: man - man, man - machine, man - symbols.
2. Increase your income by 2 times.
3. Live a week without urgent matters (outside of vacation).
4. Passive income. 100$+ / month
5. Work for a company. The company's goals help you realize your dreams.
6. Financial control. Record expenses and income for six months.
7. Gain experience in hiring and firing employees.

Surroundings, friends

1. Public performance. Perform in front of an audience of 30+ people.
2. Get the hang of getting to know each other.
3. Be able to listen to your interlocutor.
4. Organize a board game evening.

Personal relationships, family

1. Attend a group therapy training session with an experienced psychologist. Make your own opinion.
2. Loving is life-affirming. Cure neuroticism.
3. Marry or get married for love.
4. Take on the role of father or mother. To raise, not raise, a child.
5. Arrange a “spontaneous” trip.

Rest, brightness of life

1. Visit another continent.
2. Swim in two oceans.
3. Live 2+ months in an unfamiliar country.
4. Be spontaneous. They are not afraid to look stupid.
5. King of the hill - climb the pyramid.

Personal development goals, intelligence

1. Read 12+ popular science works in a year.
2. Get a driver's license. Drive along the serpentine road.
3. Learn English. Speaking level is above average.
4. Learn a second foreign language at a basic level.
5. Live according to your goal plan for the year achieving 70%+.
6. Write 10 articles.
7. Dine at the top restaurant in the city and leave no tip.

Creation

1. Learn to draw. Paint 5 pictures.
2. Choose a hobby and think about how to earn income from it in the future.
3. Know how to dance. Do a choreographed dance for 1+ minutes.
4. Sing a song at karaoke or in the studio.
5. Learn to play a musical instrument. Play a melody on the flute, keys, guitar, drums.
6. Handmade creativity. Crafts made from paper, fabric, clay, plasticine, leather.

Spirituality

1. Develop the ability to overcome conviction. Learn something new that I was so sure of.
2. The ability to overcome an old habit. Retrain yourself in something.
3. Formulate your purpose.
4. Practice meditation. Take a course or seminar.
5. Bring the life balance wheel to 7–10 points.
6. Read the New Testament. Form an opinion.
7. Learn to overcome fears. Overcome 5 fears.
8. Get an unconventional experience. Astrology, out-of-body experiences, constellations.

A man's life goals

Business is the main goal to which a man devotes his time. Idle, he is incompetent.
Ideally, this is some kind of enterprise with a humanistic idea, aimed at helping and developing other people.

It is vital for masculine nature to explore the world, seize territories (markets), compete with others, promote new goods and services. By realizing his undertaking, a man realizes himself in this world. Business is the second face of a real man.

One of the most important goals in a man’s life is his BUSINESS.

List of examples of goals for a man and a guy for 5–10 years:

1. Explore business management methods from your own experience.
2. Set 50 intermediate or medium-term goals and achieve them.
3. Develop the company to a turnover of $1 million
4. Create a service that makes life easier for other men.
5. Become an expert in your specialty.

The most important goals of a woman

A woman is not obliged to earn money for her family. This is a man's concern. A woman can also do business. The main thing is that this does not become her main job. She can do her own thing for the soul, but remain true to her feminine nature.

A woman’s vital goals are in the following areas: relationships, beauty, home comfort, giving love to the world, spiritual practices. Family and caring for children are the most important thing for a woman. This makes her happier.

Examples of girls’ long-term life goals:

1. Become a spiritual midwife. Popularize “Natural Childbirth”.
2. Open a psychological assistance center.
3. Help other women, build harmonious relationships.
4. Inspire a man to achieve feats in his business.
5. Become a teacher by vocation.
6. Be an example for girls - what an older woman can be.
7. Explore alternative perspectives on the question “What does it mean to be a woman.”

List of women's goals for the year:

1. Lotus birth of a child.
2. Creative development: dancing, music, painting.
3. Create a blog. Debunking myths about child development.
4. Go on a trip and write an adventure novel.
5. Learn interior design.
6. Learn to sew. Create a design for your collection.
7. Become happy. Clear your emotional blocks.

How to write your 50 goals in life - answer

Keep lists of example goals and ideas. Introduce all sorts of different dreams and goals. Break down your goals into categories: short-term (up to 1 month), medium-term (1 year) and long-term (2-5 years). When you have accumulated 50 or more goals, re-sort them and add important ones to your list of goals for the year. I keep lists on Evernote and in a notepad.

To determine your goals, we recommend the exercise “50 goals and 50 desires”. First you need to determine the range of your desires and begin to realize them. Then, where you most want to continue working - look for a more global goal. The ideal is to look for a problem, a need of humanity, and satisfy it.

Formulate not just selfish goals in life, but also those aimed at benefiting people. The goal of “Becoming a famous chef” will not bring as much satisfaction as organizing a children's center. The very wording “Become famous” speaks of an unhealthy psyche, of dislike in childhood. If you suddenly want fame, first satisfy your need for love. So save the world after you save yourself. First, cultivate strong egoism, and altruism will appear on its own, there is no need to force it.

The ideal goal of a person’s life is when you give yourself to the universe and get high from it. All you need is the freedom to do what you like. You don't have to get approval, recognition and fame. You don't need to know five languages ​​to earn respect and admiration. You feel good both alone and in a team, doing what you think is right.

Choose your vital goals and go on your way to yourself.

Hello my dear friends! Although the topic of our conversation today is quite serious: what goals can be in life, I cannot help but present to your attention a funny photo of a tired hedgehog that I liked, which in my opinion personifies the essence of the saying:

If you have a goal, go for it! If you can't walk, crawl! If you can't crawl, lie down and lie in her direction!

Judging by the picture, the hedgehog has decided on his life priorities and course. What is a goal, why is it needed? Is it possible to do without it? Maybe it’s easier for a modern person to live without dreaming and without bothering to find the meaning of life?

Alas, nature has decreed that people are not some kind of plants, but creatures endowed with intelligence, who need something more than air and food to be happy.

If you think that you are going nowhere, you don’t see the future, you are tormented by these thoughts, CONGRATULATIONS!

You have come to the realization that something is wrong, that something needs to change, that you need to set goals. This is the first stage of goal setting - realizing that you don't have one.

Now you need not to mope, but to expand your horizons, see what people are doing, who has achieved what, who has what plans. Just watch for a week. Then give it a break. It is advisable to exclude television and the Internet altogether. Within 1-2 weeks the brain will calculate, weigh and give a solution. You will feel the desire to do something. And then the most interesting thing will come, what we live for - movement towards the goal. And it doesn’t matter whether you achieve it or not, what is important is the movement and interest in life, which will definitely awaken when you see this goal.
A little motivation.

Why we need and are important life guidelines

Be that as it may, every person one day begins to realize that he is part of the Universe, and at the same time begins to think about his mission on Earth. Agree, it’s much more pleasant to think: I was born in order to save the planet (even if not from alien invaders, just from environmental disasters), and not just to “spoil the air” for 75 years, and if I’m lucky, then 90. Although stop: this After all, the goal is also to live to a certain age. It turns out that a thinking person almost automatically determines more or less important tasks for himself; the main thing is to learn how to do it correctly, so that life is filled with meaningful actions.

Fate bonuses guaranteed when setting a goal:

1. Clarity and understanding of your purpose gives people a feeling of confidence and peace, relieving them of routine tossing and bustle. A compiled list of specific goals is a conscious program of minimum or maximum (depending on the circumstances), in which all the main desires and aspirations of a person are encoded.
2. Clearly defined motion vector forces people to concentrate on planned tasks, without being distracted and without wasting energy on unimportant trifles. The outlined plan of action for the near future eliminates “confusion and hesitation” in search of something to do; a purposeful individual does not suffer from depression or boredom.
3. Powerful motivation – a companion of success, a kind of energy generator that propels you forward to new achievements and victories.
4. Responsibility - one of the qualities that indicates the maturity of a person, capable of feeling the true taste of life.
5. Personal growth and self-realization. A person who clearly knows what he wants from life has every chance to become better, reach new heights, live the time allotted to him meaningfully, interestingly, brightly, with great pleasure - simply happily!

Maslow's pyramid or the nature of the needs of homo sapiens

The famous American psychologist Abraham Maslow once developed a theory of the hierarchy of basic needs, classifying them from the lowest to the highest level. Thus, there were seven steps of the virtual pyramid, with basic physiological needs at the lowest: thirst, hunger, sexual desire, and a sense of security. Intermediate stages are the need for love and recognition, the desire to learn new things, to live in harmony and order, to surround oneself with beauty. At the highest level, as if on a pedestal, was the need for self-actualization, which implies the ability to set and realize one’s goals.

Another American, Stephen Covey, a teacher and consultant on organizational life management, outlined in his book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Tools for Personal Development” a systematic approach to determining a person’s life goals and priorities. On the pages, the reader will find tips on how to determine and implement their short-term and long-term plans, and realize their potential in different areas of life.

The aspirations and dreams of young girls and boys, mature women and men can be completely different, but no matter how many points are included in the list of future achievements - 5 or 50 goals, it is desirable that they touch different layers and imply the satisfaction of primary (basic) and higher ones superstructural needs.

What are the goals? Examples taking into account the theory of motivation according to A. Maslow:

Physical needs and health

• Organize comfortable living conditions
• Plan your time and follow a daily routine
• Establish a healthy diet (diet, try a raw food diet, become a vegetarian)
• Get rid of excess weight, bad habits, get fit
• Do yoga, surfing, diving, dancing, horse riding, etc.
• Regularly visit a doctor for preventative purposes
• Include time in your schedule not only for work, but also for rest

Financial security

• Have a stable material base without debts or loans
• Find additional sources of income
• Buy a dacha or build a dream home (on the seashore, abroad, in a prestigious area)
• Replace an old car (bicycle, boat) with a brand new foreign car, buy a car for each family member

Family, love and respect

• Get married, get married, have children
• Taking your loved one on vacation
• Gather all your relatives for the holidays
• Give children a decent education
• Take care of inheritance for children and grandchildren
• Organize a trip for parents to a resort or abroad

Social roles(adaptation, recognition, achieving success)

• Become a true pro in the profession
• Become a mentor for an inexperienced employee
• Advance your career ladder
• Attend a seminar or take advanced training courses
• Participate in the public life of the organization (city)
• Organize a corporate party for subordinates
• Improve the public yard (plant trees, make a swing or a sandbox)

Cognitive needs

• Get basic or additional education
• Sign up for an interesting psychological or educational training
• Read Robert Kiyosaki's book "Rich Dad Poor Dad"
• Read new books regularly (one per day/week/month)
• Collect a library or all publications of your favorite author
• Learn another foreign language
• Master the art of meditation (cooking, playing the violin, drawing, design, etc.)
• Visit an unfamiliar country or city

Aesthetic and spiritual self-improvement

• Develop a personal growth program
• Learn to enjoy every day
• Attend exhibitions, premieres, festivals
• Do charity work and volunteering
• Learn to achieve your goals
• Forgive an offense to everyone or a specific person
• Overcome your main fear

Self-actualization(realization of abilities, development of one’s own personality)

• Find your life's work
• Achieve spiritual harmony and wisdom

Self-actualization is the pinnacle to which a particular person strives throughout his life, defining important goals exclusively for himself, therefore writing all the points is an intimate and individual matter. Perhaps, in the process of self-assessment and soul-searching, some quite interesting books on self-development will come to your aid:

Bestseller “I want and will: Accept yourself, love life and become happy”, author - psychologist Mikhail Labkovsky

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“Get out of your comfort zone. Change your life. 21 methods for increasing personal effectiveness”, author - business coach and consultant from Canada Brian Tracy.

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Tips and tricks to achieve your goal

To be honest, I personally find it difficult to imagine how a person who does not have a goal in life lives. I am interested in active and multifaceted people who know where they are going and what goals to set at a certain point in their life’s journey, without fear of barriers and obstacles. For myself, I realized that there are 5 important points, the observance of which will help not only to bring the implementation period closer, but also to form a really achievable dream, and not abstract dreams in the spirit of Manilov. The task should be:

1. specific,
2. relevant,
3. measurable
4. achievable
5. limited in time.

Practical tips from experts in the field of psychology will also be useful.:

• Write down all your plans on a convenient medium: paper, vision board, electronic notepad.
• Identify and outline the important points of the plan, clearly presenting all the details.
• Don't give yourself a chance to show weakness - take responsibility for all your actions.
• Develop a detailed scenario for achieving the goal; to make it easier, break the achievement process into several intermediate stages if the task is global or too complex.
• Set optimal (adequate!) deadlines.
• Strengthen your strength and be filled with optimism by determining which of the people in your close circle will have a better life if you complete the tasks you have set for yourself.
• Formulate thoughts and phrases in an affirmative form in the present tense with full confidence that success is guaranteed to you.

Finally, a few quotes from “The Little Prince” - click to enlarge