Setting goals

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Achieving a goal
Setting goals and planning how to achieve them helps us to aim high at school, at home and at work.

Target Attitude
A smaller step on the way The motivation and effort you
to achieving your goal need to achieve your goal

Goal
Something you would
like to achieve in the future
Strategy Skills
A plan which breaks The abilities and expertise
your goal into achievable relevant to your goal
actions and targets

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Simple steps to setting goals

My goal
To become a chef

Target Target Target

Get work experience in a restaurant Get a qualification in culinary arts or Improve my financial capability
professional cooking

Action Action Action Action

Research which types of Practise different cooking skills Use a budget to track my Find someone who works in
cuisines and restaurants in my at home and in food technology income and spending to improve a restaurant who can give me
local area are most successful lessons at school my confidence with money advice

Skills Skills Skills Skills

Proactivity and aiming high Creativity Staying positive and resilience Listening and communication

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The power of a SMART target

Specific I want to be able to run 5km

without stopping in under 30
minutes
Goal:
I want to be Measurable I will run on a measured running
able to run for a track or record the distance with
further distance an app to ensure it is 5km

Achievable I can already run short distances

of about 3km at a moderate pace,
so 5km isn’t too much more

Result-focused I will gradually build up my

distance by 500m per week

Time-bound I will achieve this within one month

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How the right attitude can help you achieve your goals
Developing a What will this help
How can I do it? Who can help me?
growth mindset me achieve?
1. Ask for and act upon feedback about Ask for some tips after my next Team coach, team I’ll know what I need to improve
my performance basketball match mates which will focus my practice

2. Push myself to be the best I can be Create a revision planner with Maths teacher, Feel proud of my result whatever
enough time before my next classmates, the outcome, knowing I tried my
maths test a planner best

3. Welcome mistakes as learning Take time to reflect on a time Friends, teachers, Realise that mistakes usually come
experiences, and be resilient when when things didn’t go to plan family with some positives
things don’t go my way and talk it through with a friend

4. Practice my skills and knowledge and Offer to show a new colleague at Employer, colleagues Explaining something to another
always look for ways to improve the café where I work how to use person is a good way of testing
the coffee machine my own knowledge and is an
opportunity for practice

5. Reward myself for my hard work Compare how far I could run in Classmates, team Remember that practice and effort
and effort, looking back at how I 30 minutes at the end of last mates, family leads to improvement
have improved instead of comparing year with now
performance with other people

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