Personal Goal And Goal Statement Examples

• All personal goals must have a clear specific plan of action.
• Goal setting involves reviewing your goals and plan daily.
• Each goal setting plan will have several sub-goals and a primary goal.

For every goal that you write down, you need to create a specific plan of action to accomplish that goal.

This goal setting plan should include activities you can do on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis that will bring you closer to achieving your goal. You will find that by creating this goal setting plan, you will also be creating lots of sub-goals.

The easiest way to visualise this, is by imagining your major goal as a staircase and each sub-goal as a single step. By completing each sub-goal, you slowly step up the staircase until you reach the top.

This is basically what goal setting is all about. Having something in mind which you want to accomplish, and then coming up with a way to do it.

Your goal setting plan will ensure that everyday you take one step forward, and not one step back. This is why plans are so important.

In this article, we are going to take a lot at how you can use the process of goal setting to create a personal goal statement.

So lets begin with an example of a personal goal statement.

Personal Goal Statement Example

1) Goal

• I am so happy now that I have a 30″ waistline. I can now easily fit into my new trousers. I look and feel great!

By August 2007

The first stage of goal setting involves creating a goal for yourself, and then writing it out as specifically as possible.

Goal setting should always include specific goals whenever possible, as this way you will know exactly what you are trying to achieve.

Also note that goal setting usually involves a completion date, as this will motivate you to accomplish that goal within a set time period.

2) Affirmation

• I have a 30″ waistline

Another part of goal setting is to create a short affirmation related to your main goal.

This serves to remind you of your goal, and is also something you can say to yourself throughout the day to motivate you and keep you focused.

However if you do not want to create an affirmation, you can skip this step as it is a technique some people may not require when setting goals.

3) Plan Of Action

• Anaerobic Exercise 3 times a week (sub-goal).
• Monday + Friday Upper Body. Wednesday Lower Body (sub-goal).
• Start with 20kg?
• Find acceptable weight to lift? (sub-goal).
• Aerobic Exercise 5 times a week (sub-goal).
• Spend 30 minutes on exercise bike, or run for 30 minutes (sub-goal).
• Eat healthy food (sub-goal) stop eating ice-cream, chocolates or any sugary food.
• Measure waistline each month (sub-goal)

The most important step of creating a personal goal statement is to create a plan of action as to how you will complete your goal.

All this involves is a list of activities you must do (sub-goals) in order to complete your main goal. This list should ideally have completion dates and be ordered by priority, so that you can move through the list quickly.

But What If I Don’t Know What Activities To Do? 

Don’t worry about writing your goals and plan perfectly the first time. They should be flexible and are likely to change over time.

If you don’t know all the activities you need to do, just write down the activities that you can think of and add more later.

For example, if you wanted to earn X amount of money each month but you didn’t know how you were going to earn that money, what would you do? Well, you could do 2 things.

1 - Don’t do anything, because you can’t think of anything to do. 

2 - Set a goal to find out ways you can earn that money. This could include doing some research and finding out how other people make money, then deciding what’s best for you. If you can’t afford to buy books, search the Internet, there are plenty of good ideas out there.

To put it simply, if you don’t know how to do something, make it a goal to find out!

Look At Personal Goals Every Day

Everyday you should set aside 15-30 minutes, to review your goals and plan. In this time you should look at your goals and write them down again on a piece of paper.

This helps drive the goals further into your subconscious, increasing the strength and desire of the goal. You will know when your goal is getting stronger, because you will eventually start to alter your goal, making it more detailed and specific.

When this happens it means your brain is getting a clear picture of exactly what you want to accomplish. It will then start to attract the things into your life needed to accomplish that goal.

To speed up this process, after you have written down your goal, close your eyes for a minute and think about the goal in your head.

Extra Tips To Boost Goal Achievement

1 - For maximum results, it is absolutely essential that you discipline yourself to write your goals down everyday.

Most people are very enthusiastic for a few days or weeks and then give up when they don’t see any results. You must be patient.

2 - Look at or repeat your affirmations every day. This is why I suggested you start with 5 goals, as you can have 1 goal for each finger on your hand.

By repeating or writing affirmations, you will physically create new connections and pathways in your brain related to that goal.

3 - Visualise your goal as if it were already accomplished. Your first few attempts are likely to produce weak imagery, this is due to 2 reasons.

• Your brain does not have a clear and specific idea of what you want.
• As a result you will have weak brain connections and pathways related to your goal. These connections take time and repetition to develop and become stronger.

A good time (and also the most effective) for visualisation is just before you go to sleep, or when you wake-up.

4 - Remind yourself of your goals as much as possible.

5 - Create a ‘Dream Board’. A dream board is simply a board filled with images or text related to your goals.

This can help strengthen your intensity of visualisation, by giving you images to work with in your mind.