Goal Setting For Maximum Personal Achievement
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About The Course
This course is for anyone looking to dive deeper into their understanding of success, and learn the tools and techniques they need to create this success in their life through setting goals, and maintaining and reviewing their progress. This can be a new beginning, with new goal setting and reviewing habits integrated into their everyday life.
It is part-inspirational, part-practical online course designed to help individuals learn effective goal setting processes to improve various areas of their lives. It targets individuals wanting to get more out of life, who are looking for an effective system to help them define what they truly want and then assist them in techniques to stay on track.
What Will You Learn On This Course?
During the course, students will complete self-discovery exercises to uncover their purpose and underlying motivations, then they will move through to conducting the goal setting process, before learning how to maintain and evaluate the process on a long-term basis.
Through a series of short video-based lectures, you will:
- Learn how to work out if you’re in line with your purpose
- Understand the cognitive advantage of having and knowing your purpose
- Learn how to define success for yourself
- Learn how to analyse your energy levels
- Understand how goal-setting impacts your mind and wellness, as well as your success and outcomes
- Learn how to define your goals in ways that work, and how to integrate them into your day-to-day life for better chances of success
Who Is The Course For?
While it can benefit professionals at all levels and in all roles, it especially suits:
- Individuals whose perspective on life, career and success has changed during the pandemic
- Small business owners and self-employed people who are struggling with sticking to long-term goals and want a successful system they can implement
- Individuals who lacks purpose and doesn’t know what they want
- Professionals who wants a career change
- Students who have achieved a qualification but are re-considering their direction in life
- Individuals who feels stuck and unable to take practical action
- Individuals whose priorities are changing
- Individuals who struggles to take consistent action, change their habits and track their progress
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The Cognitive Advantage of Having and Knowing Your PurposeIn Section 2, we take a look at the science and psychology of purpose. This lecture serves as an introduction to the idea of "purpose" and highlights the health and social benefits and cognitive advantages of knowing your purpose.
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Are You in Line with Your Purpose? Seven Indicators to Check
In this lecture, you will be given seven key indicators that could suggest you're are not in line with your purpose.
Download the Purpose Awareness Worksheet, which will prepare you for Section 3.
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How to Find Your Purpose: 5 Areas to Explore
Section 3 deep dives into self-awareness. Having discovered the importance of having a purpose in the previous section, this lecture will be an introduction to explore areas of yourself and your life to uncover and/or create your own purpose.
Download the Core Values and Purpose Discovery Worksheet.
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Defining Success: What Does Success Mean to You?
In this lecture, you will critically evaluate your own assumptions about success. Firstly, you will list your ideas about what success is. Secondly, you will examine whether your list is influenced by culture, peers and your upbringing, before working out what is truly aligned with your purpose. Lastly, you will divide your list into internal vs external metrics.
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Analysing Your Energy
In this lecture, you will analyse and evaluate your energy levels across various time periods. You will look at a variety of factors that can influence these energy levels. By having a realistic picture of your energy levels, you can then set realistic goals. You will be encouraged to continue this energy-level tracking as a regular habit, even after goal-setting has been completed.
Download the Energy Levels Worksheet.
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How Goal Setting Affects Your Mind and Wellbeing
Section 4 looks at the science and psychology of goal setting. In this lecture, you will discover how goal setting creates changes in the brain and in one's behaviour, based on psychological and neuroscientific studies.
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How Goal Setting Affects Your Outcomes and Success
In this lecture, you will be exposed to scientific studies illustrating the ways in which goal setting has a positive effect on outcomes and success rates.
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Gather Your Inspiration and Make a Long-List
This lecture will ensure that you have the information you need to make goals that are important to fulfilling your purpose. It gives practical tips on finding inspiration for goals that are meaningful to you across different areas of your life.
Download the Identifying Goals Worksheet.
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Analyse Your Current Position
Here, you will learn how to complete a personal SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) matrix, in order to have realistic data upon which you can build your goal setting. You'll then be encouraged to write a list of considerations to take into account based on your goals, and/or filter your goals through your findings to make sure you are not setting yourself up for failure.
Download the SWOT Matrix Worksheet.
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Ground in the Now: Organising and Categorising Your Goals
The purpose of this lecture is to ensure that you learn how best to organise your goals in the most efficient way. It breaks down various aspects of this process, including creating a timeline and breaking goals into manageable steps.
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Integrate Your Goals into Your Everyday Life: Tools, Techniques and Software
In the last lecture of Section 5, you will learn how to devise a plan and integrate it into your daily life using positive habits and actions, as well as tools and software to stay organised and motivated.
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Science of Motivation: How to Stay Motivated
In Section 6, we take a look at how to review, optimise and stick to your plan. This lecture provides helpful tips for you to stay motivated and avoid distractions when working towards your goals.
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How to Measure Success
In this lecture, you will gain a greater understanding of how to track your goals, measure success and hold yourself accountable using various techniques.
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Recognising the Reasons Behind Areas of Weakness and How to Fix Them
In this lecture, you will learn the importance of evaluating failure, and how to embrace a Growth Mindset before evaluating weaknesses and failures. You will then be taken through a Failure Analysis process to help work out why the goal broke down. Finally, you will use this data to reactivate the goal under new conditions for greater success.
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How to Optimise and Capitalise on Your Areas of Success
In this lecture, you will look at the importance of giving extra attention to areas of strength and explore why this is important. You will then be guided into thinking about how you can create new goals to capitalise on your areas of success.
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Long-Term Reviews and Adapting to Change
This lecture covers long-term change and how it can affect the goal-setting process. You will learn how to evaluate your changing feelings about the goals you originally set and how to take action from there, in order to create new goals or to develop an environment conducive to attaining your original goals.
