Developing Positive Habits

By Setting key goals and values you define your boundaries

The goals and Values are like sidelines- you follow the rules.

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How to Achieve Goal

• Be Proactive

– Self Awareness

– Consciences

– Imagination

– Independent Will

– By taking our inside out approach.

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How to Achieve Goal-Cont..

• Put First things First

• Think Win-Win

• Begin With an End in Mind

• Seek First to understand, then to be understood

• Synergize

• Sharpen the Saw

– Physical/Emotional/Mental/Spiritual

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Goals Vs Values

• Goals are for the future, Values are for now

• Goals are Set, Values are lived

• Goals Change, Values Don’t

• Goals set people going

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Reaching Your Goals

• First-There’s a Dream

• Second- Comes the Goal

• Third-Are the objectives

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Steps for Achieving

• Have a well informed goal statement-The SMART approach.

• Break goals into manageable steps

• Motivation and Commitment

• Reminders and Keeping Track

• Frequent Reviews and Reassessment

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Goal Setting

• What are your daily Tasks

• What are your Intermediate Steps

• Long Range Goals

• Values

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Goals are Effective When

• They are in line with governing Values

• Time Dimensioned

• Owned

• Realistic

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Motivation and Goal Setting-Work sheet

• What are your life time goals?

• What are your goals for the next three to five years?

• What are you goals for this coming academic year?

• What are the things you need to do in order to accomplish this year’s goal?

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Motivation

“Is the process that account for an individual’s

intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward

obtaining a goal”

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Motivation-Cont..• Motivation is the combination of :

– Desire– Value– Beliefs

• In order to get motivated :

– Identify your values, desire and beliefs

– Recognize your strength and weakness and use this information to establish realistic goals

– Understand the role of personal circumstances

– Realize that success is the merger of all three factors.

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What Motivation Is Not

• It is not a personal trait ( meaning some people have it and others don’t )

• It is not a constant, can differ from situation to situation in the same person ( e.g. Reading)

• Just because you are unmotivated does not mean that you are lazy, may be you haven’t found the right motivator

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Motivator’s

• Intrinsic Motivators: A person’s internal desire to do something, due to such thing as interest, challenge and personal satisfaction

• Extrinsic Motivators: Motivation that comes from outside the person, such as pay, bonus, and other tangible rewards

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Motivators-Cont…

• Knowing what motivates you put us in control of the activities and commitments we take on

• It helps us to understand why we do things, and why we want to do things

• You can be more successful by relating things to your motivators

• Knowing what motivates others can help us to understand they do things, and why they want to do things.

• You can motivate people by relating things to what they value and offering them relevant rewards.

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Barriers to Motivation

• Fear “ I can’t do it”• Waiting, “ I’ll do it tomorrow• May be this isn’t the best course of

action• Not enough exercise• Not enough sleep• Poor Nutrition• Individual interest and

Procrastination

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Tips to Keep Yourself Motivated

• Focus on your past success• Think about what has motivated you

in the past• Break down into smaller parts• Face your critics and ask them for

advice• Acknowledge your achievements• Put thing in the right perspective• Find a role model

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Motivators, cont..

• Read success stories and motivational quotes

• Measure your progress• Leave yourself quick reminders• Reward yourself• Make a road map for your self

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Motivational Quotes

• Abraham Lincoln-” Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important that any other one thing”

• George Eliot- “ It’s never too late to be what you might have been”

• Ralph Waldo Emerson- “ No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself”

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Individual Exercise• Determine needs

and what motivates you:

– Achievement: Drive to excel, to achieve, to strive to succeed

– Power: Desire to have the ability to affect others behavior

– Affiliation: Desire for interpersonal relationships

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