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.The end of the time line is your death, some reasonable amount oftime in the future.Where on this line does your goal fall?____________________________________________________________________________________Life today End of lifeThe relative distance between where you are today and when you think you could reasonablyachieve this goal will tell you whether it is a long-term or short-term goal.If you ve established that yourgoal looks like a long-term one, you ll need to develop some additional short-term goals to get there.Ifit s a short-term goal, you might ask where this goal is leading you and where you d like to go after it scompleted.Either way, you can return to the process described above until you are satisfied that you veproduced a good set of long-term and short-term goals for the value you chose to work on.The followingexercise will help you keep track of all this information.EXERCISE: Goals WorksheetValue: ______________________________________________________________________________This value will be manifested in the following long-term goal:1.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Which, in turn, will be manifested in these short-term goals:1.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Committing to Doing It 1812.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________This value will be manifested in the following long-term goal:2.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Which, in turn, will be manifested in these short-term goals:1.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Repeat this process until you have a good working set.(It need not be comprehensive; you canalways add and subtract from these at any time.)There are no hard and fast rules about how many goals you need to have.This is about your life.Think about what you would like to accomplish, and set your goals in terms of how they will fit practi-cally into your life.The numeration in the worksheet above is arbitrary.Perhaps starting with onelong-term goal makes sense for you.Or if not, a single short-term goal may be a good place to start.Youneed not have a particular number of goals to be  doing the right thing. If you re getting caught inthoughts of this nature, remember your mind is talking to you again.Use the strategies you ve learnedthroughout this book and set your compass in the direction you want to live.182 Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your LifeSetting goals is all about workability.If you don t make your goals workable within the context ofyour life, it s unlikely you ll get very far down the path of your values.Choose achievable, obtainable out-comes that can realistically fit with your life [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]