Achieving Your Goals
A big step towards achieving your goals is developing and maintaining a goal setting mindset
as the attitudes you have learnt and develop will influence the way you view goal setting.
Approaching a task with a negative and self-defeating attitude makes it much harder to
actually be successful at that task.
You need to have a positive attitude when you are setting and trying to achieve your goals. A
positive attitude means you are looking for ways to succeed rather than focusing on the
difficulties and obstacles that could be in your path.
To create a more positive attitude:
• Each day note down something you did towards achieving your goals.
• Note down any changes someone else has noticed eg. your teacher says well done on
your work.
• Don’t stop trying if something goes wrong, rather reassess your goals or decide you
need to work harder to achieve them.
• Find a mentor or helper to encourage you to achieve your goals, possibly someone who
is interested in the same things or is good at the same subjects, but is a bit further ahead
of you.
Other reasons why we don’t achieve our goals:
• No action plan.
• No true commitment to the goal.
• Not rewarding yourself along the way.
• Trying to focus on too many goals.
• Not preparing yourself for success.
• Fear of failure.
If you are still not achieving your goal try this:
• Clarify your goal.
• Write a list of actions.
• Analyze, prioritize and prune.
• Organise your list into a plan.
• Monitor the execution of your plan and review your plan regularly