Creating Goals

These resources can help individuals create and reach their goals to help increase their motivation in aspects of their life, eg- studying for exams.

The first resource is all about Creating Goals, this activity will help the individual understand how it can be important to create goals to help them look forward to the future. The activity will consist of the individual giving four reasons on why they think creating goals are important to them. They will then write themselves a couple goals as their present self for themselves 6 months down the line, they will then think of ways they can help reach these goals between now and 6 month’s time. The resource will provide the activity worksheet.

The second resource is about Breaking Down Goals, this activity will help the individual understand how sometimes it is best to break down a goal to make it more manageable. We can give the example of the earth having many different layers to make it complete. The individual will be asked to use the examples of some goals and then using a template of the earths structure how they would break down the goal into different layers. This resource will provide the template of what the activity will consists of and the template of the earths structure that can be printed out and used in the session.

The final resource is about Reaching Goals, this activity will help the individual understand what their goals are, why they might not be able to reach them and what they can actually do to get over those obstacles. The activity will explore how it can sometimes be stressful when we want to reach our goals and if there are any ways that we can help reduce this stress. The individual will then be asked to use the rocket (which is them) they can colour it in to make it unique to them, then the stars are their goals which are out of reach due to a meteor shower (which are their obstacles which they will state). The patients will then give examples of what they can do to overcomes those obstacles to eventful reach their goals. This resource will provide a template of the activity, an example of how the rocket, stars and meteor shower will work in the activity and examples of the rocket, stars and meteor shower that can be cut out.