My Goals Use this worksheet to document the work you complete for all of the activities in the chapter

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My Goals

Use this worksheet to document the work you complete for all of the activities in the chapter.

 Examining Your Goals

Complete the following questions based on your athletic experience, exercise interests, or professional career goals (e.g., to become a physical therapist). 

Adapted from T. Orlick, Psyching for Sport (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1986), 14-16.

1. Dream goal (long-term): What is your long-term dream goal? To be a professor in the field of physical education.

 

What is possible in the long term if you stretch all your limits? 

 

 

 

 

1. Dream goal (this year): What is your dream goal for this year? What is possible if you stretch all your limits this year?

 

 

 

1. Realistic performance goal (this year): What is a realistic performance goal that you can achieve this year, based on your present skill level, your potential for improvement, and your current motivation?

 

 

 

1. Monthly goal: Set a personal goal that you feel you can achieve within the next month. Name one goal you would like to focus on with special intensity.

 

 

 

1. Next class or practice goal: Set a personal goal that you feel you can achieve by the end of your next class or practice. Name one goal you would like to focus on with special intensity.

 

Activity 16.2 Prioritizing Your Subjective Goals

• Identify six of your most important general subjective goals, and enter them in the Subjective goals column.
• Then reflect on the goals and prioritize them, placing an X in column A (being most important), column B (being somewhat important), and column C (being less important). All of your goals should not have the same priority (so use at least one B and one C).

 

Subjective goals	A	B	C
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

 

                        

 

 

Activity 16.3 Analyzing Your Goals

• List five of your goals for exercise or athletic experiences.
• For each goal, assess whether it conforms to each of the goal-setting principles listed by placing an X in the appropriate columns. Many of your goals may conform to two or more principles each.
• Using your analysis, and in the spaces provided following the table, describe your goal-setting strengths and weaknesses.

 

Goals	Performance	Realistic	Specific	Short-term	Individual
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

 

Strengths

 

 

 

 

 

Weaknesses

 

 

 

 

 

Reprinted by permission from American Coaching Effectiveness Program, Sport Psychology, Level Two (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1987), 142-143. 

Activity 16.4 Overcoming Common Goal-Setting Problems

• Indicate which of the following problems you feel you will encounter in achieving the goals you set in the previous activity by putting an X in the Yes (you think you will experience difficulty) or No (you do not foresee having a problem) column.
• Note at least one strategy you could use to avoid or overcome the identified problem.

 

Problem	Will experience problem?
	Yes	No
Convincing yourself to actually set goals
Strategy for overcoming or avoiding problem:
Failing to set specific goals
Strategy for overcoming or avoiding problems:
Setting too many goals too soon
Strategy for overcoming or avoiding problem:
Failing to adjust goals
Strategy for overcoming or avoiding problem:
Failing to set performance and process goals
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Not providing for follow-up and evaluation
Strategy for overcoming or avoiding problem: