01-SettingYourGoals.doc-NYLT.docVIP

Learning Objectives: Explain what a goal is. Describe and use the SMART Goals tool Write personal and team goals that pass the SMART Goals test. ? Help their patrol determine the goals that will allow members to fulfill the vision of success they have developed for their JLT patrol.  Review the definition of a vision. Vision is what success looks like. Vision is a picture of where you want to be in the future. If you can see it, you can be it. ? Vision must be big -- elephant-sized.  Here’s an old Boy’s Life Think and Grin joke: Question: How can you eat an elephant? Answer: One bite at a time! How can you fulfill a vision? One goal at a time. If vision is the elephant, goals are the bites that allow you to eat the elephant.  Goals are the steps you complete to fulfill a vision. They are the bite-sized pieces of the vision you can accomplish one at a time. Fulfilling a vision might require just a few goals or it might take many. To climb Mt. Everest, a mountaineering team might have as goals establishing four intermediate camps on the mountain. Climbers going to the summit can then spend a night at each camp on the way up. By breaking up the ascent into four segments, they will have a much greater chance of success than if they tried to climb the entire mountain all at once.  Sum it up: There are many ways to think of goals -- as the rungs on a ladder, as small footsteps of a long journey, as the bites of an elephant. There are short-term goals -- things you can accomplish right away. Setting goals -- and then reaching them -- is the pathway to fulfilling a vision. That’s the way to eat an elephant -- one bite at a time.   Summarize the video: Vision is what success looks like. It’s the dream of the astronaut standing on the moon. It’s the vision of mountain climbers reaching the top of Everest. Vision is the elephant. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you realize a vision? One goal at a time. Introduce SMART Goals: You don