BEGIN WITH END IN MIND“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”

Based On Work Of STEPHEN COVEY

• Beginning with the end in mind is part of the process of personal leadership, taking control of our own lives.

• All things are created twice. We create them first in our minds, and then we work to bring them into physical existence. By taking control of our own first creation, we can write or re-write our own script.

• A starting point in beginning with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement, philosophy or credo. It will help you focus on what you want to do.

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What Does it mean?

BWEIN

Personal Leadership

CROSSROADS

S.M.A.R.T

Taking control of your life

• Developing a clear picture of where you want to go with your life

• Deciding what values are important to you

• Setting goals (short and long term)

Begin with the End in Mind

Let’s Discuss

What is “the end” for you? What do you hope to be doing ten years from now? Twenty?

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• Before you figure out the “end”, you have to take a look at who YOU are! .Plan ahead and set goals, do things that have meaning and make a difference.

OR YOU WILL END UP LIKE THIS

• College or Graduate School

• Attitude toward life

• Sports

• Friends

• Dating

• Values

• Family

• Community

The Crossroads of Life

Crossroads in life

• If you have an end in mind, it makes it easier to make decisions about the big things

• Do you want to go to college or grad school?

• Who will you date?

• Will you smoke, drink, do drugs?

• What kind of relationships will you have with your family?

• What type of friends will you have?

What about friends?

• They can have a powerful influence on you

• Hanging out with a group of friends that don’t have the same principles/values that you do will make you guilty by association even if you don’t do everything they do

What about school/work/military?

• You have decisions to make right now about your schooling

• Are you going to take AP classes, college classes at MCC or have you not thought that far ahead yet?

• What kind of job do you want?

• What branch of the military to you want to join?

You need to take the lead

• If you don’t plan for your future, someone else will.

• Who? Your parents, your friends, the media (music, tv, movies, magazines)

• Ever not known where to go so you followed the crowd then discovered that the crowd didn’t know where to go either?

A Personal Mission Statement

• Thinking about all of the previous slides will help you develop a personal mission statement

• Once you have developed a mission statement you can align your goals with your statement

Mission Statement, Part 1:Write your name in a circle. Out from the circle, write words that describe you.

Nitin

Writer

kind

artistic

reader

Mission Statement, Part 2:Now think about what kind of person you WANT to be.

Make a list.

I want to be a:

1.Hard worker

2.Good student

3.Kind person

4.Talented artist

Mission Statement, Part 3:Use the two lists to write a mission statement. This is a sentence or paragraph about

the person you want to be. Here are some example:

My mission is to:

•Laugh a lot

•Learn as much I can

•Work hard at home, school and in my sports

•Be kind to others

•Take good care of myself.

•To get better at my art.

How good are you at beginning with the end in mind?

I always keep the end

in mind.

I only think about today.

Why did you rate yourself this way?

S.M.A.R.T. GoalsTools for making goals a reality

•Specific

• Measurable

•Attainable

•Realistic

•Timely

S.M.A.R.T. Goals are…

• Specific goals answer the following questions:

Who: Who is involved?

What: What do I want to accomplish?

Where: Identify a location.

When: Establish a time frame.

Which: Identify requirements/constraints.

Why: Specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing the goal.

Specific

• To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions such as

• How much?

• How many?

• How will I know when it is accomplished?

Measurable

• The goal is “do-able”

• It is action-oriented

• It is “within reach” of mortals.

•Amay also stand for Action-oriented and that requires action verbs in the

goal!

Achievable

• The goal must be an objective toward which you are both willing and able to work.

• Again, it must be “do-able”

• People must believe it can be accomplished

Realistic

• You should establish a timeframe

• The timeframe must be realistic

• Everyone needs to know the timeframe…make it public

• **Tmay also represent Tangible in that you can experience it with one of your

senses!

Timely

CONCLUSION

Craft a personal goal

Craft a personal professional goal

Craft a goal for your staff for the upcoming school year

Use the S.M.A.R.T. techniques