Goal Setting

Lecture #6

The Bullfight

The Bullfight

• In five words or less, describe the outcome of a bullfight.

The Bullfight

• Who is stronger, the matador or the bull?

• The Bull!

• Who is faster, the matador or the bull?

• The Bull!

• Who is deadlier, the matador or the bull?

• The Bull!

The Bullfight

• It is a matter of goal orientation.

The Bullfight

• “Forget the cape, go after the guy in the funny pants”

The Bullfight

Goal Setting

• Specific

• Meaningful

• Accepted

• Realistic

• Time – Framed

Specific Goals

Are More Effective Than

“Do Your Best” Goals

Meaningful

to Those Who Must

Achieve the Goal

Accepted

By Those Who Must

Achieve the Goal

Realistic,

Yet Challenging

Most Effective

Probability of Achievement:

Between 50% & 70%

Time – Frame

Deadline For

Achievement

NASA

Al Boyer – WIU Alum

• 1999 College of Business and Technology Distinguished Alumnus

• Managing Partner

Boyer Capital Management

Boyer’s Goals(paraphrased)

• Conduct the business I want to do, with the people I want to work with

• Have wealth sufficient enough to achieve goal #1

• Have enough time to enjoy my family, hobbies, and to give time back to my community

Meir Yedid

• Magician

Meir Yedid

• Won the Society of American Magician’s Close-Up Magic Championship in 1981

• Lost about 1/3 of his hand in auto accident in 1986, including a finger

• 9 operations and extensive therapy

Meir Yedid

• Set goal of winning the S.A.M. contest again

• The goal of winning forced him to excel

• Had to re-learn magic• No one had ever won the S.A.M.

contest twice

Meir Yedid

• Entered the 1988 contest

Dr. Joe’s Goal

• Get arrested on my 100th birthday

What are Your goals?

Examples from Class

• Share with someone next to you a goal you have in the next 5-10 years