Summary of Goal Setting

• Goal setting is an important method of:
  • Deciding how committed you are to your sport
  • Deciding what is important for you to achieve, and what is irrelevant
  • Motivating yourself to achievement
  • Building your self-confidence based on measured achievement of goals

• You can set goals effectively by:
  • Phrasing them positively
  • Defining them precisely
  • Prioritising multiple goals
  • Writing them down
  • Keeping them manageable: Not too hard, but not too easy.
  • Setting performance goals, not outcome goals

• Failure in meeting goals is useful in improving technique and long term success as long as you draw useful lessons from it and feed these back into your training program.

• You should allow yourself to enjoy the achievement of goals and reward yourself appropriately. Lessons should be drawn where appropriate, and should be fed back into training.

As a final point, if you do not already set goals, or if you have not yet focussed on your life goals, now is a great time to start!

You will find a link below to a web page describing our LifePlan goal setting shareware, which guides you through the process of setting goals. A full working version of LifePlan can be downloaded from this page. Enjoy using LifePlan!

Links

Information on LifePlan - Goal Setting and Maintenance Shareware

Achievement and Feedback Introduction to Imagery and Simulation

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