Goals

The topic of the lecture this week was goal setting, and it was given by Chris Petersen, the President of BYUSA. It was one of favorite lectures of the class so far. We talked about setting goals, and how to achieve them. It really got me thinking about the goals that I have, both short term and long term. Also, I started to reflect on how I am doing in working towards those goals.

At the beginning if this year, for FHE one night we put together a list of goals we wanted to accomplish over the course of the year. I pulled out the list to look at it, and was pleasantly surprised to see I've done a good job this year in working towards my goals. While I will not accomplish all of them, I have done a good job working towards most of them. One idea that Chris had was to put the list somewhere where you see it everyday. This would be good for me, because it would help me to always think about the things I am trying to accomplish, because it is easy to get caught up in life and forget about things.

In my leadership position, I use goal setting on a regular basis. For Home Teaching, our goal is to get 100% of the members visited. This is a tall order, but it is one that we can monitor from month to month, and make an effort to talk to those who might not be going out. With this approach, hopefully we can improve every single month, eventually getting to 100%.