Decode the Missing Link Your...by Ms. Usha Mishra

2. USHA MISHRA
 COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGIST
 CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST
 PURSUING ARTS BASED THERAPY

3. WHAT IS A GOAL ?
Moving
from A-B
Future Meaningful
Long term Short term

4. Why having a goal is important ?
Provides a road
map
Focused Accountable
Overcome
procrastination
Key to
success/oxygen
to our dreams

5. Application areas
 Personal
 Financial
 Health
 Relationships
 Future
 Career
 Almost in all areas of our life

6. Purpose
Enlightens
• Provides
insight
• Helps
prioritize
• Gives
framework
Encourages
• Motivates
• Boosts our
confidence
• Gives
courage to
execute
plans
Enables
• Builds skills
• Enhances
perception
• Understand
in totality

7. Important features of a goal
 Clarity of our end point/ result
 Commitment towards the goal
 Self / others desired goal
 The complexity of the skills sets required
 Feedback mechanisms
 Value significance

8. SMART GOALS
 SPECIFIC
 MEASURABLE
 ACHEIVABLE
 REALISTIC
 TIME BOUND
Adding 2 more dimensions to it E –R
 EVALUATING/ ETICAL
 REWARDING

9. A---------------------------------B
TASK
Not doing/
not able to do
Already doing

10. Tasks
Lack of
skills
Lack of
resources
Lack of
knowledge

11. Lack of mental state
 Lack of motivation/ losing motivation too quickly
 Approach towards life in general
 Lack of self-confidence
 Lack of self esteem
 Physiological reasons
 Self critical/ always needing to be perfect
 Goal is not exciting enough
 Distracted/ not able to prioritize
 Focusing more on the don’ts rather than do’s
 Not open to learning /trying different ways/things
 Lack of self discipline/ consistency
 Very challenging or intimidating goal

12. Steps to successful goal - setting
 Make a plan
 Explore resources
 Be accountable
 Stretching skills and abilities
 Use rewards and feedback
 Divide the goals into smaller sub –goals
 Acknowledge progress

13. Changed perspective
 If one method fails try another
 Every failure is a feedback and knowledge to be applied
 Have a clear written goals
 Live your goal each day
 Imagine it as vividly as possible
 Make it sensory specific
 Surround yourself with motivated people
 Do let others judge your value
 Rejoice / celebrate every success
 Live in the moment

14. Q/A

15. THANK YOU
Presented by:
USHA MISHRA
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