One of the seven habits of highly effective people.

1. BEGIN WITH END IN MIND
“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”
Based On Work Of STEPHEN COVEY

2. • 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.
Continued...
What Does it mean?
BWEIN
Personal
Leadership
CROSSROADS
S.M.A.R.T
Taking control
of your life

3. • 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

4. Let’s Discuss
What is “the end” for you? What do you
hope to be doing ten years from now?
Twenty?
Continued...

5. • 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.

6. ORYOUWILL END UP LIKETHIS

7. • College or Graduate School
• Attitude toward life
• Sports
• Friends
• Dating
• Values
• Family
• Community
The Crossroadsof Life

8. 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?

9. 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

10. 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?

11. 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?

12. 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

13. Mission Statement, Part 1:
Write your name in a circle. Out from the circle, write words that describe you.
Nitin
Writer
kind
artistic
reader

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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?

17. S.M.A.R.T. Goals
Tools for making goals a reality

18. •Specific
•Measurable
•Attainable
•Realistic
•Timely
S.M.A.R.T. Goals are…

19. • 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

20. • To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions such as
• How much?
• How many?
• How will I know when it is accomplished?
Measurable

21. • The goal is “do-able”
• It is action-oriented
• It is “within reach” of mortals.
•Amay also stand forAction-oriented and that requires action verbs in the
goal!
Achievable

22. • 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

23. • You should establish a timeframe
• The timeframe must be realistic
• Everyone needs to know the timeframe…make it public
• **Tmay also representTangible in that you can experience it with one of your
senses!
Timely

24. 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