Friday, January 14, 2011

My 2011 Goals


I took the opportunity to discuss New Year’s resolutions and goal making with the girls. I found this great online resource that helped me to teach and discuss goal making with a young age group:


I used the suggestion of using the chalkboard, dividing it into two sections and had the girls list a wish and a goal. Then, we discussed how some wishes can become goals and others cannot. For instance, wishing for a new baby brother is probably not a reasonable goal; goals have to be something that we work on to improve ourselves… we cannot force goals upon someone else.

After the chalk board discussion, I had one of the older girls read Amy’s Goal from the January 2010 Friend. We talked about how some goals can be huge and sometimes overwhelming to take on, but if we work on our goal a little at a time and break it into smaller steps, almost anything is possible.

Then, I had the girls complete the following worksheet by choosing 2 goals to work on for the year: a personal goal and a spiritual goal. We discussed the basic differences between each. I also went around and helped each of the girls identify obstacles and lay out plans of action as they needed help.

11 comments:

  1. Thank you, Thank You, Thank You!!! This is my topic for this Thursday and I hadn't gotten around to planning it. You did a beautiful job and have made my week so much easier. Thanks for sharing!!!

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  2. Thanks so much Wendy, we will be doing this on Thursday. Hope you are doing great. Hugs, Andi

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  3. By chance, do you have this available for 2012? Or in a format that I could edit? I would really appreciate it!

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  4. I love your goal packet! Would you be able to email me your file so I could edit it for 2012, or are you easily able to change it to 2012 and email the packet to me? I would love to do this with my Activity Day girls in about a week. My email address is kristi.bradshaw@gmail.com Thanks so much!

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  5. I would love a copy if you've made for 2012!! Can you email me at anthonycallison@yahoo.com??

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  6. Any way I could get a 2012 copy as well?
    gwen.teagle(at)gmail(dot)com

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  7. Thank you! I'm filling in for the regular Activity Day Leader and this is perfect for what we wanted to teach the girls.

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  8. Thank you for all your hard work. Our girls are doing this activity today.

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  9. Have you made these for 2013 at all? I would love a copy if you did. aussiewoman66@yahoo.com. By the way, thank you, I just found this page and you have made my life a heck of a lot easier. I have all the girls from 8-11 and I have 17 of them and live in a small town in Hawaii where there are not a lot of options. So thank you for your simple, less expensive ideas with all the patterns for the ideas. You are amazing.

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  10. Too hard to see any of it. To bad looked great.

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