Activity concerning setting goals and professional values
A powerful process for personal planning, which helps people :
• to choose where they want to go in life,
• to concentrate their efforts on specific fields,
• to spot the distractions that would otherwise lure them from their course,
• to motivate and build fast self-confidence.
Goals in some areas of life:
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Family and Home
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Financial and Career
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Spiritual and Ethical
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Physical and Health
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Social and Cultural
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Mental and Educational
Setting goals in each area of life will ensure a more balanced life as we begin to examine and change the fundamentals of everyday living. Setting goals in each area of life also helps in eliminating the non-integrated thinking.
Target group:
ƒ Pupils 14 to 18 years old
ƒ Counsellors
ƒ Teachers
Exercise description:
We implement an activity based on setting goals in order to introduce children with such a procedure. For this reason, we use famous cinema movies.
Pedagogical aim:
ƒ To motivate students to search inside their personal goals and to start catching them.
ƒ To motivate students to set specific, realistic and measurable goals but also high.
ƒ To motivate students to set goals related and integrated to their personality.
ƒ To help students to interact with each other, to pose the same goals, to reveal their thoughts and to share experience.

Time:
45 minutes for each movie
Resources needed:
The movies, a dvd player or a lap-top and a tv or a projector.
Movie : Jerry McGuire
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The first 3 parts of the movie are shown in the classroom and then as sequence, we start a discussion with pupils.
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We pose to pupils a series of questions just to motivate them to describe the profession of the protagonist, his professional values, his goals, his life plan.
So, the content of the discussion…….
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Profession’s Description
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Athletic Manager
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Professional Values - Goals
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Success
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Social prestige
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What lucks him?
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Spare time
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Money
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Glory
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Creativity
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Social offer
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True human relationships in the workplace
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An original goal he has been disoriented
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Happiness
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We continue the sequence of the movie by showing parts 5, 6, 7 and then we discuss points such as:
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An accidental event shakes him and shows him the truth
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The result of this event is his dismissal

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The results of his dismissal is the consciousness of some circumstances, such us :
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His relationships in the work place
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The deepest meaning of his profession
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The finding of a new goal ‘’show me the money’’ (money can be his value, his competencies, his possibilities)
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Now, it is a perfect time to reset his goals by revising them. Why?
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If you revise a goal as circumstances and other goals change do not consider it a failure, consider it a victory as you had the insight to realize something was different
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At this time, we can show the end of the movie, indicating and revealing our theoretical background – the process of finding and adopting a goal.
Exercises for pupils based on the movie
9 Find, develop and write down the year’s goals by creating the roadmap to success

9 Find a slogan, which describes your personality and your life, paint it or make a collage revealing it.
References
• http://www.topachievement.com/goalsetting.html
• www.mindtools.com
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116695/