Skill-Set Exercise #3-A:
YOUR SELF-CONTROL MOTIVATIONAL RATING PROCESS
YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOUR MOST IMPORTANT GOALS!
    [1] The "Self-Control Motivational Rating Process " gives you a solid perspective or foundation upon which to concentrate on transforming your wishes, dreams and desires into realistic achievable "goals" and "plans." Now think in terms of distinguishing your greatest goals.

    You are "reframing" or converting your scrambled thoughts into specific goals, each of which has its assigned value in your life. You are responsible for integrating your most important specific time-oriented "goals" and "plans" into a satisfying pattern of achievements.

    You can develop an objective process using this or a similar series of questions to engage your optimal thinking and memory skills for deciding which of your goals can be expected to offer you the most happiness relative to other opportunities and possibilities.

    How much time and energy are you willing
    to devote to achieving your greatest goals?

    This rating process combines the selection and evaluation processes together in a single unique exercise that can help you choose and analyze your goals and distinguish your "shorter-term goals" from your "longer-term goals" by rating them.

    Simply evaluate your wishes, dreams and desires and think of them as "deadlines," such as shorter-term or longer-term in your self-analysis, by writing them down in separate lists under such headings as "Important" and "Urgent." Doing this activates both sides of your brain (your "left" and "right" hemispheres.) This thinking exercise helps you integrate both your thoughts and feelings as you evaluate the significance of your "greatest goals" and "best plans" within the context of your personal and social (institutional) values.

    Many life planning counselors advocate that you can benefit the most by distinguishing "three time zones" of goals, including your short-term goals, which are between now and three months; your intermediate goals, which are between three and six months; and your long-term goals, which are more than six months.

    [2] Now you can begin to distinguish your greatest goals by separating them according to a continuum of the degree of urgency in comparison to the degree of importance in your life in relation to all the other goals that you have ever thought about achieving.

    [3] You may want to print this page for fuller "sensory immersion" in the thinking exercise. Each of the Four Steps involved in Your Self-Control Motivational Rating Process requires careful planning on your part after you read this.

    [4] You can review all of your short-term goals, intermediate-goals, and long-term goals by deciding to consider them in a relaxed condition without any disruptive interruptions and to think about the amount of time and energy it will take you to accomplish them.

    SELF-CONTROL SENSORY IMMERSION PROCESS

     1. SET YOUR SELF-CONTROL TARGET GOALS:

                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                

    2. PREDICT WHAT YOUR EXPECTED PERFORMANCE
    WILL BE --- WHAT RESULTS DO YOU WANT?

                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                               

    3. EVALUATE YOUR PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE RESULTS NOW BY BEING
    AWARE OF THE FEELINGS YOU WILL HAVE WHEN YOUR GOAL OR PLAN
    IS ACHIEVED --- WHAT FEELINGS DO YOU EXPECT?

                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                               

    4. LIVE HAPPILY AND BE SATISFIED NOW BY BEING CONSCIOUS OF YOUR
    CHOICES AND WHETHER YOU ACHIEVED THE RESULTS YOU INTENDED:

                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                              

    [5] Now think through the "SMART" criteria for rating the quality and characteristics of your personal short-term, intermediate and long-term goals.

    GOAL RATING CRITERIA FOR SMART CHOICES

    1. BE SPECIFIC:

                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                

    2. MAKE THEM MEASURABLE:

                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                

    3. MAKE THEM ACHIEVABLE:

                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                

    4. BE REALISTIC:

                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                

    5. BE TIME AND ENERGY CONSCIOUS BY SETTING
    REASONABLE DEADLINES AND ADAPTING THEM:

    (This task completes the strategic goal planning loop by estimating the time
    and energy that you expect it will take to achieve your greatest goals as you
    decide what you choose to do.)

                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                

    [6] Now you can create your own pleasure by increasing the levels of the "happy hormones" (your endorphin levels) and by decreasing or balancing the levels of the "stress hormones" (your cortisol levels) in your body as you evaluate which of your goals and plans will produce the best results .

    By understanding your need for a rational integrated world view, you can feel free to "flow" in the "zone." You can choose your own goals and make your own strategic plans for the future. You can "act" in response to the people and things around you instead of always "reacting." You will be doing this in the context of your new ability to make better choices using your new brainpower knowledge (wisdom) in the context of the "Brainpower Mindset."
    YOUR BRAINPOWER POTENTIAL
    IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE.

    YOU CAN MAKE YOUR LIFE COUNT TODAY AND EVERYDAY!

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