Teaching Kids to Set Goals

I highly recommend you begin teaching your kids to set goals from the time they can understand what a goal is all about.

By the time kids graduate from high school they should be independent, self-governing, and disciplined. Don’t panic. Mine are not there yet either.

Step One Setting Daily Goals.
We have all of our boys write out a goal list each day. It is great.
The idea is that they learn the art of thinking through their day and living their life purposefully.

Here is an example of our 17 year old’s list from this morning. Notice the last item…

Heyo Dad-ee-o and Mom-ee-o!

Diligence:

— Morning Devotion: Two Psalms and Proverb of the Day

— Make List of the Day

— Chores: Clean room, Clean Dining Room, Kitchen Dinner Team, Wipe

Master Bathroom, vacuum

— Physical Conditioning: Work out in Shop

Goals:

— Write more things for my story

— Research offered careers for Communication Majors.

— Figure out ways and times I could go visit old friends this year.

— Look up tutorials for how to play “I See Fire” on the guitar

— Continue to look up snake skins for my hammock and try to order them,

with permission, in the next couple of days.

— Continue to look at different set ups that are out there for hanging

hammocks and find one I am really interested in trying.

Free Time:

— Work on Goals

— Watch more tutorials and videos for Concept Art

— Play chess

— Possibly build a new Lego creation

— Stuff Little brother into the body of a dead Tauntaun to protect him from further

disease and sickness.

I love you guys! 🙂

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I have to admit, this son of ours snuck some pretty hilarious to do’s into his list for days and days before we noticed.

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