Setting Goals

Setting Goals was the name of the game at Wednesday, February 18th's UExplore session. Claire Solario returned as a featured guest presenter and laid out a few great tips/tricks to help us:

1) lay out short- and long-term goals
2) prioritize those goals
3) be prepared to take action and face road blocksOne of the activities involved a stream-of-consciousness brainstorming session where we wrote down any and all goals we had in the categories: physical/health, family, socially, mental/intellect, financial, vocational, spiritual, other.Jane Peterson, Ricardo Escalante, and Brian Pierini thought critically about their goals.Wow! And what a lot of goals we had. How could we possibly accomplish all of these goals?
One way to prioritize is through "tournamenting". With tournamenting, UExplore participants made forced choices. Pitting one goal against another, the participants had to choose the goal that was more important. After doing this over and over again, the participants would end up with a few of the most important goals.

For some in the session, tournamenting was a useful tool for honing down objectives and taking selective action on the ones that mattered most.