Goal-setting Worksheets

Goal-Setting to Achieve Your Dreams

from your friends at

trombonelessons.com

Being the best you can be and achieving all your dreams is a life-long pursuit. One never really "arrives". The most successful, satisfied, and self-actualized people are those who continuously set goals for themselves while taking humble pride in the accomplishments they've had. Never looking in the rear-view mirror....always the windshield!

If you have chosen to be a professional musician, you must understand that the level of competition you will face is extreme. That's because the jobs you'll compete for are so desirable. That level of competition should excite you. It should certainly motivate you. It should make you feel alive....a full-blown participant in YOUR life experience. You are blessed to feel this way. You need to foster that energy and feed off of it for the rest of your musical life.

To keep yourself "plowing ahead" and "staying the course" on the way to your dreams, we have developed some Goal-setting Worksheets for you.

Students: use these worksheets to declare your dreams and pursue them with clarity, focus, and sincerity. Work smarter, not harder, by tracking your short, mid, and long-term progress over the course of days, weeks, months, and years.

Teachers: help your students stay on track by grading them every week and every few months with these worksheets.

The Worksheets:

(Please Print as many copies as needed and keep them in your Trombone Notebook)

Long-Term Goals: this worksheet should ideally be reviewed and "tweaked" every New Year. It sets long-term goals that are not necessarily trombone-specific. As you progress in your career, however, the more you'll come to understand how everything relates to overall happiness and fulfillment. This will get your head thinking in those terms.

Mid-Term Goals: this worksheet encompasses roughly a one-year or one-semester time period. It is decidedly more trombone-specific in its content and should be revisited (but not edited) every few weeks. Teachers can use this to evaluate a students progress throughout the semester; even using it to determine a final grade.

Short-Term Goals: each Sunday night, review last week's worksheet, grade yourself on the week's work, and fill out a new sheet for the upcoming week. This simple habit will make you a better player for life.

As always, we invite your comments and would love to be appraised of your progress. Please write us at:

tbonegib@bellsouth.net

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