1. PGRD
Goals for Life
Program
Session III

2. Objectives
Provide you with tools/processes for continuously transforming your life
Understand a structure for integrating and achieving personal and professional goals
Engage in a unique learning experience for thinking about your future
Build an ongoing and supportive environment for feedback and accountability
Build a personal Action Plan that will facilitate implementation of goal strategies
Get guidance and insight about personal and professional growth

3. Objectives
Follow-up on progress in each of the segments in the program series
Follow-up on your progress in each of the segments in The Goals for Life™ Program Series
Give you membership in the PGRD “Goals for Life” community

4. What Questions Am I Asking Myself?
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5. Ideal Activities/Actions
YOUR IDEAL LIFE =
365 days/Year of
Ideal Activities/Actions

6. The Unique
ou Exercise
Your Unique History
Your Unique Skills
Your Unique Character
Your Unique Advantages
Your Unique Challenges
Your Unique Ability

7. Lifetime Legacy Exercise
Age you are going to die?_____
Ideally, what will your life be like before you die? ______________________________________________________________________________
How many more years could you live? ________
What would you achieve in those extra years? ______________________________________________________________________________
What do you have to do the next 3 years? _____

8. The Lifetime Legacy Principles
Intentionally live a longer and productive life
“Extra Years” goals tap into the ideals of your highest self
The extra years’ impact is on the next 3 years of your life

9. The Retirement Trick Exercise
What you don’t have to do anymore?
How would you now spend your time?
What do you have to add or subtract to your life this year to get closer to being “retired”?

10. The Goals for Life Dimensions
Physical/Health
Career
Financial
Reputation/Referability
Family
Intellectual/Ideological
Relationships
Contribution/Generosity
Leisure/Recreation
Self-Actualization
Recovery/Repair
Spiritual

11. Challenges for Lifetime Goal Results
It’s taking a lot longer
Don’t have the time
Effort:
This is hard
It’s not worth it
Competing Goals:
I’m too busy on other things
It will have to wait
Maintenance:
I’m backsliding
I’m not committed for the long haul

12. The Art of Accountability
Pay attention to your passions
Continuously aim for excellence and superiority
Measure your results everyday
Deepen your commitment
Live specifically with S.M.A.R.T goals
Execute at 80/20

14. Goal Setting Resources
The Laws of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks, Hay House: London, 2006
Make Success Measurable!: A Mindbook-Workbook for Setting Goals and Taking Actions by Douglas K. Smith, John Wiley & Sons: New York, 1999
Creating the Good Life: Applying Aristotle’s Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness by Walter Isaacson, James O'Toole, Holtzbrinck: New York, 2005
The Laws of Lifetime Growth : Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past by Dan Sullivan, Catherine Nomura, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: New York, 2006
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Harper Collins: New York, 1998.

15. Goal Setting Resources
The Magic Lamp: Goal Setting for People Who Hate Setting Goals by Keith Ellis, Three Rivers Press: New York, 1998
Write it Down, Make it Happen: Knowing what you want – and Getting it! Henriette Anne Klauser, Touchstone: New York, 2000.
There Are No Accidents by Robert H. Hopeke, Riverhead Books: New York, 1997
World-Class Teams by Lynda McDermott, John Wiley: New York, 1998.
Software/Internet Programs:
mygoals.com
goalmaker.com
pocketgoals.com

16. EquiPro International, Ltd.
Lynda C. McDermott, CSP
is President of EquiPro International, Ltd., a New York City based international management consulting firm which specializes in the strategic development of organizations and their employees. Her experience involves over 30 years of line management, and internal and external consulting.
As a line manager and then an internal consultant with Ohio Bell Telephone Company, AT&T and Ernst & Whinney, Ms. McDermott developed and administered management, organization development and marketing skills programs. She began her external consulting career with E&W as Manager-in-Charge of Human Resources Consulting, and later served as a Director for a national Human Resources and Organizational Consulting Practice for KMG Main Hurdman.
Over the last eighteen years her firm has provided consulting services in strategic planning, leadership, team development and executive coaching performance management, 360° assessment, business development, change management and organization effectiveness in a wide variety of industries. Her client list includes such companies as Pfizer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, sanofi aventis, DuPont Women Lawyers’ Network, biogen idec, Hearst Magazines and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
She has served on the National Board of Directors of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and has been their Torch Award Winner. Her firm has also received two ASTD “Excellence in Practice” Citations for their ground-breaking work with global teams in over twenty-five countries and for their innovative “Build Our Business” program. She has also served on the Board of Directors of Girls Incorporated (Formerly Girls Clubs of America). Ms. McDermott is a frequent speaker and is co-author of the best-selling book World Class Teams (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) and author of the best-selling book titled Caught In The Middle: How To Survive and Thrive In Today's Management Squeeze (©Prentice-Hall). She is a Certified Speaking Professional for the National Speakers Association and has appeared on CNBC, Wall Street Journal Radio, National Public Radio and in numerous business publications.
Ms. McDermott is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University and has a Masters of Science in Organization Development from Bowling Green State University.
EquiPro International, Ltd.
420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1712
New York, New York 10170
(212) /

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