Goals

Goal Action Plan Template

Select a goal, and use this template to create an action plan for that goal. Then, post the action plan to the Week 2 Assignment 1 link on your student website at https://ecampus.phoenix.edu.

Goal Action Plan

Your goal action plan must include the following nine sections:

1. Goal: State the goal you hope to achieve.

To learn how to use my time wisely

1. Type of goal: Determine if the goal is personal, professional, academic, health-related, or financial.

Academic

2. Purpose of goal: State what is being accomplished by achieving the goal. This is what will you learn or achieve by reaching the goal.

By achieving this goal I am accomplishing better grades on my assignments and better test scores.

3. Major benefit to me: List what benefits you expect to receive after accomplishing the goal.

The benefits I will receive by accomplishing this goal will be a higher GPA

4. Benefit to others: List how your family, coworkers, or organization will benefit when you accomplish the goal.

My family will benefit from this because I will have a higher GPA and in turn will be able to support them better.

5. Barriers: Predict some barriers that may arise to prevent you from reaching your goal. Investigate financial, time, and personal constraints that hinder progress to goal achievement.

Some of the barriers that could prevent me from reaching my goal would be my daughter. She is the most important thing in my world and she’s so used to having my full attention and it’s to take that away from her.

6. Solution: Strategize methods for overcoming barriers. Develop specific strategies for overcoming each barrier.

My methods for overcoming that barrier would be trying to reward her for letting me get my school work done, or trying to make it fun for her while I’m doing my work, and also working on my school while she is in bed. And the last would be asking my parents to watch her so I could get...