Your Goal Setting Workshop

Do This Please do the following:

Read this page
Create the spreadsheet explained in the module, and sort (as instructed)
Contribute to the discussion
Turn your complete spreadsheet in online in webcourses

About the Workshop

In this session we will be brainstorming every goal you can think of for your life, all the way from tomorrow to the sunset of your career.

Rules of a Brainstorm

Everything is valid – there is no "NO" in a brainstorm, every thought and idea is valid. Don’t negate, don’t say NO. Don’t even think negative thoughts. All ideas, particularly the most outlandish are valid (we’ll divide this all up later from the most important to things you don’t really care about to complete fantasy later, don’t worry about that here).
Keep writing! – Keep the ideas flowing. Your pen should never stop, let everything out, and as fast as you can. It's important to keep having "flow."
Just a word or quick note on the goal is all you need – you don’t have to be super specific. If you want to own a 2014 Black Convertible Porsche 911 Targa 4S with Bose speakers and DVD players in the back headrests, you don’t need to write all that down in a brainstorm – just "Black Porsche" or "cool car" is fine. We’ll add in all the details later. Right now you want to move to the next idea.

The concept is to completely dump your mind out with everything you can think of for 45 minutes. All the sorting, prioritizing, debating, etc., comes later.

Getting Ready

Read This Before we begin, you should have the following materials completed and in front of you:

Your Roles in Life – The 7-10 different roles that you play (or will play) Student, Family Member, Citizen, Actor, Singer, Artist, Traveler, Teacher, Mentor, etc.
Jobs Spreadsheet - You should have already highlighted this during class with any jobs you are interested in.
Any List of Goals You Already Have - bucket lists, things you want to do in life, places you want to travel, To-DO, – any list you keep.
Running Your Own Business - The paper from class that lists of all the jobs that may exist in your company.
Plenty of paper and a pen or lots of pencils. You need to make it easy to write for a long time. We’ll be trying for 100 goals or more here and you can expect your arm to get tired.

The Jobs Listings and Life Roles were covered in the previous live class, so you should have them ready to go. If not, please fill out these before beginning the exercise (it’s important). These materials are available in your Theatre Careers Packet, Part 2.

Copies of the files in the packet:

Categories for goals.docx - Open the file and replace the contents with any categories that fit your life.
Types of Theatre Jobs.pdf - Open the file, print and highlight all the jobs YOU would be interested in doing during your career.
Running Your Own Business.pdf

The session is about 45 minutes, so make sure you have that much un-interrupted time available to do the exercise before you being.

Ready?

Click on the mp3 below and follow the instructions, writing down all brainstorm goals for the next 45 Minutes.

Note: this file is 24mb. I don't know how well it will download and play on phones or tablets, but should be fine from a laptop.

Theatre Careers Goal Workshop Audio 2019.m4a

Good Luck!

When You Are Done

When you are finished, we will learn how to set these goals by Priority, Role and Timeline, separating the really important ones from the fantasies and not so important ones, and in what part of your life you want to achieve them.