Personal Goal Setting

A goal is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envisions, plans and commits to achieve (Locke and Latham, 1990). It allows measuring one’s progress. It gives long-term vision and short-term motivation to the people. The present study was an attempt to classify the personal goals and to provide the guidelines for setting proper personal goals. The author classified the goals into Primary, Secondary and Tertiary goals and the details are presented. It is opined that for proper goal setting one needs to have knowledge about the Science of human body, Emotions and health and the Life skills. All these aspects are briefly presented in this paper.