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The first tool for turning your family dreams into actions is a goal statement, one of the most basic instruments in your family-management toolkit. Goals are less abstract and more realistic than dreams. They enable you to design action plans to accomplish your family objectives.

Goal statements that work have certain universal qualities: they are realistic, yet they reach beyond wherever you are at the moment; they are future-oriented; they state what you want (not what you don't want); and they are framed positively. After working with parents and studying families for years, we can say with confidence that achieving a goal is easier if you first identify what you want. Once you define a goal, you open new pathways for you and your children to follow. Your journey will be most satisfying when you base your course on your family's individual values and resources. You are in charge of your family—no one else. Your dreams are whatever you want them to be. Here are the basic elements of a goal statement that will set you on the path to achieving your dreams.