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NDIS Goals: Examples and Planning Worksheet
Draft your goals in your own words before a planning meeting.
Goals describe what you want to work towards. They are personal, so there are no right or wrong answers. Writing them down before a planning meeting helps you say what matters in your own words.
This worksheet gives you prompts across the areas of life a plan can touch, plus a made-up example to show the shape of a goal. Yours will be different, because they are yours.
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How to shape a goal
A clear goal names what you want and gives it a bit of direction. The prompts below turn everyday hopes into something a planning meeting can work with.
- Daily living and independence
- Social and community connection
- Learning and education
- Work
- Health and wellbeing
- Home and where you live
- Which goals to work on soon, and which are longer term
How to use it
Participants
Write goals the way you would say them. "I want to travel to my course on my own" is clearer than a formal phrase. Bring your draft to the planning meeting and talk it through.
Families supporting a young person
Help draft goals in the young person own words where you can. The worked example in the worksheet is made up, and only there to show the shape; the real goals should be theirs.
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What makes a good NDIS goal?
A good goal is personal and clear. It names what you want to work towards and gives it enough direction that supports can be built around it. There is no fixed format and no right answer; the worksheet prompts help you turn an everyday hope into a goal you can talk through.
Are the examples real people?
No. The worked example in the worksheet is made up, and it is there only to show the shape a goal can take. Your goals will be different because they come from your own life. Use the example as a guide to structure, not as a template to copy.
Who can help me write my goals?
A support coordinator, planner, or plan manager can help you shape your goals and connect them to supports. Family and people who know you well can help too. The worksheet gives you a starting point to bring to those conversations rather than arriving with a blank page.
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