Review this documentation tip sheet on writing meaningful long-term goal statements. The creation of the person-centered plan should begin with, and flow from, a meaningful and motivating goal statement which reflects something the individual would like to achieve. Life goals reflect a person’s longer-term vision of recovery and their hopes and dreams for the future. When crafting the goal statements, it is perfectly acceptable, and in fact encouraged, for the person-centered planning facilitator to support the focus person and his/her team to think BIG! Goal statements should be based on the assumption that persons’ with disabilities generally want the exact same things out of life as the rest of us – including a desire to have maximum self-determination around treatment and life decisions.