Long-term goals VS Short-term goals? Or is it Long-term goals AND Short-term goals?

Long-term and short-term are important metrics in a person's journey to success. Determining failure or victory.

Success is not a coincidence, and it comes with a clear path of goals set to make your way up easier.

Why is that?

 In Today’s Success Post, we will discuss how to set goals to achieve your dreams of thriving in your life.

What are goals?

 We only heard that goals are aims in a person’s mind. But our nature as humans makes us underestimate the importance of things.

Goals are one of the most important aspects to make it easier to become better and to progress. I will clarify this with two examples:

• A person with unset goals. They will hardly recognize what they want to do. They will not get better. They fail.

• On the other hand, a person with clear, sets goals. They know exactly what they want to achieve. They follow a traced road to it. They succeed.

There are two types of goals:

Long-term goals and short-term goals.

Long-term goals are designed to fuel ambition, drive, and flexibility. They monitor your progress. They include broad outcomes. They usually take several years to achieve. They define your ultimate purpose.

Short-term goals are set to be precise and detailed. They output quantifiable results when achieved. They are direct and immediate. They usually take less than a year to achieve.

If you know how to use these two, you are doing good.

One mistake a lot of people fall into is they only set one type of goal thinking that this is it. “I did what I must do.”

This is a blunder.

• We cannot set long-term goals solely because they will not give you a system of what to do. Think of it like having a map of some location. No phone, no GPS, nothing. In front of you sits an almost opaque fog. You cannot see what is in front of you.

 Similarly, absent short-term goals are putting yourself in that same situation.

• We cannot set short-term goals solely because long term goals are a necessity for them to exist. It is akin to being in a desert with no map, no phone, no compass… trying to find a way out.

 To win in your aim, you need to utilize both.

Here is a guide on how:

1-      Take a piece of paper, an agenda…

2-      Write one goal.

It must not be broad, nor a goal including a lot of aspirations. It must be on a single field of interest. And you must be fulfilled and driven to do it i.e., not related to instant money, or fame…

3-      Write why you want that goal. Intervene with the values you will get from it.

4-      Meditate for 5 minutes. Start from where you are, drawing a draft in your mind of what your journey to attain this goal will look like. The main events, the work… Then see the material thing you will get from it.

 If you feel convinced and motivated to start, excellent job. If you do not feel that burn, repeat and ponder even more.

More wisdom.

After accomplishing the above, don’t overthink. Start working now. Many people waste this drive on unproductive searching on the internet for advice, gurus…

This is what I call The Binge-Effect. A fatal killer of work.

You might feel satisfied, but by doing so, you are tricking your mind into a loop of over-information, making you burnt out.

As the proverb says:

The time is never right. Act.

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Simo.