Setting Your Short-Term Goals – Take Baby Steps

Once you define your lifetime achievements and what success means to you, the next step is to set your short-term goals to be sure they keep you on the path to success. It’s easy to over-think this, but it doesn’t need to be difficult.  Here are some hints and tips on setting good short-term goals:

1) Create SMART Goals

SMART goals stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely. The essence of a good SMART goal is that it’s easy to refer to frequently to track your progress and remain focused. For a template you can use to set your SMART Goals (click here).

2) Give Yourself Rewards

Goals should be naturally motivating if they align with your lifetime goals but sometimes we all need a little boost to keep us going. For all your SMART goals, add a reward that you will give yourself for achieving them, you may consider matching the size of the reward to the significance of the goal.

3) Set Your Milestones

SMART goals are great for one-year or less, but if you want to keep on your path to success, you will want to arrange specific milestones for the next one to three years. In most cases, milestones are achieved by accomplishing several of your SMART goals.

We’d enjoy hearing more about your goals, milestones and rewards. The best thing you can do to solidify your goals is to share them with others so they can support you in your pursuit of success.

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Setting Your Lifetime Goals – The World is Your Oyster

Goal-setting is critical to your mindset because it gives you the direction of your life. Goals are never set in stone they will morph throughout your life as new information is learned. The beauty of goal-setting is that it forces you to take a moment to think about your life and it helps you to define what success means to you.

1) Start at the End by Setting Your Lifetime Achievements

The toughest part about long-term goal-setting is trying to ignore your current status. For now, don’t worry about where you are today and how far off your goals may seem. This may sound morbid, but imagine yourself as a much older person looking back at your life. Answer the question, what did you achieve?

2) Define Success in Your Life

Aside from setting goals, you need to define what success means to you. Every person has a different meaning so this is truly something that will be unique to you. For inspiration and ideas, check out this YouTube video by theresident.net – (click here to view the video)

The reason your lifetime achievements are so important to your definition of success is because success typically involves the pursuit of your lifetime achievement goals. It also means that you can choose to be successful everyday of your life because success is not a destination. Feel free to share your definition of success or your lifetime achievement goals on themindsetgame.com.

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