Achievement Through Goal Setting - Part 2

Long Term Goals or KEY Goals

Now that you have decided what is important to you, lets start from the top and work our way down.  Lets set a long term goal and call it our KEY goal.  Make your KEY goal ambitious but attainable.  After completing the 4 steps in Achievement Through Goal Setting Part 1, decide on one KEY goal.

Remember, in order to reach a key goal, you'll need to set interim goals – multiple short-term goals.  Broken down into bite-sized pieces, the objectives are less intimidating.  That is were our medium and short term goals come into play.

Medium Term

You have now created an overall KEY goal, a light at the end of the tunnel if you will.  Hopefully you have made it concrete by placing it on paper.  Now how do you get there?  A medium term goal is a good start.  It is a stepping stone that you will have to cross in order to reach your destination.  What do you need to accomplish prior to reaching your KEY goal?  Write it down.

Short Term

Ok, now for the fun part.  You are going to look at short term goals, these are goals that you can accomplish today or tomorrow or maybe even over the next couple of month.  The trick is, you need to pick goals that keep you moving in the right direction to accomplishing your medium term goals and then finally your KEY goals.  You could make setting your KEY goal your first short term goal.  But remember, goals can't be made too easy or they won't be worth working towards.  I would like you to now list several short term goals you could start working towards today, keeping in mind what we talked about above.

Now that you looked at setting short, medium and long term goals, it is important to remember that once you complete your list it will continuously be evolving.  Once you complete a short term goal, you need to re-asses were you are on your journey and pick what to do next to help you get to your destination. Have fun with this and take pride in your accomplishments.  You are ultimately the one who is in charge of your destiny so work hard and you will attain not only your goals, you will accomplish your dreams.

Until next time, take care.