Short-Term Goals:
“Short-Term goals are something that you can achieve in less-time or near future”. Short-term goals can be things you want to achieve in days, weeks, and months.
Benefits of Short-Term Goals are:
- Short-term goals are easy to achieve.
- It takes minimum time.
- Accomplishing short-term goals will give the motivation to plan for long-term goals.
- Long-term goals can be broken into short-term goals. It will make you perform better and achieve things faster.
- Short-term goals will give quick-wins to stay driven and focused.
- Short-term goals will help you beat procrastination.
- Want to get genuine feedback on how you are performing? Set Short-term goals and achieve them.
- You become a good planner by setting short-term goals.
Examples of Short-Term Goals for Start-Ups:
- Reach more customers through social media marketing.
- Find a good designer before the month-end.
- Redecorate the office meeting space before this week. Etc.
- Develop an official App before June.
Examples of Short-Term goals for College-Students:
- Submit networking assignment by Thursday
- Apply for the internship-program by Monday evening.
- Pay my semester-fee before the deadline
- Clean my room and get rid of old books
- Get a 3.0 GPA in the coming semester
- Finish the balance coding-snippet in the lab today itself.
- Enroll in the new writing class etc.
Examples of Short-term goal Personal Goals could be:
- Fix the usual dentist appointment
- Write a journal every night.
- Stop using gadgets before going to sleep.
- Save money for the new watch
- No shopping this month
- Improve my water intake daily etc.
- Enroll in the art class by Friday
To Conclude:
To achieve your long-term goals, you need to get good at setting short-term goals and working on achieving it.