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Create short-term and long-term goals

Create short-term and long-term goals

From the course: Creating a Career Plan

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Create short-term and long-term goals

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- We've talked about identifying your goals and working backwards, defining the milestones you need to hit to get to where you want to be, so now let's talk about short-term and long-term goals. I'll define a long-term goals as something that is the fulfillment of dream and will take many steps to achieve, and short-term goals are the milestones you need to hit in order to get there. We get overwhelmed by just how many steps we'll need to take to achieve our long-term goals, and how long the process might last. Big projects look like a giant mountain that's really scary to have to climb. Instead, imagine each of the steps you will need to take are small hills, easily climbed. After you've successfully completed each task, you can congratulate yourself for a job well done. Eventually you'll have climbed every hill and accomplished your long-term goal. Using our previous example of the person who thinks they want to…

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