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Goal Planning - Achieving Short Term Goals

Article Category: Advice

Author Name: Andrew Hines

Yesterday, I touched on achieving large, long term goals and the process that should be applied in order to better your chances of achieving them.

Today I am proceeding to the next step which is Short Term Goals.

What are Short Term Goals?

While I imagine many definitions will vary, for the purposes of this post and this process, short term goals are goals that are to be set, achieved and reviewed on a monthly basis.

If you apply the framework from yesterday you will have given yourself the "big picture" goal setting required for the year. The next step is to break that goal down into pieces so that you can make progress toward it. This is where short term goals come into play.

For simplicity sake, I suggest just reviewing short term goals at the beginning of every month.

So how should I set my Short Term Goals?

Step One

Review your Long term goals briefly to remind yourself of what's important to you. Feel free to make minor revisions or large revisions if your goal has for some reason changed.

Step Two

Write down the type of action you intend to take for your short term goal. e.g. If you're a car sales person, you might say "for the month of May, I will sell the following number of cars." Don't fill in a number just yet.

Remember to begin with the end in mind. I you had an annual goal of earning $100,000 this year. How many cars would you have to sell in a year in order to achieve that. From there, break it down into the number you would have to sell on a monthly basis.
Some months may naturally be better than others so you will need to set each month's goal individually. What type of action do you have to take to generate more sales? Make sure that it's something you can measure.

Now here comes the fun part. List your goal in three different outcomes:

Base – What you know you can do based on past experience
Target – A bit of a stretch for you
Amazing – Beyond what you expect to be able to achieve

Why set short term goals this way?

There are a couple of key reasons why this will improve your chances of success. For one, you're going to have the ability to feel good on a monthly basis even if you only achieve the base goal.

A lot of people get discouraged when they don't succeed... well, that's no longer a problem because you know you can reach your base goal.

The reason we include Target and Amazing is to set your subconscious mind to work on helping you achieve beyond your base goal.

Remember, writing a goal down gives it power, be sure to write down those higher levels of achieving and give yourself a chance at achieving them!

So back to our car sales person example. Let's call him "Bob". Bob might write his short term goal like this:

I will sell:
Base – 15 cars
Target – 20 Cars
Amazing – 28 Cars

No matter what, Bob can feel good about his accomplishment and even if he has a slow month in May, he can make up for it in June!

Step 3

Write a quick one or two sentences about why this specifically helps you achieve the long term goal you set out.
Once you've done this, sign and date your goal and file it away in a place where you can review it at least a few times per week.

Next stop, living your dreams!!

Thanks for reading. Please stay tuned for my upcoming blog post on goal "chunking" and post your questions, thoughts and comments below at the bottom of my Short Term Goals blog post.

PS.

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