My personal strategy that has served me well is to set small, medium, and large goals... set short, medium and long term goals. Every combination of the above. So there are always goals within reach and being achieved to keep me motivated.
And when I reach a goal I set another.
I don't like goals like "Millionaire by 25" though I'm guilty of that early on (mine was millionaire by 30, billionaire by 40). I achieved the first, the second is far too lofty. If I could change those goals they would have been "Be a self made millionaire" and once that goal was set, "be a self made billionaire" with no timelines.. and probably goal 2 should be for 10M...
anyway, equally important are "goals" that you are already achieving, and simply must continue to do... such as "keep my 3 mile time under 19 minutes" or "stay under X lbs" or "maintain a $X savings balance"...
Yep yep!
I'm going to write a sequel post to this about how setting goals saved my life lol.
But I think the point I was making in this post was to try to get people to relax on those crazy-high goals that make you feel a little worthless when you don't hit them.
Your goal-setting routine looks very similar to how mine :).
Thanks.
I don't have an issue with quasi-impossible goals so long as there is balance with actually achievable and achieved ones to bring balance to it.
On the flip side, if you achieve all your goals easily then the goals may not be lofty enough
Yes! I completely agree. Nowadays I like to set a real lofty theme - tell stories that are loved all over the world - and then make smaller trackable goals that pull me towards that theme.