Timing Your Goals: Short-Term, Medium-Term and Long-Term
Determine a specific timing to achieve the goal. When determining this time, consider the previous four principles and evaluate the possibility of timing with objective facts. This means there should be trackable timeline attached to your goals. Attempt to answer the following questions about your goal, in this section.
When are you going to achieve your goal?
What can you do to achieve that goal by the next 6 months?
What can you do to achieve the goal by the next one to one and a half month ?
What can you do today to achieve the goal?
In terms of time to achieve goals, you need to note a general classification for which goals are divided into three main groups of short-term, medium-term, and long-term.
Short-term goals are usually achieved in a period that is less than one year.
Short-term goals are means to achieve long-term goals.
Use small goals to evaluate the path you are on.
Medium-term goals are the ones that take longer than short-term goals and shorter than long-term goals to achieve.
Long-term goals usually have a time horizon of over 5 years.
Timing the goals depends on the type of goal you determine for yourself. For example, you might consider developing a website for your business within one year as a long-term goal, with setting up its various features at monthly or quarterly intervals as the shortterm goal. As another example, the target market profitability may be a 5-year long-term goal.