Your brain modules already know your short-term goals.
And that’s why you don’t have to do anything about it. Unless you want the talkative part of your brain to get into the act. If you want to get a feel for that, ask yourself a few questions.
If a thing is worth doing,
it is worth knowing why you are doing it.
What will you be doing an hour from now?
Why will you be doing that?
What will you do after you finish that job?
How do your answers fit with your long term goals?
Don’t be concerned if you don’t like all the answers. Some people won’t be happy with the fit between their short-term goals and their long-term goals. It’s that unity business again. The talking modules in your brain handle your long-term goals. Those talking modules may not always get through to the modules that handle short-term goals and the actions to hunt them.
There is no rule that says your short-term goals have to match your long-term goals.
There is no rule but reality.
But there are consequences. Your short-term goals determine what you do in the here and now. Your long term goals apply to the there are then. Your only power to control the future lies in what you do in the present.
So your short-term goals may not match what you think are your long-term goals. Those aren’t really your long term goals. They are imposters. They are convenient things to talk about. Your real long-term goals are in your present trajectory. In how what you do now affects the future. You can figure that out. If you want to,
If you do figure it out, you can decide whether you like that future. Or if you want to change it.
Motivation: Shift from Park to Drive
You use long-term goals to change your future. But they will only change your future by changing your short-term goals. So if your short-term goals don’t fit your long term goals, you have two options:
Option 1: Change your long-term goals to fit your short-term goals.
Option 2: Change your short-term goals to fit your long-term goals.
If you like Option 1, skip the other pages about goals. If you prefer Option 2, you may find that some of those goal pages are useful
List the main things you did
yesterday.
Why did you make those choices?
Where will the choices take you?
Is that where you want to go?
How will you answer these questions tomorrow?