The Importance Of My Short Term Goals

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Over the years I’ve discovered that the fewer goals you have the more dedication and success you have with them. Because of this I’ve thought tirelessly about my goals. For instance I knew that one of my short term goals is to get into a good college, that is a need for myself. Thankfully, I was able to complete that goal by being excepted into the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Which I have replaced with another short term goal of saving a couple of thousand of dollars either through work and scholarships for college. These short term goals are feeding into one of my long term goals which is to be a successful psychiatrist. With these goals, however, I have made them into goals that are needed not wanted in my life.
These goals right now have a college theme and what I need to accomplish, pushing myself to make sure that I use my resources wisely to the best of my abilities so I can complete these goals. However, this goals I have built to not only help me with my academics but my life after my
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An example, is making the goal to save money for academics so that when I have completed them I don’t have huge financial debt. When talking about my long term goal, what I mean but successful isn’t related to financial or social success. By successful, I mean that I want to be very good at my

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