I was recently sent this video below by my mom and she asked me to think about something. She asked me to think about the value of making ‘long term goals’, over having ‘short term goals’. Generally speaking having short term goals provide an instant gratification and maybe takes less effort, and long term goals although a slower journey, is the way to a greater success!

I was recently sent this video below by my mom and she asked me to think about something. She asked me to think about the value of making ‘long term goals’, over having ‘short term goals’. Generally speaking having short term goals provide an instant gratification and maybe takes less effort, and long term goals although a slower journey, is the way to a greater success!

Well I don’t know much about Mr Jack Ma except for his major on line success with ‘Alibaba’ an on line shopping website. But after watching this brief video I like his way of thinking here.

I was also asked to think about the friends I know and whether it was possible to guess who may be ‘long term goal thinkers’ and which are ‘short term’ – it’s really funny but this was not so hard to do. It was surprising to see the differences between the personalities and habits of the two groups of people ( if I am correct).  Without deciding if one way of planning is better over the other, it makes sense to me to look at the future this way, and to try to make long term goals regarding school and a career.

APPLYING MY EXPERIENCES FROM CHESS: I can see how a chess player can be great at making long term goals. After all the thinking it requires to play a 4-5 hr chess game; the ups and downs,  winning and losing (pieces) and having to keep on track and focused and never loosing site of the task and end! It also takes many months and sometimes years to get to a high level of playing. This sounds like long term goal thinking to me. I’ve decided this is something I can do. Time to get planning.

I hope you enjoy the video.

I am aware that many people are not fortunate enough to be able to have long term goals and make big plans for the future, and sometimes just finding food and somewhere to live each day can be the only goal they are able to have. This makes me feel very grateful.

Ashley