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Intellectuals, How do you go about setting goals? What is your time horizon? Do you you have a 5 year plan? Do you ever view your descisions from an "eternal" persective - or at least from the perspective of your deathbed? I often find it hard to set long-term goals. It's so much easier to get instant gratification, or just plan for tomorrow. But I'm growing increasingly aware that a wider time horizon is important for success. As individuals, we need goals to provide meaning in life. As a species, we need long term goals to combat things like climate change, and even to understand politics. I often think we, as humans, blind ourselves with short-term thinking.
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Short-term things I do with lists. I'm obsessed with lists. I keep a notepad on my desk at all times and it's full of lists of all sorts of things. Long-term, I tend to make up as I go along. I try and incorporate something to do with my long-term goals into my daily life (long term goals of achieving my grade 8 on 3 instruments is incorporated by practising every day, long term goal of classic length hair is incorporated by haircare and a hair forum, etc.). I find it easier to think in the short-term, so I try and break up my long-term goals into small things as well, so that I'm always working towards them and I don't forget. I think that things like climate change don't need goals to help them, but more of an attitude change from the entire planet. We shouldn't set goals like 'reduce carbon emissions by X%' - we need to realise that we need to make a long term change that starts in the short term.
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Quote: from Periwinkle at 4:08 am on Aug. 12, 2008
 I think that things like climate change don't need goals to help them, but more of an attitude change from the entire planet. We shouldn't set goals like 'reduce carbon emissions by X%' - we need to realise that we need to make a long term change that starts in the short term.
I think you've got a point there. The "baby-steps" mentality is good. But in the end I think we still need specific numbers and such. It's better to make super-ambitious goals and get close, than not setting any specific goal at all. If we make our goals for humanity (and ourselves) too arbitrary, we lose our sense of direction no?
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To me, the whole numbers thing is pointless. In theory, it's brilliant, but I think that it'll just go the way of all the other government targets. They want X amount of 11-year-olds to get such-and-such a level in the SATs, so they teach to the test. They want so many prosecutions in such-and-such a place? They prosecute for ridiculously petty things. Nothing's been achieved, but the target has been met.
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I take life one step at a time. And short erm goals, if many, I'll keep in a list, otherwise I just keep them in my head. Long term goals are not definite goals, but directions as in to principles, ideas, purpose, meaning stuff like that - what I want to do in life, but the how, I leave that up to the one step a time approach. To ensure that I'm on track, all the short term goals must be in accordance with the long term purpose and meaning . . Quite simply that . . I personally believe we need to plan every step, as well as plan which stairs we choose to take. There has to be balance. Having a giant mountain as a goal would be impossible if the details are left out.
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