{"id":1892,"date":"2015-07-08T00:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T08:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2015-07-07T09:40:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T17:40:57","slug":"what-if-you-suck-at-long-term-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/what-if-you-suck-at-long-term-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"What if You Suck at Long Term Goals?"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>I hop around personal finance blogs reading about the average Joes planning for retirement, excited about how much money they\u2019ve got stashed away and scheming up new ways to fund their financial life 20-30 years from now.<\/p>\n I sit there wondering how they can seem so excited to reach a goal that is still decades away, and I realize, I suck at long term goals.<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019ve admitted it, I really suck at long term goals. They don\u2019t get me excited, like, at all. But I do amazingly well with short term goals.<\/p>\n If I have a goal that I know I can reach in two years or less then I\u2019m all in and normally, I\u2019ll work so hard that I\u2019ll achieve that goal well ahead of time.<\/p>\n With these realizations I sat down this week to redo my financial goals and came up with a new game plan that would keep me on target for what I know needs to be done. If you\u2019re no good with long term goals but great with shorter goals then this will help you too.<\/p>\nWhy Long Term Goals are So Hard<\/h2>\n
Set a Bunch of Short Term Goals<\/h2>\n