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9 TYPES OF GOALS THAT CAN HELP GET YOUR LIFE ON TRACK

by Johnson Okunade
February 10, 2020 - Updated on January 14, 2023
in Woven Business, Woven Entrepreneurship, Woven Motivations
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TYPES OF GOALS
Goals can be about anything in life, as long as it is something you set to achieve within a time-frame. There are different types of goals you can set to make your life better. For example, you can set a goal to improve your vocabulary by reading 30 books in a year. To achieve this goal, you’ll probably have to set smaller goals like reading 30 minutes a day or 4 hours a week and reading up 3 books every month.
Time-Based Goals
1. Short Term Goals
2. Long Term Goals
3. Lifetime Goals
Life-Based Goals
4. Health and Fitness Goals
5. Career Goals
6. Financial Goals
7. Business Goals
8. Personal Goals
9. Family Goals
Making Your Goals S.M.A.R.T
Final Thoughts
Reference on Types of Goals

TYPES OF GOALS

Goals can be about anything in life, as long as it is something you set to achieve within a time-frame. There are different types of goals you can set to make your life better. For example, you can set a goal to improve your vocabulary by reading 30 books in a year. To achieve this goal, you’ll probably have to set smaller goals like reading 30 minutes a day or 4 hours a week and reading up 3 books every month.

While at it, you may discover that your family and relationship needs more attention as does your business. You might also find that you need to raise the bar of your income to meet surging expenses. Moreover, you also do not want to keep your health in the danger zone while pursuing your wildest dreams.

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The types of goals

In order to put things in shape and keep your life on track, on Woven Motivations, we decided to list the following as the types of goals you should focus on setting. They will help you to increase your productivity, achieve tremendous success, and live a balanced life.

Time-Based Goals

Popular author and International Bestseller, Stephen R. Covey said:

“The key is not spending time but investing it.”

Nothing else helps you to invest your time wisely more than time-based goals. These can be in the form of short term, long term or lifetime goals.

1. Short Term Goals

Short term goals are the goals you set to accomplish in the immediate future. These goals help you to think about what you can do right now and up to a year to achieve your dreams. You can think of short term goals as smaller units of larger goals – the smaller steps that connect you to your bigger dreams.

Types of goals
Short time goal

 

For example, if your long term goal is to buy a house in 5 years, your short term goal might be to save a certain amount of your monthly income to be able to buy the house in the set time.

Here are more examples of short term goals:

  • Lose 10 pounds of weight in one month
  • Increase income by 40% over the next six months.
  • Take 5 online mini-courses in 2 months
  • Save up some money to enjoy a vacation later in the year
  • Read a book every month

Setting short term goals will keep you motivated. That feeling that comes with getting something done and checking them off your list keeps you motivated to want to achieve more.

2. Long Term Goals

A long term goal is something you want to accomplish in the future but have to take steps towards achieving now. They usually require a broader scope and more time to achieve.

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Long term goal

Long term goals can be about the things you want to achieve for yourself, family, career, business, or health, etc.

Here are examples of long term goals:

  • Obtain a doctoral degree
  • Found a non-profit
  • Land your dream job
  • Buy your own house
  • Save for retirement
  • Learn to speak another language fluently
  • Move to another country

Long term goals connect you to your bigger purpose and give you a sense of direction. Achieving long term goals also brings lasting results. Imagine being able to buy your dream home, you will enjoy it for as long as you want.

3. Lifetime Goals

Lifetime goals are the big goals that you intend to achieve in your lifetime. They essentially connect with your life dream, vision, and purpose, and can occur at any point in life – early adult life, middle-age, or old age. There is no limit to what you can set to achieve in your lifetime.

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Lifetime Goal

For example, you can set a life goal to have your own family and raise 3 children, own a private jet at 40 or retire at 50. Another lifetime goal can be to feed 2 million destitute children with your resources before you die.

A faith-based preacher was credited to ‘winning’ 79 million souls before he died at 79.. That’s just an example to show that lifetime goals can be just about anything and can be achieved.

More examples of lifetime goals:

  • Become country President at 40
  • Become a TV Host, host the top hierarchy in the world of Politics, Business, Sports and Entertainment before turning 35
  • Climb Mount Everest at 65
  • Travel to all countries of the world before age 55
  • Buy and develop a 100 hectares of land in Africa as retirement home and farm
  • Stay fit and run the marathon at 80

Setting your life goals should not be a difficult task. If you are unsure of what goals you should set for your life, look toward your values and passions for direction.

Life-Based Goals

In order to live a balanced life and achieve all-round success, there is a need to set specific goals for different areas of your life. Setting goals in these key areas will help you to take control of your entire life and achieve more as you think steps ahead.

4. Health and Fitness Goals

Before anything else, your most important goal in life should be to stay alive and healthy.

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Health and fitness goals

When you are fit physically and mentally, you will find it easier to function well in other areas. Here are some health goals you can set for yourself:

  • Walk for 30 minutes a day
  • Avoid foods with high cholesterol
  • Keep a regular bedtime
  • Quit smoking
  • Drink at least 2 litres of water a day

5. Career Goals

Career goals are the road-maps that help you to achieve a more productive and progressive professional life. Irrespective of the stage you are currently in your career, you need to continually set goals to grow and achieve more.

Types of goals career
Career goal

Your career goals should reflect your professional vision, and you should also think carefully about what you want to accomplish. 

Below are some career goals examples:

  • Earn a higher Degree or Executive Certification
  • Become a Consultant in your field
  • Rise to top management cadre within 5 years
  • Increase your job performance metrics
  • Find a job with better staff welfare package

6. Financial Goals

Most of us are making less than we could and spending more than we should. Setting financial goals will help you take control of your finances.

Financial Goal
Financial Goal

To set financial goals, you have to be able to figure out what is important to you and what you can afford in the short and long term. Here are some financial goal examples:

  • Prepare and stick to a monthly spending plan
  • Save a certain amount monthly
  • Develop alternative income sources
  • Grow income by 50%
  • Pay off debt

7. Business Goals

Growing and keeping your business on the right track requires setting the right set of business goals.

Business Goal
Business Goal

To achieve this, you have to determine your long term vision and mission for your business and also create measurable short term objectives.

Below are some examples of business goals:

  • Reduce overhead by 30%
  • Acquire new clients
  • Enter a new market
  • Create a new product
  • Increase your market share

8. Personal Goals

Personal goals are the goals that you set to have a better version of yourself in the near or distant future.

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Personal Goal

These goals include activities and plans that are geared towards personal development. Examples of personal goals include:

  • Read a book per month, commit to lifelong learning
  • Develop a habit of gratitude
  • Stop procrastinating
  • Wake up early
  • Develop emotional intelligence

9. Family Goals

The home front is crucial to experiencing balance and well-being.

Family Goal
Family Goal

Setting family goals will help you to keep your family in order and experience happy moments with the people you love most.

Examples of family goals include:

  • Eat more veggies to have a healthy family
  • Create a weekly/monthly time out
  • Have a daily family devotion/meditation
  • Volunteer to do some chores for your spouse
  • Save up for a Disney Cruise

In addition to family goals, you may want to consider setting marriage goals or dating goals. It is one of the many types of goals.

Making Your Goals S.M.A.R.T

To make your goals workable and achievable, there are some things you have to consider in the goal planning process. The S.M.A.R.T framework is one of the goal frameworks that you can use to put your goals in the proper perspective.

S.M.A.R.T is an acronym used to represent Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound (or Time-related). A goal that is not SMART is nothing but a vague goal and such can be hardly achieved.

Setting SMART goals begin with knowing what you want to achieve and what it takes to achieve them. Taking your goals through the SMART process can help you refine your ideas and redefine your goals.

If you want to learn more about setting SMART goals, don’t miss these tips: How to Write SMART Goals (With SMART Goals Templates)

Final Thoughts

Never let a moment pass in your life without setting a goal or working to achieve the ones you have set. Find out what you can do from now up to six months time to contribute to your progress in life.

Don’t forget to plan for the long term either. You have only one life to live, therefore set the goals you wish to accomplish in your lifetime. Every area of your life is important and you don’t want to neglect any of them. You only become truly successful when your life is in shape.

Setting goals will be a futile activity if the goals are not SMART. Make your goals SMART and you will find that achieving goals all the types of goals is not as difficult as they seem.

Reference on Types of Goals

  1. CFAN: Reinhard Bonnke: Biography
  2. LiveBoldandBloom: The Ultimate List Of 100 Life Goals To Achieve Before You Die
  3. CareerAddict: 13 Examples of Achievable Career Goals

 

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