The long-term is the real game,
but if you focus too much on the long-term forget about the short-term — You don’t eat.
The short-term is just as essential as the long term.
At its basic level, focusing on the short term is about handling what you need, money for food, rent, transportation and impromptu expenses on rainy days.
When you’re stressed about paying for your rent on the first, it’s EXTREMELY difficult to focus on being creative and your long-term dreams. Do what you have to do to fill your basic needs. And knowing what you need is always a gut check. Do you really need those new pants or do you just want them? Do you really need those cookies or are you better off without them?
The short-term is also where the action is. That’s where your dreams are made. We must act in the short term to make the long-term goals reality.
There is no long term without the short term. The short-term is your daily habits. It’s the string of our short-term efforts combined and that gets you to your goal. The long-term is a mountain range in the distance. The short-term is the daily steps we have to take, the challenges we must face and the changes we must undertake to get to the top.
The act of taking daily steps with the big goal in mind is how we create an extraordinary life.
Stay BOLD, Keep Pursuing,
— Josh Waggoner
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