The advantage of setting small goals or mini-milestones is that they show your progress toward your larger goals.
When you develop your goals and objectives for all areas of your life, it’s normal to start with the result you desire, then work your way backwards, creating the steps of achievement. Each step that you complete is a mini-milestone.
When you know you’re progressing, it motivates you to continue reaching for your larger goals.
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Simple Goals
When you set long-term and short-term goals, part of the process of goal setting includes action planning. It can be hard to understand how you’ll achieve a big goal without understanding the smaller simple steps necessary to achieve it.
If you want to lose weight, that larger goal will feel overwhelming, and you may give up because it will take a long time. However, if you instead focus on easier, simple goals like eating more vegetables, drinking more water, and eating less sugar, starting with that small goal will seem simple and feel good when you achieve it.
Satisfying Goals
It feels good to finish and achieve something. However, if all your goals take more than a day to accomplish, you will not have very much satisfaction in your life because you’re always waiting for when you finish a goal instead of revelling in the journey. But if you set a small goal to get through today drinking your one hundred ounces of water just for today, you’ll feel much more satisfied sticking to your plans.
Clarifying Goals
Even when you work hard to set goals using all of the tools at your disposal, sometimes the big hairy goal at the end seems fuzzy. But when you look at your accomplishments as you go, checking your progress and celebrating the small goals you’ve set for each day, it can clarify that what you want is truly achievable and that you’re doing the right thing because you can see the progress.
Confidence Building
When you check off something on your to-do list, even if it’s a task that won’t show results for another year, it will still feel good. It will also build your confidence and self-image. By enjoying the mini-milestones, you let go of the all-or-nothing approach that can deter even the most relentless goal-setter.
Motivating
When you set small milestones for each larger goal, it feels so motivating to mark off each of the mini-milestones from your to-do list. You can see your progress and know that what you’re doing will achieve the results you want. When you see it, you will keep going.
Develop Positive Habits
One of the ways to ensure success in life is to build healthy habits around all the actions needed to achieve your goals. When you set mini-milestones, it gives you a heads up when something is going wrong so you can correct it. Then, when you have success, the positive habit will be fixed in your life.
Enjoy More Success
People who understand the entire goal-setting process, including setting up action steps to do the tasks that get to the desired results, are the people who finish and achieve success. So, if you want to be an achiever, mini-milestones may help you do it.
Small steps allow you to check your progress so that you know you’re on track for the bigger goals you’ve set for your life. For example, suppose you’re goal is to run a marathon in under 2 hours. In that case, it will help you stay on track if you can see the impact your choices make and show you that your actions are achieving the results you wanted. Nothing is more motivating than success.
Giving your mind hits of success every day through setting mini-milestones is the easiest way to get more motivation.
