The best way to do this is to break your long-term goals into smaller steps, and use step one as the target for your next career move, considering how you can be ambitious without being naive.
Think about what the next step should be toward your ultimate career goal, and don’t shoot straight for the CEO job. Breaking your goals down into steps like this keeps them manageable, and stops you from becoming overwhelmed.
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Set goals to achieve your desired outcome and then break down your larger goals into smaller, manageable sizes. Set daily. weekly and monthly goals to help keep on track towards the larger goal, but which are achievable. In other words, take baby steps
Many people feel overwhelmed with large goals and so they don't know where to start.
Break down your ultimate goal into many smaller goals that are attainable, so you can make progress.
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