...Deciding when Short-term or Long-term Goals Drive a Decision Rickey Paradise GEN480 MAY 09, 2013 Professor Annie Debeljak University of Phoenix Deciding when Short-term or Long-term Goals Drive a Decision To determine the difference in short-term and long-term decisions one must understand that most decisions have both. As a planner and estimator making difficult decisions is a daily occurrence. The decisions made today effect the long-term decisions because the goal may change, such as making a schedule to complete a task. The long term estimated delivery of the product may be six months away. However, the short-term goals and decisions to achieve the goal effect the scheduled date because bottlenecks occur, such as retrieving the parts to complete the task on time. Personal goals have the same consequences. Planning his or her education is a one way to understand this concept. If an individual makes a decision to obtain his or her degree in two years the long-term goal is set. However, during the course of the year a tragedy occurs and the individual has to change the long-term goal because the short-term goals are affected. Critical thinking while setting the goal may have solved the problem. Allowing for inconvenient occurrences while setting the long-term goal helps to maintain the set schedule. Setting goals require making small steps to obtain the long-range goal. Monitoring the short-term goals is one way to achieve the long-term goal. According to Rosen L...
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...For as long as I could remember I have always had an interest in a career in sports. Whether it was wanting to be a Denver Broncos Cheerleader as a child or wanting to help teach Tae Kwon Do after receiving my black belt in fifth grade or now wanting to be a part of a public relations team for an NFL team, sports has always had a huge impact on my short term and long term career goals. As a young child I begged my parents to allow me to play sports and to sign me up for all the sports my friends were also playing. Unfortunately, due to my parents work schedules I was never able to truly play the team sports I wanted to and would usually end up just playing by myself in the backyard on the weekends and after school. Fortunately, in first grade...
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...1. Short – term Educational Goal 2. Long –Term Educational Goal 3. Goal Development Analysis: a. What types of techniques did you use to set your education goals? I am using time management since that is going to be the biggest obstacle for me. Having a full time job, a family and home to take care of. Now I will have to fit school into my busy schedule. b. What kind of techniques will you use to manage your time so that you can achieve your goals? I will be making a schedule for everyday that I will be following to make sure that all my readings and assignments get turned in on time. I will also be doing most of my reading on the weekend to get ahead so I will not fall behind. c. What kind of techniques will you use to manage the stress that you encounter in achieving your goals? The first thing that I am going to do to manage stress will be to workout every morning before my day starts. I will also be scheduling down time for myself to relax for one hour every evening before I sit down to do assignments. ----------------------- Setting up schedule to fit school into my day Today: Make a schedule This week: Read ahead and get assignments done on time This month: Use what I am learning to fit into my daily life This year: Get awesome grades and not miss any school Get my bachelor degree in Business Management Today: Turn all assignments in on time and do all my readings This week: Follow schedule that...
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...Well, first of all before we have a plan, we must consider what our goal or objective. We need to remember that we are able to set short-term goal that help us achieve our over-all or long-term goal, by setting short-term goals this helps us by the way of steps that helps make the goal seem achievable. Some times managers tend to just get down to business and not think about formulating a plan, because of time restraints that might push out deadlines. When I walk into a task that is being ask of me to deal with I will usually look at what needs to be done before actually doing the work, thus formulating a plan in which to accomplish the objective. Some supervisors found this as a means to drag out doing the work thinking I didn’t know what...
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...enhance my SAP skills to a more managerial role. The program for strategy Field study would help me learn from case based and real time scenarios in actual situations, which would help me, get a firsthand experience of project planning and timelines. The Global Leadership program of the Schulich MBA is in itself a great opportunity to lead and develop one’s experience and be able to network across with people from different backgrounds. This would help me gain perspective on how different people function, on how various business functions and project implementations in various markets are affected by the competition and markets while enabling me to effectively communicate with individuals from around the globe. This dovetails with my long-term goal of running complete SAP solutions in technical consultations and rising to the level of a VP whereby I will control SAP implementations across the firm as well as manage other non-SAP related...
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...Professional and Personal Goals December 12, 2011 Someone famous once wrote, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” That’s deep! But, in a way, it’s obvious and should go without saying. However, so many people try to just jump the whole thousand miles at once and seem to forget that careful steps and rest stops must be made along the way to successfully (the main word is successfully ) complete that journey. I’ve had my goals and aspirations for a long time but I’m not sure that I ever started out in the most organized fashion. My professional goals remain the same but I now realize that effective time management is the main way to achieve my goals in a less stressful manner. I understand that setting goals is very important so that one can determine what is important and what is not. It helps one concentrate on the big picture and gives one the freedom to spend less time on the not so important things. The goals that are set should be attainable, specific, measurable, realistic, and timely. My professional short term goal is to acquire a staff or per diem position at one of the few hospitals in the area which are willing to hire nurses with associate degrees. I was, until I started school, a traveling nurse, but, due to the course of study I am undergoing, I’ve had to stop traveling. My professional long term goal is to ultimately receive a master’s degree so that I can become a nurse practitioner or a clinical instructor. I...
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...Everyone has goals in their life. Although I cannot speak for everyone, I can definitely say that these goals have made me grow. In a strictly academic lens both my short and long term goals deal with academics. Within my short term goal, I have set myself to graduate from high school while maintaining good grades. Though this seems easy, there is more to it than what the naked eye alone can see. During senior year one must start preparing for graduation and college if one plans to go to college, yet there are other events being held for seniors in celebration of their accomplishments throughout high school. For me this point in life everything becomes difficult due to the transitional phrase people undergo between teenagers to adulthood....
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...If you knew me, you would know that I am full of dreams and that I set high goals for myself. Those goals have lead me to where I am today by motivating me to do better each and every day to eventually achieve them. My short-term goals include: learning German, raising my ACT score and my grades, and being healthier. My long-term goals include: moving to Germany to raise my family, leave college debt-free, and being an amazing mom. All of my short-term goals correlate with my long term-goals because I feel like everything in a person's life causes the events that take place in the future one way or another. I really want to learn German because it has always been a dream of mine to visit Germany and eventually live and grow there with...
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...center, I encountered patients whose diseases effected their strength, flexibility, and endurance, which further hindered and demotivated patients to climb stairs, walk, run, or lift items. Many patients lack the physical and mental motivation to exercise simply because it may hurt beyond the usual fatigue. Columbia University's 32 week clinical rotation criteria highlights an opportunity for future students to recognize various patients' diagnosis enough to map rehabilitation treatment plans that promote exercise and prevent further medical problems linked to immobility. In discussions of my goals after earning a DPT degree, I want to learn rehabilitation techniques for treating and preventing patients from becoming inactive due to one's medical condition, and after employment, I want to specialize in geriatrics to promote exercise in elderly patients with degenerative diseases. My short-term goal is to acquire academic and clinical experience from Columbia University to help disease stricken patients' exercise despite pain and limited mobility. For instance, many obese patients upper body weight can put pressure on the knee and ankle joints causing depreciation that result in arthritis, which is enough inflammation and pain to discourage a patient from being active. As a solution, I read how physical therapists are making exercising pain free and lively for such patients by encouraging swimming, water aerobics, aquajogging, or in pool walking. For this reason, I want to be a physical...
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...Setting the Short-term and Long-term Goals for Newlyweds It is important for the newlyweds to have a financial plans set up as it helps them have a focus in life and have a reason for saving money. The short-term goals would involve things that would not require a lot of money and thus would be achieved in a short time. The long-term goals on the other hand would entail things that require a lot of money to accomplish and thereby take more time to complete (McKeown, 2012). Short-term Goals The first short term goal that I would advise the couple to set is improving the outlook of their house. This would include buying equipment that they do not have but they need them. These items include things such as furniture and electrical appliances. They would do a research on the prices of the gadgets in the market and thereby be able to note the specific target in terms of money. They would then set the amount that they should save monthly towards the furniture and electrical appliances (Hallman & Rosenbloom, 2003). The couple should also target at clearing all their financial debts. They should set aside a specific sum of money monthly to pay these debts. After clearing their debts they should then save up money, which they can use, in case they face a financial problem. This would help them avoid getting into debts in the future (Hallman & Rosenbloom, 2003). They should also save for their annual vacation. This should be done throughout the years since each year they...
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...As a teenager, it is way too soon to decide on a major that will determine the rest of my life. Lucky for me, I had the privilege to take a variety of different classes during my high school career to help me discover my college major and form new goals. Classes like weight training, chemistry, band, creative writing, and American politics never truly sparked a flame in my heart. But, when I took the computer programming class my senior year, I finally knew. Everything escalated from that semester on. I built my own computer, learned how to build a website, and even took on an intermediate programming class. Without these variety of classes, I may have never found my passion for computers. Having the opportunity of taking various classes in different fields allowed me to shape my own goals and let me experience the world in a different perspective....
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...Memory Carmela Briggs Psychology111 9/24/13 Memory Long-Term Memory is what stores events, skills, and things that we need for functioning in everyday life. It is how we remember our names and the names of our friends, family, and the people we are often in close contact with. It is vital to remember skills such as how to brush our teeth, get dressed, cook food, ride a bike, drive a car, and learn in our educational system. Without it, we would need assistance just to get through everyday life. On the other hand, short-term memory only briefly stores information. When dealing with short term memory, you may hear something one moment and within a few seconds not be able to recall what you just heard. To go back a day later and try to recall that information may be challenging because the information is no longer there. In knowing this when it comes to studying its best to do it in a repetitive manner. The more you read and look over something, the better chance you have of getting it stored in your long-term memory. So when it is necessary to retrieve the information it is there. Looking over some material only once may serve no purpose when test time comes. The information may be placed in your short- term memory and may be gone moments after reading. So, for best results when trying to retain information at a later date it is always best to do it with the long term memory in mind. Attention Giving focused attention to what is being read helps to make better sense of...
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...information that comes from our five senses is stored for a brief period of time, which generally for no longer than a half-second for visual and information and 3 or 4 seconds for auditory information. We attend to only certain aspects of this sensory memory, allowing this information to pass into the next stage-short term memory (www.psychology.about.com/2012). An example of sensory memory would be a person smelling or tasting something that they did not like and being able to have a feeling of pleasure from the memory or a feeling of disgust because of the initial contact with the food or odor. Short-term memory also known as active memory, this is the process of information that we are aware of or are currently thinking about a certain thing. In language that is more common short-term memory is conscious mind. Sensory memories allow the short-term memory to generate the information in short-term memory (www.psycholgy.about.com/2012). Most of the memories in this stage memory will be kept for about 20 to 30 seconds. With short-term memory most memories are quickly forgotten, attending to this information allows it to continue on to the next stage called long-term...
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...A Summary with Pros & Cons of “The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to Our Brains” Written By Nicholas Carr Summarized By Sarah Clark Information Systems for Management Summer 2013 At first glance of this book, “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” I started to get the overall impression that the author, Nicholas Carr, was totally opposed to idea of technology. As a lover of technology myself, I dreaded reading this book because I thought that it was going to be a negative interpretation of technology. And while this book doesn’t exactly shed the most positive light on that subject, I’ve started to understand the overall views of Mr. Carr and identify with them as well. The book, not necessarily a discouragement of technology, but rather an explanation of how our brain operates with the constant technological noise that we are surrounded in day in and day out, comes from the authors own personal experiences. He states in the beginning of the book how he started noticing that he was having concentration problems and constantly felt the urge to check his phone, email, or blogs to stay abreast on the most current information. He started to wonder why? Why wasn’t he able to pay attention for longer than 5 or ten minutes? Why wasn’t he able to develop deep focus? Eventually he determined that it was because of the patterns with in our mind and how they have adapted with the constant flow of technology around us every day. The book focuses...
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... and the role of attention. I will also explain to the best of my ability the nature of the working memory, how the brain connect new information with prior knowledge and the nature of long term memory. Finally I will provide strategies as to how a person can transfers something to their long term memory and how a person can enhance retrieval of information from their long term memory. As technology has advanced thorough the years the human brain has been compared to many things most recently it has been compared to a computer. The theory of information processing is a key part to how our brain functions. Information processing starts with input from the sensory organs, which change physical stimuli such as touch into electrochemical signals. Then algorithms of the brain changes the sensory information in both bottom-up and top-down processing. An example of these two types of processing would be bottom-up me feeling something crawling on my arm or leg and without seeing it freaking out, while in top-down processing stage I would see a spider and immediately kill it. In this example during the top-down I thought more about my reaction due to previous knowledge about spiders. Sensory register is the first and most immediate form of memory you have, the sensory register is your short term memory that takes in information using your five senses and only holds on to it for a couple of seconds. Our senses wake up when we are exposed to new stimuli such as a strong odor. It is because...
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