Are short-term goals more motivating than long-term goals? Why or why not?

2025-12-18 · 첨삭 강사 Wela

학생이 쓴 원문

I think short term goals are more motivating than long-term goal. When we build a goal, we usually set the due-date. The short-term goal stands for we don\'t have much time to achieve it. Therefore, we need to plan how to achieve and this plan should be tight and very detailed. And these plans make us more urgent and make us to do something. Actually, a long-term goal is consist of several short-term goals. Because long-term goal usually hard to achieve at once. So, we should set several short-term goal for long-term goal and be motivated.

강사 첨삭

Hi, Mary! You explained your opinion clearly and gave strong reasons for why short-term goals can be more motivating. I like how you connected short-term goals with urgency, detailed planning, and action, and how you explained that long-term goals are usually made up of many short-term ones. That shows good logical thinking. To improve, focus on small grammar points like plural forms (“goals”), articles (“a due date”), and smoother expressions (“make us feel urgent” instead of “make us more urgent”). Overall, your structure is clear and your ideas are well developed, keep up the good work and keep refining your language accuracy.
-Teacher Wela 
I think short term goals are more motivating than long-term goal.
>> I think short-term goals are more motivating than long-term goals.
When we build a goal, we usually set the due-date.
>> When we set a goal, we usually set a deadline.
The short-term goal stands for we don\'t have much time to achieve it.
>> A short-term goal means that we don’t have much time to achieve it.
Therefore, we need to plan how to achieve and this plan should be tight and very detailed.
>> Therefore, we need to plan how to achieve it, and this plan should be tight and very detailed.
And these plans make us more urgent and make us to do something.
>> These plans make us feel more urgency and motivate us to take action.
Actually, a long-term goal is consist of several short-term goals.
>> Actually, a long-term goal consists of several short-term goals.
Because long-term goal usually hard to achieve at once.
>> This is because long-term goals are usually hard to achieve at once.
So, we should set several short-term goal for long-term goal and be motivated.
>> So, we should set several short-term goals within a long-term goal to stay motivated.

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