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Dear Jodiemt -

It's certainly fun to do things on a whim! And certainly each of us has different styles.

If you have long term goals, though, by not keeping them in mind, they rarely get progress made on them. That is, say I have a long term goal of earning a college degree. If I always go for the short-term fun things, I'll never reach that long term goal.

If I don't have any long term goals in life, that's fine! But for many of us who do have long term goals, we like to make those small steady steps towards reaching them.

So for example if I end up with a free half hour, my short term mind might say "Great! Watch some TV!" - but my long term goal list would say "OK the perfect time to narrow down my college list to three I can choose from". And by doing that task, I'm closer than ever to achieving something important to me.

Often the realization that long term goals were missed out takes quite a while. A friend of mine has a father close to death. He's upset he never went to London England. It was a dream of his. He never put it onto any goal list, he never took any steps towards it - and now he lost his chance.