A strategy to promote achievement of long-term goals is
a. striving to complete the entire goal at one time.
b. eliminating any undesirable elements of the goal.
c. jumping right in at any point that is appealing.
d. creating a series of related short-term goals.
ANS: D
This strategy is called minitasking. It involves accomplishing the long-term goal one step at a time. Striving to complete the entire goal at one time often leads to procrastination because the task seems too large. Eliminating any undesirable elements of the goal requires clarification of the goal and elimination of unnecessary/undesirable elements during formulation. It is more effective to work toward goal attainment in an orderly, sequential fashion than to jump in at any random point.
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