Goal setting is an important part of life. It gives you vision and motivation to complete different tasks throughout your lifetime. Setting goals is also extremely important to your overall level of fitness. In this topic, you learned what long-term and short-term goals are, as well as how they benefit each other. By achieving short-term goals, you can see your progress towards your long-terms goals. Seeing this progress gives you the motivation to keep going. These small successes also help your level of self-esteem. Any setbacks you encounter along the way should not deter you from achieving your goals. If you set realistic goals that are specific, you can achieve great things in fitness and in other areas of your life.