Week 60: Are you on track to hit your MBA goals?

Week 60: July 19, 2025

Are you on track to hit your MBA goals?

Andrea,

I remember one of our clients who was determined to build a career in the wine & spirits industry. After starting her dream internship in the summer, she realized what she enjoyed most was not the industry so much as the product management aspect of her work. Armed with that information, she set a new goal: to work in production management. After joining Apple, she felt more on track with her career goals than she would have in wine & spirits.

Why bring this up? A few weeks ago, we talked about setting goals for your internship. After thinking through those, it's the perfect time to check in on your broader goals - the ones you hope to achieve before completing your MBA.

The 100 Week Sprint team

To-do's this week

Got 5 minutes? Get out your list of MBA goals and identify those where you haven't made as much progress as you'd like.

Got 30 minutes? Identify which of those goals still apply, which you should rework, and which you should scrap.

Got an hour? Sign up for stickK.com, taking the time to work through the individual steps you have to take to keep your goals on track.

Have your MBA goals changed?

At the start of the 100 Week Sprint, we encouraged you to set goals for your MBA using SMART criteria. While striving towards goals is important, it's also important to confirm that those goals still make sense in the context of your bigger picture. Now that your first year is through, consider whether all your goals still make sense, or whether you should reshape (or completely scrap!) some of them.

Specific - Can you add new details to the goals you wanted to achieve, or have you identified new specific goals that you hadn't originally thought of?
Measurable - Are you able to more easily quantify what you want to achieve after a year in school?
Attainable - What new skills and knowledge have you picked up that might make new and different goals more attainable than you may have previously thought?
Realistic - Get inspired by your classmates with HUGE dreams! Maybe something you didn't think was realistic before actually is.
Timely - School is half done - what goals had you hoped to achieve by the end of your first year? What goals do you want to complete by end of summer or end of calendar year?

How do you kick-start a goal you've let slide?

Once you've identified which goals to keep, check on progress towards meeting them. Be honest with yourself - do you see goals where you haven't made much progress (or any at all)? If so, what now?

Break it down: identifying the smaller steps necessary to achieve a larger goal can help you figure out how to move forward.
Find a goal buddy: find a classmate (or, better yet, a friend outside of school) who will help you stay on track. Ask him or her to check in with you on a regular basis (every 2 weeks) about your goal in an effort to keep you moving forward. (Hopefully you can find people with a goals of their own that you can help out with in return!)
Start tracking your success: use a tool such as Goals On Track or a similar resource to make sure you're making progress on your goals.
Add incentives: leverage a tool like stickK which creates Commitment Contracts that allow you to be charged money every time you do not hit a goal milestone (you set the amount, and you choose where that money goes).
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