[hoers]

This! Only having the long term goal in focus is a perfect recipe for anxiety and depression, setting short term tasks is a good strategy, there are a ton of others that help with dealing with one's thinking, Mindfulness* being the obvious big one but also a lot of learning techniques (e.g. priming) have helped me a lot.

*https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jon+kabat+zinn+... <- Good man on the subject