| >Make more incremental goals This is along the lines of what I was thinking, especially with long-term projects. Try to set achievable milestones each of which pick up where the previous one left off, even if the first milestone is not a very big fraction of the total progress needed. >The advice you asked for: Start somewhere. Anywhere. Anything. Momentum is your friend. This is so true too. Incremental milestones need to be at a natural stopping point, in case rest or rejuvenation is needed, but need to be carefully handled so no real momentum is lost. The default should be action even after significant progress, or action continuing after a final goal is fully reached. Can you think of a more feasible way to make actual progress on a goal that may be recognized as out-of-reach in a single lifetime? What about a goal that may or may not be impossible in a lifetime? How would you know for sure, and whose lifetime would that apply to? Other things may or may not be possible in a year, so you have to draw the line somewhere :) |