Topics: Calm Productivity
Don’t shoot for the stars. When you create large goals (in scope and timeframe), you make it harder to act on them day-to-day. Also, it implicitly assumes that you know how to connect current actions to long-term future results — but Life Is A CAS — you can’t directly map your efforts to their results. But goals are still useful.
Use several smaller goals to outline your path toward what you want — not just the end state. Baby steps beat Herculean feats, so consistently reaching these smaller goals will accumulate faster than working up to one big “win”. Also, having more goals increases the sample rate that you get to direct your path. Adapt by listening to your internal signals — Internal scorekeeping is a virtuous cycle.