Alfredo challenged my tactic for using daily goals as a source of motivation, and got me thinking about how these interact with your long-term, performance based goals.
First, a caveat: this is targeted at those of us working alone for extended periods of time on something hard.
Chugging on a long, difficult project without anyone else to [...]
It’s easy to get lost in the glory of hammering our your latest project, and forget to set your 1 - 3 daily goals.
It might not seem that important if you didn’t set a goal for today. And that just made it easier to not set one or three tomorrow.
Sooner or later, though, you’re going [...]
If you aren’t an artist, you probably won’t start a successful art website.
And you probably can’t run a software company if you (at the very least) haven’t been around a lot of hackers.
And it’s unlikely you can instantly whip up a travel writing career if you’ve been tossing salads all your life.
You’ll notice I never [...]