Huh? Set goals? Why?

• Setting goals can improve your life. Goal setting is one of the four techniques the military used to increase Navy SEAL passing rates from 25% to 33%.
• Studies have also shown it makes you happier.

What are the first steps in moving toward your goals?

• Write them down. Writing about goals makes you happier and makes youmore likely to follow through with them. Use round numbers to trick yourself into working harder.

• Sometimes the best way to figure out how to do something is to focus on why you want to do something.

• Grease the wheels for any behavior change by manipulating your context.

• Don’t look at goals like a death march. Putting some time into making them fun is both more enjoyable and more effective.

• Make the first couple milestones easy. Track your accomplishments on a chart. Do anything so that you can see progress because nothing motivates you more than seeing progress.

yes, yes, and yes!

Re-reading this, it's important to put some time into making the goal fun.

Don't dread the goal. Don't treat it like a death march. Enjoy it.

What are 5 things that make achieving goals easier?

1. Make a step-by-step plan.
2. Tell other people about your goal.
3. Think about the good things that will happen if you achieve your goal.
4. Reward yourself for making progress toward your goal.
5. Record your progress (e.g., in a journal or on a chart).

More tips here.

Structure your goals so that the focus is to learn and improve, not to outdo someone else. The former helps you grow. The latter can turn you into a jerk.