If you review over the weekend on how much it is completed, it sort of indicates how committed am I to myself. I feel it is important to remain human not a computer which does tasks on time. But it is even more important to achieve goals not simply perform tasks.

Another problem I have is keeping deadlines I set for myself. I keep remembering that I have to do something by Friday, but it never ends up getting done. Does anyone have any advice for keeping to these self-set deadlines?

I keep seeing hints and small tidbits on what you did to perform so well.

A compiled article like that would be greatly appreciated!

Other than that, great writing.

So what to do?

Get a small notebook. Sit down every night before bed to write a short journal entry: what you did, how well you stuck to your plan, what distracted you, and esp. how you feel about the things you actually accomplished (that’s really the thing that needs to be reinforced). Get in touch with those positive feelings of satisfaction and accomplishment. You’ll be ending the day focused on the satisfaction of accomplishment and will want to get more of that satisfaction by completing more of tomorrow’s list.

Yeah, but that’s just another habit to try to develop! How can I…

Keep the notebook and pen on your pillow. You’ll have to pick it up each night.

For instance, the main purpose is to focus on one particular goal. Is this goal rigid or flexible? If you adhere to it too rigidly, you will be immediately put off by the monumentality of the goal. Likewise if you’re too flexible with it, you will simply forget it.

Then there’s the frequency of your goals… if you set your goals at some faraway future, you will probably not accomplish your goal on time. If you set them in the short-term, you will likely find yourself straying from your destination. Really good goal-setting requires a lot of forethought!

Personally, I try not too stress too much about it. I keep a BlackBerry calendar on agenda mode, so I know what I am doing day-to-day from 9am-5pm.

I would like to work on setting weekly goals, as well as monthly and yearly goals. Ideally, if I know what I want in the big picture, the goals trickle down from there. If I know basically where I want to be at the end of the year, I will plan accordingly for the month, etc. The problem is systematically enumerating these yearly, monthly, and weekly goals; I simply lose dedication beyond the weekly level. To combat this, I am going to start listing my weekly project goals and monthly objectives as Tasks; I should be able to remember yearly goals, from the aforementioned.