Tim Connor believes in establishing goals and gives us tips on how to set them effectively.
The revolving goal philosophy is where you set only weekly, monthly or quarterly goals as if they were long term goals broken down into smaller bites. In actuality you are looking at a week or month as if it were a piece of a year (or longer) rather than see it as a month or quarter, etc. Let me give you a brief personal example. Let's say I have a goal to write 25,000 words in a month. During May, I only write 18,000 words. So I now am facing a new month, June, a new segment of time. I can: a) quit writing, b) set a goal for June of 15,000 words so I accomplish it (realistically) or c) set a goal to write 32,000 words in June. I am either: 1) giving up and saying I can't do it, 2) making it easier to reach my next goal or 3) forcing myself to make up what I didn't do in May, as well as my June goal of 25,000 words.