A-to-Z Blog Challenge: G is for...goals

Today my post is about goals. I have been reading about goals and why some work and some don't. The success or failure of the goals we set ourselves has more to do with why we set these goals than what the goals actually entail. If our motivation is external (outside of ourselves) the probability of failure is high.

If we are setting goals based on what drives us internally, these goals are important enough to us to make time for us to work on them to make them happen.

I often make a list of the books I want to publish every year, and most often that doesn't happen - at least not all of them get released. But I always, always make my word count target. For me, it is about writing the stories more than publishing the end result. Something to think about...