…..the goal, as always, is to make incremental progress. Not a specific target, not an arbitrary benchmark, not some unreasonable expectation—those stated objectives are all unnecessary and too daunting in nature. No, just make satisfactory progress today and if you do that you can consider the day to be an unqualified success. Same for tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that. Setting and then predictably falling short of unrealistic goals is the perfect recipe for disappointment and, more insidiously, eventually quitting a worthy crusade altogether as the result of perceived failure and the dark depression which invariably accompanies same…..
Fred's Soapbox 