When you start learning a new topic or skill, or working towards a new goal in general, it can often seem overwhelming at the start. This feeling of overwhelm, focusing on the mountain ahead of us, can sometimes lead to inaction. We find distractions, we procrastinate each day, because we think, rightfully so, that we can't move the needle meaningfully in any given day. And we can't, but that was never the point.

Instead, spend some time at the start of a new project breaking that new goal down into the smallest steps possible, clarifying what they are exactly as much as you can. Ideally, you will have some small tasks you can do in less than a day. This way, when you sit down to work on your goal on any given day, you have a specific task to focus on that you can probably complete.

Not only does this help give us more direction, but that feeling of completing something always feels good and we can use that momentum to keep moving forward and working on the next task the next day. Having too large of a goal without working out what the small steps will be is too vague to be helpful. You need to work out, as best as you can, what steps you need to take and what specifically you will be doing each day to work towards that new goal.