Setting a goal

Emotions - perceived utility

Daily lives - frequency of use
Simple, repeatable habits
Get big things done before 9 am
"Macro goals" and "Micro daily quotas"
Creating behaviour chains - If-then planning
Eliminate excessive options
Visualise but don't fantasize - Imagine the individual steps needed to reach the
goal, e.g. visualise practising programming at 7 AM every day)
Eliminate "ah-screw-it" scenarios and find out where things start to break down

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Fighting Complacency
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1. Create healthy competition against yourself or others.

2. Creativity. Complacency may be a sign of boredom, so there may be a need to
break away from one's routines temporarily.
3. Helping someone else perform; this is a different approach to curbing boredom,
by solving a different problem, one takes oneself away from one's routines.
4. Strive to achieve small successes
5. Set a deadline