Setting Realistic Goals

Setting Goals: Define short-term and long-term financial objectives

Budget Alignment: Align your budget with your goals to achieve them

Monitoring Progress: Track your financial journey and adjust as needed.

Writers who are confident set realistic and controllable goals to overcome the impostor syndrome.

Focusing on days or weeks of progress, with regular review/tracking gets us to know our productivity with supporting data, as opposed to our feelings that are unreliable.

Setting Realistic Expectations: Sterner advises starting with a clear understanding that discipline doesn't develop overnight. It's a gradual process that requires patience and persistence. Acknowledge your current limits and set realistic, achievable goa...