Accomplishing goals requires identifying the ultimate goal, milestones, intervals, and a reward schedule for progress assessment.

“Ultimately, as you set out to accomplish your goals, there are going to be a number of basic steps that everyone will have to follow. You have to clearly identify, what the long arching ultimate goal is. You have to identify what the milestones will be. You might not know all of them at the outset, but you ought to have some idea about the intervals at which you are going to set those milestones and set your reward schedule for assessing progress in route to those milestones in your ultimate goal.”