But I don't think the yearlong goals is a paradigm that works all that well for me.

That's interesting, because that's exactly the conclusion I came to yesterday while looking at my last year's goals. I don't think I did horribly on them, but I did have a terrible time tracking them and essentially gave up around April. It seems good to have shorter-term goals and be more flexible, really.

So this week I made a short list of goals and am just tracking it daily, which seems to be working so far (y'know, after one whole day of doing it). I do have some monthly goals in mind, but I haven't decided how to work that in yet.

(Twelve is an excellent, highly divisible number.)