Anyway, back when I was still trying to be the best at everything, I had a saying. “If you aim for the sun, you’ll likely hit the moon.” If you make it your goal never to miss a point, you won’t actually get 100%. Not every time. But you’ll probably still get a high grade. You have to pych yourself up to aim for the sun, but you can’t beat yourself up when you actually hit the moon. Because hitting the moon is pretty darn good, and it was the real goal all along. We play mind games with ourselves to help us accomplish big projects (…like making an A in Physics).

Four stories are probably more than you would have written last year without the goal of 25. Pat yourself on the back, Big! That’s awesome! I don’t think I wrote 4 short stories last year.

Rish, you have a podcast that hundreds of people listen to every week ,and hundreds (thousands?) of authors send you work hoping you’ll like it. In addition, because of the way Creative Commons works, I bet some of your shows keep popping up on the internet for decades, probably after you’re dead. That’s a huge accomplishment! So you don’t have a movie on Lifetime; so what? Who watches Lifetime anyway?