>>68801065You work towards it step by step. Succeeding to reach your mini goals during your journey feels rewarding and helps to keep your brain motivated (through some weird receptor magic). Setting your bar too high right away can be overwhelming and might just hinder the progress. Basically, setting up a system or plan that challenges you just enough yields the best results _in the long run_. But I'm sure you are familiar with this kind of approach as it's not that different from some project management stuff like scrum.
