a few things about goals...

1. You don't always need them...
....especially in arts, or in things that you love and enjoy doing, things that make you stay up working until 5am...in fact, you should not set goals in these things. Goals may limit your craziness and potential for superb breakthroughs and innovations.

2. The single most important thing to remember is the Price (despite what they all say).
Whether or not you have a goal, if you want to create or achieve something, you need to i) Decide the price you're willing to pay and ii) Go Pay it. Deciding the price means you make up your mind to give up something else in advance. So you can get distracted less and put in efforts consistently. If you're doing goal setting and planning, when you add one thing to the daily to-do list, considering deleting one item from you daily activity list. That's the price.

If you decided it's best not to have a goal in your poem writing, you still need to pay the price. You don't need to force yourself to churn out how many lines per day but you better regularly set aside some time to put together your thoughts and feelings.

3. Visualization
Yeah you already know that...so what's the smell of in the air and what's the color of your socks?