On missing goals you set for yourself. Also, I need some editing advice.

It's September 1st (or, it was 2 hours or so ago). I did not meet my goal of finishing the editing this draft of my novel by the end of August. Not happy about that.

People frequently ask me how I self-motivate and get stuff done and the answer is that, largely, I trick myself with made up challenges and goals. I build these up as important in my brain and force myself to meet them.

Of course, if I miss a goal, this becomes a huge problem because my brain sees that there is...