[dragon96]

As a fellow overthinker who also struggles to articulate my goals, I find it easier to think about incremental improvements than overarching goals.

For example, I want to become a better systems programmer, but I'm not really sure what to do with that desire. Goals are hard. But when I see C++ code, I know that I tremble at the sight of syntax I'm not familiar with, and that uncertainty is much easier to act on. I still won't "know" C++ in its entirety after an afternoon Googling session, but I definitely made some progress