It starts off with a set of overall goals, things that I would like to get done, but don't have a set time frame, mainly because I can't guarantee the timing of things. Things that fall into this category are more like Research Questions. Examples of this are breaking down specific family brick walls. I have no idea when these will be complete, and can't force the timing. But I can work on these Research Questions throughout the year to see if I can get closer to any answer.
I have a set of yearly goals too. Things that I know can be completed. These are typically larger projects. I review these at the end of the year, usually when the WikiTree post here on G2G asks about your goals for the new year. Examples of this are creating Free Space Pages for my projects such as a Family Reunion for a particular year, or a Family Bible that I have, or for a genealogy manuscript.
I have a list for "ongoing work". These are items that don't necessarily have an ending, or any end date. These things are "sustaining" goals. Examples of this are keeping my Suggestion list cleaned up. Once I got it cleaned up (a big goal), it needs to stay that way. Sometimes this translated into weekly work (clean up the Suggestion list once a week).
I think one of the biggest challenges is to translate the large number of "ongoing work" items into smaller chunks that, in itself, can be smaller goals that I can work on and feel a sense of completion. These smaller goals are then easier to think about in terms of weekly progress, or weekly work. For example, I now have a large set of family photos that I need to upload. It feels pretty endless. But if I can break that up into uploading the photos about just one person, I find that it limits the amount of photos to go through. I can break that down into scanning the photos, uploading the photos, placing the photos throughout the biography with labels.
I have goals in all sorts of areas: Research Questions, Writing goals, Project goals, One Name Study goals, DNA goals, Photo goals, Cleanup goals, Brickwall goals, Ongoing work (Increase CC7, fill in collateral lines, sourcing), and more.
An interesting idea I learned recently, is that with so many different types of goals, if I get tired or bored of working on one goal, then I can "procrastinate" by working on a different goal. When I get tired of that one, I can go back to the first goal, or onto another type of goal. This turns into slowly chipping away at all of the goals that I have. With enough patience, I can see that I've gotten far on all of the goals, throughout the year, or even over the years.
So what I do, from week to week, or day to day, may change a bit here or there, but it's the overall set of goals that I'm always trying to work on.