A deadline helps keep you on track and moving. You can enjoy the wonderful feeling of accomplishment when you actually meet a goal by your completion date. Review your work. Hopefully, you have at least one full sheet of writing under your Networking Action Plan. Take a long look at it.
Big tasks seem manageable when they are broken down into small increments.
Take a yearly calendar and enter your Networking Goals in the different months of the year. Handle one month at a time and over a year's time you will accomplish your goals. This isn't on your written Action Plan but it's an important part of implementing the process. Every time you accomplish a networking goal, reward yourself in some way. Give yourself permission to take half a day off work, buy a book you've been wanting, take a friend to see a movie, or go for a long walk or bike ride.