From Eric Maisel, a favorite creativity guru  of mine:

SEVEN ENVISIONING STRATEGIES
      •  Hold the month of January in mind.  Picture its calendar page in your mind’s eye.  Begin to pencil in creating days.  Be optimistic.    Fill the month with days of creating. Then move those days from your  mind’s eye to an actual calendar.

      •  Pick a distant target date for the completion of a big project.  In your mind’s eyes, slowly move through the calendar year toward your target date, experiencing the generous and even vast amount of time at your disposal between now and your completion date.

      •  Picture painting enough paintings for a show, composing a suite of songs, writing a dozen short stories. How many days and weeks are  required? Let your intuitive understanding about the amount of time required inform how you plan for the coming months.

      •  Get seven decks of cards with similar backs.  Lay out all seven decks on your living room rug, backs showing.  This is a year of days (give or take).  Let the magnitude of a year sink in.  Experience this wonderful availability of time. (This is a powerful exercise.)

      •  Picture creating in your work space.  Simultaneously experience the fullness of a year.  Connect the two feelings into one feeling of  abundance.

      •  Picture the amount of creative work you would like to accomplish in the coming year. Mentally calculate how much time that allows for each project and then write out your goals for the year (e.g., a novel that is twenty-four chapters long means a chapter every two weeks, give or take).

      • Carefully count the number of days between two widely-separated holidays, for instance New Year’s Day and the Fourth of July.  Envision starting a large project on that first holiday (today!) and completing it by the second.