Long term, slightly vauge targets for progression are great but often go unfulfilled for those two very reasons.
My challenge to you is to challenge yourself to improve any one thing of your choice in just 7 days.
With conditioning routines lasting months or more its easy to get disillusioned or just plain bored before the time is up. You know how it works, you realise you want to improve, you devise a strategy with every intention of doing it every day as planned but then you oversleep, you get invited out to a party, you're tired from other training, you forget. "It doesnt matter" you say, "its only one day and then tomorrow i'll be able to do it with full energy" of course tomorrow comes and you dont feel like it then either, and before you know it you've pretty much given up on the idea completely.
So what's the solution ?
Realistic Goals with Rapid Deadlines!
Start on a Monday, finish on the Sunday of that same week. Devise some form of conditioning routine and do it every day. Keep it Simple! Focus on one area you wish to improve and jot down a set of exercises. You could choose to do the same amount every day or increment the duration/repetitions each day.
Once the 7 days are up it's game over! There are no ongoing commitments to continue that challenge, nor any pressure to start a different one. You can of course if you want but the point is to put everything into those 7 days as if that's all that matters.
It is essential that you choose something that is realistic, something that you can already do and can improve by doing repetitions of, rather than something you hope to do but actually have no idea how.
Take into consideration any other training you'd do in a typical week and use this to help decide the difficulty level. It needs to be easy enough that you can do it every day on top of any training you already do yet not so easy it doesnt challenge you or provide any benefit.
Once you've decided on a challenge, post it here as a reminder for yourself and so you can brag about your achivements at the end of the week.
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