What I’m thinking of is along the lines of two of my earliest posts here on TT:

Every Campaign is an Experiment
The Bones in the Soup

The first one (my first post ever, actually!) covers the idea that every time you run a game, it’s different than your last one. The second covers laying out the goals and underpinnings for my last D&D game.

What I’m thinking of here is a combination of the two: I have some things in mind that I want to do differently, or that go against my “default” approach to certain situations. Those are the goals I clip to my screen, to keep the in mind throughout play.

For my last game, an Eberron campaign, they were: “Skip the boring stuff” and “Lots of pulp action.”

The former was a reminder to fast forward through travel, micromanagement, etc. as often as possible, and the second was to help me remember to bring out one of the things I like most about Eberron.

Does that help?

What kind of goals do you have, as a GM?

I’m curious because my goal, as GM, is usually “Make sure everyone has fun” and anything else is subordinate to that one.