Goal Setting
Goal setting is crucial for career and personal success — but it is also essential to academics. However, goal setting for students can often be a challenge. For one, students rarely have much say in their achievement. Parents, teachers, and even sports coaches set expectations for levels of performance. That leads to one key problem: […]
Self-motivation is the key to success. But what is self-motivation and how do you maintain amid the daily grind, spending time with family, friends, and loved ones, and your dreams and wishes and goals? Motivation is a complex subject, and psychologists and experts approach it with a variety of schools of thought. One of the […]
We have talked before about the challenges of staying motivated, and how success (or failure) can make or break your ability to stay on track with goals. There is another side to this story, which is motivation through goal setting. How do you maintain your motivation by giving a voice to what you want to […]
Goal Setting with Kids: How to Help Children Accomplish Goals It’s January — the month of resolutions. Adults everywhere are vowing to lose weight, find love, go on that vacation, get their dream job, and whatever else they’ve been meaning to accomplish. But what about our children? Are they encouraged properly to set lofty goals? […]
It’s a great feeling to picture yourself at the top of your game, all your dreams realized, but actually defining your goals is another matter entirely. Goal setting is more complex than simply stating what you want to achieve. You need to think about how feasible your goals are, and how likely you are you […]
This article was written with coaches in mind, but coachees can benefit from it too if they are personally struggling to identify and/or define their presenting problem. As a coaching relationship starts to form, a key challenge is helping the client identify the right problem to solve. For instance, say you spend a lot of time […]
Human beings achieve success by setting and reaching goals. The process of setting and achieving goals includes trial, error, elimination and execution. In other words, goal setting and motivation are inherent processes necessary to achieve success. Since the days of the hunter-gatherer, goal setting (or planning) was what separated those who ate from those that went hungry. […]
In different periods of our life many of us will reach a plateau, the point at which we must answer one question: “What’s next for me?” Answering that question is not always easy. It requires deep thought and careful consideration to decide how to get moving forward again and onto the next big step in […]
Goal setting seems easy to most, but if you get it wrong the exercise is simply creating a to do list that never gets done. There is much more to it than just figuring out what you want and writing it down. Setting goals is fraught with traps and pitfalls that can easily derail your plans. I […]
