Goal setting is important for those who want to improve their life. Setting goals helps you remain accountable for the things you want to achieve.
How often do you set goals?
How often do you revisit your list?
Up until 2001, goals were divided into three types or groups:
Mastery Goals:
A mastery goal is a goal someone sets to accomplish or master something such as “I will become my best potential self.”
Performance-approach goals:
A performance-approach goal is a goal where someone tries to do better than his or her peers. This type of goal could be a goal to look better by losing 5 pounds or getting a better job performance review.
Performance-approach goals:
Mastery avoidance goals:
A master-avoidance goal does exist and proving that each type of goal can, in fact, be useful depending on the circumstances.
Clarity is important when it comes to goals. Setting goals that are clear and specific eliminate the confusion that occurs when a goal is set in a more generic manner.
Challenging goals stretch your mind and cause you to think bigger. This helps you accomplish more. Each success you achieve helps you build a winning mindset.
Commitment is also important. If you don’t commit to your goal with everything you have it is less likely you will achieve it.
Feedback helps you know what you are doing right and how you are doing. This allows you to adjust your expectations and your plan of action going forward.
Task Complexity is the final factor. It’s important to set goals that are aligned with the goal’s complexityy
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of people's strengths and aims to maximize the human potential, help you become the best version of yourself, having you focus on your character strengths and behaviors, as opposed to your weaknesses.
Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most worth living, focusing on both individual and societal well-being.
It studies "positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions and it aims to improve quality of life.
Many positive psychology exercises are considered classics – and for good reason.
While activities such as gratitude journaling and loving-kindness meditation have been shown time and again to lead to positive outcomes, the goal of this course is to provide a variety of new and novel ways to include positive psychology in your personal growth.
These science-based positive psychology exercises explore fundamental aspects of psychology including strengths, values and self-compassion (to name a few) will give you the tools you need to enhance the your wellbeing and set goals for an achievable outcome.
When you are unsure about your own values and goals, you risk many negative outcomes.
First of all, being unsure about your values can lead to stress and anxiety.
Even worse, being unsure about your values can lead you to behave contrary to your values, which can lead you to even more stress and anxiety (along with guilt).
For these reasons, it is important for you to know what your values are (whatever they may be) and learn to behave according to your personal values and achieve the goals to live the life you want.
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