If you’re anything like me, you try to be a skeptical Grinch about all things New Year. Technically, it’s a new year and a new decade every single day (it will always be one year or 10 years later ...

Understanding the psychology of goals—from identity to dopamine-driven progress—helps us achieve with purpose.

Here’s the gist: Goal-setting restructures your brain to make it more effective. A key article in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews explains: First, emotional significance is evaluated ...

Our aspirations are what drive us to do our best. Being honest with ourselves and identifying what we’d like to improve can lead to personal growth and new opportunities we wouldn’t have reached ...

A colleague of mine recently shared that he’s been doing a hundred pushups and a hundred squats each day. I was thoroughly impressed with his commitment, which he maintained even during his jet-lagged ...

Setting goals can feel overwhelming, especially if you're neurodivergent. I get it; sometimes even figuring out where to start can feel like climbing a mountain. Prefer to listen rather than read?

If you're going to set SMART Goals, you deserve to know the truth about their limitations. Every company in existence has set its share of SMART goals (the SMART acronym most commonly defined as ...

In terms of setting goals in your organization, if you know where you want your organization to go, you'll be in a strong position to know whether or not you've arrived at that goal. Goal setting is ...

Fitness goals have an air of gravitas to them—especially in the era of social media. Your feed may be packed with people running a marathon in every state to raise money for a great cause, or trying ...