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Why Setting Goals?

Why Setting Goals?

  • A study by Locke and Latham found that goal setting improves performance by providing direction and focus.
  • Bandura proved that people with specific and challenging goals had higher levels of self-efficacy.
  • Gollwitzer and Sheeran studied how setting goals help individuals to plan and prioritize their actions.
  • And Emmons and McCullough found that goal achievement increases happiness and well-being.

So not setting goals could trigger surprising side effects on your performance. Your self-efficacy levels will drop. You will waste your time. And your happiness and well-being will decrease.

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