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Start over with the "fresh start" effect
The fresh start effect is defined as the feeling all individuals know at the beginning or end of an experience, week etc. It says that people are better at tackling their goals when they start on so-called temporal landmarks.
What is less obvious actually is the fact that not all beginnings are equally good. After a big success, you are very likely to know failure, for instance.
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Embrace new beginnings
Whenever you are faced with failure, learn to embrace the idea of a fresh start.
In order to make a clean fresh start, consider letting go of past failures as well as focusing on your current objectives and making sure that you start right now.
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How to start over: Think big
After a period of success, you most certainly want to keep doing the things in the same way, as it has allowed you to achieve everything that was on your list, rather than starting all over again.
In order to make sure that it does happen like this, consider making a visual that ca...
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How to start over: Keep track of your performance
In order to reach your goal, learn to rely on performance metrics, in order to understand where exactly you stand in terms of performance. To allow a successful tracking of personal progress:
- Define a deadline
- Use a simple system to track your progress ...
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Fresh starts don’t always work. The good news is, you can learn how to appropriately start over so that the new beginnings work to your benefit.
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The Fresh Start Effect
The fresh start effect is when people are more likely to take action towards a goal after temporal landmarks that characterize new beginnings.
The temporal landmarks cause you to reflect on your life in a big-picture way, which causes you to set goals. It works bec...
The Fresh Start Effect
When we want to change ourselves anew, we often set a date on when to start changing our behaviors or our habits. This is the concept of having a "fresh start".
The effect of the "fresh start" is that we're able to overlook our past mistakes and imperfections of our daily lives and...
The Fresh Start Effect: Temporal Landmarks
Temporal landmarks are the days that stand out as being more meaningful than other days, mainly due to it producing the feeling of having a "fresh start"
These temporal landmark days make us feel more distant from our past failures.
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