If you want to have a great year, you’ll boost your likelihood of success by setting goals. And using goal setting theory, specifically, is the best way to ensure you achieve all that you aspire to.

As entrepreneurs, a lot of us tend to be visionaries. We have big ideas of what peak success looks like in our business or as leaders. But sometimes, we get caught up in big, lofty visions that are ...

Goals and dreams have crucial differences. Dreams are wishes and fantasies; for example, many of us long to be rich, famous, ...

When Caroline Adams Miller learned about the science of goal setting, her professional and personal life changed forever. It was 2005, and Adams Miller was a student at the University of Pennsylvania ...

We all know that feeling. You’re all fired up for a few weeks after setting a goal, such as “get in shape,” “write a novel,” ...

With 2025 rapidly approaching, many of us feel both eagerness and apprehension. After all, a new year presents fresh opportunities. At the same time, setting meaningful goals and sticking to them can ...

If you’ve heard any consultant talk about goal-setting techniques, you’ve heard about the SMART goal framework, but the framework has its limitations. In 1981, George T. Doran, a consultant and former ...

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