Goal setting is one of many psychological strategies that can help athletes achieve peak performances. The process of setting goals not only influences athletes’ performances, but it’s linked to ...

As I enter the holiday season, I find myself reflecting on this past year and anticipating the new year to come. Two years ago, I challenged the Onex leadership team to come up with one word as their ...

Success in sports, as in any other achievement arena, depends on both skill and motivation. And motivation includes striving for particular goals. In my Psychology Today blog titled "Goal Setting for ...

It’s that time of year again! When we all decide we are going to be more patient, give to charity, exercise daily, and stop drinking Mountain Dew. Goals are great, and goals can be really effective ...

There’s a famous story of a survey of students in their senior year at Yale University: Researchers asked the students if they had any goals for their future, and if any of them had written these ...

Goal setting is a critical element to any successful team. If businesses fail to create an environment for team members and leaders to set goals, they are firefighting. Firefighting is the concept of ...

Ever feel like your mind is a chaotic whirlwind of thoughts, pulling you in a million different directions at once? Mastering structured goal-setting and flow state optimization is crucial for ...

In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...