Setting Goals at the Correct Difficult Level

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Monica says setting goals at the correct difficulty level can help give you motivation to achieve them. She suggests asking yourself three questions that people should ask themselves as they come up with a list of goals. Set difficult, or slightly difficult, slightly beyond reach goals, but set realistic deadlines to achieve them,. Selting golds into smaller steps, giving yourself the right kind of feedback and self rewarding is extremely important.

If you’ve ever daydreamed o standing at an Olympic podium or delivering a big award speech, you probably pictured yourself as a winner. But according to today’s guest, marketing professor Monica Wadhwa, maybe you should imagine yourself as a runner-up. In this episode, Monica talks about why getting close to – but not quite achieving – triumph actually helps us gain the energy and motivation we need to chase after our goals, and shares tips on how we can change our mindset and create almost wins that will put us on the path to success.