We all need to do hard things because it changes our lives, and I believe it changes the world,

and knowing goal setting theory makes it more possible that we can do these things.

Gallup said in their state of the workplace in early 2024, the number one problem facing all workplaces is a lack of productivity based on faulty goal systems.

That's Caroline Miller. For over three decades, she's been a pioneer with her groundbreaking work in the areas of the science of goal-setting,

grit, happiness, and success. She is recognized as one of the world's leading positive

psychology experts on this research and how it can be applied to one's life and work for

maximum transformation. So you'll learn, one, the top goal-setting myth to abandon immediately,

two, the two types of goals on how to set them. And three, the bridge methodology

for effective goal setting. And if you'd like a summary write-up of some of these takeaways you

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at awesome at your job.com. I'm peopleikidas. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now,

here's Caroline Miller.

Caroline, welcome back.

Thanks for having me.

Well, I'm excited to talk about big goals.

And I'm curious.

You've been around the block doing a lot of research, positive psychology, and more.

What do you would you say is your most fascinating discovery you've made about us humans and goal setting,

goal achieving? I think my biggest awareness aha moment is that 20 years after I learned goal setting theory, the number one ranked management theory of all time of 73 theories, also known as the 800-pound

gorilla, everyone sets goals and no one knows this number one theory. And it floors

me to this day that it remains one of the most unknown but most validated theories ever to come out

of psychology. Now, I'm intrigued. So if there's 73 theories, how does a theory get to win number one?

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