Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at RachelCable.com.

Each week this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress and live more mindfully in the modern world.

Hello and welcome to episode 292 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

So I was reading a book a few months ago and I came across a super interesting goal setting

tip I hadn't actually tried before.

Now if you know me very well, then you'll know

that that's a big thing. Back during my first year of psychological studies, more than 10 years ago now,

I took a class about behaviour change and we studied goal setting in depth. Since then, I've devoured

content about goal setting. I've read a lot of books on the topic

and listened to podcast episodes about it and used goal setting apps and journals.

You might even remember the goal setting mini series of the Mindful Kind podcast, which starts on

episode 81. If you haven't heard it yet, be sure to go back and check it out. So finding a new goal

setting tip was pretty exciting for me. I decided to use it myself and see if it actually

worked and I'm very excited to say not only has it been a fun goal setting tip, but it's also

been really effective. I've been achieving my goals consistently. Just ask my

partner deck who's been pretty impressed, especially in terms of my productivity. A few weeks

ago, I wrote just under 3,000 words in three hours on a project that we're really excited about,

even I couldn't believe it. So let me tell you about this really cool goal setting tip

and how you can start using it too. It's called making if then plans. So back in the 90s,

psychologist Peter Golwitzer conducted a study and found that people who committed to achieving

a task using if then plans were more likely to be successful.

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