3303: Should You Share Your Goals or Not by Victoria Jung with Free Form Fitness on When to Keep Goals Private

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🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3303: Victoria Jung explores the surprising psychology behind goal sharing, revealing how announcing your intentions might either boost your progress or sabotage it. By shifting focus from simply declaring end goals to sharing structured action steps and updates, you can harness community support while keeping your motivation alive. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://freeformfitness.ca/should-you-share-your-goals-or-not/ Quotes to ponder: "By speaking your goals out loud, your brain believes that you have achieved it." "Participants who shared their goal and their progress on Twitter lost more weight than those who did not." "Instead of your brain hearing the final goal, it hears a blueprint and a plan to achieve a goal." Episode references: Journal of Translational Behavioral Medicine: https://link.springer.com/journal/13142 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily. Should you share goals or not by Victoria Young with
0:06.3	freeformfitness.ca, and I'm Dr. Neil Malick, your host. Welcome back to Optimal Health Daily or
0:12.6	welcome for the first time if you're new here. This is the podcast where I act as your very own
0:17.5	personal narrator and read to you from some of the most popular health and fitness
0:21.3	blogs online. All right, and with that, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:30.9	Should you share your goals or not by Victoria Jung with freeformfitness.ca.
0:37.5	In the season of goal setting and motivation, it's important to understand all aspects of goal setting.
0:43.5	What will help you reach them faster?
0:46.0	Are they realistic?
0:47.3	Who can help you achieve them?
0:49.4	With social media, it's so easy to announce our goals and intentions to the world
0:53.9	in a matter of moments.
0:55.8	Does sharing our goals with the world help or hinder our progress?
0:59.6	Are there other strategies to help you achieve your goals this year and make them last a lifetime?
1:05.1	We will cover whether sharing our goals is the best idea or not, and how you can best
1:10.1	bolster your New Year's resolutions
1:11.7	so there's so much more to celebrate throughout the year. To share or not to share?
1:17.9	How many of you made a public post to a social media platform about your New Year's resolutions?
1:23.3	It feels good to put it out into the universe and feel as though by sharing it, it will
1:27.5	manifest itself.
1:29.8	Research is actually torn as to whether or not this is a good idea.
1:33.6	For years, social psychologists have argued that by speaking your goals out loud, your
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