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in today's

in today we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode,

we're going to talk about effective goal setting.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. spells. Okay, so, goal setting.

There's been a lot that has been said about goal setting over the years and if you ever have read a personal development book,

chances are you've seen something on goal setting.

Different philosophies, different perspectives, but not all of them are evidence-based.

And so today I'm going to share some research by one of the

leading researchers on goal setting, Dr. Gabriel Eddington, who's a professor of

psychology at NYU.

And I think when a lot of us contemplate setting a goal, it's pretty intuitive that we need

to first figure out what the goal is, be excited about the goal, maybe create a plan for achieving

that goal.

And then there's also this feeling like we really need to think positively, and this is often a common narrative of just focus on the

positive focus on the positive keep your eye on the prize as a way of helping

to manifest it or to continue to move forward.

And that can be helpful for activating initial motivation,

but it's not very useful when it comes to the inevitable obstacles that arise in pursuit of our goals.

And so what Gabriel has found effective is that people also need to do something called mental contrasting, which is once you have a wish,

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