How to Set the Right Goals (and Actually Achieve Them!)
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Achieving goals can be difficult, but that may be because you're setting the wrong goals in the first place. That's why happiness expert and executive coach Stella Grizont returns to the Curiosity Podcast to discuss how to set the right goals and how to overcome the challenges of sticking to them.
Additional resources discussed:
- The Vision Generator (free worksheet from Stella Grizont)
- Dopamine Functions | News-Medical.net
- Dopamine regulates the motivation to act, study shows | ScienceDaily
- Goal Progress and Happiness | Psychology Today
- A CONVERSATION WITH Daniel Kahneman; On Profit, Loss and the Mysteries of the Mind | The New York Times
- Overcoming an Aversion to Loss | The New York Times
- The Psychology of Sunk Cost | Ohio University
- WOOPAAH (Stella Grizont is Founder and CEO)
- @StellaGrizont on Twitter
- The Surprisingly Recent Time Period when Boys Wore Pink, Girls Wore Blue, and Both Wore Dresses | TodayIFoundOut.com
- No Girls Allowed | Polygon
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| 0:00.0 | I'm curious, why is it so hard to reach your goals? |
| 0:03.4 | People make the same mistakes when it comes to creating goals. |
| 0:07.7 | And so I wanted to talk about, one, how do you really choose the right goal and then how do you stick with it? |
| 0:17.1 | Because there are certain mind traps that just sabotage us, such as chocolate chip cookies tend to do that for me. Hi, I'm Cody Gough with the Goal-oriented Curiosity.com. |
| 0:36.2 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:37.3 | Today you'll learn how to figure out what you really want. |
| 0:40.1 | And how to get it. |
| 0:41.3 | This is the Curiosity Podcast. |
| 0:43.4 | Long time Curiosity Podcasts |
| 0:48.7 | longtime Curiosity Podcast listeners will recognize today's guest |
| 0:52.2 | happiness expert and executive coach |
| 0:54.1 | Stella Grisant. She talked about the psychology of happiness in one of our most popular |
| 0:58.4 | episodes ever and she's back with new research about setting and achieving goals. |
| 1:03.0 | If you've ever tried to lose weight, learn to play an instrument, |
| 1:05.6 | or get better at basically anything, |
| 1:07.6 | then this is the podcast for you. |
| 1:09.3 | So whenever we want to create a change, |
| 1:11.1 | what I find happens all the time is the stimulus for that |
| 1:14.6 | change is like there's something in your life you're just not happy about. And so |
| 1:19.8 | what happens is that we want to move away from that thing we're not happy with. |
| 1:26.8 | We don't feel good in our bodies, so we want to lose weight. |
| 1:30.7 | We have a bad relationship, so we you know want to either transform that relationship or find a new one right so we're usually |
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