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How goals work

How goals work

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How goals work

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- How does goal setting work? Why does writing down goals make them happen? Well, for a start, I think it's obvious that you can't achieve anything unless it's in your head first. So, when they first climbed Mount Everest, they didn't just go for a walk and think, "Well, let's carry on, yeah, we're feeling good, aren't we? "You up for it? "Yeah, let's carry on, and--" "Ooh, we seem to be on the top of a pointy thing." They obviously had that as a goal and it took a lot of planning. You can't do it without the planning. So, it seems obvious from a common sense point of view, that if you're going to achieve something big, you need to know where it is, and you need to plan how you're going to get there. But I think there are some more subtle things, as well, going on with goal setting. And I would sum it up as speed and direction. So, actually, just to deal with direction first, if you set your sat nav for somewhere, your…

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