{"id":2475,"date":"2011-08-26T18:45:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T18:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cerebyte.com\/journal\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2011-08-26T18:45:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T18:45:59","slug":"commit-to-your-goals-and-talk-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebyte.com\/2011\/08\/26\/commit-to-your-goals-and-talk-about-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Commit to your goals and talk about them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<strong>By William Seidman<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Do you make lists? Better yet, do you write down your goals?<\/strong>\n\nAt Cerebyte we\u2019re huge proponents of writing down goals, of creating a \u201cpurpose statement\u201d and of discussing the statement and your goals with colleagues and friends.\n\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominican.edu\/dominicannews\/study-backs-up-strategies-for-achieving-goals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study conducted by Dominican University\u00a0psychology professor Gail Matthews<\/a> provides further support to the Cerebyte approach of having people write down their purpose statement and discuss it in a group.\n\nThe study found that people are far more likely to follow through on a goal if they <strong>write it down<\/strong>, <strong>commit to finishing it<\/strong> and <strong>share it with a friend<\/strong>.\n\nDr. Matthews stresses the importance of <strong>accountability<\/strong>, <strong>commitment,<\/strong> and <strong>writing down one\u2019s goals.<\/strong>\n\nThis is certainly what we observe, and making it a habit strengthens its effectiveness.\n\nIn addition,\u00a0when the goal is involves the creation of a greater social good, people get <strong>very<\/strong> enthusiastic and the follow-through is even more robust.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424,17,18,86],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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