How to Take Stress Out of Goal Setting - Learn the Power of Whole Brain Goal Setting

When you fail to achieve a goal, do you experience a stress response? Most of us do. It’s a natural reaction.

It’s not so much the lack of goal achievement itself. More often, it’s the self-talk from your inner critic that does the job.

In this episode of, "Mind Over Stress”, you and I look at a study published in the journal, “Behavioral Brain Research” that points to an effective way to craft goals that increases the probability of success.

Summary of Whole Brain Goal Setting Process:

- Create big, bold, and bright visualizations of your ultimate, BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) goal or destination;

- Creat big, bold, and bright visualizations of subgoals or mile markers along the way;

- Make the subgoals as small as needed to be easily achievable;

- Identify and visualize possible points of resistance or roadblocks you may encounter. If you need to, return to the previous step and create even smaller subgoals;

- Create two or more alternative responses to deal with those possible roadblocks;

- Engage in the goal achieving behaviors right away. Take one or more tiny, tiny step immediately and keep moving to main momentum;

- Monitor progress and adjust your behaviors and actions as needed to keep moving toward your ultimate BHAG;

- Celebrate each success no matter how small;

- Feel good as you move step by step toward that ultimate BHAG.

Email address to get your copy of the, "Whole Brain Goal Setting" checklist at no cost. CarterMethod@gmail.com. Put the word "Goal" in the subject line.

Host: Stephen Carter, CEO Stress Solutions, LLC: https://www.EFT-MD.com; email CarterMethod@gmail.com.

Citations for study highlighted in episode: Citation:

More information: Agata Ludwiczak et al. Redefining the relationship between effort and reward: Choice-execution model of effort-based decisions, Behavioural Brain Research (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112474
Journal information: Behavioural Brain Research.

"Psychologists discover secret to achieving goals". https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-psychologists-secret-goals.html

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