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Goal-Setting: Mind Your Own Business
After yesterday’s article (Realistic is Overrated), let’s talk some more about goal-setting and motivation with a bit more nuance. Goals serve two basic purposes: They keep you on track, and they keep you motivated. There are also two basic types of goals: outcome goals (what you want to accomplish) and process goals (what you need to do repeatedly in order to accomplish your outcome goals). Outcome goals are the goals that play a bigger role in motivation, and