[h=1]A Harvard psychologist reveals why you're not achieving your goals[/h]
The smarter approach is to learn to embrace the process.
On its face, that may seem counter-productive, like you're taking your eyes off the prize. But Cuddy emphasizes the power of using long-term thinking for short-term planning. You won't lose all the weight overnight, so your best option is to focus on making each day the best it can be. Chop up the big goal into a string of daily or weekly goals that are easier to accomplish.
"A lot of research is showing us that we do much better when we focus on incremental change, on little bits of improvement," Cuddy says.
That's how you go from a couch potato to a marathoner. You temporarily ignore the fact you need to run 26.2 miles several months from now, and focus only on running one mile today. And since that goal is much easier to achieve, you'll feel a sense of accomplishment once it's complete.
In turn, that creates the extra motivation you need to move onto a second and third run, and, ultimately, the race itself.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
The smarter approach is to learn to embrace the process.
On its face, that may seem counter-productive, like you're taking your eyes off the prize. But Cuddy emphasizes the power of using long-term thinking for short-term planning. You won't lose all the weight overnight, so your best option is to focus on making each day the best it can be. Chop up the big goal into a string of daily or weekly goals that are easier to accomplish.
"A lot of research is showing us that we do much better when we focus on incremental change, on little bits of improvement," Cuddy says.
That's how you go from a couch potato to a marathoner. You temporarily ignore the fact you need to run 26.2 miles several months from now, and focus only on running one mile today. And since that goal is much easier to achieve, you'll feel a sense of accomplishment once it's complete.
In turn, that creates the extra motivation you need to move onto a second and third run, and, ultimately, the race itself.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
