If you want to have a great year, you’ll boost your likelihood of success by setting goals. And using goal setting theory, specifically, is the best way to ensure you achieve all that you aspire to.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jess Cording is a dietitian and health coach who covers wellness. How many times have you set a goal because you felt it was the ...

Most of my clients love figuring out their passions and even dreaming of their vision for their futures. That’s the fun stuff! They get bored or stuck when it comes to setting goals. Their enthusiasm ...

It’s easy to say you want to fulfill a major fitness goal, but it’s another thing to actually follow through. A run/walk program can help you bridge the gap between your potential to meet that ...

Effectively setting goals isn’t as simple as writing down a target and praying you and your team hit it. It requires accountability, clarity and collaboration. Without accountability, even the best ...

When Caroline Adams Miller learned about the science of goal setting, her professional and personal life changed forever. It was 2005, and Adams Miller was a student at the University of Pennsylvania ...

What factors influence our success in reaching goals? Does setting a more ambitious goal generate self-confidence? Or does your confidence help determine your goal? Chicago Booth’s Avner ...

Set effective employee performance goals using MBO and continuous feedback. Top HR software includes BambooHR, Paychex Flex, GoCo, and monday.com for tracking.

In 2012, Tom Holland told a reporter he’d love to play Spider-Man “in 10 years’ time.” Ahead of schedule, the actor leaped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the iconic web-slinger in 2016’s ...

Spontaneity is freeing, and we could all use more unstructured time in our over-scheduled lives—just maybe not in the gym. When it comes to your health and fitness, if you really want to see results, ...

Recently, I saw a post on LinkedIn promoting a TED talk about setting goals. I was really interested in the headline because I’m a big fan of goals. With that in mind, you can perhaps imagine my ...

Award-winning educator Valerie Bolling has written a book about setting writing goals to make the writing process more accessible for students and more manageable for teachers. In addition to her ...