I've been teaching goal setting for years, and when I started, the research was pretty clear that sharing your goals publicly would help you maintain motivation and make it more likely that you would reach your goals. It's worked for me for years, and I haven't questioned it. That is, until a client of mine really didn't want to share her goals, and insisted that the research had to be wrong. So I did a little digging to bring you an update. I was pleased to find that there

The other day, I did some momming worthy of the Golden Globe for Best Parenting in a Comedy Series. My daughter had done something kind of stupid and impulsive and was mortified by her own behavior. My husband and I agreed that punishing her for what she did would just compound her embarrassment and shame, and so we decided to help her process her feelings instead. (And, of course, there was no screen time.) In that moment of parenting, I was intensely focused on the prese

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In his oldie-but-goodie 1995 book ‘Supermotivation’ , author Dean Spitzer describes 8 desires which drive our inner motivation. While...