Dr. Gail Matthews from the Dominican University did a study and found that there were three key elements to setting targets that enhances your rate of success in achieving your goals:
- accountability
- commitment
- writing down one’s goals
As part of the study she randomly assigned participants to five groups:
Group 1 - analyzed their targets and the resources they had to accomplish them.
Groups 2 - wrote down their targets after the analysis.
Group 3 - set action commitments after writing down their goals.
Group 4 - did all of the above and shared them with a friend.
Group 5 - did all of the above and sent a weekly progress report to their friend.
At the end, Dr. Matthews interviewed the participants and as you can imagine, Group 5 did the best. An average of 76% of participants in group five completed their stated goals versus 43% in Group 1.
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