Campaign for Action: How to Reach Your Goals

From the Show: HER
Summary: Why do many people fail at reaching their goals?
Air Date: 1/21/16
Duration: 10
Host: Michelle King Robson and Pam Peeke, MD
Guest Bio: Tim Pychyl, PhD
Tim PychylDr. Tim Pychyl is the Director of the Centre for Initiatives in Education and Associate Professor of Psychology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Tim and his students have been researching procrastination for the past 20 years (procrastination.ca).

He is the author of Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change (Tarcher/Penguin, 2013) and co-editor of Procrastination, Health and Well-Being (Elsevier, in press). A professor passionate about teaching, Tim is the recipient of numerous teaching awards and he is a 3M National Teaching Fellow.
Campaign for Action: How to Reach Your Goals
Creating goals can be a great way to help you grow, as well as adapt to changes.

Unfortunately, many do not reach their goals and give up altogether within a month of setting them.

Why is that?

There could be a number of things that determine why you're unable to make your goal a reality. For example, your goal may be unrealistic, you may not have an action plan on how to successfully reach your goal, or you may just not want it enough to make it happen.

Why is an action plan crucial for sticking to your goals?

Listen in as Tim Pychyl, PhD, shares what a campaign for action is, as well as how you can successfully reach your goals.