Nothing Adds Love Like A Little Success
A new study has once again told the more successfully organized of us something they’ve known all along — that breaking down sizeable goals into smaller, easily achieved ones gets you closer than ever to overall success.
Phew, that was a mouthful. Look, if you have to do something that’ll take a long time, and has a lot of steps toward reaching it, break it all down. What does it take to actually succeed? Make a list all of the smaller steps, and work to achieve each of them. Easy peezy, right?
If we know this, then what new incite does this study, by researchers at Canada’s University of Alberta offer you and I?
That stuff changes in our minds when we meet those smaller goals. According to the study, any objects we interact with, that are inherently necessary to achieving our long-term goals, are perceived differently by you and I over time. By taking the proper time to identify both those long-term goals and related short-term steps, we allow our minds to perceive objects needed to meet those incremental goals in a far more positive light, towards greater success.
Nothing adds love like a little success, it seems.
Here’s how it works.
Researcher Sarah Moore and her colleagues at both Duke and Cornell Universities found that how we feel about an object changes during the process of meeting a goal. An example given was in the case of finding something to quench a thirst, a simple process we all do many times a day.
According to Moore, “in the case of thirst, items such as a water fountain or a bottle of Coke will be seen favorably, while a chocolate bar or KFC sign would not.” Once we have obtained use of either and have thus quenched our thirst (meeting our goal,) both the water fountain and the bottle of Coke have lost a lot of their importance in our minds. We simply care not for them any longer; that is, of course, until we are thirsty again. A sliding scale of mental importance as we achieve little successes.
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