Motivation, Habits and Goal Setting
with Nathan Douglas
We hope you have enjoyed our Motivation, Habits and Goal Setting session and found it of value to you.
We create habits to help us perform tasks with minimum energy requirement. A routine repeated often enough turns into a habit. Sometimes these can be good habits or sometimes bad habits. Good habits have a positive effect on our lives and bad habits a negative effect.
There is no silver bullet to stop bad habits and creating positive habits. It takes effort and some discipline. Although there is no silver bullet, we have provided a framework for you to work with, enabling you to understand habit formation and the process to change them.
As you now know, goal setting can be a helpful way for you to achieve your aspirations. Remember SMART goals, this acronym provides a reminder of the basic steps.
I provided my perspective on how I used goal setting during my athletics career and my personal life, plus some of my difficulties along the way.
Motivation levels can often dip a long the journey to our goal, remember to set a goal that your true desire and which inspires to take action. Visualisation is a powerful tool here, visualising the outcome with as much detail as possible.
Taking small, manageable steps is a helpful way to to achieve your goals and avoiding overwhelm. Small steps taken consistently lead to big improvements. Setting yourself goals can really help to ignite new behaviours and guide your focus on new directions and opportunities.
We hope that this session has:
guided you on how to set personal and career goals;
inspired you to embrace future challenges;
given you key tools that high performers use to set appropriate goals and how to maintain consistent motivation.
Reflect upon the difference between a growth mindset and fixed mindset, and decide on the actions you can take to guide yourself towards a growth mindset. Mindset is key to accomplishing your ambitions, as sometimes we unconsciously get in our own way with our thoughts, words and actions.
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Recommended reading list:
Mindset - Carol Dweck
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway - Susan Jeffers
Nathan is a Double Olympian for Team GB and a sports scientist from Loughborough University. He enjoyed a career spanning over 22 years at world-class level, showing a wealth of resilience to achieve such longevity. He is twice ranked in the top three in the world and has won two European Silver medals in the Triple jump. Nathan has been British Champion 8 times. In 2016 he was made the GB Team Captain, a reward and recognition of his resilience during times of difficulty.
He is a member of the UK Athletics Athletes Commission, using his experience and expertise to collaborate with the national governing body to create the best possible environment for welfare and performance. Nathan is a certified Peak Performance Coach, NLP Practitioner and has been trained in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy at the Oxford University Mindfulness Centre.
He is on a mission to stop people from just functioning and to help them flourish and perform at their very best.
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