The Science of Goal Achievement

Elizabeth
2 min readJan 2, 2020

When it comes to goal achievement you’ve likely heard the study of the Ivy League school that had wildly different success rates between students who wrote down their goals and those that didn’t. The facts show that this study never really happened, it is urban legend.

Regardless of the false statistics in the famous urban legend study, I have read many other fact-based studies that confirm what I have also found in my life and my clients’ experience. The practice of writing down your goals is a definite step in the right direction for achievement.

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