Time Landmarks as New Beginnings (2015) Dai
Principle: Time landmarks separate you from your past mistakes and make it more likely you’ll make a fresh start pursuing a goal. Quote: "Temporal landmarks marking new beginnings inspire goal…
Research Bites are 1-page summaries of positive psychology research. Many were papers assigned as reading in my Harvard Extension Psychology Masters program. Others I’ve found in my endless rabbit holes of searching for evidence-based skills.
Goal Pursuit Model (In Press) Milyavskaya
Principle: Goal pursuit can be explained in one unified model. Quote “The integrative model of goal pursuit addresses all aspects of the goal pursuit process, including goal setting, goal striving,…
Integrating Models of Self-Regulation (2021) Inzlicht
Principle: Having a mental model of how self-regulation affects goals is useful. Different people have different mental models of how self-regulation affects goals. Quote “Both the ability to doggedly pursue…