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use a better yardstick - by Minh D - Life with MD

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when detailed ambitions drive growth [39]:

Most of us are familiar with S.M.A.R.T goals, the framework that has been repeatedly taught to us from school and beyond. In this blog, I want to share an additional way to view goal setting: using better measure to set and track your goals, aka find a better yardstick. On one of my runs recently, an idea came up about the purpose of goals specificity. What I meant by that is being obvious about the granularity of my goals. I realized that in the past the more specific my goals had been, the better I was able to achieve them. I also learned that ambitious goal setting not only didn’t…

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