Flexible Goals
I've just recently read about this topic in a book (I will give a book review on it in the near future). It is a concept that can greatly help performance. Having flexible goals is very similar to the ideas that I've written about in the past regarding wanting to win vs wanting to give 100% effort. Having flexible goals helps you balance these two motives to maintain peak performance. Let me explain what I mean by flexible goals. It means to not have only one specific vision of what success looks like. It means to provide yourself multiple paths to success and a hierarchy of goals. Here are some examples to show what I mean: If you only have one specific vision of what success looks like, then you are cutting yourself off from other paths that could lead to good things. For instance, if you really want to be a professional basketball player, but you only want to play in the NBA, then you'll most likely quit basketball altogether if you fail to get drafted or signed to