Goal setting: performance goals
Dr. Matthew SIMONE
"If you imagine repeatedly and conscientiously to achieve a goal, your chances of real success will increase dramatically." [ 1]
Definition with the athlete's performance targets in the short, medium and long term.
Fix limited objectives, achievable and progressively more ambitious is one of the best ways to increase self-efficacy of the athlete.
Specific objectives and the next are more effective in directing the action
directing more specific objectives of general
difficult goals are more modest goals of
MTO promote the achievement of long-term
"The goal and the 'design' part of the human being living in time, that moves on the line past-present-future, and that looks to the future, of which there is as yet no certainty, by a present full of possible patterns.
Before a project outline certain purchases, the first one to want something that will turn into a do something, it moves within us as a possibility, like a dream to be realized, as a desire, a push. " [2]
increased performance when goals are moderately difficult for the following reasons:
- evaluate whether an athlete is not sufficiently able to reach it, it will hardly be motivated to engage in frustrating task;
- confidence in itself directly affects the perception of task difficulty and subsequent performance;
- objectives too easy and too little incentive induce motivation.
It 'important to have priorities in objectives.
" practice to give himself a target : our goals is to identify short and long term actions needed to achieve them (ie in formulating an action plan) to organize our behavior in fulfilling these objectives, control the action to be sure not to leave the track, pay attention to the result of such actions, to recognize if and when you need to return to design phase. " [3]
Dr. Matthew SIMONE
Clinical Psychologist and Sports
Gestalt Psychotherapist
333.6955250 - 21163@tiscali.it
[1] Arnold Lazarus, mind's eye, Astrolabe, Rome, 1989, p.. 50.
[2] Cantaro F., Guastalla G., 2010, The Secret of the GNP, Sonda, P.. 109.
[3] Nathaniel Branden, The art of living consciously , Corbaccio, Milan, 1997, p.. 165 .
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