Everybody knows that achieving success can be hard, and some even think that it is impossible. However, with hard work, a good mindset, and great goals, you have one of the best recipes to achieve success. The initial ingredient to success is to work hard. For example, the great women's soccer player Carli Lloyd had some challenges that tested her diligence and dedication to work hard, allowing her to become stronger in the process. In the text, "Dedicated to the Goal'' by Marty Kaminsky, Kaminsky revealed that as a kid, Lloyd “searched the neighborhood for tougher challenges, playing anyone who was willing" (8). Instead of sticking with the kids she knew she could beat, she went and found harder challenges, showing that she was fine with losing, …show more content…
The Ohio State Marching Band has amazing performances, leading them to be the best marching band in the country, but it doesn’t come freely. OSU’s Marching Band is “one of the most physically demanding marching bands in the country”...It’s a high-step march. Each step, your legs completely come off the ground. It’s like being on a stair master for 45 minutes.”” (42). That hard work, along with strict teachers and lots of practice, makes this amazing band shine. They have a growth mindset so they don’t get down if they mess up, which is another ingredient in the recipe for success. The next ingredient to success is having a good mindset. An example in “Cultivate Resilience: How to Get Back onto the Horse” by Rebecca Zucker is when psychologist Carol Dweck performed a study on kindergarteners. She would give them a math problem, and then increasingly add more challenging problems into the mix. The kids with a growth mindset were “inherently more curious and interested in the learning, even if they failed”. And when they did fail, they did not internalize the failure and take it as a statement about how good or smart they are.” …show more content…
That is one of the key components of having a growth –or a fixed– mindset. Along with hard work and good mindsets, setting goals properly is a skill that will help you be successful in life. The final ingredient to success is setting the proper goals. Two researchers named Gary Latham and Edwin Locke discovered that setting more challenging goals rather than easier goals increases motivation to accomplish said goals. In the text "The Theory and Power Behind Goal Setting" by Otylia Benson, Latham and Locke have a great statement about goals: "Goals are powerful tools to help us get what we want out of life" (5). In most situations, goals are a great way to achieve success and what we want. Latham and Locke also discover that there are five things that make a goal more likely to be achieved: “... clarity, challenge, commitment, measurable progress, and task complexity...the best way to stay motivated and be successful is to set goals, but the TYPE of goals you set—and the way you set them—matters to whether you will achieve them”
Patience and persistence come in handy. Not everything we work for comes out as planned, failure is something most of us try to avoid at all costs. Our responses to obstacles greatly depend on our mindset. Those with positive mindsets “ not only weren’t they discouraged by failure, they didn’t even think they were failing. They thought they were learning” (Dweck 5). The greater the goal the more difficult the path becomes.”People may start with different temperaments and different aptitudes but it is clear that experience, training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way” (Dweck 5). For example, a person with a growth mindset has a bigger possibility achieving things in life than a person with a fixed mindset because they are not deterred by
Since the publishing of the goal setting theory by Locke and Latham (1990), there have been a series of follow up research on the various elements of goal setting likely to influence goal attainment. A number of studies, based off of the discovery of the ponderous influence of goal setting on success, scrutinizing the effects of goals on moderating factors in achievement like self efficacy (Elson & Ginis, 2004), motivation (Elliot & Harackiewicz, 1994), goal sources, commitment, performance and numerous others have been conducted.
People work hard in everything they do to be able to achieve this one goal. Someone with a growth mindset and someone with a fixed mindset tend to have a different perspective on how success works. One with a fixed mindset thinks that since they are already successful and that they have made it to the top that, they don’t need to do anything else. They believe that everything they did to get there is all the potential they have. Little did they know that they are only thinking short term.
We all want to be successful in life and that success isn’t just going to fall into your lap. To achieve goals in life you have to have the right mindset. When you have a growth mindset you have higher chances to succeed because giving up isn’t a option for you. A person growth mindset believes that through practice, hard work and determination you can achieve anything. The articles we have read and spoke about in class are all connected in the fact that they all speak in some shape or form about a growth mindset. A growth mindset will help a person be successful by not giving up, determination,deliberate practice, challenging yourself and going above and beyond.
I believe that a growth mindset is the key to success. A growth mindset can help you accomplish your goals, motivate you to put in effort and not give up, and realize that you can always get better at something. Having a growth mindset is a key factor in succeeding in life and achieving your goals. Achieving goals takes effort.
In marching band there is this high level of performance expected from each member. In fact, the directors expect perfection from everyone. We all share the mindset that “I have to be perfect, if I make a mistake, then the directors will call me out, and then everyone will know that I am sucking at this”. We get in our own way of succeeding, we don’t want to fail, so we don’t try; then we can never be good. The socialization of perfection in children creates unrealistic standards that are impossible for a child to achieve and causes the child to feel unworthy and give up.
The most exceptional of educated people have their mind filled with interfering thoughts. These people live within the fixed mindset, believing they have this “gift” and find themselves limiting their abilities and achievements. In Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset:The New Psychology of success, she explains that living in the opposite, growth mindset, can let you achieve endless obstacles with the love of learning and challenge. Your mindset is not just a mindset of your intelligence, but is a tale tell sign of the way you live your life. She discloses that in order to reach your full potential you must continually work at it, nothing comes naturally. The growth mindset is a result of many reasons such as someone believing in you, accepting that success is trying your best, setbacks are motivation, and also learning to take charge and keeping it up. Dweck illustrates that healthy growth mindset can help you live a fulfilling life regardless of the failures that are thrown at you.
Give You Motivation: Effectively setting goals means you must make a real action plan. This can bring you consistent guidance and motivation whenever you revisit what you are truly
Just as Eduardo Briseno, Co-Founder and CEO of Mindset Works, states in his November 2012 TED Talk. He says that the key to achieving your goal is something bigger than yourself. It is actually believing you can accomplish anything even if at first
Having the belief, action and discipline to achieve goals is ultimately the key formula I have utilized to find success throughout my life. In late 2013, I compiled a list of academic, athletic, and other extracurricular goals that I wanted to accomplish before I graduated in 2017. As a freshman, my primary high school goals consisted of gaining acceptance into the International Baccalaureate Program and the National Honor Society, being elected to the City of Goodyear Youth Commission, and making the varsity soccer team. As a freshman, my primary goal was to make the varsity soccer team, a feat only few students had done in years past. To begin, I was already at a disadvantage, as I was unable to participate with club soccer unlike most of the varsity players on the team; However, I was also at an advantage, as the coach recognized my hunger
This raises the question: "Why do people often attempt goal setting, simply to be unsuccessful and be frustrated with the process and the outcomes?" Brian Tracy offers four potential reasons in his book "Goals! How to Get Everything You
Setting goals is part of everyday life. When you set goals, it is a motivation to make you want to; therefore you try to achieve your goals in life. Achieving your goals helps motivate you to set more goals to achieve, and achieving goals that you set it like fuel to achieve more goals. Dictionary.com gives the definition as, “achievement toward which effort is directed”. Another word that can be used in place of goal is “intention”, “target”. An opposite meaning of goal is, “ beginning.” When you set a new goal, a whole new beginning opens up. Achieving goals is important because it makes you want to keep going because accomplishing things in life is very important. A real world example of achieving your goal is when students graduate from high
"People who achieve their goals do so with passion, planning, persistence, and purpose" (Lynda Fields). Goals are an important part of our lives. They make us happier, and they allow us to become a better person. For your goals to constantly shape your life, and make you happier, you must work hard and continue to have the motivation for them. You also must create a plan to start working on your smaller goals to achieve your bigger goals.
Setting goals in some cases is intense, though the harder step is choosing the correct goal. Goal setting is an essential strategy for settling on what is expected to accomplish in your life, by separating it into vital and immaterial parts. It will help you endlessly pursue with fearlessness, the effective accomplishment of said goals. One can pick a goal that you feel important for your wellbeing, solidity, and happiness. There are many advantages in setting goals. Setting goals can leverage in achieving, improving more in a lifetime. It also boosts the self-confidence of an individual.
Goal setting is very important in life. It can lead to a higher quality of life. You can gain your desire and easily reach your goal in life. You should plan to make relevant, positive and effective life choices. You can take proper decisions for the future.