Goal Setting for Focus and Productivity: Make It Specific and Challenging

Improve your performance with research‑backed goal strategies.

• Researchers found that specific, challenging goals reduce attention lapses and increase performance; participants with concrete targets worked faster and maintained focus.

• Let your goals be both specific (“read five novels this month”) and challenging but achievable; adjust goals upward as progress is made.

• Break large goals into smaller milestones, track progress and celebrate wins.

  Reference

  • https://news.uoregon.edu/content/how-goal-setting-research-can-keep-your-resolutions-track