However big or small, goals motivate everyone in virtually everything they do. A goal may be as simple as "buy milk" or as complex as "develop a sustainable 10-year business plan." In either case, you ...

New research shows that nearly two-thirds of daily behaviors are triggered by habit rather than conscious decision-making.

Can small changes to your calendar have big effects on your behavior? One of the biggest challenges behavioral scientists are tackling these days is helping us balance short-term demands with ...

Behaviors have intentional goals—what we plan or try to do—and tacit goals—what we implicitly try to do. Tacit goals are automatic behavioral impulses, based on autopilot judgments. Intentional and ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a specific brain region that underlies “goal-directed behavior”—that is, when we consciously do something with a particular goal in mind, say ...

In 1968 Dr. Edwin Locke wrote that employees are motivated by two things: clear goals and appropriate feedback. In this age of instant communication and short deadlines, it is important to create a ...

No one is immune to self-sabotage, even if everything appears fine from the outside. Though it’s important to realize that self-sabotage happens to everyone, it’s ultimately not about who does it and ...