Want to achieve your goals more effectively? The secret lies in understanding the difference between behavioral goals (the actions you take) and outcome goals (the results you want). While most people focus solely on outcomes, research shows that successful transformations often hinge on setting the right behavioral goals. Learn how to use both types of goals in HeroMode to maximize your chances of success!
Do you have New Year's resolutions? Have you ever felt the overwhelming challenge of sticking to them in previous years? Maybe try thinking about your resolutions in terms of adventures! HeroMode is here to keep you organized and motivated on your 2025 journey!
Time-based goals are easy to set but can lead to productivity fatigue. Task-based goals, while requiring more thought, offer concrete achievements and better align with deliberate practice. Learn why switching from time-based to task-based goals can boost your motivation and progress!
We all have the natural drive to enrich our human experiences, to grow, and to achieve mastery. And often, we set goals to remind us of our aspirations. But goal setting can be tricky. Done well, it can guide us to success. Otherwise, as many of us have experienced, it can lead to frustration and disappointment.
Before we begin the goal setting season that comes with the new year, let's first build the right mindset for goals. As it turns out, how we think about goals can make a big difference in their effectiveness, and, more importantly, in our ability to enjoy the journey.
In this last post of 2022, we want to discuss a common pitfall that can derail your New Year's resolutions (it happened to me!). And we also offer up a recipe to combat it, so that you can steadily work towards your goals.
Do you have a new habit you'd like to adopt? Here we lay out the three simple steps to use HeroMode as a Habit Tracker:
We also provide some additional tips to make your habit building journey joyful and successful.
This time of the year, goals and reflections are top of mind for many of us. Setting a goal well, and it can propel you to glory and success. Setting goals ineffectively, and they could become distractions, or worse, unnecessary anxieties.
How to set goals the right way? We look at three lessons on goal setting from behavioral psychology.
Many of us have wished to have more willpower. That's because we have this notion that having more willpower will help us accomplish more. However, researches are increasingly pointing to an alternative framework, and challenging our understanding on how willpower works.