Three in ten Americans report making at least one New Year’s resolution/goal, with half of this group making more than one. This is according to a 2024 Pew Research Center survey of 5,140 adults ...

Approach-oriented goals involve reaching or maintaining desired outcomes. Avoidance goals focus on avoiding or eliminating undesired outcomes. Although both types of goals are common in our lives and ...

Learn more about why New Year's resolutions often fail, and what you can do to make sure you stick to them. Part of the reason that we fail to keep our resolutions is because they aren’t that well ...

Research shows the words you use to describe a goal can make a dramatic difference in success or failure. We all have goals, but at least some of the difference in achieving those goals comes down to ...

The Shorthorn Editorial Board believes that when setting goals for the semester, students should focus not only on the ...

“Most people consider the start of a new year as the perfect time to set financial goals but without the right support, it becomes easy to give up when faced with hardship,” Nomi Bodlani, head of ...