The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Goals

Researchers have found that a portion of the brain, the amygdala, reacts negatively when we are facing uncertainty and risk. This response is quite helpful in avoiding danger and staying alive. Unfortunately, when we imagine the future as being vastly different from today, we experience uncertainty because we don’t know how to create and maintain t

Each of these steps is specific, measurable, attainable, results-focused, and time-bound.

That is how most people who do in fact work toward goals proceed; they identify the goal, and then identify actions to help achieve it, and then try to do those actions.