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Setting
Overview
Goal setting theory and practice
Managing time
From material to happiness perception
Resilience
Beliefs as self-fulfilling prophecies (knapsack)
Words create worlds
Concepts conceive
Liberating
Future goals as means; present experiences
as ends
The case of unhappy achievers
Self-Concordant Goals
Increase in wellbeing
Increased likelihood of success
Entering a positive upward spiral
Trickle effect
Increase in wellbeing
Increased likelihood of success
Entering a positive upward spiral
Trickle effect
Health (Langer, 1989)
Freedom vs. oppression
Work Orientation
Motivation
JOB
CAREER
CALLING
Work
as
Expectation Looking
forward to
Work Orientation
JOB
CAREER
CALLING
Motivation
Work
as
Expectation Looking
forward to
Paycheck
Chore /
necessity
None
Friday /
vacation
Work Orientation
JOB
Motivation
Work
as
Expectation Looking
forward to
Paycheck
Chore /
necessity
None
Friday /
vacation
Prestige
and power
Next
promotion
Work Orientation
JOB
Motivation
Work
as
Expectation Looking
forward to
Paycheck
Chore /
necessity
None
Friday /
vacation
Prestige
and power
Next
promotion
Mission / Better
vocation / world /
passion / fulfillment
privilege
More
work
MEANING
Problem solving
Working with children
Political activism
Music
PLEASURE
Sailing
Cooking
Music
Being around children
STRENGTHS
MEANING
PLEASURE
Music
Political activism
Sailing
Cooking
Reading
Children
Problem
solving
Facility for language
Enthusiasm
STRENGTHS
Skill
Level
Flow
Boredom
Anxiety
Frustration
Task Difficulty
Too Easy?
The need for challenge (Bexton et al., 1954)
Stretch goals (Locke, 2002)
The best moments usually occur when a persons body
or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to
accomplish something difficult and worthwhile
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Pressure to be happy
What right do I have to be unhappy?
Feeling of inadequacy and guilt on top of pain
Emotions as the great equalizer
Permission to be human
Too Difficult?
Divide and Conquer (short term goals)
Breaking down achievement (Langer, 1989)
People can imagine themselves
taking steps, while great heights
seem entirely forbidden.
Ellen Langer
Pat Riley
Immediate feedback
Written plan (Claypool & Cangemi, 1983)
Specific goals (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1982)
Setting lifelines (Tami, 1999)
goals in-spire
goals are life-enhancing
Overcoming Procrastination
Overcoming Procrastination
The 5-minute take off
Reward yourself
Go public
The team approach
Goals, plans, lists
Permission to re-create
Time Out!
In a recent national survey of 13,500 college students,
nearly 45 percent reported being so depressed that they
had difficulty functioning, and 94 percent reported feeling
overwhelmed by everything they had to do.
Richard Kadison
Too much
to do
Stress (feeling
Overwhelmed)
Depression
Time Out!
In a recent national survey of 13,500 college students,
nearly 45 percent reported being so depressed that they
had difficulty functioning, and 94 percent reported feeling
overwhelmed by everything they had to do.
Richard Kadison
Too much
to do
Stress (feeling
Overwhelmed)
Depression
Simplify!
Do less, not more
Love and sex are affected negatively by stress If we
can help people to simplify their lives, thus reducing their
stress levels, it is very likely that peoples relationships
would be enriched greatly. Moreover, the positive
aspects of their lives would be enriched accordingly.
Susan & Clyde Hendrick (2002)
Simplify!
Do less, not more
Quantity affects quality
Say yes by saying no
Optimum levels of simplicity
Work expands to fill the time available for its
completion.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
I can do a years work in nine months, but not in
twelve.
JP Morgan
Material Perception
Material as the highest end
Society tells us the only thing that matters is matter
the only things that count are the things that can be
counted.
Laurence G. Boldt
Counting activities
Counting publications
Counting money
1997:
The Consequences
Money cant buy you happiness (Diener, 1999)
The Dark Side of the American Dream (Kasser & Ryan, 1993)
lower likelihood of self-actualization
higher levels of distress, depression, anxiety
lower levels of happiness
poorer physical health
Happiness Perception
Happiness as the highest end
Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole
aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Peaceful revolution
Everybody thinks of
changing humanity
and nobody thinks of
changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy