Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

The smartest AI tools won’t just automate your goals—they’ll slow you down long enough to set the right ones. Because in performance, reflective design is what turns motion into meaning. In the ...

A pioneer in her industry, coaching leaders since 2000, Sara Ellis Conant is Co-Founder & CEO of a)plan coaching. Setting goals is one of the most powerful tools for realizing your dreams in any area ...

The Harvard Business Review suggests personal or professional goals are famously hard to achieve. If the effort outweighs the perceived reward, we are tempted to give up on our targets. Also: 5 ways ...

Goals are standards that individuals use to evaluate how well they are doing now relative to where they want to end up. Goals basically guide our choices. Once you have a goal, the hard part is ...

Ever set a goal with the best intentions, only to find yourself losing steam a few weeks in? You’re not alone. I’ve been there too – staring at a half-finished to-do list, wondering where my ...

Check out our curated list of the best goal setting templates for monday.com, ClickUp, Excel, Google Sheets, Notion, Wrike, and more. Putting your goals in writing drastically increases your chances ...

Award-winning educator Valerie Bolling has written a book about setting writing goals to make the writing process more accessible for students and more manageable for teachers. In addition to her ...

Spring is the perfect time for a reset—an opportunity to reflect on progress, adjust goals and finish the school year strong. For students, the mid-year stretch is a chance to assess their learning, ...

This is the second part of our series on setting New Year’s goals for ambitious women with relational trauma histories. In Part 1, we explored how cultural pressures and old insecurities can turn ...