The Lawyer’s Well-Being Brief

You really can have your cake and eat it, too when it comes to goals!

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”- Dr. Seuss

Welcome back or welcome to, the Lawyer’s Well-being Brief. Every week, I share insights on ways to improve our well-being. This week I am sharing more goal-setting techniques from Heidi Grant Halvorson’s book, Succeed — How We Can Reach Our Goals that we can apply to our well-being goals.

Heidi Grant Halvorson is one of the world’s leading researchers on goal setting. According to Halvorson, “In the last decade or two, social psychologists have come to know a lot about how goals work. Succeed is my attempt to take that knowledge out of the academic journals and handbooks and spread it around a bit more so that it can do some good.”

You want to set goals that are difficult, but possible. Halvorson puts it this way, “It’s also important when you set goals to make them difficult, while still being realistic. You want to challenge yourself and set the bar high because challenges really get the motivational juices flowing while avoiding goals that are more or less improbable.”

What kind of goals are you setting these days? Specific and challenging?