One of the most important financial goals for 2026 is defining your cash standards: Cash planning is responsible leadership.

Keeping your finances on track isn’t just about saving money, but rather setting many goals until you ultimately have a blueprint for your financial plan. Whether you’re setting short-term financial ...

If you want to have a great year, you’ll boost your likelihood of success by setting goals. And using goal setting theory, specifically, is the best way to ensure you achieve all that you aspire to.

Experts on home organization, personal training and personal finance share their perspectives on changes and transitions.

By focusing on realistic goals, planning carefully and shifting your mindset, you can turn your new year’s resolutions into ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. More and more of the ...

It’s that time when we get all excited about new possibilities and everything we want to change about ourselves and our lives. This is wonderful. Keep this feeling. Hold it. Bottle it up. It’s fuel.

As we enter 2024, we are reminded of this great opportunity for a fresh start. New Year's resolutions have become a tradition for so many of us, and social science researchers suggest days like this ...

Effectively setting goals isn’t as simple as writing down a target and praying you and your team hit it. It requires accountability, clarity and collaboration. Without accountability, even the best ...

Long-term success in goal achievement involves intrinsic motivation and seeing goals as identity changes, not just arbitrary targets. The SHAPING goal-setting system offers a framework focusing on ...

Yet many people avoid these specifics out of fear of the unknown, or they set unreachable goals. I’m a believer in having a healthy disregard for the impossible, but it does help to have a structured ...

Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.