Most of us have come across goal setting in one way or another, be that at work when your boss comes over and tells you that you have to reach a certain sales target this quarter, or when we make a new year’s resolution to learn a new language. But why do we constantly set goals? Does it even work? Can’t we just all try our best and be much happier? Turns out that setting effective and meaningful goals can have a tremendous effect, not only on your performance, but also on other aspects of your (work-)life. Why set Goals? Research on the topic of goal setting has been done for more than 50 years and a lot of it