Coaching practices for Self Regulation Goals
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I set the intention and then just hope I’m doing it
- All my goals are worded as things to stop
- I’ve got this whole list of goals and I honestly can’t tell anymore which ones are mine versus which I took on to look right or quiet the guilt
- This used to be something I wanted, but ever since my boss started tracking it and someone’s always checking in, it’s curdled into a chore I do for them
- I sit down to study with no real aim beyond "put in some time," so I drift, and an hour later I’ve technically been at it but couldn’t tell you what I can actually do now that I couldn’t before.
Practices that may help
- Use self-regulatory goals and progress monitoring
Set specific goals, monitor your progress toward them, and adjust based on the gap.
Social Cognitive Theory - Learning environment design
Set up your study environment before the session to minimize regulation demands during it.
Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn - Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn
Self-regulated learning (SRL), developed by Barry Zimmerman, is the process of setting goals, selecting strategies, monitoring progress, and adjusting based on feedback — applied to your own learning rather than waiting for external direction. Meta-analyses find consistent positive effects of SRL interventions on academic performance, with the largest benefits for students who start with weakest self-regulatory skills. - Frame goals as approach-oriented rather than avoidance-oriented
"Become healthy" outperforms "stop being sedentary" — frame goals toward what you want, not away from what you fear.
Goal Systems Theory: How Goals Work Together (and Against Each Other) - Audit why you are pursuing each goal
Check whether each goal is driven by interest and values or by guilt and external pressure.
Self-Concordant Goals, Made Practical - Protect your sense of autonomy while pursuing the goal
Keep the goal yours even when a coach, boss, or partner is involved in it.
Self-Concordant Goals, Made Practical - Forethought goal-setting
Set a specific, challenging learning goal before each study session.
Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn - Internalize goals you did not choose
Move externally set goals along the spectrum from "have to" toward "value".
Self-Determination Theory, Made Usable - Self-Concordant Goals, Made Practical
Self-concordant goals, from Kennon Sheldon, are goals you pursue because they express who you genuinely are or what truly interests you — not because of guilt, social pressure, or external reward. Research finds that self-concordant goals are pursued with more sustained effort and produce greater well-being when achieved, even when the objective difficulty is held constant. - Regulatory Focus Theory: Promotion vs Prevention Thinking
E. Tory Higgins’s regulatory focus theory proposes that people regulate behaviour toward two distinct motivational orientations: promotion focus (pursuing gains, ideals, and aspirations) and prevention focus (avoiding losses, obligations, and threats). Both are normal and neither is inherently superior — but each produces different emotional profiles, decision styles, and performance patterns. The theory is well-supported by a large experimental literature developed primarily by Higgins and colleagues at Columbia.
Related concerns
- Self Regulated Learning Goals
Set a specific, challenging learning goal before each study session.
Forethought goal-setting
- Identity And Goals
Make the goal an expression of a specific value so it stays motivating when difficulty peaks.
Anchor each goal to a named, personal value
- Self Concordance Motivation
Self-concordant goals, from Kennon Sheldon, are goals you pursue because they express who you genuinely are or what truly interests you — not because of guilt, social pressure, or external reward. Research finds that self-concordant goals are pursued with more sustained effort and produce greater well-being when achieved, even when the objective difficulty is held constant.
- Self Concordant Goals As A Parent
Self-concordant goals, from Kennon Sheldon, are goals you pursue because they express who you genuinely are or what truly interests you — not because of guilt, social pressure, or external reward. Research finds that self-concordant goals are pursued with more sustained effort and produce greater well-being when achieved, even when the objective difficulty is held constant.
- Self Concordant Goals For My Teenager
Self-concordant goals, from Kennon Sheldon, are goals you pursue because they express who you genuinely are or what truly interests you — not because of guilt, social pressure, or external reward. Research finds that self-concordant goals are pursued with more sustained effort and produce greater well-being when achieved, even when the objective difficulty is held constant.
- Self Concordant Goals In A New Job
Self-concordant goals, from Kennon Sheldon, are goals you pursue because they express who you genuinely are or what truly interests you — not because of guilt, social pressure, or external reward. Research finds that self-concordant goals are pursued with more sustained effort and produce greater well-being when achieved, even when the objective difficulty is held constant.
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