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A synthesis of the goal-setting and motivation literature most useful for coaching, personal practice, and the design of behavior-change programs. The central claim across five decades of research is that motivation is not a character trait but an outcome of how goals are structured — their specificity, difficulty, proximity, authorship, and the feedback they generate. Get the structure right and effort follows; get it wrong and even willing people quit. This article pulls together Locke and Latham's goal-setting theory, Bandura and Schunk's proximal goals, Ryan and Deci's self-determination t…

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