Overcoming Obstacles and Tying Goals to Identity

• 🤔 Mental contrasting, a strategy that involves visualizing goals and obstacles, can boost goal attainment, according to psychologist Gabrielle Oettingen.
• 📝 The "WOOP" method (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan) can be used to visualize obstacles and make a plan to overcome them.
• 📋 Tying goals to an identity, such as "I am a healthy person," can increase the likelihood of achieving goals by leveraging the need to stay consistent with one's self-definition.