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Tiny goals are goals that are smaller in scale and easier to achieve. They are an important part of the goal-setting process, because they help build momentum and confidence along the way to those bigger goals that you are hoping to achieve. For instance, if your ultimate goal is to make the varsity high school soccer team, that goal should be made up of much smaller, or tiny, goals:

 Have coach learn your name

 Get to know the other kids on the team

 Practice juggling every day for 5 minutes

 Eat a much more nutritious breakfast every day

 Get to bed before midnight daily

 Stretch more often

 Drink more water

 Buy a new soccer ball

 Watch a motivational sports movie like Rocky

These tiny goals are deceptive in nature, since they initially appear to be too simple and too easy to achieve. However, therein lies the rub, so to speak: The fact that these goals are non-threatening to your brain (remember, our brains are wired to avoid things that appear to be painful) means that you will be more likely to pursue them. When you are more likely to engage in them, you will be more likely to achieve them, and when you achieve these tiny goals, your confidence will rise!

Tiny goals are an underestimated method for getting and keeping momentum in your goal-setting plan for this very reason. Small boosts of confidence along the path to your bigger goals improve the odds that you will be successful.

Setting small, easily achievable goals allows you to create momentum that you can use to increase your motivation along the way to your bigger goals!