*ACHIEVING FAME, WEALTH AND BEAUTY ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEAD ENDS. ‘JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY’, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, 2009
1 SET GOALS AROUND YOUR OWN GROWTH.
A study* has found that when a group of people were asked to write down two paragraphs about a significant life goal and how they were going to accomplish it, those who described goals around growth and learning demonstrated improved self-awareness, maturity and wellbeing nearly four years later.