Importance of Goal-Setting in Sports

Setting goals in sports is important, as it encourages you to continue to improve and gives you a standard measurement of your progress.

  1. Short-Term

    • Short-term goals give athletes a chance to focus on one particular game, or even one particular moment or aspect of a game.

    Long-Term

    • Having a goal for an entire season would be considered a long-term goal. Setting a long-term goal can provide you with a good measure of your progress throughout the season.

    Sense of Direction

    • Goals give you a sense of direction, and provide you with motivation to improve in a number of areas.

    Performance Goals

    • Instead of focusing on the result, performance goals focus on the work that it takes to get to that particular result.

    Outcome Goals

    • Outcome goals are the opposite of performance goals. While the work that it takes to meet a goal is very important, outcome goals focus on the result of the work put in and not the actual work.