| Goal Setting Sports | | | | runner's individual performance is measured in a very |
| Goal setting is an important part of almost every | | | | tangible way. He can track his progress in every |
| aspect of life. One particular facet of life that the | | | | workout, in every race with as much accuracy as his |
| effects of goal setting are interesting is in sports. | | | | stopwatch can measure. Thus every day the runner |
| Goal setting in sports is used to measure quality of | | | | goes out to run he can set a tangible goal and after |
| performance, just like in any other aspect of life in | | | | he is done training or racing he can tell whether he |
| which it is used. If you talk to an athlete of any kind, | | | | achieved that goal or not. Goal Setting Sports |
| from a professional basketball player to a nine year | | | | This is not the case however with a soccer player. In |
| old just starting out on his Little League baseball | | | | the course of a soccer game, a particular player may |
| team, he will tell you that goal setting is an integral | | | | get one or two chances to score a goal. Whether or |
| part of his hobby or profession. | | | | not he capitalizes on the opportunity is really not a |
| The Little Leaguer's particular goals might be to | | | | good indicator of how he performed that day. In the |
| simply get a single hit every game to impress his | | | | case of the soccer player, the goals he sets have to |
| friends, while the professional's goal may be to hit for | | | | be much less tangible. He has to take into account |
| a batting average of three hundred in order to attain | | | | how the game was played and try to measure his |
| a higher rate of pay. The fact remains that each | | | | contribution to his team's performance. |
| player sets a particular goal and in most cases, that | | | | He could look at how he contributed to the |
| goal is integral to his success or failure in his particular | | | | possession of the ball being in his team's favor or the |
| endeavor. Goal Setting Sports | | | | opponents' favor, he could look at how many times |
| We can see that goal setting plays quite a different | | | | he turned the ball over and he could also look at the |
| role as the level of athletics changes, but we can see | | | | individual quality of passes that he completed. Even |
| that it is also present regardless of the level of play | | | | when breaking down the soccer game, the soccer |
| at which an athlete is competing. You can not only | | | | player still has a hard time assessing his performance |
| compare the role goal setting at different levels of | | | | and his level of achievement with regard to his |
| competition you can also compare them across | | | | particular goal since so much is dependant on the |
| different sports. | | | | other twenty-one people on the field. |
| One comparison that is easy to look at is the role of | | | | Even though all this is true, the soccer player still |
| goal setting in long distance running and in soccer. | | | | needs to measure his performance and the only way |
| Now in this case the athlete who participates in long | | | | he can do this is by goal setting. Even though these |
| distance running will have a much easier time setting | | | | goals may be subjective, goal setting is still an integral |
| his goals. This is simply because the long distance | | | | part of his hobby or profession. |