Do You Write Down Your Goals?

Do you physically write down your goals? Pen to paper?

Yours truly has always been a big fan of writing things down. From gratitude lists to to do lists to planners, I am a big pen to paper kinda girl. Recently, I came across an interesting article that explained just how important it is to write down your goals.

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According to this article, writing things down occurs on two different levels- external storage and encoding.

• External storage=the piece of paper you are recording your goals on
• Encoding= biological process by which what we perceive travels to our brain’s hippocampus to be analyzed

Neuropsychologists also noted a “generation effect” which states that people have a better memory for content they have created themselves over content they only read.

I found this piece of psychology interesting and in an effort to further this use of knowledge, I created a “September Goals” printable.

Are you going to set your September Goals today?