Dr. Emily Balcetis

"I started to collect data on myself. What I did was download this app that a friend had told me about called the reporter app. There's lots of these kinds of things out there. Basically, it just like sets up your phone to randomly ping you with whatever questions you want your phone to ask."

"You can tell people about what these Olympic athletes are doing. Imagine that there's a spotlight shining just on a target. Choose something up ahead, the stop sign two blocks up that you can see. And you know, imagine that you have blinders on so that you're not really paying attention to the people that are passing by."

"They say all kinds of things, a couple things always pop to the top, which is, you know, self-pep talks or I remind myself of how important it is to do this job or put up post-it notes around to like constantly be nagging me about what I need to do."

"A lot of people's go-to strategies that involve vision are vision boards or dream boards or, you know, post-it notes, right? They're creating some sort of visual representation of what it is that they want to accomplish. It's a really common tactic that's effective for identifying what you want, but it may not actually be effective for helping you to meet the goal."