"Align goals with your top two core values Chris Bailey discovered through research by values scientist Shalom Schwartz that humans share 12 fundamental motivations, and each person has a unique combination where two or three dominate. When a goal isn't connected to your highest values, you face a constant headwind: "If you don't value face, that goal to look a certain way by a certain amount of time, that's not going to be motivating for you." Conversely, a fitness goal reframed around security — "having a feeling secure in your body that your heart isn't going to attack you in retirement" — draws on your actual motivational nature and makes effort feel far more effortless. Identifying your top two values and filtering your goal list through them is the single most reliable way to predict which goals you'll actually follow through on. Source: Chris Bailey, Modern Wisdom, Intentional: How to Finish What You Start"