| 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. |
| 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. The Little Leaguer's | | | | not he capitalizes on the opportunity is really not a |
| particular goals might be to simply get a single hit | | | | good indicator of how he performed that day. In the |
| every game to impress his friends, while the | | | | case of the soccer player, the goals he sets have to |
| professional's goal may be to hit for a batting | | | | be much less tangible. He has to take into account |
| average of three hundred in order to attain a higher | | | | how the game was played and try to measure his |
| rate of pay. The fact remains that each player sets a | | | | contribution to his team's performance. He could look |
| particular goal and in most cases, that goal is integral | | | | at how he contributed to the possession of the ball |
| to his success or failure in his particular endeavor. We | | | | being in his team's favor or the opponents' favor, he |
| can see that goal setting plays quite a different role | | | | could look at how many times he turned the ball over |
| as the level of athletics changes, but we can see | | | | and he could also look at the individual quality of |
| that it is also present regardless of the level of play | | | | passes that he completed. Even when breaking down |
| at which an athlete is competing. You can not only | | | | the soccer game, the soccer player still has a hard |
| compare the role goal setting at different levels of | | | | time assessing his performance and his level of |
| competition you can also compare them across | | | | achievement with regard to his particular goal since |
| different sports. | | | | so much is dependant on the other twenty-one |
| One comparison that is easy to look at is the role of | | | | people on the field. Even though all this is true, the |
| goal setting in long distance running and in soccer. | | | | soccer player still needs to measure his performance |
| Now in this case the athlete who participates in long | | | | and the only way he can do this is by goal setting. |
| distance running will have a much easier time setting | | | | Even though these goals may be subjective, goal |
| his goals. This is simply because the long distance | | | | setting is still an integral part of his hobby or |
| runner's individual performance is measured in a very | | | | profession. |