Friday Night Lights follows the Permian Panthers high school football team through their 1988 season in West Texas. The high school has a long standing tradition of winning both district and state championships. This winning tradition places a tremendous amount of pressure on the players, as well as the coaching staff to have a successful season resulting in a state title, and anything less is considered a failure in the eyes of the town. The movie focuses primarily on several of the senior members of the football team, as well as the head coach, Gary Gaines.
The movie first introduces you to the starting QB, Mike Winchell. Mike is a humble and quiet kid who shys away from the spotlight as much as possible, despite the stigma of the typical …show more content…
If the goals that are set are vague in nature, motivation to achieve them will decrease. Your goals need to be realistic enough that achieving them is possible, but challenging enough so that they warrant a desirable amount of effort and motivation to achieve them. In other words, they should not be easy to achieve, but also not impossible. The ideal set of goals need to be “task oriented” in that they focus on performing many small, short term tasks in order to achieve a larger, long-term goal. There needs to be a larger amount of emphasis on achieving small victories instead of just striving towards one huge, multifaceted goal, as this will cause you to lose heart over time and come to believe that your ultimate goal is achievable. Their also needs to be some element of feedback in an optimal goal setting scenario. You need something to track your progress over time, which is why breaking your goals down into smaller, task-oriented achievements, will sustain your motivation over the course of the entire process. You also need to set “approach goals” which focus on achieving desired outcomes, instead of a negative focus on avoiding undesirable …show more content…
Then, I would help them to develop a step by step plan to achieve their fitness goals, with an emphasis on smaller, more easily achievable goals that they can check off on a daily basis. This emphasis on smaller task goals will foster an increased sense of motivation and help each client to track their progress daily in terms of their own “goal checklist”. I would use the task goal orientation to set goals so that each client can focus on being better than they were the previous session. This helps would help clients to track their progress, and allow them to see their own progression in comparison to their previous performances. If they believe that they are in competition with only themselves, then they will be less likely to compare their progress to others around them, thereby reducing feelings of dissatisfaction with their own personal fitness
The movie first introduces you to the starting QB, Mike Winchell. Mike is a humble and quiet kid who shys away from the spotlight as much as possible, despite the stigma of the typical …show more content…
If the goals that are set are vague in nature, motivation to achieve them will decrease. Your goals need to be realistic enough that achieving them is possible, but challenging enough so that they warrant a desirable amount of effort and motivation to achieve them. In other words, they should not be easy to achieve, but also not impossible. The ideal set of goals need to be “task oriented” in that they focus on performing many small, short term tasks in order to achieve a larger, long-term goal. There needs to be a larger amount of emphasis on achieving small victories instead of just striving towards one huge, multifaceted goal, as this will cause you to lose heart over time and come to believe that your ultimate goal is achievable. Their also needs to be some element of feedback in an optimal goal setting scenario. You need something to track your progress over time, which is why breaking your goals down into smaller, task-oriented achievements, will sustain your motivation over the course of the entire process. You also need to set “approach goals” which focus on achieving desired outcomes, instead of a negative focus on avoiding undesirable …show more content…
Then, I would help them to develop a step by step plan to achieve their fitness goals, with an emphasis on smaller, more easily achievable goals that they can check off on a daily basis. This emphasis on smaller task goals will foster an increased sense of motivation and help each client to track their progress daily in terms of their own “goal checklist”. I would use the task goal orientation to set goals so that each client can focus on being better than they were the previous session. This helps would help clients to track their progress, and allow them to see their own progression in comparison to their previous performances. If they believe that they are in competition with only themselves, then they will be less likely to compare their progress to others around them, thereby reducing feelings of dissatisfaction with their own personal fitness