{"id":10580,"date":"2025-10-06T14:54:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:38:48","slug":"determination-the-inner-strength-that-helps-you-achieve-your-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/determination-the-inner-strength-that-helps-you-achieve-your-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Determination: The Inner Strength That Helps You Achieve Your Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you woken up thinking about the desire to do certain activities in your life, but you simply don&#8217;t follow through? For example, you want to exercise but you can&#8217;t get out of bed whether due to physical exhaustion, emotional burnout, or lack of interest. Determination is the capacity to keep going forward even when it&#8217;s difficult. It&#8217;s an internal force that drives a person to persist in their goals despite obstacles (real or products of our thoughts), difficulties, or frustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Humanistic Psychology, determination is related to self-actualization: the natural human drive to grow, overcome limitations, and reach one&#8217;s potential. Example: I decide to exercise to reduce symptoms of a physical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Cognitive-Behavioral Psychology, it&#8217;s associated with self-efficacy: the belief in one&#8217;s own capacity to achieve desired results. Example: a student who has failed their licensing exam more than once, analyzes their mistakes, changes and incorporates new study methods, and tries again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Positive Psychology, determination is defined as a combination of passion and perseverance to achieve a goal. Example: an athlete who trains to participate in a competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developing determination is possible if you work on it consciously. Here are practical psychological recommendations to achieve it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Define clear and meaningful goals for yourself. Establish specific goals, with defined timeframes and efficient ways to reach them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find your internal motivation. Talk to yourself and ask, why is this important to me?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work with your thoughts. Shift your perspective from negative to positive.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seek positive support. Find people who inspire you and give you encouragement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manage stress. Use strategies like deep breathing, relaxation, grounding, among others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Celebrate progress and small achievements gained.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you woken up thinking about the desire to do certain activities in your life, but you simply don&#8217;t follow through?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-10580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-selfhelp","tag-en_us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10582,"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions\/10582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessaboglio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}