How can your business learn from hip and knee replacement patients?

Just as goals affect motivation, motivation has an important effect on goal achievement. The key is to understand the power of goals.

This is easy for an elite athlete – train and practice hard and you could be a World or Olympic medallist.

It’s also easy to explain to a motivated business leader – achieve the goals set out before you, and your business grows and you make more money.

These goals are real and achievable, and these people are ready for the challenge, given the positions they are already in…

But what about trying to explain the success of goal setting to a group of Scots with an average age of 68, who have just experienced the agony of knee or hip replacement…

Were they ready for the challenge of goal setting?

Would you be in their situation?

With hip or knee replacement surgery, bones are broken, joint muscles are severed and recovery is time-consuming and painful. Even the smallest of movements can be agony.

However, to make a good recovery, patients must become mobile on the replaced joint as soon as possible… if they don’t, then the joint, muscles and healing tissue will not repair properly.

Setting goals is the best way to achieve a successful rehabilitation. However, as the agony of the rehab can be extreme, it is not unusual for some people to skip their sessions.