Have you ever wanted to: Say no when others put pressure on you to do something you don’t want to do? Feel less stressed? Become more confident? Stop comparing yourself to others? Think more positive thoughts? Create a better impression? Get healthier? Influence others to do what you want? Be a genuinely better leader? Be happier in your own skin? Secure that job? Achieve that higher grade? Improve your relationships? Yes? Then this TED talk will show you how. Twenty five years of work in the field of personal development, stress management and soft skills training with over 2000 eager goal setters, has led to the development of ‘Reflective Goal Setting’. A proven framework for successful behaviour change, this award-winning approach gives psychology away, in order to help people understand how they and others tick, and empower them to choose and set stretching and relevant personal goals to being about potentially life changing results. An academic Occupational Psychologist passionate about people development, Cheryl Travers has been in the business of ‘giving Psychology away’ for around 30 years. Working at the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University, she has worked with a variety of business leaders and students across a wide range of industry sectors and levels, developing what she calls ‘Reflective Goal Setting’. This is a theory based, yet practical, approach to enhancing self-awareness and setting personal development goals with great results, especially regarding ‘softer skill’ goals. She helps people become more self-aware and supports them in becoming ‘self-coaches’, showing them how to set goals at any time, on anything they want to, without having to wait for the chance to attend an expensive and/or time consuming training courses. As a mother to two assertive teenage daughters, who love helping her with her own self-awareness, Cheryl is constantly setting her own personal goals! This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx