The 5/2 Matrix: What Do I Want, and What Do I Do? Goal setting and health go well together. The whole practice of medicine is more or less goal setting: we see something we're trying to accomplish or change, and we run an experiment. Humans are complex and things come up, so we're never running a clean experiment where only one variable changes. That's why medicine is a practice and not a classically controlled experiment. Goal setting is a lot like coaching in that both star