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Complete Idiot's Guide to Reaching Your Goals

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This book starts off with a distinction of the difference between wishes and goals. That doesn't seem like a big deal, but it's important, because too many people probably "wish upon a star" and then really have no plan as to how to make their wishes come true. This book is insightful while at the same time quite witty. That makes it easy to read compared to other things I've read on the same topic.

I've had tons of goals in my life, but it always seems to take me a long time to make them happen because I always get sidetracked. This book gave me concise and easily usable tips to keep me on track. I finished a project in two weeks that I've been thinking about for the past year. This book is well worth the money.

This book is well worth the price but more than that it is well worth the time it takes to read it. My time is very valuable to me. I don't like to read a book and discover that I already know three-quarters of the contents. The material in this book is fresh and potent. It appears as if the author undertook a lot of original research. Rather than rehash tired old clichés about setting goals and rather than sighting frequently used antidotes he went down a new path, offering considerably new material that, from my perspective is right on target.

Among the many books I have encountered on setting goals and reaching goals this one has to be the best. It uncovers every stone on the way to reaching your goals including obstacles and barriers, the power of affiliation, contracting with yourself and even setting life time goals. Instead of covering the tired old trail of you too can be all that you want to be, this humorous, chatty, sometimes irreverent book gets to the heart and soul of what it takes to set and reach a goal. That alone is a remarkable achievement. It also exposes many of the myths of goals setting too often propagated as truths by other authors and other books.

This book is very helpful to me. I've read it several times and hope to re-read it as part of my annual goal reviews. The author is good at sorting through many, many sources of information and giving you the bare necessary facts. I've never been good at seeing all the little steps necessary for sucessful goal-setting but now I'm confident I have what it takes. I'm already seeing results.

I also recommend his books about time management and re-invention in the same series. If you are unsure of what your goals are, the re-invention book will help you figure them out and the time management book will help you streamline your life so you can focus on achieving your goals.

I'll be honest. I liked this book enough to read it twice. I enjoyed the way Davidson tackles not only the subject of goal-setting, but also the different areas of life people would most want to improve.

Sure, Davidson makes it clear that goal-setting is a process that must be quantified and timed, but how does one really go about setting goals? Davidson's answers are ingenious: from contracting yourself to enlisting others to monitor your process to conducting self-assessments.

I am shocked to say that an Idiot's Guide was so helpful in making me a better planner. If you are ready to make your financial, social, family, even spiritual life better, then you should really give this book a try.

I recommend this book highly if for no other reason that the writing style is so effective that you want to keep reading. I have encountered books on goal setting that were kind of laborious to get through. This one is very instructive, but at the same time fun. The chapters are each short enough so that you can get through each one in eight or ten minutes. Each
concludes with some summarizing tips and I really felt motivated to start the next chapter.

This book handles the subject matter in comprehensive fashion. I could used more inspiration here and there, but overall I think the author does an adequate job of laying out a plan to help anyone achieve their goals. My favorite sections were the chapter on teaming up with others, and on lifetime goals you might pick for yourself.

Don't let the title of this book throw you. This is a thinking persons book on reaching goals. The author challenges a lot of the conventional wisdom. For example, he says that a goal doesn't necessarily have to be original with you. In fact, you might have goals imposed on you, likeif you are in sales and you have been given a sales quota. The key though, is to embrace the goal as your own. He gives a variety of ideas on how you can do this. This is just one example of probably a dozen new insights that I got out of this book.

Gives a real friendly, methodical approach to making and achieving goals, and contains many observations that I had not thought of. I am very enthused to get started on my own goals now. Also I loaned this book to a friend who got so ingrossed she ended up reading it cover to cover in one weekend