High Performance Goal Setting : Using Intuition to Conceive and Achieve Your Dreams [Paperback]

Ph.D. Beverly A. Potter (Author), Beverly Potter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 20, 2000

Unrealistic goals can frustrate good intentions and thwart the best efforts. Success depends on setting attainable goals, designing specific steps to reach them, staying on track, and accurately measuring progress along the way. This easy-to-read guide shows how it's done. It's full of practical techniques that can be put to use immediately to boost performance in all areas of life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Ronin Publishing (March 20, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579510124
• ISBN-13: 978-1579510121
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,914,301 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A book for the rest of us, July 23, 2000

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This review is from: High Performance Goal Setting : Using Intuition to Conceive and Achieve Your Dreams (Paperback)

A review from NAPRA Review, May/June 2000 (Copyright: 2000, NAPRA Review)

This is a very forgiving book for those of use who "color outside the lines"! The description of high-performance people (perhaps more familiar as "over-achievers") identifies the difference between the wannabe and the can-do with a precision that's impressive. Covering many facets of goal-setting, Potter helps the reader understand how intuition works, the two kinds of motivation, what we do when we "get there," and plenty of foibles and traps we set to talk ourselves out of getting what we want. This is definitely a boo for "the rest of us," deftly explaining how much negativity exists in our cultural system: studying not to fail, working hard to not lose your job, etc. Once again we gain understanding of how much energy we spend avoiding rather than moving towards our goals, we are able to turn our lives around for the better. No doubt about it, achieving goals takes organization, discipline, and a lot of chutzpah, and this book is the fundamental aid to harnessing those valuable traits. -TJE

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth exploring, despite its new agey connotations!, August 16, 2006

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Lee Say Keng "KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURER/TECHNOLOGY... (Ho Chi Minh City/Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Performance Goal Setting : Using Intuition to Conceive and Achieve Your Dreams (Paperback)

I have bought - & perused - this book about five or six years ago. I have found it on my bookshelf recently while sorting out my personal library.

Despite its new agey connotations, I find this book to be interesting as well as practical for its intent & purpose. The author tells how to engage your intuition or inner knowing to guide you in conceiving & achieving your dreams.

'Conceiving' takes artful imagination & intuitive processing on your part, while 'achieving' requires systematic planning & disciplined execution on your part. Without both working synergistically, you will often find that goal setting becomes an inner battle against imposing demands all the time.

This book has less than 100 pages, with twelve short chapters. Within each chapter, the paragraphs under each sub-heading are generally crisp & succinct. Hence, reading the book is a breeze!

I would have expected the author to include some form of goal setting sheets in the book. These would help the reader to integrate his/her intuitive wisdom with a pragmatic approach to goal setting. This would have made the book particularly more palatable to those readers who are more logically oriented.

I would like to add that the author is a mainstream psychologist/counsellor with obviously a new age slant. However, she has written many good books & I own many of them, including 'The Way of the Ronin', 'Maverick as Master in the Workplace' (my first book/audio from the author), 'Overcoming Job Burnout', 'Preventing Job Burnout', 'Beating Job Burnout', 'Finding a Path with A Heart', 'From Conflict to Cooperation', 'Turning Around' & 'Brain Boosters'.

On the whole, this book is definitely worth exploring. My final advice to readers: Read it with an open mind! It would have gotten a rating of 5 from me if the goal setting forms have been included in the book in the first place.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, January 14, 2012

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David Dallore "David D." - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Performance Goal Setting: How to Use Intuition to Achieve Your Dreams (Kindle Edition)

Great book with some great information. I enjoyed reading it and will share it with my friends. Thanks! Achieve Your Dreams - Your Ultimate Guide: Learn How You Can Quickly and Easily Achieve Your Dreams Automatically Even If You're a Dummy, This New, Simple Guide Teaches You How Without Failing