Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "Success is goals, and all else is commentary..." (more)
Key Phrases: Napoleon Hill, Thomas Edison, Law of Attraction

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"Tracy's extraordinary thinking is always expressed in practical action steps." -- AudioFile, June/July 2004 --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Description

This is the most complete book on setting and achieving goals ever written. It is based on more than 20 years of research and speaking to more than two million men and women throughout the United States, Canada and 22 foreign countries.

Readers will learn a series of powerful, practical strategies to set and achieve goals in every area of life—faster than most people would imagine possible.

The book explains not only how to set goals, but the detailed process of organizing your entire life around the achievement of everything you want, both financially and personally.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 289 pages
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576752356
• ISBN-13: 978-1576752357
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #332,153 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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84 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate program to set and achieve goals, February 29, 2004

By	[e-mail] (USA) - See all my reviews

How important is goal setting? According to success expert Brian Tracy, your ability to set and achieve goals will determine your success and happiness than any skill you can ever learn!

You can't hit a target that you can't see. The starting point of great success is when you sit down and decide exactly what you really want, in every area of your life. This book by Brian Tracy will show you how to do this better and faster than you ever dreamed possible.

Goals will show you how to step on the accelerator of your own life. In this fast moving, practical, and informative book, Brian Tracy shares with you the results of 30 years of research and experience in setting and achieving goals.

In Goals: How To Get Everything You Want - Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible you will learn the most complete abd most effective goal-achieving techniques ever created. In this outstanding book, Brian Tracy takes you through a simple, proven step-by-step system that you can use immediately to achieve anything you really want to in life.

I highly recommend this great new book by Brian Tracy to help you achieve any realistic goal that you are willing to work towards. This system works. Try it.

89 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book by Tracy, June 16, 2004

By A Customer

I think most people underestimate the value of goals. Most people know about goals, but how many people actually have written goals?

In this book, Brian Tracy offers a powerful program on how to set and reach your goals and in record time.

104 of 115 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cheerful coaching for the road to success, June 26, 2003

By	Peter Lorenzi (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Tracy's colorful quips and cheerleading helps people think in big, exciting terms. In the first three chapters, he quotes or cites himself, sales trainer Tom Hopkins, Mark McCormack, Victor Frankl (founder of logotherapy), Aristotle, Stanford University, billionaire H. L. Hunt, motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, Alexander Graham Bell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Buddy Hackett, Gary Zukav, James Allen, Edward Banfield, peak performer Charles Garfield, and Peter Drucker - an eclectic mix of anecdotes and attributions. But there is not much substance or structure. There are plenty of clichés like, "How do you eat an elephant?" Answer: "One bite at a time."

He is brief if a bit too cheerful. For example, in Chapter Six, "Decide your major definite purpose," his short paragraphs include headings like "Activate your Reticular Cortex," "Red Sports Car," "Achieve Financial Independence," "Keep Your Feet on the Ground," "Don't Sabotage Yourself," and "Be Willing to Pay the Price."

He recommends writing goals in the present tense but including a deadline, creating awkward conceptualizations of this sort: "I earn an average of $5,000 a month by December 31." You need to be persistent but flexible, full of dreams but also practical. Dependability is your most important trait but there are many others cited as important, key or critical: your ability to set goals and make plans, a sense of control, the practice of single handling, dedication, vision, visualization, e.g., "ability to visualize is perhaps the most important faculty that you possess."

His conclusions are twenty-one steps, which follow directly from his chapter titles, beginning with "Unlock your potential," "Take charge of your life," "Create your own future," and ending with "Unlock your inborn creativity," "Do something every day," and "Persist until you succeed." Perhaps you just need to read the conculsions.

The book is more about the subtitle "How to get everything you want - faster than you ever thought possible," than it is about goals, goal setting, or developing an enduring goal-setting strategy. There is plenty of stimulation for the unread and moving stories about the author's own path to success.