The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reaching Your Goals

by Jeff Davidson

Book Overview

For the millions who have been struggling to reach their goals, for those who wish to create new ones, or for those who have tried and failed, this book will set them on the right path for success.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002862114X
• ISBN13: 9780028621142
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Incredibly Helpful

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.

Helpful Advice for Short and Long-Term Planners

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.

One of the Best !!!

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 got me on track FAST!

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.

Goals VS. Wishes

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.