The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reaching Your Goals

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.

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.

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 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.