Goals!

Book Review:

Goals! How to Get Everything You Want - Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

Brian Tracy Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004 ISBN 1-57675-307-7

xi + 291 pgs.

Available @ Brian Tracy International

Design Your Best Year Ever: A Proven Formula for Achieving Big Goals

Darren Hardy Success Books, 2009 ISBN 978-0-9819512-0-1

xv + 141 pgs.

Available @ Your Success Store

I can't say enough about the importance of setting clear, written goals as part of recovery. These books lay a great foundation.

Brian Tracy lays out more the WHY of setting goals and the great benefits one can accrue from doing this discipline. Darren Hardy provides a template anyone can follow for deciding WHAT goals to go for and the all-important follow-up action plan.

In 2007 it worked for me. Using a goal-setting formula and Law of Attraction principles (More later this week) I set a goal of moving out of a horrible room and board shared house I'd been living in since 2002. I wrote out in detail exactly the kind of place I wanted to move into, and I placed these words afterwards, "I shall achieve this Goal OR BETTER by 12/31/07. Well, I didn't get exactly what I wanted on paper...I did GET BETTER.

I am convinced that this step of writing specific Goals will do more for achieving a lasting recovery than just hoping and wishing for things to get better.

Anyway, get these books and get busy!

TJS