Product Description

Based on more than 20 years of experience and 40 years of research, this book presents a practical, proven strategy for creating and meeting goals that has been used by more than 1 million people to achieve extraordinary things in life. Author Brian Tracy explains the seven key elements of goal setting and the 12 steps necessary to set and accomplish goals of any size. Using simple language and real-life examples, Tracy shows how to do the crucial work of determining one's strengths, values, and true goals. He explains how to build the self-esteem and confidence necessary for achievement; how to overpower every problem or obstacle; how to overcome difficulties; how to respond to challenges; and how to continue moving forward no matter what happens. The book's "Mental Fitness" program of character development shows readers how to become the kind of person on the inside who can achieve any goal on the outside.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17005 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 291 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781576753071
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"Tracy's extraordinary thinking is always expressed in practical action steps." -- AudioFile, June/July 2004

About the Author
Brian Tracy is a world-renowned expert on time management. He has delivered time management seminars to more than 250,000 people and his audio program on time management, How to Master Your Time is the bestselling program of its kind in the world, in multiple languages.

Brian Tracy is one of the top success authorities in the world today. He has written 26 books on personal and professional success and authored more than 300 audio and video learning programs, some of which have been translated into as many as 20 languages. He speaks more than 100 times each year throughout the United States, Canada and 22 other countries, to audiences as many as 20,000 people.

Brian's love affair with goals began when he was 23 years old, broke and living in a run-down hotel. He found a sheet of paper and wrote out a series of goals he wanted to accomplish in the next twelve months. Within 30 days, his life had changed. From that day forward, he has been a committed and dedicated goal-setter.

Brian has studied, practiced and written about goals for more than 30 years. For the last 20 years, he has traveled extensively, speaking to hundreds of thousands of men and women in large and small audiences on the importance of deciding what you want, writing it down, making a plan and working on your plan every day. Throughout the world, countless men and women have gone from rags to riches by applying his goal-setting ideas.

Brian has served as a consultant and trainer for more than 500 corporations, including companies like IBM, Ford, McDonnell Douglas, Xerox, Hewlett Packard, US Bancorp, Northwestern Mutual, Federal Express, Comcast Communications, and hundreds of others.

Brian is the President of three companies headquartered in Solana Beach, California and has business operations in 15 countries worldwide. He has given more than 2000 radio and television interviews, and has been quoted in hundreds of magazines and newspapers.

Brian has traveled and worked in more than 80 countries, speaks three languages in addition to English and has a Masters Degree in Business and Administration. He is happily married with four children and makes his home in Solana Beach, California.

From AudioFile
Though goal-setting is often overintellectualized, achievement expert Brian Tracy makes the process come to life as an essential ingredient for any type of personal development. He's been refining these ideas for 20 years, and no important insight is overlooked. Tracy's extraordinary thinking is always expressed in practical action steps. Listeners don't get bogged down with anything not immediately useful to the quest. The focus is on clarity, definition, and doing whatever it takes to move toward your important desires. In every word listeners will hear Tracy's urgency and his heartfelt wish that none of us give up on the path to worthwhile goals, whatever they may be. T.W. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Customer Reviews

The ultimate program to set and achieve goals
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.

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Great book by Tracy
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.

Cheerful coaching for the road to success
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.