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What if you could achieve any goal you wanted, and you knew you would succeed? Would you start a business? Switch careers? Lose weight? Based on the authors' real-world experience coaching the world's top executives, GOAL! presents a proven, step-by-step program for achieving any goal in your career or your life. The book's unique 30-Day Goal Track will keep you motivated and disciplined to move any project forward in just 30 days. Easy-to-follow worksheets guide you from precisely conceiving your goals to taking action to achieve them. Each exercise takes only minutes a day, but following the GOAL! plan will put you on a guaranteed path to realizing even your most ambitious dreams.

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Publié par	Linden Publishing
Date de parution	01 avril 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781610350853
Langue	English

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Praise for GOAL!
"I strongly recommend GOAL! to anyone who wants to increase sales, start their own business, develop a high performance team, or successfully tackle any other important business objective. The key is the book’s 30 Day Goal Track, which has you taking action from day one and keeps you on course until your goal is achieved."
Steve Odland, Chairman & CEO of Office Depot
" Great achievements start with big dreams. Gladys Stone and Fred Whelan have written an extremely practical guide for setting and achieving goals. Those who follow their plan will accomplish much."
Kim Lopdrup, President of Red Lobster
"GOAL! offers a simple, compelling approach to achieving your lifetime business goal: Focus What’s that ‘One’ goal that is life-changing? Alignment Ensuring you are personally committed to the actions you must take. Discipline The 30 Day Road Map to keep you on track."
Don Knauss, Chairman & CEO of Clorox
"GOAL! is an engaging and thoughtful book. It is also very practical. The "phased approach" of the book makes it useful to anyone struggling to formulate and achieve a task. I recommend GOAL! to anyone in this circumstance."
Thomas Gilligan, Dean, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas
"A clear and systematic approach to getting what you want. GOAL! not only offers practical, actionable steps for achieving tangible results today, but it will help you establish habits which will pay dividends for years to come. A quick read with meaningful payoff."
Greg Berglund, President of Mrs. Fields Gifts
"GOAL! provides a fresh approach to determining and then accomplishing one’s business goals. In order to survive in these uncertain economic times, a systematic approach to goal attainment as outlined in this book becomes increasingly important. GOAL! provides good tips that focus on positive approaches, solutions, and mindsets that challenge the reader to implement and follow an action plan that will ultimately enable one to realize his or her goals.
"The book also discusses key elements in being successful in the workplace. For example, GOAL! stresses the importance of effective teamwork to maximize performance. It provides a series of exercises for those contemplating a career change, including questions such as ‘What do I enjoy doing and what am I good at?’ And, in giving direction to individuals whose dream is to start their own business, it discusses the psychological, financial, and creative aspects in launching new business ventures."
Conrado (Bobby) M. Gempesaw II, Dean and Professor, Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware
"The concept of setting goals is one which is practical and most important at a time like this. This book gives the roadmap to follow, done in a timely and realistic manner. Written to help build this roadmap, with great examples, this will be one of those must-reads and must-keeps."
James G. Ellis, Dean, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Copyright © 2009 by Gladys Stone and Fred Whelan. All rights reserved.
Published by Quill Driver Books an imprint of Linden Publishing 2006 South Mary
Fresno, California 93721
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Quill Driver Books and Colophon are trademarks of Linden Publishing, Inc.
To order another copy of this book, please call 1-800-345-4447.
Quill Driver Books Project Cadre:
Doris Hall, John David Marion, Stephen Blake Mettee, Kent Sorsky, Maura J. Zimmer
ISBN 978-1-884956-95-9 (1-884956-95-5)
135798642
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stone, Gladys.
Goal! : your 30 day gameplan for business and career success / by Gladys Stone and Fred Whelan.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-884956-95-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-884956-95-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Goal setting in personnel management. 2. Goal (Psychology) 3. Employee motivation. 4. Career development--Psychological aspects. I. Whelan, Fred. II. Title.
HF5549.5.G6S76 2009
650.1--dc22
2008055809
Dedicated to Susan, Morgan and Titi, too
CONTENTS
PHASE I
Chapter One: Target Your Goal
Chapter Two: Create the Road Map
Chapter Three: See It, Make It Real
Chapter Four: Maintain Momentum
Chapter Five: How Others Reached the Top
Chapter Six: Believe
PHASE II
The 30-Day Goal Track
Day 1: The Finish Line
Day 2: Expanding Your Scope
Day 3: Mentoring Lindsey
Day 4: No One Goes It Alone
Day 5: Anne Mulcahy, CEO
Day 6: Your Goal, Now
Day 7: On Your Way Up
Day 8: Action Drives Motivation
Day 9: Attitude of Gratitude
Day 10: Be True to Yourself
Day 11: Practice Makes Perfect
Day 12: Walt Disney
Day 13: No Time Like "Real Time"
Day 14: On Target
Day 15: Success Is a Good Thing
Day 16: You’re the Boss
Day 17: Changing the Game
Day 18: Back on Track
Day 19: A New Approach
Day 20: Way to Go
Day 21: Me in Three Years
Day 22: Off-Line
Day 23: Pushing Forward
Day 24: Tape Breakers
Day 25: Swing for the Fences
Day 26: Giving Back
Day 27: It Can Be Done
Day 28: New Perspective
Day 29: Distinguished from Your Peers
Day 30: Success
Afterword
PHASE I
CHAPTER ONE
Target Your Goal
H ow would you feel if you knew that accomplishing your business goal was within your grasp? Even an elusive goal that you had tried many times to attain? You would probably be ecstatic at the prospect of finally being able to accomplish it. And you would probably be even more thrilled if you could apply what you learned to reaching your next goal, knowing you would be successful.
Whether it’s reaching an aggressive sales goal, becoming a better manager, getting a promotion, starting a new business, successfully negotiating for something you want, or being more productive, this book can help you do it. No matter how complex the goal or how elusive it has been in the past, you are only thirty days away from success.
This is what GOAL! is all about. It’s the little book that helps people in a big way. It offers an effective, straightforward process that will take you from goal identification to goal completion. You will start taking specific action towards your goal within one week’s time. At the end of thirty days you will have either accomplished your goal or will be well on your way to doing so. If you are looking to achieve a tangible result to a business goal, this is the book for you.
GOAL! Offers a Systematic Approach to Getting What You Want.
Throughout this book, we will be asking you to write things down. The reason for this is that putting things in writing is an important tool in realizing your goal. Things that are written down are more likely to get done. They become more real and take on a life of their own. Doing the writing and action items in this book are critical for your success.
One thing is certain: If you are going to achieve any goal, you have to be 100 percent committed to it, believe in it, and know that it is worth the effort. Reaching an important goal will take effort, possibly a higher level of effort than you have demonstrated in the past, but it will be well worth it.
"It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required."
Sir Winston Churchill
One payoff for reaching your goal will be a significant sense of accomplishment. This will likely have a considerable impact on your life because when you overcome numerous, often difficult, obstacles to achieve something of value, you feel exhilarated, and this feeling has long-lasting effects.
GOAL! can help you achieve any business goal. Our approach is guaranteed to be effective and, if followed faithfully, will be the launching pad for reaching all your goals.
This book is divided into two parts: Phase I consists of six chapters and Phase II contains the "30-DAY GOAL TRACK."
Phase I
In this part of the book you will learn the seven most common business goals, helping you determine which goal you want to pursue and the reasons why it is important. The next step is creating your action plan, which "will detail the specifics of what you need to do in order to achieve your goal. In the remaining chapters, you will be armed with the tools to overcome any psychological barriers to success that may crop up and you will be motivated by the inspiring stories of how leaders in their fields reached the top.
Phase II: The 30-D AY G OAL T RACK
The 30-DAY GOAL TRACK will help you create new habits that will unstoppably guide you toward what you want to achieve. Human beings are creatures of habit and we are going to leverage this innate quality to help you develop habits which lead to success. What differentiates people who consistently achieve their goals from those who do not is the formation of habits that support their quests. Once you have gotten into the rhythm of doing something consistently, the odds are excellent that you will continue until you achieve your goal.
The 30-DAY GOAL TRACK is a series of daily exercises that will keep you moving toward your goal. As you proceed, the realization that you are actually going to achieve your goal will generate the enthusiasm, energy, and motivation you require to reach the finish line.
In Phase I, you will be building momentum so when you begin you will already be in motion. Re