Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life - Hardcover

by Caroline Adams Miller (Author)

Everything you need to make your goals a reality

Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life delves deeply into effective goal setting practices for both personal growth and corporate excellence, empowering individuals across all ages to pursue their ambitions with a newfound sense of confidence and mastery. Readers of this book will gain a nuanced understanding of the little-known science of goal setting, with practical tools and unique worksheets to use on their goal-achieving journey.

The insight in this book is powered by 15 years of exciting findings of positive psychology, along with Caroline Adams Miller's extensive experience as an executive coach. In this book, readers will learn about:

• The newest science on mindset, grit, Artificial Intelligence, resilience, and gender perspectives
• Miller's novel BRIDGE methodology, which addresses the "how" between the assignment of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Locke and Latham's Goal Setting Theory (GST) and why it has been proven to work so well

No matter whether you're scared to start, sick of failure, or somewhere in between, Big Goals explains the new approach you need to more confidently and effectively move forward towards achieving your goals in your personal and professional life.

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In the transformative landscape of productivity driven by AI and innovative technologies, there's a visible need for a modern approach to goal setting and achievement. Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life delivers 15 years of new research infused with the exciting findings of positive psychology, delving into effective goal setting practices for both personal growth and corporate excellence, with a step-by-step approach to high achievement.

This book is highly accessible in its comprehensive framework for goal accomplishment, with a nod to Locke and Latham's Goal Setting Theory (GST) and an updated, expansive perspective on how to apply the newest science on mindset, grit, Artificial Intelligence, resilience, and gender perspectives.

The book also introduces renowned executive coach Caroline Adams Miller's novel BRIDGE methodology, which addresses the "how" between the assignment of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and the desired results known as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)--metrics used in most, if not all, organizations around the world since the 1970s. Miller breaks down case study examples of high-profile business failures and successes to provide a rounded perspective on what needs to go right in order for goals to be realized.

Readers of this book will gain a nuanced understanding of the science behind goal setting, with practical tools and unique worksheets to use on their goal-achieving journey starting as soon as today.

Big Goals empowers individuals across all ages to pursue their ambitions with a newfound sense of confidence and mastery, whether they are athletes, CEOs, students, or retired men and women looking for "reinvention."

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PRAISE FOR BIG GOALS

"This is the best book on goal setting. Period."
--BRIAN JOHNSON, Co-Founder and CEO of Heroic and author of Aret?

"Big Goals is a practical guide to the modern science of goal setting and comes to you from one of the most respected and admired applied positive psychologists on the planet!"
--ANGELA DUCKWORTH, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Grit, winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, and co-director of Behavior Change for Good Initiative

"Caroline Adams Miller has done a superb job of translating my theory of goal setting I developed with Edwin Locke, into every day meaningful, memorable language so you can put our findings into practice immediately."
--GARY LATHAM, Co-Founder of Goal Setting Theory and author of Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager

"Empirically grounded and splendidly accessible, Big Goals is the best and most timely book I've read on goal setting, because it links all of the most important science together while making it relevant to a rapidly changing 21st century world."
--SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of The How of Happiness

"This book is the perfect guide to take any reader from theory to action, including dozens of worksheets that will inspire you to do more than you've done before!"
--SONYA LOONEY, Mountain Biking World Champion and 4x USA National Champion

"I was blown away by the practical, step-by-step process Caroline Miller lays out in Big Goals. I will undoubtedly be using Caroline's methodologies with athletes and coaches at all levels to help them unlock their full potential."
--BRANDON GUYER, 7-year Major League Baseball veteran and Founder of Major League Mindset

"In her best work yet, Caroline Miller applies real science to the art of goal achievement! Her brilliant BRIDGE methodology is a game-changer for achieving all of your business and life goals."
--KEVIN BROWN, author of The Hero Effect and ranked a top ten motivational speaker by SpeakInc in 2021