While you are busy setting life goals, wouldn’t it be wonderful to feel as though you are not so alone? Many individuals look for goal setting tips in books by motivational authors who have a penchant for keeping their readers captivated. You may be thinking, “If only I had a list template I could fill in to get started,” or “I wish I had a quote a day to remind me why I want this so bad,” or “I’m finding it hard to break down my ideas into more short term objectives.” The following books have received positive reviews from readers at www.amazon.com and promise to help you achieve your greatest dreams and beyond.
One book about setting life goals that’s been getting a lot of attention lately is “The Magic Lamp: Goal Setting for People Who Hate Setting Goals” by Keith Ellis. This 256 page book tells readers how to have greater focus and stronger follow-through when it comes to reaching goals. The Magic Lamp touches upon dreams of getting more money, buying a new home, seeking a promotion, attaining better relationships and finding more fulfillment. Turn your life ambitions into an amazing adventure, rather than a dull chore with the methods put forth in this book. One reader says, “Since reading this book, I’ve started exercising regularly, getting up 30 minutes earlier to work on my dream and stopped beating myself up in the process.”
Another setting life goals book to check out is “Having It All: Achieving Your Lifes Goals and Dreams” by John Assaraf. In this book, you will find advice on how to identify your strengths and weaknesses, evaluate your life, create a vision, set up goals for the next year, use the law of attraction, meditate to stay on course and reprogram the mind for success. “I read the first edition and it changed my life forever. Now, with the two new chapters on ‘Your Powerful Brain and The Laws of Earning Money’ it’s destined to become a classic, like Think and Grow Rich,” writes one reader who gave the book five stars. Another reader comments, “I enjoyed it because of its uniqueness, simplicity, scope, practicality and the author’s sincerity.”
For students, setting life goals is especially important. Teenagers can read about how to set personal goals and achieve them in “What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It — A Guide for Teens” by Beverly K. Bachel. The helpful forms and advice in this book are combined with inspirational quotes from teens who have tried effective techniques and succeeded in personal goal setting. Bachel’s chapter-closing “Think It & Ink It” sections prove to be very thought-provoking to direct children toward greater introspection. “The book also has worksheets to help kids clarify their values, goals and action steps. Those seem like a great conversation-starter for parents and kids — I can’t wait to learn more about my son, and for him to learn more about me, as we discuss our goals and dreams,” one parent writes, while admitting that she was going to fill out some of the worksheets also.