Dreaming big is easy. We all do it. What’s hard is bringing those dreams from pie in the sky to down to earth. Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life, helps people do just that by creating a guide on how to set goals and, once set, how to achieve them.
Author Caroline Adams Miller, who has a master’s degree in positive psychology, treats goal setting as a science. She applies goal-setting theory — the theory that businesses can achieve greater success by applying specific and measurable goals for employees — to personal goals. Like businesses, individuals can achieve greater success by setting measurable and achievable goals for themselves and then using key-performance indicators, much like a business would, to measure progress.
The book includes practical tools and worksheets as well as real-life examples of high-profile business successes and failures to show what works and what may not.
Miller is a speaker and author of a number of books, including the market guide to goal setting, Creating Your Best Life, co-authored by Dr. Michael P. Frisch, which sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide.