Douglas Reads – January 2025

Discover the power of goal-setting theory to propel your personal growth and success.

achieve personal goals

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.