READ THE FOREWORD FOR BIG GOALS

I’ve spent the better part of the last twenty-five years integrating ancient wisdom and modern science into practical tools to help people forge excellence and activate their Heroic potential.

During that time, I’ve studied Socrates in Athens, Jesus in Jerusalem, and Marcus Aurelius near the Danube of Hungary while reading over one thousand self-development books—including all the classics on goal setting and Positive Psychology. 

In the process of distilling all that wisdom into a practical framework, I discovered Caroline Adams Miller and her work, including her pioneering book on the science of happiness and its intersection with the science of goal setting, “Creating Your Best Life,” and later “Getting Grit,” both of which I use in my work with Heroic coaches all over the world who are bringing areté and excellence to as many people as we can reach.

Caroline immediately became one of my all-time favorite Applied Positive Psychologists. In fact, she’s at least tied for first as my all-time favorite PRACTICAL Applied Positive Psychologist! 

Caroline has a gift for bringing the empirical wisdom from academia alive in the pages of her books—which is why I was so excited when she told me she was writing an updated book on the science of goal setting for the mass market that anyone from a high school student to a CEO could read and implement immediately.

Somehow, over the last several decades, no one has ever taken the time to write a book on THE most scientifically rigorous approach to setting goals.

Enter: Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life.

In this amazing book, Caroline walks us through the groundbreaking research by Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham that led to their empirically proven “Goal Setting Theory,” then she brilliantly extends their seminal ideas with her own “BRIDGE” framework to help us get from where we are to where we want to be. She has merged the best of ancient wisdom with the latest cutting-edge findings to give us all the best possible approach to setting, pursuing and achieving any goal, but especially the big goals that we dream about, and that change us and the world around us for the better.

To put it bluntly: This is the only book on goal setting you’ll ever need to buy. Period.