Big Goals

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CAROLINE ADAMS MILLER is best known for her groundbreaking work on goal setting, grit, happiness, and success for over three decades. She wrote the first evidence-based mass market guide to goal setting that combined the science of success with the science of well-being, Creating Your Best Life.

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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 Areté "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

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Foreword xi

Introduction xiii

Part I The Pillars of Productivity 1

Chapter 1 The State of Goal Setting Today 5

Chapter 2 The Emergence of a Better Way 17

Chapter 3 The Science-Based "Secret" 33

Chapter 4 The BRIDGE from Theory to Success 53

Part II Crossing the BRIDGE 63

Chapter 5 Brainstorming 65

Chapter 6 Relationships 87

Chapter 7 Investments 101

Chapter 8 Decision-Making 115

Chapter 9 Good Grit 129

Chapter 10 Excellence 145

Part III Supplemental Resources 159

Acknowledgments 209

About the Author 211

Index 213