Part one
Do You Know Where You Are Going?
Don't Do Your Best
The Big Picture versus the Nitty-Gritty
How Do You Think about the Things You do?
Now versus Later
The Power (and Peril) of Positive Thinking
Do you know where your goals come from?
How believing shapes achieving
What is Intelligence, Anyway?
Can a Leopard change its spots?
How we get unstuck?
The wonderful thing about Triggers
Make your Unconscious Work for you
What you can do?
Part two
Goals that keep you moving forward
What motivates you — Being good or Getting better?
When your goals is to be good
When your goals is to get better
Dealing with difficulty
Persistence and the Pre-med
Having a good time
Asking for help
When feeling down can fire you up
Goals for Optimists and for Pessimists
Being loved and staying safe
Think Positive! (Or, Then Again, Maybe Not)<br>
Staying Motivated
Which Goals Are You Good at Reaching?
How Optimists and Pessimists Are Made
Promotion, Prevention, and Priorities
Your Focus and Your Feelings
The Strategies That Fit Your Focus
Use the Strategies That Fit
When One Goal’s Strength Is Another’s Weakness
Goals Can Make You Happy
What We Really Need
What We Really Don’t Need
Whose Goal Is This, Anyway?
How to Create the Feeling of Choice
How the Goals You Are Given Become Your Own
The Right Goal for You
When It’s Going to Be a Piece of Cake
When You Need a Kick in the Pants
When the Road Looks Very Rocky
When You Just Can’t Resist
When You Need It Done Yesterday
When You Need It Done Perfectly
When You Need Those Creative Juices Flowing
When You Want to Enjoy the Ride
When You Want to Be Really, Truly Happy
The Right Goals for Them
The Direct Approach
Using Cues
Here’s the Picture, You Choose the Frame
Catching a Contagious Goal
Part three
Conquer the Goal Saboteurs
Seizing the Moment
Shields Up
How Am I Doin’?
Too Little of What You Need, Too Much of What You Don’t
Make a Simple Plan
The Christmas Essay
The Power of If-Then
That’s Not All ...
But Why Does It Work?
Build the Self-Control Muscle
Pumping Up
Bouncing Back
When There’s No Gas Left in the Tank
A Final Word of Caution: Don’t Tempt Fate
Keep It Real
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life ...
But Beware the Dark Side ...
Increasing Optimism
Know When to Hang On
How to Keep On Keepin’ On
What Asians Do Differently
Know When to Fold ’Em
Give the Right Feedback
When Things Go Wrong
When Things Go Right
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes(Introduction-Chapter 4)
Notes(Chapter5-Chapter 13)
Index
"Get Ready"
I'll talk about the key principles of goalsetting
that seem to be universally ture
whether you are pursuing goals at work
in relationships
or for self-development
"Get Set"
The different kinds of goals we set for ourselves,
focusing on the few distinctions that seem to matter the most.
How to choose the goal.
That will work best for you personally in your situation.
How to instill the most beneficial goals
in your children, students, and employees.
"GO"
I'll take you step by step through the most common reasons why we are fail to reach our goals once we've started pursuing them.
And you'll learn effective, often easy-to-implement strategies for avoiding these pitfalls in the future.
