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CHAPTER SEVEN

Setting and

Reaching Enticing

Goals

How to set goals is one of the most important things you can learn
in your life. It is a skill that can guide and transform every area of
life from your health and finances to your social, spiritual, physical,
and career pursuits.

Once you learn the goal-setting techniques in
this chapter, you’ll find that setting goals is a
simple and straightforward process.

As you begin to reap the rewards from regularly writing your
objectives and making realistic plans to meet them, you may
choose to make goal setting a lifelong tool.

Studies on Goal Setting

The two anecdotes I’m about to tell you are almost folklore in the
fields of self improvement and human motivation, but just in case
you’ve never read them in a book before or heard them at a seminar,

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