What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting [Hardcover]

Set and achieve your goals in a brand-new way for a more fulfilling life

In What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting, celebrated speaker, coach, and author Tara McMullin shows you how to transform the way you set and achieve your goals to create a gentler and more fulfilling way to work toward what you truly want. In the book, youll explore whats driving your pursuit of more (more money, more things, more prestige, etc.), set commitments to help orient your growth, and organize your actions as part of a holistic learning process.

The authors actionable strategies and tools go beyond mere platitudes about slowing down and appreciating what you have to a concrete demonstration of how to prioritize practice over achievement. Youll also find:

• An antidote to our cultures relentless pursuit of more
• Ways to end the habit of constantly striving for something else at the cost of your own wellbeing
• Strategies for ending your internal monologue of constant comparison to other people

An essential book for the productivity obsessed, unfulfilled career ladder-climbers, and overachievers who are ready to try a new approach to life and work, What Works represents a powerful and exciting new way to tackle lifes challenges.

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 The Validation Spiral 17

Chapter 2 Why Are We So Obsessed with Goals? 33

Chapter 3 Who Am I without the Doing? 47

Chapter 4 The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World 63

Chapter 5 Calculating Capacity 77

Chapter 6 Growth without Striving 97

Chapter 7 Choosing Your Destination 111

Chapter 8 Choosing Your Direction 133

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