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, you’ll explore what’s 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 author’s 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. You’ll also find: - An antidote to our culture’s 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 life’s challenges.
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, you’ll explore what’s 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 author’s 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. You’ll also find: - An antidote to our culture’s 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 life’s challenges.
Table of Contents
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
Chapter 9 Buying In 145
Chapter 10 Planning Projects 157
Chapter 11 Follow-Through, Self-Sabotage, Margin 169
Conclusion 187
Notes 191
Acknowledgments 199
About the Author 201
Index 203
