Connect your Goals with who you are

Book excerpt: Learning to set goals is the greatest gift you can ever give yourself. Setting goals provides your life with direction, focus, purpose and meaning. By completing the exercises in the Connect your Goals with who you Are: The “Now I'm Making it Happen” Workbook you will learn how to take concrete steps for your wants, needs, hopes, wishes and dreams to be turned into realities. In this workbook, you will find out how set the kinds of goals that will lead to your happiness and well-being. Completing the exercises in this workbook will help you recognize and take advantage of opportunities that you may be overlooking. You will also learn about your personality and temperament and how to use that knowledge to set goals that are consistent with who you are. You will also find out how to raise your self-esteem, making you more confident at every step of the way towards your goals. You will learn to deal with the fear of failure and how to turn failures into opportunities that will drive you forward at an accelerated pace, by finding out how to analyze what went wrong, create solutions and put those solutions into practice. Some of the exercises in this workbook will also raise your emotional intelligence so that you can be better at recognizing your emotions as well as the emotions of others, for you to better be able to create and conserve important relationships with others. The exercises contained in this workbook are powerful tools for you to use in setting and achieving your goals, while aligning them with who you are, on your way to happiness and well-being.