Digging for Goals
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Charting your course is important in the goal-setting process because it requires planning and gives you a very realistic view of the journey ahead. Obstacles you may encounter are already acknowledged, and solutions on how to deal with them are at your fingertips.
What things will get in your way? Fear, excuses, and obstacles.
Digging for Goals provides you with tools to help you recognize and conquer unhealthy fear. By practicing the exercises in the first five chapters, you will find they are healthy techniques that aid in addressing and moving past fear. In addition to these, some people find it helpful to seek coaching or therapy to better understand themselves and overcome their fears.
Fear can be a good thing because it can alert us of danger. Fear can affirm us when our intuition is telling us to do things a certain way. Fear can keep us safe. This is a healthy fear.
There is another face to fear, and the one I am referring to is fear that keeps us right where we are. The fear of making a change...the kind of fear that paralyzes. The fear that gets in the way of you being able to set goals and follow them through to the end. This is an unhealthy fear.
How can you deal with fear? 1. Name it 2. Categorize it as healthy or unhealthy 3. Transform or reframe it 4. Let it go
When you stop feeding fear, excuses, and obstacles that will get in your way, you take back your control, your time, and your energy. You regain clarity and can move forward. The better prepared you are to address these, the more successful you will be at accomplishing those important things that you want in your life.
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Digging for Goals is a wonderful book/workbook in one!
“Mary does a great job of laying a foundation for what is needed in mind, body and spirit to develop your desires/dreams/intentions. And if that is not enough, Mary lays out 7 different approaches for developing those intentions into reality. I found Digging for Goals to be an effective process-oriented book to get you from where you are to where you want to be! Knowing Mary as a professional coach, her ‘wholistic’ flavor definitely shines through the process of Digging for Goals! I would highly recommend Digging for Goals if you are serious about moving toward your dreams in life. “ – Shawn Preuss, PCC Professional Life Coach
“There is little doubt that effective goal setting can make a tremendous positive difference in one’s life, both personally and professionally. The problem for many people is that they simply don’t know how to go about the process. In Digging For Goals, Mary lays out a clear and easy to follow path to effective goal setting. The book gets right to the heart of the matter and does so in a compelling and entertaining fashion. Having worked with Mary for many years, I have seen first-hand how she has helped scores of people lead more accomplished lives by setting and working towards their goals. This book can do the same for anyone looking to get more out of their lives.” – William Aberman, Vice President Kesslers Diamonds
“Digging for Goals is a must read for those who have never set goals for themselves as well as those who are sophisticated goal setters. The easy-to-follow guide clearly draws out a game plan that allows people to bring themselves to a higher level in all areas of their lives.” – Scott Michel, Owner Orange Shoe Personal Fitness and Founder of 212 Fitness
“Every bookstore has an enormous self-help section devoted to advising to lose weight, to be better parents, or to learn a new skill. There’s no shortage of advice on WHAT to do. Yet the “knowing-doing gap” remains. The books gather dust, and the readers have the same unachieved goals they did when they purchased the self-help book.
Mary Barnes Johnson has developed a workbook, Digging for Goals, spectacularly avoiding telling the reader WHAT to do. Instead, it tells us HOW to achieve whatever goal or goals we set. It’s not preachy. It’s not long-winded. It takes us step-by-step through the process, and gives real-life examples of overcoming obstacles any true change is sure to face.
Regardless what our goal is, Digging for Goals can provide inspiration and methods to achieve it. Thanks, Mary, for helping us succeed.” – Barb Kachelski, CAE, MBA, Association Executive Director www.diggingforgoals.com
About the Author
Mary Barnes Johnson, PLCC, PCC is a Professional Life Coach trained through the University of Wisconsin’s prestigious Professional Life Coaching Certification Program. She is also a Social and Emotional Intelligence Certified Coach through the ISEI. Mary is widely recognized for her exceptional performance as a leader in the jewelry industry. First as a top-seller herself, and then as a Team Leader, coach, and mentor for others, Mary has assisted hundreds of business professionals in overcoming obstacles and attaining personal and career goals. Also a Certified Yoga Instructor, Digging for Goals is Mary’s first book.