Looking for books to read to help you achieve your goals? This is a brief compilation of all the books I prefer whenever I want to focus on my goals.

I am always looking for motivation to learn more and become better at what I do. And in that journey, I came across quotes from various successful people/business owners which more or less believed in one same thing, Read to learn.

If you want to learn and improve, you have to get into the habit of reading. Textbooks are not always enough. They are actually almost never enough.

The life skills books will help you achieve your goals because they have been written after years of analysis. So these books aren’t just some words these authors have written.

They are something that majority of the people have experienced before the authors came up with the principles mentioned in these books.

Successful becomes the person who never stops learning. No matter what age you are, learning is for everyone. The more you learn, the more you grow.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Dr. Seuss

Books recommended by experts to help you achieve your goals

1. ‘Your Best Year Ever’ by Michael Hyatt

In this book, Michael Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving goals.

So if anyone who is tired of not seeing the desired results in their personal, intellectual, business, relationship or financial goals will definitely benefit from the field-tested wisdom found in this book.

One of the best books for people who want to focus on their goals by identifying what you should improve on and cross the obstacles coming your way.

“Great results don’t just happen. You don’t usually drift to a destination you would have chosen. Instead, you have to be intentional, force yourself to get clear on what you want and why it’s important, and then pursue a plan of action that accomplishes your objective”

Quote from the Book

2. Creating Your Best Life, by Caroline Miller

You must have seen this mentioned literally everywhere, in every goals setting article there is. Yeah, it’s that good.

This book offers research validated information on why certain steps matter more when it comes to achieving your goals.

When you hit one goal, Caroline explains, the happiness you feel has a “spillover effect” that will help you you achieve additional goals. You work harder because you want to retain that happy feeling.

Filled with interactive exercises and quizzes, this book helps readers understand the link between goal accomplishment and happiness. In a step-by-step fashion, this book teaches readers how to coach themselves on how to set goals in 16 life domains.

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3. The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Train for Maximum Results by Norman Vincent Peale

Research says that not only optimists live longer but also they have the potential to be more Successful than the pessimistic people.

In this phenomenal bestseller, “written with the sole objective of helping the reader achieve a happy, satisfying, and worthwhile life,” Dr. Peale demonstrates the power of faith in action.

With the practical techniques outlined in this book, you can energize your life—and give yourself the initiative needed to carry out your ambitions and hopes. Below are some things that you will learn through this book:

· Believe in yourself and in everything you do
· Build new power and determination
· Develop the power to reach your goals
· Break the habit of worrying and achieve a relaxed life
· Improving your personal and professional relationships
· Having control over your circumstances
· Be kind to yourself

My favorite quote from the book:

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

Norman Vincent Peale

4. Atomic Habits by James Clear

This is one of my favorite books whether it’s about achieving goals or learning to develop good habits. This is the book that you keep going back to throughout your life.

I know it’s not mentioned in any article about goal setting and I really don’t know why. If you wouldn’t change your bad habits to good ones, how will you achieve your goals?

This book focuses on how to become the person who wants to achieve the set goals rather than being just fixated on the goals.

Setting goals is good and much needed, yes. But to incorporate that into your identity so that once you achieve your goals, you don’t get back on the same track as you were, this book helps with that.

No matter what your goals are- whether you want to become a successful business owner or to become physically fit or to crack your exams, this book is what you need.

Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.

The best quote from this book;

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

James Clear

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5. Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth—and how it can help any organization thrive.

Doerr taught Larry Page and Sergey Brin(who literally changed the face of internet) about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results.

He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove (“the greatest manager of his or any era”) drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove’s brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked.

In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a wide range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations.

This book will help the new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

Popular quote from the book:

We must realize—and act on the realization—that if we try to focus on everything, we focus on nothing.

John Doerr

So what book are you thinking of reading next?