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Succeed : how we can reach our goals / Heidi Grant Halvorson ; foreword by Carol S. Dweck.
LIBRA BF505.G6 G65 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halvorson, Heidi Grant-, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goal (Psychology).
- Success.
- Motivation (Psychology).
- Conduct of life.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 275 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Plume, [2011]
- Summary:
- An eminent social psychologist offers insight into how goals work and the sources of self-defeating behaviors, and provides strategies for problem solving, achieving resiliency, and increasing willpower.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Get Ready
- Chapter 1 Do You Know Where You Are Going? 3
- Chapter 2 Do You Know Where Your Goals Come From? 31
- Part 2 Get Set
- Chapter 3 The Goals That Keep You Moving Forward 55
- Chapter 4 Goals for Optimists and Goals for Pessimists 77
- Chapter 5 Goals Can Make You Happy 105
- Chapter 6 The Right Goal for You 125
- Chapter 7 The Right Goals for Them 141
- Part 3 Go
- Chapter 8 Conquer the Goal Saboteurs 159
- Chapter 9 Make a Simple Plan 171
- Chapter 10 Build the Self-Control Muscle 183
- Chapter 11 Keep It Real 197
- Chapter 12 Know When to Hang On 209
- Chapter 13 Give the Right Feedback 223.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Hudson Street Press, 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Howard R. Jachman Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780452297715
- 0452297710
- OCLC:
- 1014258208
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