Creating Your Best Life is the only research-based book on the topic of goals and happiness, and it has found receptive audiences worldwide. Filled with interactive exercises and quizzes, it helps readers set and accomplish life list goals and understand the link between goal accomplishment and happiness, also known as Positive Psychology. In a step-by-step fashion, the book teaches readers how to coach themselves on how to set goals in 16 life domains, as well as take control of their environment to maximize their chances of success.
Ever meet someone who is that magical combination of wise yet humble, strong yet sensitive, inspiring yet down-to-earth? That’s Caroline Miller. I know nobody who’s thought more about how to apply the scientific research on grit and achievement to our own live
An amazing and compelling book that is the ultimate guide to living life with grit and without regret.
It’s one thing to value grit – it’s another to develop it. Caroline Miller has made that her life’s work, and in this book she shares a series of useful steps for increasing your persistence for the right reasons in the right ways.
This is a really innovative book, and companies, sports teams, schools, families and communities will all benefit from the stories and research.
Caroline Miller articulates the science and importance of character strengths as important pathways to help cultivate grit in this groundbreaking book.
A brilliant read for anyone interested in achieving their goals and using their good grit and authentic grit to help others thrive.
The minute I picked up Getting Grit, I feverishly began taking notes. Caroline Miller understands the essential truth that all women who want to be truly confident, who want to succeed, need grit.
I have just ‘inhaled’ Getting Grit, and I’m so energized by the content and its delivery. Planning to give it to every board member in my organization.
In the years since Caroline’s MAPP degree, she added a major missing piece to the world of coaching.
A + for the authors’ ability to integrate science with a practical application for the general public. One of the best of its kind.
Lists motivate us and ensure we don’t forget key steps (or people). Caroline’s book will be a classic in goal setting. Try them in your life.
Caroline Miller brings together positive psychology research and hands-on exercises into a unique mix, a manual for defining one’s life goals and making strides towards achieving them.
Creating Your Best Life is the definitive manual for discovering and delivering easy access to the power we each have, for choosing the life we truly want. Here you find both the art and the science of creating a life of true meaning, purpose, and fulfillment.
With a foreword from Gary P. Latham, Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
This groundbreaking book is the first to explain how the new science of Positive Psychology intersects with goal-setting research to help people set and achieve life list goals. Happy people have a strong sense of personal agency, and they tend to set harder and more challenging goals, which gets them more of what they want in life. Learn how to develop your own sense of self-efficacy, create powerful mastery experiences, and use your environment to work for you and not against you.
Michael Bungay Stanier recently called “Creating Your Best Life” one of the top three coaching books for busy managers. Click here to see his video review.
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“Creating Your Best Life” has been featured in the Washington Post, Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies Home Journal, Martha Stewart Living, Examiner.com, WUSA9, WBAL-TV, Positive Psychology News Daily, HuffPost Healthy Living, SheKnows and many other news outlets.
“Creating Your Best Life” has been featured in the Washington Post, Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies Home Journal, Martha Stewart Living, Examiner.com, WUSA9, WBAL-TV, Positive Psychology News Daily, HuffPost Healthy Living, SheKnows and many other news outlets.
Here are a few worksheets that have been shown to be very effective in bolstering well-being and creating a more grateful, optimistic outlook.
