ISBN: 1-887570-16-0
$29.95
The GoalXpress™ Goal Planner
Created by James R. Ball
The GoalXpress™ Goal Planner (the “Planner”) is an easy to use and highly effective tool for brainstorming, organizing, planning, evaluating, and selecting goals to pursue.
You can use the Planner to review past accomplishments, brainstorm goal ideas, list goal possibilities, sort them into meaningful categories, and then prioritize and select important goals to pursue.
The Planner comes with instructions, examples, tips, and several free reports to help you successfully identify and pick goals that will make a difference in your life and the lives of those you care about.
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Background
GoalXpress Goal Planner Highlights and Features
Publishing Information
About the Creator of the GoalXpress Goal Planner
DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management — also by Jim Ball
The Ultimate Reference and Guide for Setting and Achieving Your Goals
Comments about the GoalXpress Goal Planner from Jim Ball
I wish I could show you what I have seen happen when people sit down with the GoalXpress Goal Planner and take time to systematically think about where they have been and where they are going. It is amazing.
Most people never spend a few hours of quiet time thinking about their goals. Or if they do take time to plan their goals, they do so without much structure and with very little guidance as to what to think about and consider.
When people quietly sit there and go through the GoalXpress Goal Planner they get a bigger, higher level perspective on life. And when they do they start identifying important goals they may have forgotten, or new goals they had not considered previously.
As people complete their Planners and start picking goals to focus upon, you can see them get excited about how they are going to change their lives, improve, and grow. The transformation that takes place in people in just a few hours is sometimes astonishing.
I believe the GoalXpress Goal Planner is a key tool for applying the core life skill of setting goals to create your future. The Planner is not a fancy or electronic gadget, but it really makes you think and it really works for setting goals for planning and achieving a successful life.
Best of luck in using the GoalXpress Goal Planner!
Jim Ball
Background
Jim Ball created the fundamentals of the GoalXpress™ Goal Planner (the “Planner”) concept many years ago when he was in the consulting and venture capital businesses. He wanted a tool and framework he could use to help entrepreneur's and leaders and managers organize and prioritize their goals. He created the Planner to be this tool.
A few years later, Jim left those businesses and co-founded the Goals Institute so he could focus on understanding the processes and concepts of setting and achieving goals and help others set and achieve their goals. He and others at The Goals Institute created and began offering keynotes and seminars on goal planning and goal achievement.
In 1996, Jim wrote his book, DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management, which is a comprehensive guide for setting and achieving goals. In that book Jim created the concept of Goal Stimulators and established the 10 category framework for individual goals. He later incorporated both of these concepts into the GoalXpress Goal Planner. The Goals Institute then began providing the Planner to clients and teaching individuals how to use the Planner.
For example, Jim Ball and Jennifer Kuchta of The Goals Institute provided a series of seminars on using the GoalXpress Goal Planner for many chapters of Financial Women International (FWI). Hundreds of members of FWI learned how to use the Planner to set goals that they later when on to achieve. The Goals Institute was awarded FWI's Partner of the Year award for this series of seminars.
Over the years hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals have used the Planner to set and achieve their goals.
Web Offering: In the Fall of 2008 we packaged up the GoalXpress Goal Planner with instructions, examples, and tips for using the tool and began offering the Planner directly to individuals through our website. The response we have had has been tremendous.
Please note: While the approach used in the GoalXpress Goal Planner can also be used for goals for business purposes, the Planner offered here is set up with categories for individual goals only.
GoalXpress Goal Planner Highlights and Features
The GoalXpress Goal Planner is a tool for brainstorming, creating, organizing, prioritizing, and setting goals for individuals.
Writing It Down Is Key
The idea behind the GoalXpress™ Goal Planner is the first step to achieving any goal is knowing what that goal is. The best way to know what your goals are is to take time to think, then write your goals down so you can see what you are thinking in writing and focus on what is important.
Use the Planner to plan your goals for a specific period such as a year, quarter, or month. Update your Planner each year, quarter, or month as appropriate.
The GoalXpress approach is simply to record all the possible goals you may want to pursue in each goal category, and then use the techniques described in the Planner to prioritize and select the important goals you want to pursue now.
The GoalXpress Goal Planner is a manual approach. The Planner is portable, simple, and easy to use. While some people say they prefer to work with a computer, we have found that there is something magical that happens when you slow down with pencil or pen and paper and actually take time to write out your thoughts about your hopes, dreams, and wants.
The actual writing is a key part of the thinking and personal brainstorming process. There is a special magic when you see your hand gliding across the page setting words to paper.
Top 10 Goal Prioritization
One overall objective of using the Planner is to complete the Top 10 Goals page at the front of the Planner by entering major goals you want to pursue now. The Planner provides for having less than 10 Top Goals, but not more. Instructions and tips are provided to help you sort and prioritize your goals. Five Star Criteria are provided as guidance as well.
10 Goal Categories
The Planner is set up for setting and planning goals in up to 12 categories of individual goals. Of these, 10 categories are pre-defined in the Planner and two optional extra categories.
You may change the title and content of the pre-defined categories to meet your needs and preferences. We recommend you use the pre-defined categories if they generally fit your individual circumstances.
The Planner provides two blank sections for more goal categories to meet your particular circumstances. The additional sections are optional. You may use them to create any goal categories you desire.
The 10 pre-defined goal categories are:
- Family and Friends
- Health and Exercise
- Education and Skills Development
- Career Development and Growth
- Financial
- Civic and Social Contribution
- House and Furnishings
- Personal Assets and Activities
- Spiritual Development
- Other Goals
Simple Instructions
The Planner comes with Simple Instructions that explain step-by-step how to complete the Planner and prioritize your goals.
Goal Stimulators and Goal Ideas
The Planner contains Goal Stimulators and Illustrative Goal Ideas in each goal category. These are offered to stimulate your thinking and give you specific goals to consider. These suggestions are not a complete list. You may have goals that go beyond the categories and sub-categories provided, however these Goal Stimulators and Goal Ideas will get you started.
Publishing Information
- The GoalXpress Goal Planner
- ISBN: 1-887570-16-0; 8-1/2" by 11" saddle stitched
- Created by James R. Ball, president of The Goals Institute
- Published by The Goals Institute
ISBN:
1-887570-00-4
420 pages hardbound
6” x 9”
$29.95
DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management — It's a Method
DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management presents a comprehensive method and reference guide for setting and achieving business goals.
There is no other book we are aware of that provides such a complete system, so much information, and so many example, tips, and ideas for guidance and implementation.
- Part One presents DNA Leadership, an approach for leading others by getting buy-in to goals and visions of success.
- Part Two presents Five Keys to Goal-Driven Management (G-O-A-L-S) along with examples, action steps, and implementation suggestions.
This is a complete methodology for setting and achieving goals. Great for use by individuals, teams, and organizations.
- Part Three provides several lists of myths, success strategies, executive ideas, and short tips on achieving goals.
- The book also includes MOSAIC Mastery®, a unique and powerful method for setting and achieving performance metrics.
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"The key to planning any business is thinking, yet many people start out without doing very much of this. The ToolKit will help you think better and plan better, so you get a better business."
— Jim Ball
About the Creator of the GoalXpress Goal Planner
James R. Ball, Jim to everyone, is president and CEO of The Goals Institute. Jim co-founded The Goals Institute to help businesses and organizations achieve their potential through goal achievement.
Jim previously was co-founder and CEO of a venture capital firm and before that he was a Managing Partner at Arthur Andersen. Jim has been an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University and he has provided keynotes and executive seminars for hundreds of organizations. Jim has been an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University and he has provided keynotes and executive seminars for hundreds of organizations.
The Goals Institute has many clients in many industries. See the About Us section of the web site of The Goals Institute for an illustrative listing of clients and for comments from clients on programs provided. Jim is the author or co-author of the books below. For more information on these books, please visit our Bookstore.
Books in the Keep It Simple for Success® series with Jennifer Kuchta:
- Professionalism Is for Everyone
- ABCs for Life
- It’s About TIME!
- The Anacondas in Life
- World-Class Customer Service.
Other books:
- GOALS: Wisdom, Insights, and Strategies
- Soar . . . If You Dare
- DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management
- The Entrepreneur’s Tool Kit
- 10 Best Tips for Closing the Sale
- 10 Best Tips for Getting a Job (scheduled for 2Q 2009)
Jim previously was co-founder and CEO of Venture America, a venture capital firm that helped launch and develop twenty companies, including The Discovery Channel.
Before that, he was a managing partner at Arthur Andersen in charge of an office that served rapid growth technology companies. Jim also was in charge of the training and professional development programs for Andersen's staff associates and managers in the Washington, DC area.
Jim has been an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University where he co-founded GMU’s Entrepreneurial Institute, Inc. Jim has a degree in accounting and is a member of many professional organizations.
GoalXpress Goal Planner
Special Bonus Reports when you order your GoalXpress Goal Planner
We will send you these three reports free when you order your GoalXpress Goal Planner:
- GOALS: The Five Keys to Achieving Your Goals
- 10 Reasons Individuals Do Not Achieve Their Goals
- 25 Do's and Don'ts for Achieving Your Goals
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