Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning and Achieving Your Goals

by Debra Eckerling

“Deb Eckerling’s Your Goal Guide is a thoughtful roadmap to help you get from here (the good idea) to there (actually accomplishing what you want to do). ― Dr. Chaz Austin, Ed.D. , president of Austin Career Packaging & Marketing IPPY Award 2021 Silver Medalist in the Self-Help Catagory Start with a plan. One of the biggest reasons goals fail is that we often don’t put enough thought into what we really want before diving in. Your Goal Guide by Debra Eckerling starts with that first, crucial figuring out your goals and putting a plan in place. As a professional writer, communications specialist, and project catalyst with more than 20 years of experience, Eckerling is prepared to help you achieve success. A method that works. Eckerling presents readers with her own tested and proven The DEB Method. DEB is a brainstorming and task-based system and stands D etermine Your Mission, E xplore Your Options, B rainstorm Your Path. Eckerling's method is a roadmap for goal setting that helps professionals lay down a plan and accomplish their mission. Making the process as stress-free as possible. Goals can be intimidating because of the pressure we often put on ourselves to succeed. However, Eckerling believes that setting goals should be easy―we just need the right tools to tackle them. Through a combination of writing exercises and systems, Eckerling provides readers with a process for making and setting goals that is stress-free and easy-to-manage. Debra Eckerling’s Your Goal Guide is your next step to success. Open it up and Readers of books like Atomic Habits , Your Best Year Ever, and The Bullet Journal Method will love Your Goal A Roadmap for Setting, Planning and Achieving Your Goals .

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Business

290 pages, Paperback

First published January 14, 2020

About the author

Debra Eckerling is the author of "Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning and Achieving Your Goals" (Mango Publishing, January 2020), as well as the self-published "Write On Blogging: 51 Tips to Plan, Write & Promote Your Blog" and "Purple Pencil Adventures: Writing Prompts for Kids of All Ages."

A project catalyst and communications specialist, Debra works with individuals and businesses to set goals and manage their projects through one-on one coaching, workshops, and online support. Debra is the founder of Write On Online, a live and online community for writers, creatives, and entrepreneurs, and host of the #GoalChat Twitter Chat and the Guided Goals Podcast.

After years of working, adapting, and polishing her goal-setting and productivity techniques, she put them into a simplified process, called The D*E*B Method. DEB stands for Determine Your Mission, Explore Your Options, Brainstorm Your Path. Learn more about The D*E*B Method in "Your Goal Guide," coming soon from Mango Publishing.

Debra has written for national, local, trade, and online publications, and worked in publishing, education, financial services, social media, and technology. Debra speaks on the subject of writing, networking, goal-setting, and social media. She is co-producer of #140conf, and hosts a monthly hangout for writers, artists, and entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews

[Carolyn Wilhelm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crystal Clear and Understandable

Very clear writing with complete directions and analogies to help people plan ahead to accomplish their goals. Tasks, benchmarks, goals, and what to do from the first decision to success is provided. Some fill in the blank bio forms and other easy to follow suggestions are very helpful. This is a motivational book, as well.

[Deborah Stanley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book Review || Your Goal Guide, A Roadmap for Setting, Planning and Achieving Your Goals by Debra Eckerling founder of the D.E.B method

I have always been a goal person, daily task lists, pushing for the satisfaction of a productive day. Selecting ways to do more, reach higher, learn more. My system of goal setting didn’t quite get it. The bullet notebook method was too time-consuming and confusing with duplicate entries. A coach’s plan in recent years proved thought provoking, working through areas for consideration, but again, missed my need.

But Debra Eckerling’s new book, “Your Goal Guide” has hit the mark! I am sure I will use her process again and again. I highly recommend this book.

“Your Goal Guide” includes 25 succinct chapters, an appendix of worksheets and a step-by-step process to discover your ultimate goal, your GoalTopia. I find this entire procedure of great value in nailing down a goal plan that encompasses my best achievable objectives, then assisting my journey with a roadmap to that destination.

Debra’s guided process is not constraining—it’s inspiring and motivating! Her key questions are, 1) Where am I going? and 2) How do I get there?

“Your Goal Guide,” is a Must Have!
Thank you, Debra Eckerling!

Also, Founder of the D*E*B* Method: Determine your Mission, Explore Your Options, Brainstorm Your Path

Debra Eckerling’s website: http://writeononline.com/

[Nita · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helpful and Fun!

Debra Eckerling's Your Goal Guide is the best friend, cheerleader, no nonsense, get it done book you need now. As a long-time procrastinator often lost in decision-making land, I found this easy-to-read, fun guide with its helpful worksheets quite useful. I moved through a block and began a path of action by following her direct, simple instructions. She addresses business goals and personal goals side-by-side and I appreciate how she makes both of them equally important. Thank you for this
fabulous book!

[Regis Lucci · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

What makes a good nonfiction book? It's one where you find yourself reading each word, taking lots of notes, and actually learning from it. This happened with me and Debra Eckerling's book, Your Goal Guide.

Your Goal Guide is jam-packed with insightful advice in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format that will get you on the road to realizing what you want, planning your course of action, and following through to the finish line.

Whether it's to build a business, become a successful writer, or create a healthier lifestyle, Your Goal Guide is a detailed roadmap to set and achieve your goals.

This will definitely be my go-to tool for the things I want to achieve in my life.

[Cassandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received a complimentary copy.

Perfect to help you get back on track and even find some new inspiration.

[Aleksandar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m not an avid devotee to self-help books nowadays, but at one point of my life this was almost all I read. When I finally started feeling like an adult I generally wanted to change many areas in day-to-day life. I wanted to improve specific areas such as my love and social life, my mental health and I also wanted to educate myself financially. After a few dozen of these books I started realising that most self-help stuff is just common sense. Self-help is an industry that just wants you to keep buying more self-help. Reading these books gives you a quick feel-good moment. But then that feeling fades, and you end up buying another one, and another, and another. It’s just a fake sense of progress that gives you a dopamine hit. I'm not hating on the books - they can contain some really good ideas. But like anything else, they're selling you something and want you to buy more. They can be helpful, but if you’re just reading them without actually doing anything, they're not helping and might be wasting your time.

I picked up Your Goal Guide because a friend from the wine industry recommended it as a quick and straightforward read, which it was. In my opinion, this book funnels a lot of the bullshit you read in 300-page books and gives you directions on how to set & plan your goals in a very elementary way. A lot of things I read here I kinda already knew, but I realised that If you’re young and just starting to plan your life, this is a much better starting point than most self-help books. Big "aha" moments will be rare, but even the basic advice can be super useful, so this book still works. Don't expect a ton of mind-blowing tips. If you get one really solid idea from the book, write it down and keep working on it long after you finish reading. Secondly, getting awesome results from even the best advice takes a lot of time and effort. Even if someone gave you all the top-notch tips tailored just for you in one book, the outcome depends on what you do after finishing it and for how long. Expect to spend up to ten times more hours applying the lessons than reading them.

[Kelly · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first 10 chapters or so feel like directed procrastination. Lots of exercises like writing and re-writing bios, going to network groups, writing mottos and mission statements, meditating, journaling, asking people you know stuff etc... at least half of each chapter is just continuing the road trip metaphor or is basically just filler. Some whole chapters feel like filler.

The book refers to desires as goals at the beginning then we don’t really do anything with them for about 10 chapters. From chapter 10, we start to go over short-term goals (benchmarks/tasks) and long-term goals including brain dumping all goals. 14 & 15 we start to talk about prioritising. Chapter 20: planning & deadlines. Chapter 21: rules & rewards. Chapter 22: challenges/set backs. Chapter 23: support system. Chapter 24: balance.

A small amount of examples are interesting but there’s a lot of waffle around helpful steps. Feels like something that could have been a blog but was turned into a book, because that was the author’s goal to write another book.

Personally, I think this book may, in part, be helpful for people who’ve never journaled before, don’t know how to freewrite and have no idea what goals are. They can treat this as a 4+hour introduction to getting started or just do lots of exercises to put off the actual actionable steps part for a while but still feel they’re being productive.

[Adrielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would recommend this book to someone feeling stuck. I think it would especially helpful when you feel like you want something different but you're not clear on what different would look like or how to get there.

Deb offers many creative activities that guide the reader to practice naming and taking seriously their own needs and dreams. This is the foundational work and without it you may be unsatisfied with what looks like success. Defining your own "goaltopia," a picture of success that has personal meaning to you, is the right place to start a journey toward creating a life that you want, and this book can help you get started.

[Alfred Lotho · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of the content like writing your current and future biography and saying no to things so you have a work life balance appear in many other articles and books that were written in the past. The good thing about it is it's still effective if you don't read other books specially because of the author's clear examples. One other thing that works is the workbook format in some chapters where the reader can just simply "fill in the blanks". If there were more of this and if there were a wider range of examples that apply to different goals, it would have been more effective.

[Jay Best · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know why, as this book and the basic concept is absolutely the sort of book I would love, but I found the writing just not connecting for some reason.

There are some outstanding ideas, but it's not that consistent. I also felt that she leaned on the example of a road trip as an analogy and also, I don't know why, that also didn't quite connect. This author is smart and has some truly great ideas. I feel this book could be better.

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I did skip parts that frustrated me, but I read the whole thing in 44 mins

[Thomas Ward · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the idea behind Your Goal Guide, but the book felt pretty basic. The DEB method (Determine, Explore, Brainstorm) is simple and easy to follow, but it didn’t feel especially new or insightful. Much of the book relies on prompts and exercises rather than deeper guidance. It may be helpful for someone brand new to goal-setting, but readers who have read other productivity or personal development books may find it fairly thin.

[Helfren · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are hundreds of options- in order to explore your options you need differentiate your personal goal and professional goal. Simplify your goal setting. The key to successful goal is the simplified version of it.

[Jei Diaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is realistic, and will really guide you step by step. Very relatable. It is indeed simple and wise.For those who wants to reach a destination, this book will be very helpful. But first, you have to make a decision, as to where you want to go...And the The D*E*B Method will guide you.

[Emilie Wilkinson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Eh same ole same ole... just like any other self help book I’ve read

[Mela Nie · Rating 5 out of 5]

• I love this audiobook so much that I want to do majority of the suggested Action Items. To do such, it would be best if I try to get ahold of a physical copy or at least a e-book copy.

[L. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one I need to go back and actually devote time to, it’s interactive with worksheets and brainstorming sessions. I listened to it and did not do the work, but I still got some new ideas to try. Well written, easy to understand, and relatable with plenty of examples.