A Taste-Berry Teen's Guide to Setting and Achieving Goals by Bettie Youngs, Jennifer Youngs
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Book Description

Goals can spell the difference between wishful thinking and making things happen. Most teens know that. Now there's a book filled with stories, commentary and advice by teens (from twelve to twenty) who share their ideas and tell of their experiences about the importance of setting and achieving goals. The latest addition in the Taste Berries for Teens series, A Taste-Berry Teen's Guide to Setting & Achieving Goals promotes that we can and should be “all that we can be.” In fact, authors Bettie B. Youngs and Jennifer Leigh Youngs believe that it is our right and responsibility. They say that setting goals is the key to making a life that is purposeful, worthwhile and filled with happiness, one that is shared with people who love and support us.

A Taste-Berry Teen's Guide to Setting & Achieving Goals is cleverly divided into five units. Each opens with A Message from the Authors, followed by a story by a teen. A specific concept or skill is then presented along with a “Virtual Practice” section where you are given the chance to apply what you've learned-actually identifying, setting and charting out how to achieve your goals.

This book serves as a handy step-by-step guide to help you tune into where you are in your goal setting plans. You'll find how to:

• Discover what your personality, aptitudes and hobbies reveal about what interests you.
  
• Determine if you are dreaming “big enough” for your life.
  
• Identify goals in nine different areas of your life.
  
• Set long- and short-range goals - for today, tomorrow and “the future.”
  
• Develop a plan of action to achieve your goals.
  
• Break goals into manageable monthly, weekly and daily “to-do's.”
  
• Remove obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals.
  
• Resolve to see your goals as “totally you” and ones you want to commit to.
  
• Learn ways to encourage, coach and inspire yourself to reach your goals.
  

Whether you're a master goal setter, or just beginning, whether you've set goals in the past and then felt you couldn't follow through, or have no idea where and how to begin to set goals, this book is for you. Consider it your taste berry for setting and achieving goals to sweeten your journey, to turn an ordinary life into a spectacular one.

About the Author

Bettie Youngs, Ph. D., Ed.D.

Bettie Youngs, Ph. D., Ed.D., is an international lecturer and counselor. Dr. Young's is a university professor and executive director of the Phoenix ED Foundation. She serves on the board of trustees to Drake University and is consultant to Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Youngs is founder of Bettie B. Youngs & Associates and president of Instruction & Professional Development, Inc.

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Jennifer Leigh Youngs

Jennifer Leigh Youngs, is a speaker and workshop presenter for teens and parents nationwide. She is the coauthor of the bestseller Taste Berries for Teens and Taste Berries for Teens Journal, and author of A Stress-Management Guide for Teens and Goal Setting Skills for Young Adults..

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