{"product_id":"2940148568391","title":"7 Steps To Mental Mastery","description":"If You Want To Get Ahead, Get SMART\u003cbr\u003eLet’s get started right away with one of the most important mental skills you can ever develop:\u003cbr\u003eGoal Setting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI remember reading an academic study that evaluated a group of students in college, and then re-evaluated them 20 years later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe study found that the students who had become the most successful in life weren't necessarily the ones who had achieved the highest grades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey were the ones who had written down specific goals, 20 years earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow while your exact definition of \"success\" may differ from mine or anyone else's, most people would agree that it's about getting what you want out of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd that's what goal setting does for you. It addresses the most important - and perhaps most difficult - question of them all:\u003cbr\u003eWhat do you actually WANT?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's an old saying: \"If you don't know where you want to go, you'll never get there.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo many people drift through life feeling frustrated and resentful that their life is going nowhere. Or even worse... it's definitely going somewhere but in the\u003cbr\u003etotally wrong direction - usually driven by somebody else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour first step has to be working out where you want to go. You need a target... an objective... a destination...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA goal.","brand":"NOOKbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079111262448,"sku":"2940148568391","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148568391_p0.jpg?v=1763711061","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148568391","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}