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The Goal Book
A wish is a feeling. A goal has edges.
Four people and a convener meet one Tuesday night a week in the community room of a public library to work through the ten chapters of a goal book. Each episode follows one member's week, names the misstep, and shows one different move.
- 10 episodes, 1 h 49 min
- 99 vertical Shorts
- Free to watch on YouTube
Premieres
Who it's for
Adults in any job who want something and haven't turned it into a goal, or did once and quit a few steps short. The cast is a hairdresser, a plumber, a delivery driver and a young salesman, on purpose.
10 episodes, about 11 minutes each, one per chapter of the workbook. Free guide sheets for every episode at goalbooklet.com.
What people learn
- Where your attention goes is where you end up, and an untended mind drifts toward what's wrong.
- Find one aim that is yours rather than borrowed, and state it in two sentences.
- Give a goal edges: an amount, a date, a price, a plan, and a first step written as a when-then.
- Answer your own narrator, build belief from evidence, and keep going in February, when most people stop.
Episodes
- 01
Where You Point It
He could explain why nine of his twelve accounts would never buy. His boss asked about the one that would, and sent him to a library on a Tuesday night.
- 02
The Number of Hours
His plan was sixty-two, sell the truck, done. Then an old man asked him about the Wednesday after that.
- 03
Edges
He can describe the shop down to the font on the sign. He's never written a number, a date or a first step.
10:41 Watch Edges on YouTube - 04
The Narrator
She's said "I'm bad with money" for twenty years. Tonight someone asks who said it first.
- 05
Luggage
He bought a course on the furniture business and stopped cutting joints.
11:01 Watch Luggage on YouTube - 06
The Full Tank
He had the whole pitch in the shower and lost it by the office, one podcast at a time.
- 07
The Draft
His buyer walked, so he asked five people and got six answers, and a plan that was never on paper.
- 08
Thursday in February
He built one chair, took it to the fair, and brought it home.
- 09
The Table
A plumber is selling his business and hasn't told his wife he's scared.
- 10
The Long Game
A seventy-four-year-old convener reads his own aim to the table for the first time.
The cast
- Walt KesslerThe convener, who ran a design studio for thirty years
- Carla MendesOwns a two-chair hair salon on Main Street
- Hal PruittPlumber, selling the business he built
- Dez WrightParcel driver who builds furniture at night
- Dev MalhotraYoung account executive sent by his boss
With the series
- The Goal Book workbook (86 pages, PDF and EPUB)
- Free guide sheets for every episode
- Facilitator manual for ten 60-minute live sessions
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