Reading this book is like learning to drive. It’s all common sense. Whether you have your license or not, EVERYONE knows you stop at a stop sign. Nothing could be more obvious. But what would have happened if you’d never learned to drive, and were just given your license? You would approach the stop sign, stop like you should, and….oh. Three other cars reached the intersection, all from different directions. What do you do?

Well of course you would give right of way to anyone who reached the stop sign first, and then, if drivers reached the sign at the same time, you would yield to the driver on the right. DUH!

But that really wasn’t obvious. Even if it seemed obvious at the time you were learning it. And if someone were in that situation without any training, they wouldn’t have a clue what to do. MAYBE they could reason it out, but that’s not easy to do in the heat of the moment.

This book is JUST like that. The information it gives you might seem obvious when you’re reading it, and you’ll be going “okay, yeah, that makes sense, of course, yeah” throughout the whole book. But seriously, when you’re reading it, point to a spot on any page and say to yourself “Did I consciously know this?” The answer is usually no. And the info it gives you will help you not to choke and despair on your goals.

For example, it seems reasonable that you should divide your goal into Priority, Eventually, or Fantasy, doesn't it? And everyone can pretty much do that in their heads, right? Except that your head is a cauldron of all the things that you want to do. Getting out an actual piece of paper and dividing everything into Priority, Eventually, and Fantasy may seem like a waste of time, but it will keep your brain from overheating with too much information at once, causing you to just eat an entire pizza rather than peruse your goals.

Now, does that seem obvious? Yeah, it does to me too. But I would never have consciously thought of it before reading the book.