Big Goals

Outline

Big Goals (2024) combines research on goal setting, positive psychology, motivation, and performance to explain how ambitious objectives can be pursued effectively. Caroline Adams Miller introduces the BRIDGE framework, which guides readers from defining a meaningful goal to building support, tracking progress, and maintaining effort through setbacks. The book distinguishes between useful ambition and unrealistic wishing, emphasising clear standards, appropriate challenge, accountability, learning, and sustained action.

• Big Goals draws on research in goal setting, positive psychology, motivation, and performance to show how ambitious objectives can be pursued effectively.
• The BRIDGE framework guides you from defining a meaningful goal through building support and tracking progress to keeping up effort when setbacks arrive.
• Useful ambition differs from unrealistic wishing, and the difference lies in clear standards, appropriate challenge, and sustained action.
• Accountability and learning are built into the process, so setbacks become information to use rather than reasons to quit.

Caroline Adams Miller is an American author, speaker, executive coach, and specialist in positive psychology, goal setting, and grit. She earned a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and has spent decades helping individuals and organisations pursue challenging goals. Her books combine academic research with practical frameworks for developing resilience, accountability, well-being, and meaningful achievement.