An excellent look at Goal Mapping. I enjoyed the author’s instructions on how to use goal mapping to one's advantage.
Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

This was a pretty useful read on goal setting. I found it a quick read, but nothing that really stood it apart from other books on the subject.

Book: “Goal Mapping: A Practical Guide to Turning Your Dreams into Reality,” Brian Mayne, Watkins Publishing, 2020

Book Review by Mary Mikawoz

Book available: May 12, 2020

I read this book awhile back when the Corona Virus was taking root in North America and we started lockdown in many areas of the world. It was a good book and I am sorry I have not reviewed it sooner but felt I needed to give it some more thought.

I am encouraged by the personal story of Brian Mayne and the things he had to do to overcome his educational problems and learning difficulties. That itself, is an inspiration.

Brian puts a number of good and appropriate quotes throughout the book, however, I read it on a Kindle and so there was just a jarring of quotes in a haphazard format that intruded on the flow of the actual text of the book. I do not know if the physical book is formatted differently. It is do-able though. You just need to read and remember where you were at and what the last point was.

If I were to glean the main points of the book are, I would have to say that it is important to use your left and right sides of your brain. Brian Mayne has developed a way to write words from the logical, left side of the brain and then incorporate images or drawings by using the right side or creative side of the brain. It is a way of reinforcing goals in a way that makes it more impactful. In this regard, the author provides some drawings to explain his point, however, I would have appreciated more drawings with accompanying explanations of what they meant to illustrate and really bring home the point of how the goal mapping system works. It would have added so much more to the book.

You can try your own by going to Brian Mayne's website at https://goalmapping.com

I give this book a 3.5 out of 5 for effort and for his explanations. It is a good starting point for someone who would like to reinforce their vision with words and images.


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I found this book to be well done, interesting, inspiring.
It gives good ideas.
And made me feel positive.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the access to this book.

This is my honest review, all opinions are my own.

I have been a goal-driven person all of my life coming from a sales background following advice from authors like Brian Tracy and Zig Ziglar. Goal Mapping by Brian Mayne is great for creating visual aids to keep you focused on your goals. Brian using his personal experience takes you step by step through the goal mapping process. Brian doesn't just tell you how to Map out goals he is right there with you showing you how to map out goals. Without the map how would you know where you are going? Thank you, Brian!

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This book has some useful and practical ideas and is accompanied by simplistic drawings to help support the process of these ideas and goals to help bring them into practice.
I enjoyed this book and will try some of the ideas out.

Brian Mayne has many inspiring quotes by many motivators on the sidelines of the book.

Mayne's theory is about using both your left and right brain, words and pictures to make your visions come true. Another point about balancing your goals, removes the friction away from one coming at the expense of the other.

Quite good overall. This is a pretty powerful, simple, and effective approach and should work for almost anyone. There's nothing new here, but it's put together in a very effective way. Maybe I've read too many books like this because much of it I've heard before, but that doesn't mean it's not worthwhile or effective. Many of the quotes includes are superb.

Thanks very much for the review copy!!

Help through setting up goals and planning them, and some help going through the goals. Different topics and ideas looked at and see what would work with you. Does have a main goal setup the author uses so you don’t multiple goal getting ideas thrown at you.

This is a good book for beginners and anyone new to self help and goal setting. It is part biography, and quite padded out with reasons why you should use the system and why it works, and it isn't really until the last quarter of the book that you get some practical instruction. As I have read a lot of self help literature there was nothing new in there for me, and the author uses lots of the well known standard quotes and experiments., He is combining mind mapping and goal setting which has been done for a long time. I have to admit to being a bit disappointed as I was expecting something a bit more ground breaking.. However I appreciate that there will be lots of people out there who this book will really help. The authors writing style is very old school, but easy to read and understand.