Reach Your Goals: 7 Personal Development Exercises

Nedra Glover Tawwab uses personal-development exercises to connect goals with values, commitments and the stories people tell about their progress. A workbook gives the short lessons a practical focus. This course suits learners who want to bring a specific resolution into study and examine what to keep, change or release before deciding on a manageable next action.

What you will learn

• Connect goals with values and priorities.
• Reflect on narratives, habits and commitments.
• Build a practical plan using workbook exercises.

Who this suits

Beginner by the provider’s label and open to everyone. The five-hour estimate includes exercises and assessment; the original class contains roughly fifty minutes of teaching. A workbook or notebook is useful.

Before you enroll

A useful goal-setting method should make the next action and review process clearer. Account for time, resources, competing responsibilities and circumstances outside your control. Course marketing about guaranteed success or effortless results should not be treated as evidence of an individual outcome. Keep personal reflections private and use fictional examples for shared exercises. Team goals need agreement about priorities and capacity, as well as a measurement method. A completion certificate records training; it does not establish that a goal or business result has been achieved.

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Put it into practice

Choose a private, low-stakes goal and list the commitments that support or compete with it. Identify one obstacle you can influence, write a realistic next step and decide when you will review what happened.

Source and review

This overview is based on the provider's published information, checked on 12 October 2026. It is an editorial assessment, not a claim that we completed the resource. Time filters are approximate study ranges; projects and exercises can take longer.

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