Goal Setting · Achievement Audio
Set Goals You Actually Reach
The definitive audio programs on setting and achieving goals — from Zig Ziglar's landmark seminars to Brian Tracy's systematic method and Jim Rohn's philosophy of a life by design. Learn to name what you want, put it in writing, and move toward it every day.
The Goal-Setting Tradition
We move toward our goals
Earl Nightingale put it in six words: we move toward our goals. Setting and reaching them is not a gift some people are born with — it is a learnable skill, and the teachers below spent their careers making it teachable.
Long before goal-setting became a business-book cliché, Zig Ziglar was filling auditoriums teaching ordinary people a startlingly practical idea: that you can have almost anything you want in life if you are simply willing to name it, write it down, and work a plan. His seminars on setting and achieving goals — now preserved in the programs on this page — turned a vague wish for a better life into a step-by-step procedure anyone could follow.
Around that same insight, a lineage of teachers refined the method. Brian Tracy built the systematic, research-grounded Ultimate Goals Program; Jim Rohn framed goal-setting as a philosophy of designing your future rather than drifting into it; and Earl Nightingale distilled the whole tradition into a single law — we become, and we move toward, what we think about most. The programs below give you that complete tradition, from naming your first clear target to designing the whole of your life around it.
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Clarity of the Target
You can't hit a target you can't see. Every program here begins the same way — getting crystal-clear on exactly what you want, in every area of your life, before you take a single step toward it.
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Put It in Writing
A goal that lives only in your head is a wish; the moment you write it down it becomes a commitment. Zig Ziglar and Brian Tracy both teach that the act of writing turns intention into a plan you can actually work.
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Set a Deadline
A goal without a deadline is just a dream. Assigning a date — and breaking the target into milestones — converts a distant ambition into a sequence of achievable next actions.
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Move Toward It Every Day
Earl Nightingale's law of goals is simple: we move toward whatever we think about most. These programs build the daily habits and disciplines that keep your goal in front of you until it is done.
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Set & Achieve Your Goals
The definitive goal-setting programs — Brian Tracy's systematic method, the Zig Ziglar seminar that made goal-setting a household discipline, and Jim Rohn's annual planning ritual that turns a year into a masterpiece.
5h 1m
4h 36m
The Mindset Behind the Method
Goal-Achievement Mindset
Goal-setting is a skill, but goal-achieving is a mindset. Go deeper into the mental disciplines — vision, self-direction, and personal responsibility — that separate the people who set goals from the people who reach them.
5h 40m
16h 47m
4h 18m
Design Your Future
Design Your Future
Zoom out from a single goal to the whole life. These programs give you the complete philosophy of a life by design — clear direction, exceptional standards, and the one secret that governs every goal you will ever set.
4h 53m
4h 41m
1h 46m
The Master of Goal-Setting
Zig Ziglar
Biography · 13h 36m
The Ultimate Zig Ziglar Library
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) was the most quoted motivational teacher of his generation and the man who made goal-setting a household discipline. A World War II veteran turned record-breaking salesman, he spent five decades teaching millions that you can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. His seminars on setting and achieving goals — distilled into the programs here — remain the definitive practical method for turning ambition into achievement.
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Six decades of turning goals into achievements.
From Zig Ziglar's stage to Jim Rohn's philosophy and Brian Tracy's method, Nightingale-Conant has published the definitive goal-setting and achievement programs for generations of achievers — professionally produced and narrated for serious listeners.
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50 YearsOf Goal-Setting Wisdom
1926Zig Ziglar Born
MillionsOf Achievers Coached
Goal-Setting Audio — Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best audio course for setting and achieving goals?
Zig Ziglar's Goals is the foundational goal-setting audio program — it captures his landmark seminar on how to identify, plan, and reach the goals that matter in every area of your life. For a complete path, pair it with Brian Tracy's systematic Ultimate Goals Program, Jim Rohn's How to Have Your Best Year Ever, and Earl Nightingale's Lead the Field — all published by Nightingale-Conant.
How do you set goals that actually stick?
The programs here teach the same durable formula: get specific about exactly what you want, put it in writing, attach a deadline, break it into daily actions, and review it constantly. Zig Ziglar's Goals and Brian Tracy's Ultimate Goals Program walk you through that process step by step, while Jim Rohn's How to Have Your Best Year Ever builds the annual review habit that keeps a goal alive long after the initial motivation fades.
What is the SMART goals method taught in these programs?
SMART is the popular shorthand for goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound — the same disciplined approach at the heart of Zig Ziglar's and Brian Tracy's goal-setting work. You won't hear the acronym in these seminars, but you will learn its substance: Goals and the Ultimate Goals Program teach you to define each goal precisely, measure your progress, and give it a firm deadline, so your goals become concrete commitments rather than vague hopes.
How is Zig Ziglar's Goals program structured?
In Goals, Zig Ziglar teaches goal-setting as a complete procedure: first you take inventory across the seven areas of a balanced life, then you name specific goals, test each one against a set of questions, write down the benefits and the obstacles, build a plan of action, and set a deadline. The program is designed so you finish it with a written, working plan for the goals that matter most — not just inspiration.
What order should I listen to these goal-setting programs in?
Start with Zig Ziglar's Goals to learn the core procedure, then add Brian Tracy's Ultimate Goals Program for the systematic method and Jim Rohn's How to Have Your Best Year Ever for the annual planning discipline. Reinforce the underlying mindset with Earl Nightingale's Lead the Field and Jim Rohn's The Art of Exceptional Living as you go deeper.