An animated series in ten episodes

A wish is a feeling.
A goal has edges.

Four people and a convener work through the book one chapter a week, at a Tuesday-night table in the library.

Dev, in his coat, arrives at the library table where Walt sits with the book open.
Episode 1. Dev arrives twelve minutes late and keeps his coat on.

Meet the Tuesday table

A hairdresser, a plumber, a delivery driver and a young salesman. Different ages, different money, different wishes, the same ten chapters.

Walt Kessler, as drawn in the series.

Walt Kessler

74, keeps the table
Has kept the Tuesday room for eight winters. Asks the question nobody else will.
Carla Mendes, as drawn in the series.

Carla Mendes

41, owns a two-chair salon
“A second location.”
Hal Pruitt, as drawn in the series.

Hal Pruitt

58, plumber
“Sixty-two. I sell the truck and I'm done.”
Dez Wright, as drawn in the series.

Dez Wright

29, drives a parcel route
“Someday I build furniture full time.”
Dev Malhotra, as drawn in the series.

Dev Malhotra

26, account executive
“I want to be rich.”
The page from episode 3: the wish 'someday, furniture, full time' boxed in green ink, with the seven steps listed below.
Episode 3. Dez's “someday” gets its four edges.

Watch it, then write in it

A workbook you read is a book. A workbook you write in is a tool.

  • Watch the episodeAbout ten minutes. One member's week, then the chapter's idea on the page.
  • Read the chapterThe idea, what we know now, and the exercises.
  • Write on the pageEach guide sheet has the write-in exercises and a seven-day log.
  • Bring it to a tableTwo or three people is plenty. Chapter 9 explains why.

The book the table is reading

Ten chapters on deciding what you want and becoming the person who gets it, by Matt Pinckley.

  • The idea, in plain words, for every chapter
  • What modern research added, with names so you can go check
  • Every exercise, with room to write
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The cover of The Goal Book.
The library community room at dusk, the long table set with mugs.

Live, online

Sit at a real table with Matt Pinckley

You watch and read before class. The hour is for working real pages out loud, with other people.

10weeks
60minutes
1chapter a week
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