Importance of Goal Setting
Updated: May 18
Like the image attached by Selina Van Hagen, Therapy opens many different doors in life, giving a better understanding of who we were, who we are now, and who we would like to be in the future.
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Setting goals in therapy can give purpose and direction. In CBT we try to make goals SMART.
SPECIFIC -Try to be as specific as possible.
MEASURABLE - How do we know when progress is made? What will that look like? What will be different? How will we know? How can progress be measured?
ACHIEVABLE - Is it possible for to meet this goal?
RELEVANT - is this goal relevant enough to keep us working towards it?
TIME BOUND - When will we do this by? Give it a deadline!
If you find that try as you might, you are not achieving your goals, check out how SMART they are. A few tweaks might make all the difference.