Goal Language Practice

GOAL SETTING TOOLS

Optional client-owned prompts; use, adapt, reorder, or skip based on context.

Using This Optional Tool

This tool offers optional prompts to draft, compare, and revise client-owned goal language without claiming an affirmation, attention-training, present-tense, repetition, or behavior-change mechanism. Its fields are prompts, not findings, requirements, professional advice, or a complete model of the situation.

Use the client's own words. Separate direct observations and sources from interpretations, assumptions, predictions, and unknowns. Any field can be renamed, reordered, repeated, left blank, revisited, or discarded.

How to Use Goal Language Practice

  1. Choose one relevant situation or question, or skip the tool.
  2. Use only the prompts that fit the client's goal, language, access needs, consent, privacy, and context.
  3. Record evidence, interpretations, and unknowns separately; no response proves a cause, trait, score, priority, or outcome.
  4. Keep any question, experiment, support, referral, action, or no action optional and client-owned.

Choice and Support Boundary

Optional coaching reflection, not therapy, diagnosis, medical care, a validated assessment, or business, financial, tax, accounting, investment, legal, employment, or relationship advice. Skip, adapt, or stop. Do not infer a cause, condition, trait, motive, truth, score, risk, priority, or required response from an answer, blank, label, difficulty, repetition, or estimate. Preserve privacy, consent, access, culture, power, context, and uncertainty; use qualified or emergency support for unsafe, severe, or out-of-scope concerns.

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Goal Language Practice

Use any field in any order. Rename, repeat, skip, or stop.

Current goal language

Write the goal or possibility in the client's words.

What I like or dislike about this wording

Preference, context, and uncertainty.

Alternative wording A

Future, present, tentative, practical, or another style.

Alternative wording B or blank

No tense or positivity requirement applies.

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Goal Language Practice continued

Use any field in any order. Rename, repeat, skip, or stop.

Evidence, constraints, and supports

What is observed, assumed, available, or unknown?

Wording I choose for now

Keep, revise, discard, or leave undecided.

Optional review

What is directly observed, what remains interpreted or unknown, and which optional question, support, referral, experiment, or no next step feels useful?

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