Goal Planning

Your client leaves every session with a specific action plan. They write it down. By the following session, they have completed zero to one of the items. The pattern has repeated across six sessions. They have not failed at anything - the between-session actions have simply not occurred. The problem is not the plan's content; it is that the plan has no motivational architecture. The worksheet's motivation column asks, for each action step, why this step matters - a question the client has not been asked to answer in writing for any of the plans that have been abandoned.

Frame this as adding motivation structure to the plan that is already there. 'The session plan you've built has the acti...