Month by Month Goals

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Domain

Life Coaching

Type

Planner

Phase

Goal Setting Action

Details

30 min Between sessions Monthly

Topics

Accountability Time Management Habits

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When to Use This Tool

Client has a list of goals for the year but no structure for when each one gets attention

Client keeps saying they'll start something 'when things calm down' without ever assigning it a date

Client wants the calendar to function as an accountability partner rather than a wish list

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There's a planner that separates two decisions — what matters and when it gets f...

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Coaching Scenarios Plus

1 The client who defers action until conditions are right

Context

Client has a pattern of postponing goals until a vague future state — after the busy period ends, when the team is more stable, once the project closes. The goals are genuine but treated as contingent on circumstances the client does not control. Placing a goal in a specific month converts it from a conditional intention to a scheduled one, which is a different category of commitment.

How to Introduce

Frame this as a scheduling conversation, not a goal-refinement conversation. 'You have the goals. What we're going to do...

2 The client with more goals than months can support 🔒

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