This Year's Goals: Target Breakdown

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Domain
Life Coaching
Type
Worksheet
Phase
Goal Setting Action
Details
15 min Mid session As-needed
Topics
Accountability Mindset Habits

Coaching tools for personal clarity and intentional living.

When to Use This Tool
Client has a clear goal but has never broken it into the three discrete targets that would constitute actually achieving it
Client's action steps are vague and don't connect clearly to the larger goal
Client wants a visual map from ultimate goal to immediate next actions
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There's a three-level breakdown that moves from your ultimate goal to three conc...

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1 The client whose goal is stated but never decomposed into what achieving it actually requires
Context

Client has named a clear, genuine goal — a promotion, a business milestone, a personal achievement — and has been working toward it in a general way for some time. Progress is inconsistent. The problem is not motivation or clarity about the destination; it is that the goal has never been broken into the three discrete targets that together would constitute achieving it. The client is trying to pursue a destination without a map of the terrain.

How to Introduce

Frame the three-target structure as translation work, not additional planning. 'You know where you're going. What this d...

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