This Year's Goals: Target Breakdown

Turn one clear goal into three concrete targets you can act on, using a coaching-tested breakdown that makes progress measurable.

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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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Tool Classification

Domain

Life Coaching

Type

Worksheet

Phase

Goal Setting Action

Details

15 min Mid session As-needed

Topics

Accountability Mindset Habits

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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...

2 The client whose action steps do not connect back to the goal they claim to support 🔒

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