WOOP Goal Exercise

Client's goals are well-formed. They can articulate what they want, why it matters, and what the steps are. What they do not do is name what inside them will most likely get in the way. Every time a goal stalls, the post-mortem finds an external explanation: the project became more complex, circumstances changed, other priorities emerged. The real obstacle — a habit of avoidance, a fear of exposure, a competing value — has never been named before commitment, so it always arrives as a surprise. The Obstacle step in WOOP is designed to preempt that surprise.

Frame the Obstacle step as the one that distinguishes this framework from generic goal-setting. 'The thing that makes th...