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Home » goal setting

How CBT Uses Goal Setting

November 23, 2015 by Justin Arocho, Ph.D.

“I need to get in shape!” “I don’t want to feel like slave to work anymore.” “I want to be a happier and more balanced person.”

Goal setting

Statements like these are likely familiar to many of us.  Most of us are good at identifying changes we would like to see in our lives. However, effecting these changes is often more difficult than identifying what they are — easier said than done, as they say! Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the size of the goal before us, and we simply do not know where to start. Other times we try to achieve a goal, but it just doesn’t work out. In these situations, it’s easy to feel discouraged and give up. 

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