Your goals should be specific, clear and precise and most importantly obtainable. For example, imagine you are on a diet, there is no point in saying, I am overweight, I need to lose 3 stone.
Three stone is a lot of weight, in other words a big goal, it must be broken down to something like ‘This week I am going to lose 2 lbs, to do that I am going to take a walk everyday and make sure my portions of food are smaller than everyone else in the house!Maybe you are agoraphobic and haven’t been out the house for weeks, it would be unreasonable to set a goal of; by the end of the week I will catch a train to London then a flight to Paris!
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