Listing your goals

Listing your goals.

Your next step is to make a list of five medium-term goals that will help you towards your main goal.

Here’s an example for an agoraphobic who wants to get back to work:

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Travel on the bus.
Go to the corner shop and buy three things.
Go to a coffee morning.
Spend an hour in a busy shopping centre.
Go away for a weekend.
Here’s an example for someone with an obsession about dirt who wants
to get back to work:
Leave the house without cleaning toilet.
Use public transport despite the dirt.
Use a public lavatory.
Reduce toilet cleaning to once a day.
Use a lavatory in a pub.
Neither of these lists is in any particular order, because each individual will have their own ideas about what they might find easiest and hardest. It seems likely that the agoraphobic will find the weekend away the hardest to do, and either the bus journey or the corner shop the easiest.