After determining the general area of life where change is wanted, the next step is to focus on specifics. For example, persons who are dissatisfied with their educational backgrounds may need to clarify and specify what they want instead. Do they wish they had studied in a different field or gone to a different school or applied themselves more seriously to the courses they took? They need to decide on specific goals that, if achieved, would make up for what they consider to be deficits in their education.

As another example, persons who are dissatisfied with their general physical health may need to be very clear and specific on what they want instead. Do they want to lose weight or gain weight? If so, how many pounds? They will also need to analyze themselves to determine whether they are motivated enough to keep their own commitments to some form of self-care such as dieting or exercising.

If you are dissatisfied with your family life or social life or sexual life, what exactly do you want instead? What goal and goal specifics would enhance your life and have the potential for success?

It is not enough to want to be happier. Happiness can be in the planning, it can be in the pursuit, or it can come with achievement, but being happier takes goal specifics, commitment, and action.

If, time after time, people make promises to themselves and then break them, it means the promises have likely been built on grandiose expectations or insufficient commitment, not reality. Specific goals can only be reached if the expectations are reasonable and meet some of the needs and wants of the inner Child to be cared for and respected.

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