Confidence and Success with CBT: Small steps to achieve your big goals with cognitive behaviour therapy

Step 4

Create a Plan

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“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”

Winston Churchill

The fourth step in the process of goal achievement is planning. A plan is your road map of your current reality to your goal, with a timeframe. Planning is the creation and maintenance of a plan. It can include contingency planning and forecasting of developments, scenarios and how to respond to them. A plan, typically, is a diagram or a list of steps with timing and resources needed to get you to your goal. You think about and organise the different activities to achieve what you want.

You can have an all-singing, all-dancing structured plan or ...