Setting your goals Imagine into the future. The symptoms you listed in your vicious cycle have improved and you feel better again. Your routine for each day is back on track. What will life be like for you when these symptoms improve? What things that are important in your life will you be doing again? Answer the questions below to help you to set your goals for using worry management.
Where would you be going?
(For example, I would be socialising with friends, I would be going to the gym again. I would be back at work etc.)
What would you be doing?
(For example, I will be able to do the food shop on a Sunday. I will be cleaning each week. I will be spending more time with the children having fun etc.)
Who would you be with?
(For example, I would be spending more time with my flat mates going to the cinema, I would be spending more quality time with my husband, I would be back at the social club etc.)
© Marie Chellingsworth (2020). The CBT Resource.
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