A few months ago, I was working with a client who couldn’t seem to make progress on the goals she had set for herself. Together, we had done a ton of mindset work and she had very clear ideas on her purpose and why she wanted a to grow her private practice.

Honestly, I was so impressed with the progress this client had made in her beliefs about being a successful practice owner that I was surprised that she still struggled to get started. This woman lacked nothing in the desire department and her fire burned bright.

We kept exploring her concerns from different angles; and, as it often goes, in our final sessions together we finally had our breakthrough. 

We went back through our work together with a fine tooth comb. She proved to herself that she had set her goals and found chunks of time to devote to accomplishing them. However, when it came to sitting down during this predetermined work time, all she felt was lost.

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OK let’s bust out the real talk.

There are a gazillion articles out there about setting goals. These articles may tell you that you need to be specific or that you need to have a timeframe when thinking about the things you want to accomplish. That's all well and good; and, actually, I am a firm believer in setting SMART goals – which we’ll get to later.

But, the problem with all the goal setting/achieving information our there is it's usually put out by the über successful. Not other therapists new to private practice. Those who are so far removed from the beginnings of their businesses that it’s highly unlikely they remember what it felt like to set those first few shaky goals. The fear, the excitement, the anticipation, the self-doubt….

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