Long-Term Goals#
Emotional RegulationWeek 5Work towards your goals!
Ask yourself:
- Are you avoiding anything important? What’s holding you back?
- What’s important to you?
- What are your goals?
- What do we do now?
Try to distract from:
- Thinking about when the positive experience will end.
- Thinking about whether you deserve this positive experience.
- Thinking about how much more might be expected of you now.
- Multitasking/completing several activities at the same time mindlessly.
Instead, be mindful of positive experiences:
- Look for & actively notice positive events.
- Focus your attention on positive events that happen.
- Refocus when your mind wanders to the negative (no more “yeah, but…”).
- Participate and engage fully in each experience.
- Try to sponge up new experiences, avoid letting them become sieved away.
Remember:
- Positive experiences can be handed to you
- Small experiences can make as much difference as big ones
- Record positive experiences & remember them (e.g. photographs, scrapbooks or an obsidian project)