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<\/a>The completion of a goal lasts only a brief moment.\u00a0 The journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.\u00a0 Somewhere between those two moments is the climb.\u00a0 Helping our clients set their sights on a goal is important, but so is helping them realize that it is a process that they can be aware of.\u00a0 Clients can know that there will be distractions or challenges that may take a person off track a bit or a lot.\u00a0 They can also take some understanding of the control they have within themselves simply by being meta-aware of the process.\u00a0 They can notice they are off track, be curiously scientific about the process, then simply, without judgment, return to the path. In fact, the journey may be more important to the actual achievement of the final goal.\u00a0 Evaluation of this process has forced me to understand that my goal was not to reach the summit of the mountain, but to simply climb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So, I didn\u2019t quite finish the last entry completely.\u00a0 Implications of my mountain climbing experience in counseling?\u00a0 I think the most important thing I wanted to express and what really struck me during the climb was just how impactful the \u201cchatter\u201d that goes on in the conscious mind can be to achieving personal goals.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counsellingandpsychotherapyincanada"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n