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One of my clients aspired to explore a few different types of activities. While a decision tree would help them navigate the possibilities in a sustainable way, the bigger issue was addressing obstacles that might prevent my client from doing certain activities.
I began working with my client to explore how their pathway to pursuing certain opportunities could be blocked and what actions could be taken to unblock that path. To do this, we considered three key layers for creating lasting change, and visualized how these layers influence my client’s ability to achieve and realize benefits from these new opportunities:
Structural - the rules, priorities, boundaries, and practices that guide our behaviors and decisions as we live our lives
Relational - the people we interact with in our lives and who influence our decisions and life activities
Mental - our mindset, beliefs, and motivations, particularly when it comes to sustaining our desire for change and the behaviors that help us achieve it
By understanding the impact of these layers on my client’s ability to explore, benefit from, and sustain the new activities, we uncovered the biggest risks and potential blockers to pursuing them. We then brainstormed ways of addressing those risks and obstacles, empowering my client to unblock the path to realizing new opportunities.
What resulted was not only a decision tree for guiding exploration and reflection into which activities would offer true benefit and value to my client. It was also a visual map depicting how structural, relational, and mental factors influence whether benefit and value from these activities can be achieved as desired.
My client now has a set of guiding questions, a decision tree, and a map to explore and test which activities will ultimately lead to the benefit and value they hope to realize.
Here’s what my client had to say about their experience:
Do you need help identifying what could block your pathway to success and how to become unblocked? I can help you identify potential blockers and ways to explore and test new opportunities for realizing your goals and achieving lasting change.