1 Developing your plan

Last week you defined your SMART goal. The next stage is to start looking at all the forces that may influence whether or not you achieve your goal. There is another technique that can help with this, which encourages you to think a bit more widely.

Figure 1 Forces in favour: forces against

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A drawing of a tug-of-war, using a rope. It is evenly matched with three people on each side. This drawing illustrates the similarity between a tug-of-war and a force-field analysis – although in both cases the different sides may not, of course, always be equal.

Figure 1 Forces in favour: forces against