Your Highest Order Goal Is?

Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the busyness of worry! I know it, you know it, we all know it... and we still do it!

That's why I like to look for the most simple answers to things and admittedly, we don't always have them to hand... but the question then becomes, what is the next most simple answer to find?

A simple answer is often a stepping stone to getting everything else back on track - not the whole answer, but it's a start, and a start is better than a standstill... because that's where the worry gets us!

So have you ever stopped to think what your highest order goal might be? How quickly does your answer roll off the tongue?

I like to think of your highest order goal as the most simple, pure essence of all your hopes and dreams distilled into one single purpose or goal... 

Mine you ask? It's happiness!

When something goes south, I can use my highest order goal to realign my thinking towards answering simple questions - those within my power. For example, everything feels like it's going wrong right now... so what do I still have that brings me happiness?

In this way, I gravitate back towards my highest order goal and away from the immediacy of my worries.

This is the kind of headspace that we can cultivate in Counselling together! Working out, defining and refining how to simply "be".