7.3 Self-Directed Goal Setting

.3 Self-Directed Goal Setting is about choosing goals that genuinely belong to you, not to family, culture, or your workplace. Through the Authentic Goal Cycle, you learn to notice whose goals you’re living, clarify one real goal in plain words, feel for alignment in your body, check it against your values and long-term direction, and then design micro-steps you can sustain. Over time, you move from drift and “borrowed ambition” into a path where your goals reflect who you are becoming, not who others want you to be.