Step 1: Are you a bit fucked?
1. What do I want to change?
2. What pain or fear do I associate with change in this area?
3. What pleasure am I getting out of not changing?
4. What will it cost me if this doesn’t change?
5. What are the benefits I could gain by having this changed?
6. How has this problem placed my important relationships in jeopardy?
7. Have I lost respect/reputation due to this problem?
8. Has this problem made my home life unhappy?
9. Has this problem caused any type of illness?
10. Do I turn to the type of person that enables me to practise this behaviour or to
companions who enable me?
11. What part of the problem do the people who care about me object to most?
12. What type of abuse has happened to me and others due to this problem?
13. What have I done in the past to try to fix, control or change this area of my life?
14. What are the feelings, emotions and conditions I have tried to alter or control with
this problem?
15. Right now, if this is such an important area in my life, why haven’t I changed?
16. Am I willing to do whatever it takes to have this changed, healed or transformed?
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