SMART Goals
The R in SMART goals stands for this.
Relevant or realistic
The process of identifying something that you want to accomplish and establishing measurable goals and timeframes.
Goal setting
This type of shoulds, musts, and oughts create feelings of shame, guilt, anxiety, and depression, and eat at self-esteem and self-worth.
Self-directed
What is abstaining from ALL illicit drugs and alcohol...
Sobriety
We admitted we were powerless over ____ & _____ and our lives had become unmanageable.
Drugs & alcohol
The T in SMART goals stands for this.
Timebound or timely
Specific steps to achieve a goal are also known as...
Objectives
This type of shoulds, musts, and oughts create feelings of anger and resentment that spill over into conflict with others.
Other-directed
Typically a 90-day stay including individual and group therapy (often court-ordered)...
Inpatient residential treatment
Established members of the fellowship, who have been sober for a substantial period and have applied the principles of the AA program to their own lives...
A sponsor
The M in SMART goals stands for this.
Measurable
If your goals aren’t realistic you are setting yourself up for ______.
Failure
This is the SECOND step to stopping the "shoulds" and starting to live life on your own terms.
Challenge your beliefs
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Serenity prayer
In what step do you make amends?
Step 8
The S in SMART goals stands for this.
Specific
Something you want to achieve in the near future.
Short-term goal
This is the FIRST step to stopping the "shoulds" and starting to live life on your own terms.
Identify your "shoulds"
Process by which the body rids itself of a drug or substance...
Detoxification or detox
"A power greater than ourselves" is called...
A higher power
The A in SMART goals stands for this.
Achievable or attainable.
Something that takes a long time to achieve.
Long-term goal
This is the THIRD step to stopping the "shoulds" and starting to live life on your own terms.
Embrace self-compassion
AA, NA, Smart Recovery, Dharma Recovery, Al-Anon, & Celebrate Recovery are examples of this.
Support groups
This step regards making a "fearless moral inventory".
Step 4