Posts Tagged ‘solutions-focus’

How to be happy: therapy distilled to its most basic.

As many of you know I’m a fan of solutions-focused approaches to change and the flow chart below gives us the most basic process for being happy. I found it on Dr. Paolo Terni Solutions Surfer’s blog. Basically, if you aren’t happy and you want to be then change something. If you aren’t happy and you don’t want to be then keep doing what you’re already doing.

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A Solutions Focused Approach to Change & EFT – EFT Q & A Podcast

Solutions-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is an effective therapy that is future focused and provides a direct path towards what you want. SFBT combined with the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is even more effective for issues such as business improvements, depression, wealth creation, depression, serious disease, and weight loss. Digging around in the past to find what’s holding you back can be an interesting diversion but is not necessary for improving your life today. SFBT provides an alternative to the idea of limiting beliefs or “writing on your walls”.

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What works for you? Pay attention.

We often ask “what’s wrong with me?” yet a more useful question is “what works for me?” Is there an area of your life that would benefit from more focused attention? It can be difficult to notice what works in our busy-day lives and you can use the Emotional Freedom Technique EFT to help.

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Are you an expert on your problem or your solution?

How many of us are experts on our problems but haven’t taking the time to describe how our life would be without the problem? Asking a solutions-focused question can help us get to the specific things holding us back and provide new insights that we can handle with EFT.

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Take a Solutions-Focused Approach to Your Goals Audio Program

Take a unique solutions-focused approach to achieving your goals. This 1 hour audio program guides you through a process that you can apply to lose weight, make more money, enter a relationship or improve and existing one. Learn a new way of thinking that is simple and practical to apply. Cut through all the self-help noise and get the success you want in your life. Now includes transcript and worksheet.

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How would you know things were getting better?

Are you always trying to figure out what’s wrong with you when you’re not achieving your goals? What if that problem-focus is the problem? A solutions-focused approach may help you ask new questions that move you towards what you want.

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The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching and Change Simple

The Solutions Focus gave me a profound shift in thinking and solving problems. My engineering degree trained me to think in terms of understanding the problem to find the solution. While this makes sense when you need to know why a bridge fell down so that next time it won’t, it is not always the best approach for every area of our lives.

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