Getting started~10 minMotivational interviewing
My reasons for change
Get clear on why change matters to you — in your own words — and what would make you more confident.
In motivational interviewing, people are more likely to change when they voice their own reasons rather than hearing someone else's. The 0–10 importance and confidence 'rulers', and the question 'why not lower?', draw out motivation you already have (Miller & Rollnick).
1. The change I'm working on
Stopping drinking, eating regularly, not betting, getting out of bed and moving…
2. My most important reasons for making this change
List as many as you can — people, health, money, freedom, self-respect, the future.
3. How important is this change to me right now?
4. Why did I pick that number, and not a lower one?
Your answer is the part of you that already wants this.
5. How confident am I that I can do it?
6. What would move my confidence up one point?
A person, a skill, a plan, a first small success?
7. A time I changed something hard before — and what helped me do it
8. If I make this change, what could my life look like a year from now?