242) asserts that “brainstorming multiple pathways to achieve the goal” is a key strategy for “building hope”. Similarly, it is widely assumed that breaking down a challenging goal into simpler subgoals will “increase perceptions that the challenging goal [is] attainable” (Britt & Jex, ...
themselves for change; (4) action—changed but the risk is still high that they will return to their old behaviour; (5) maintenance—behaviour has started to become a habit; and (6) termination—a new behaviour is established and it is not likely they will return to their old behaviour....