How a Goal Map is made
Sitting one · Hearing · 90 minutes
Both partners describe how money comes in and which bill is paid first when the week is thin. The planner does not name goals yet. You leave with a sheet and a plain instruction: write what arrives for seven days, and do not improve your habits for the sake of the next meeting. A watched week that has been tidied up wastes the second sitting.
Sitting two · Naming · 75 minutes
A shophouse, upper-secondary fees, a mother’s medicine, a year with less work after sixty. Each hope is written the way you say it at home. Dates are still rough. The useful question is which line would hurt to drop, and which one can wait a year without breaking a promise you have already made.
Sitting three · Amounts · 75 minutes
Monthly amounts are set against the cash picture from sitting one. If they do not fit, the date moves or the amount falls. The room is allowed to be quiet while that happens. A map that only works in a strong month will be ignored in the month you need it.
Sitting four · The map · 60 minutes
You read the written map aloud. Names, dates, amounts, and the review month are corrected while both of you are there. You take two copies. The office keeps one for the annual review. Within ten days a short letter restates the review month so it is not only a line at the bottom of a page that goes into a drawer.
The gap is usually one to two weeks. The only homework that matters is the watching week after sitting one, and a conversation at home before sitting two if one of you holds savings the other has not heard about. Gold, a private book, or a loan from a relative is easier to name in the kitchen than to discover across the office table.
The whole engagement runs about six to eight weeks. The fee, what is included, and what stays outside the work are on the Couple’s Goal Map page. If four dates feel like too many, begin with a First Sitting and decide afterwards.
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