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Starting Up Your Own Self Detective Agency
Part 3 - Setting Up Your Own Case File



Okay, so where would you like to start?
What areas of yourself and your life would you like to investigate? Or are you happy to work your way through SD and see where you end up?
Below are some suggestions for starting up your own case file.
  1. Finding out who I am
  2. Telling my story
  3. Understanding my relationship with myself
  4. Working out my relationships with others
  5. Piecing together my past
  6. Working on my present-day self
  7. Exploring my hopes and fears
  8. Understanding my values and beliefs
  9. Unpicking shame, guilt and blame
  10. Resolving internal and external conflicts
  11. Understanding my strengths and limitations
  12. Getting in touch with my emotional side
  13. Sorting out my thoughts
  14. Reducing my distress
  15. Experimenting with my identity and my roles
  16. Tapping in to my creative side
  17. Improving my coping strategies
  18. Working through my grief and my losses
  19. Understanding power and control
  20. Overcoming habits
  21. Starting my life again
  22. Understanding the very essence of myself
  23. Learning to like myself
  24. Making changes in my life
  25. Improving my well-being
  26. All of the above
    If you know where you would like to focus your attention first, and in which order, please make a note of it here:
    I will start to work on…

    Setting goals

    It might be useful when embarking on SD to think about where you’d like to end up, but it isn’t essential.
    (i) If you embark on a journey without knowing where you want to go, you may get lost or lose your way. Alternatively, you may discover so much more by not taking a direct route from A to B.
    (ii) If you undertake a case with a clear finishing line, you may find that it isn’t the ending that you wanted or hoped for, or that you’re unable to solve the case. There again, it might be exactly what you wanted.
    (iii) Some people will never find a clear beginning or an ending – there will just be experiences along the way.
    (iv) If you do get to your goal, what happens next? Do you rest on your laurels? Do you set yourself another goal?
    What comes to mind when you think about goals (or indeed aims or targets)?
    If you are happy to make a list of goals, how about you start right here, right now?

    Goals

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