In goal exploration, which question aligns with setting six-month goals?

• A. What are your top 3 goals in the next six months?
• B. What are you avoiding?
• C. What keeps you from starting?
• D. What is your problem?

Answer: (A)

When exploring goals with a six-month horizon, you want to identify a small, prioritized set of targets for that period. The question that best aligns with six-month goal setting asks for your top three goals in the next six months. This pulls focus to specific, time-bound ambitions and encourages prioritization, which makes planning actionable steps and deadlines possible. It also helps you measure progress within the six-month window and stay motivated by concentrating effort on a clear handful of targets.

Asking about what you’re avoiding or what keeps you from starting shifts attention to barriers rather than defining concrete goals for the timeframe. Those prompts can be useful later to address obstacles, but they don’t establish the actual goals you aim to achieve within six months. A prompt like “What is your problem?” is too vague and negative to guide goal formulation.