Challenge
Choose a challenging and realistic goal that matters enough to work for.
Challenge - Obstacles - Tactics
The COT method helps you turn intention into action.
With Challenge, Obstacles and Tactics, you create a practical plan that takes into account what may get in your way.
The COT method is a practical approach to self-direction and behavioural flexibility. You choose a meaningful challenge, identify the obstacles that may stop you, and create tactics that help you keep moving.
A simple plan in three steps
The method does not tell you what goals to choose. It helps you make your own intention concrete enough to act on.
Obstacles
Honestly identify what may stop you when the new behaviour becomes difficult.
Tactics
Create practical ways to help yourself move past those obstacles.
Practical, human and honest
From intention to action
By thinking ahead about what may be difficult, you increase the chance that you keep acting when your energy, attention or courage is under pressure.