I hope you have had a great weekend, whatever you got up to. If you are a Dad, I hope you had a great Fathers Day and spent it getting spoilt by your family.
Well I have had a pretty steady weekend, got a couple of decent workout sessions in, one was a weights session, where I concentrated mainly on Overhead pressing and the other was a speed session. I call the speed session, a lateral session, which means all my movements are either sideways or backward. I do quite a lot of agility training, meaning I do lots of direction changes and starting from different positions. By doing one lateral day a week and one Linear day (straight line sprinting) it gives me a more 360 degree approach to my speed training. I also had a good afternoon on the range on Friday, had some guys over from the British Army and had a bit of a shooting match against them, unlucky for them ha ha, they lost. The wind was terrible and we spent a lot of time dodging targets as they were ripped out of their stands and broken bits of wood were hurtling down range at us, so we called it a day after a couple of hours. We have the odd shooting competitions against the Brit lads or the Americans now and again, and it is always our GOAL to beat them, as we are all retired and past it as far as the forces are concerned. So it’s good for our ego’s to beat the Young Guns whenever we have chance.
Having mentioned our Goal of beating the younger generation at shooting,I thought tonight I would write a bit about setting GOALS. Setting GOALS will help you to achieve whatever you put your mind to.
Before you set out to do anything, you are going to have a thought, obviously. For example, you may not have been living healthily and you think, “Right! That’s it! I have had enough of this bad lifestyle and I am going to set out on a new and healthy path” Great! Well that’s all it is at the moment a thought. So you have to get that thought to manifest as a reality. You can’t just suddenly have a Healthy Lifestyle, without knowing how to get a Healthy Lifestyle, so you will have to make a plan of how to get there. So in this case, you can use Goal Setting to help you get to the Healthy Lifestyle that you desire.
With all goal setting, the first thing to come up with is a DREAM GOAL, your Dream Goal is personal to you and it is something that you may ultimately be aiming for in your life. One thing you must be aware of, is the Goal must be realistic. There is no point having a Dream Goal that you can never achieve. But on the Flip side, only you know what you are capable of achieving, so no matter how outlandish other people think your dream goal maybe, if you think you can get there, that is all that matters.
Once you have settled on your DREAM GOAL. The next thing that YOU MUST DO is find your BIG ENOUGH WHY?
What is a "BIG ENOUGH WHY"?
“YOUR BIG ENOUGH WHY”? is the reason that you are pursuing your goal. Without it, you are most likely doomed to failure. When going for a specific goal, there may be times when you come across a difficult obstacle, something that seems totally insurmountable. If this happens, and your, “BIG ENOUGH WHY”? Is not the right one, It will be very easy to just pack it all in and convince yourself that the Goal wasn’t really important to you anyway. So it doesn’t matter about it. You can just pretend that you never had the Goal in the first place, nobody will ever know (unless you have told everybody of course). However, if your “BIG ENOUGH WHY”? Is the right one, it won’t matter to you, that the problem in front of you is huge, the “BIG ENOUGH WHY”?, will drive you to find a way around the obstacle, no matter what difficulties you may encounter, or effort you may have to put into to crack it.
To really bring my point home, I will take the case of the Guy who got stuck with his arm trapped between two rocks not so long ago. His goal was to get free, Christ! He cut his own arm off to make his escape. Why did he cut his arm off? Of course, if he didn’t cut his arm off he was going to die. So his “BIG ENOUGH WHY” at that time, was “Because I am going to die if I don’t” “THE BIG ENOUGH WHY”?, was his driving force to make him do what he had to do to achieve his goal of getting out of that situation. Very extreme but I hope you understand my point.
Another example, not so extreme this time is myself. My dream goal is to be able to have a great lifestyle when I am 55 and choose my own working hours if I want to work at all. MY BIG ENOUGH WHY? Because I want to be free to be able to do what I want with my time in my later years.
That’s why after my work has finished I sit here and do this blog, and work on my website until midnight most nights. There are many times when I feel like packing it in, and can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, but whenever I lose my drive, I revert to my “BIG ENOUGH WHY”, and hence I am sat here typing this, because it is what I want more than anything else for me and my family.
So spend some time and thought to come up with the reason that you may want to do something, it is going to be your motivation until you achieve your GOAL.
Once you have your “BIG ENOUGH WHY”? Write it down, or type it and print it off, stick it by your bed, on your mirror in the bathroom and by your place of work, you need constant reminders of it, every time you see it, it will reinforce WHY? you want to achieve your GOALS.
I hope this has been useful, if you’ve never done it and are about to set out to achieve some goal or other, try it out, I guarantee it will help when things get tough.
In the next blog, I will write about setting goals and how to reach them step by step.
Until then, have a great day and in tone with tonight’s blog I have a saying for you to mull over
“You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.”
Steve
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