Its nearly upon us that time when the whole country spends a fortune yet gets very little in return. Yep you`ve guessed it the new year and those new years resolutions that follow.
So many people go into it with so much enthusiasm a little like that old saying ” in like a lion out like a lamb”. They are so up for it, eager to improve some part of their lives yet you could estimate that around 90% of those “resolutions” don`t see it to the end of the month.
Now why is this?
For me I think people set the bar way too high and by setting said bar too high they place upon themselves too great a task for them to undertake.
Baby steps, that`s what they need to understand better and probably one of my all time favourite sayings “one step at a time and we can walk to the moon”.
If a person wants to loose 4 dress sizes they need to understand that there are 3 other dress sizes that have to be reached first. Yes have a long term goal but don`t fixate on that long term goal. Have it and forget about it, look more at the smaller easier to reach goals and concentrate on them first and foremost and then they will be rewarded more often with success after success. Not be doomed to failure because they are constantly thinking of the long range goal and not getting there fast enough.
Success breeds success.
Steven. A. Barlow© 2010
nicely said, great to have a goal, a huge goal even, but you need to set smaller goals and targets to get there, when you goal set you need to write it down, make it very exact (this can always change) but feel it, nmell it and taste it, even write out some postcards with your goals on and get a friend, wife or girlfriend to post them off every month or two, to act as a reminder…….then work out what youn eed to do to achieve your goals, this is where the smaller goals and targets will fit in, list them down and set them out, if using the “by” word as in “by the end of march” i would have done such and such on my way to my goal……..this helped me open my gym this year (only 1 month late) and to lift the dinnie stones without straps, which i also managed this year. Have i done my goal sheets for next year? not yet but i know 1 or 2 of the goals (exercise related only so far) and have started to set out my plans for achieveing them
happy new year!!
Agree with all of that.
As you mentioned in a previous blog post entry;
“Slow & steady wins the day”. People just do not possess patience these days & think everything can be done within a 2-4 week period all thanks to those, in my honest opinion, stupid “eat our cereals for two weeks & drop a dress size” or celebrity style magazines that have the “celebs” dropping weight extremely quickly because they have a photo shoot or premier on the horizon. All this is so wrong because it just teaches people to go for short, half measures without looking at long term goals or ramifications of putting the body through such stresses.
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