Goals, plans and the future – part 2!
30 May 2012 4 Comments
in Motivation and Positivity, My Training Updates Tags: Coaching, Goal, Health, Strategic management, Time management
So, I sort of have an idea of what I want to achieve in my personal life in the next year and am beginning to think about what things I 
will need to do in order to get there but what about my professional goals – where do I want to be professionally in a year from now? What does success look and feel like, how will I determine whether I have reached my goals?
When I started this, the goal was to pass all of my exams and I hadn’t really given a great deal of thought to what happens next! So, I took all of my exams, passed everything I needed first time (yay me!) and then……….?
Like this:
How I missed the goal….
17 Feb 2012 2 Comments
in My Training Updates Tags: fitness, Goal, goal setting, NLP, S.M.A.R.T, SMART criteria, weight loss
When I started this journey (oh that phrase is really beginning to grate!) I had only the vaguest, sketchiest idea of what I wanted to achieve or why; I wanted to be fitter, healthier and if I lost weight that would be a bonus because underneath it all, in hindsight, I think that was what I wanted.
But I never gave a thought to what I actually wanted to achieve; how much fitter, to do what? Stronger in what way? And as for the weight I never even gave it a conscious thought just a vague idea that I wanted to lose a couple of stone but no idea or understanding of how long that would take, what my idea weight would be or why.
I sit here looking back at the year and at what I have achieved and attempting to understand my dissatisfaction with my achievements, its obvious that the lack of clear goals and an understanding of why they were important has hampered my progress. I tell people all the time both at work and in my personal life, if we don’t know where we are going how do we know when we get there – and here I am having done exactly what I tell others not to do! How can I judge whether the year has been a success or not when the measures by which I am judging myself are ones which I didn’t even know existed 12 months ago? How can I complain that I am dissatisfied with my progress when I didn’t even know what I wanted to get out of training in the first place?
