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?
