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| "Failing is a part of success. To make goals effective, you have to fail at them 50 percent of the time, or they didn't stretch you far enough." Chip Wilson, courtesy of an article by Ella Lawrence called Set Your Course from Yoga Journal |
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On your marks. Get set. GO!
But where? Where are you headed on this grand adventure of a new year? If you don't set a plan, you'll never know where you'll end up.
Goals are not just there to give yourself something to achieve - they're also there to give you something to work toward. Like a road map, even if you don't get there, you'll be in the vicinity.
It's also not just what you set as goals, but how you set them and how you work toward them. I work in a gym, and each January we're thronged with new enthusiasts who think they'll transform themselves this year, just like last year and the year before - and sometime in February there's plenty of parking again.
SMART goals - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound. So it isn't just about working out more or writing or to quit a bad habit. It's a pinpointed plan.
Working out more becomes going once a week (time-bound) for a one-hour class (specific) and mark a day on the calendar when you go (measurable). Is it achievable to get yourself there once a week? Is it realistic? If you've been a couch potato for the last three years, telling yourself to hit the gym six days a week might not be realistic.
For writing, maybe you want to start 100 words a day, and give yourself off one day a week. For quitting a bad habit, make a plan. Allow yourself to lapse. It takes time to start anything new or to quit something bad. Allowing off days will also keep you from throwing in the towel at the first misstep.
And always, enjoy the adventure before you. It'll be one of a kind. |
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Monthly Accountability works toward daily and weekly goals on a monthly basis.
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Give it 100 works to encourage habits by trying something for 100 days.
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Your News Letter makes good sense.
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In responst to the above, its because adults need more substance and the simple this happened then this happened. I love this NL. Since learning about Chekov;s gun, I have ruse it many times in reviews and with other things. You tlak about long discriptions. In Little Women and books written in that day, I am bored.They go on and on with discription. The readers of today are conditioned to a one to two hour solution. Books are read in days. Reads now demand action interspersed with detail, Take Tom Clancy, I can't read his books but I love the movies made from his stories. The devil is in the details and that is it, depending on whether its good or bad.
Some stories are worth paying attention for. I'm with you on Clancy, though. I do much better with the movies.
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