Tash’s Training Tip - Goal Review Happy Easter everyone!!!! I’m not going to lie! Easter = favourite time of the year!!!! So I trust you will have an amazing Easter at the end of the month, and will enjoy the time with your family, time to ride your horse perhaps... oh and the chocolate :) Coming into April is the start of the 2nd Quarter of the year! Very exciting! :) How was the first quarter for you? did you get the goals you wanted to get? What are your B H A D ( B i g , H a i r y, AuDacious), goals for this quarter? This month I wanted to look at your goals and help you out if perhaps you didn’t quite achieve all you wanted to in the first three months of the year... “Are we there yet?” Do you remember as a child on a long car trip, and you were constantly asking that question. Are we there yet? there yet? what about now? nearly there? And at times it ‘felt’ like you would never arrive and never get out of that car! Well goals can be the same thing. I know for me, I tend to underestimate the time frame it will take to get my goals! One month goals are usually 3 month goals and 3 month goals are yearly goals... to use the car analogy I think I am driving a Ferrari around a
racetrack, where it is actually more like a 4WD through the jungle! :) Because that’s life, isn’t it? It’s not as easy as a race track, where it’s smooth, no bumps or potholes. It can be like the jungle, with a tree blocking your path, and side roads you take that get you off track, and off focus. :)
goal. If you go to bed with dread saying you hate your day and don’t want to do tomorrow, that is a sign you are not on the right path, and you will not get your goal. You want to be excited about the goal, and excited every day to do something towards it.
That’s ok, your job is to still keep driving, keep navigating around all the obstacles in your path, keep going, even at 5km/hr rather than the 200km/h you want to go at! But you keep going, and keep going, and then eventually you aren’t asking are we there yet? Because you arrived! :)
So the car hit a pot hole, and now it has a flat and you have to change it - that’s ok, and while you’re waiting, look around you... Notice the scenery... Like I said the goal is not important, the journey is. I know when I get my gold medal it will be cool, but it won’t mean as much to me as all the moments I had leading up to that moment. A quote I love is “Life is not measured by how many breaths we take, but by how many moments take our breath away”. Every day have a ‘moment’ - a special memory to take with you.
Here are 7 keys you can look at, to help you stay motivated on your journey: 1. What is your passion level? Do you wake up excited, and go to bed happy? I’m not going to say you will LOVE all the things you have to do to get your goal. Nor will you be excited all the time, but in general you are excited, happy and satisfied doing what you have to do to get the
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2. Enjoy the sights.
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