Wednesday 14 September 2011

Goal Setting and Exercise

By Logan Christopher


If you do not have a particular goal, then you're mostly squandering your time. When you have a concrete goal with a burning desire behind it then everything you do towards that aim will be much more effective. By setting the goal you are ten times as certain to hit it.

Have you heard of SMART goals? This is an acronym that stands for five significant pieces of goal setting.

Specific

Is you goal explicit? The easy question worth asking yourself if will you know the precise moment you have finished your goal? If your answer is yes, great. If its no, then your goal isn't specific, and you will not know the correct actions to take to hit it.

Measurable

Is your goal quantifiable? How are you going to know when you are closer to your goal then you are now? If you can measure it you can track your results. And with tracking comes improvement.

Actionable

Is your goal actionable? Is this a goal you can take action on? Is it something that's in your powers of control? If it is then you can do something about it and it makes a good goal. If not, you can't do much about it so do not waste your time on it.

Realistic

Is your goal pragmatic? Is it something you can realistically do? If you are 300 lbs. overweight and want to go into the Olympics next year, I am sorry chum, you do not have a chance, unless they make eating an Olympic sport. Whatever it is it has to be pragmatic to you in your consciousness.

Time-sensitive

Is you goal time sensitive? This suggests has it got a deadline. When you set a cut off point you significantly speed up the method of your achievement of that goal. Without a deadline your feat can just move further and further away.

If you cover these five points when for any exercise or sport related goals you have you'll achieve much more.




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