Goal Setting and Exercise

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 important 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 measurable? How can you know when you’re nearer to your goal then you’re 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 do something on? Is it something that is within your powers of control? If it is then you can be proactive about it and it makes for a good goal. If not, you can’t do much about it so do not squander your time on it.

Realistic

Is your goal practical? Is it something that you can realistically achieve? If you’re 300 lbs. oversized and desire to enter the Olympic Games next year, I’m sorry buddy, you don’t have an opportunity, unless they make eating an Olympic sport. Whatever it is it has got to be practical to you in your brain.

Time sensitive

Is you goal time-sensitive? This implies has it got a deadline. When you set a deadline you dramatically speed up the method of your attainment of that goal. Without a cut-off point your achievement can just move more and more away.

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

Logan Christopher teaches people sport mental training, which includes anchors, visualization, goals setting, and much more. For a free report on athletes mental training click here.