A New Year! What's Your Goal?

School is officially well on it's way now.  The beginning of a new school year, to me, feels like a new year!  This is a great time for me to set new goals and get re-organized.  I'm excited as I sit down today and think through my business and fitness goals.  I also make family, spiritual, and rest/down-time goals too.  Thinking, planning and being strategic about these areas of my life helps me get where I want to go.

I'll share my fitness goal with you.  This year I want to run in my first 1/2 marathon.  I worked up the courage to sign up for the 1/2 in Houston in January.  Wouldn't you know it, this year was a lottery and I didn't get picked!  So, do I take the easy way out and just not do it?  NO!  I've found another one.  The scary thing is it's in November and not January.  But I can do it!  I can do anything I set my mind too. 

And that's why goals are so important.  If I didn't have the goal to run a 1/2 marathon, then I would never push myself in training for the event.  It will help focus me over these next three months as I am strategic about my weekly exercise routine.

What's your goal?  Do you have a goal to get out debt?  Then that will change the way you spend money today.  If you have a goal to lose weight, that will change the way you eat today and whether or not you make the choice to exercise today too.

Set a goal. 

• Where do you want to be?  
• See yourself reaching that goal! 
• What will it feel like? 
• How excited will you be when that day come? 

By putting yourself in your future you will create a big "Why".  You need to know your "Why".  Why are you going to do what it takes to reach your goals?  For me, I will feel so excited, elated, and proud of myself when I complete my 1/2 marathon.  I also want to set a good example to my family and my clients.  I want to inspire others to reach for their goals too.  This helps me focus when I don't feel like training.

Yours in the journey,
Sara Oliver
http://www.gettobootcamp.com/
saraoliver@gettobootcamp.com