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Wednesday, Apr 22 2009
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How do you set a goal?
This post (and videos) is worthwhile to look at.
http://nikkisblogspot.com/2009/04/the-power-of-goal-setting/
When people ask me about loosing weight in my day-to-day life, it's a bit difficult to explain how visualization of my goal has been a major help to me. I'm using visualization pretty broadly here, mind you, but the concept is the exact same. I walk to work in the morning about 2 miles, and during that time, I spend a little time each morning thinking about the weight i've lost. Where I'm at. And where I want to be. And then I focus on where I want my weight to get to. I usually spend the most time focusing on that aspect of it, since it's the most important. I'm not really visualizing what I'll look like at a given weight, but more the number. Right now, I visualize the 218 for the weight I want to be. And then think about that that's only 14 lbs from where I'm at now. And then think about when I was doing the same thing, but had 20 lbs to go to get to a 248 goal weight.
Visualizing the exercising required to reach the goal weight isn't particularly important to me. But, Visualizing exercise-related goals is. I use this also when I'm running, since it helps me actually get through the run - think about the end of the run at the beginning of the run and tell myself that I can do it.
I need to take that guy's advice, though, and set some financial goals. While my debt isn't that much, really, compared to most people, it'd be nice to have it gone. I worked on it quite a bit for awhile, but then I slacked, and lost my job, and the work I'd done is gone.
Somewhat in the same vein that I've been also thinking about lately. There's a series of books by an author named Robert Crais. The main character of these books is named 'Elvis Cole'. He's a detective. They're pretty fun detective novels. Elvis is a Vietnam vet (the books started in the mid-80's), and his 'silent partner' is a man named Joe Pike. Pike is also a Vietnam vet. Pike is described as being reasonably tall (I think around 6'1"
, and very muscular. He always wears trooper-style sunglasses - even at night, and a grey sweat shirt with the arms removed. On his shoulders/deltoids he has a bright red arrow facing forward. Through the series of books, the story of the arrows is told - it's to remind him to always keep looking forward, and keep moving forward, it's either move forward or die. For this character - someone that'd been in combat situations, it's quite understandable. But, I've been considering applying the same message to me. I have to keep moving forward, keep doing, otherwise I will go back to the way I was, and I don't want to do that.
But, I'm not so big on tattoo's.
This post (and videos) is worthwhile to look at.
http://nikkisblogspot.com/2009/04/the-power-of-goal-setting/
When people ask me about loosing weight in my day-to-day life, it's a bit difficult to explain how visualization of my goal has been a major help to me. I'm using visualization pretty broadly here, mind you, but the concept is the exact same. I walk to work in the morning about 2 miles, and during that time, I spend a little time each morning thinking about the weight i've lost. Where I'm at. And where I want to be. And then I focus on where I want my weight to get to. I usually spend the most time focusing on that aspect of it, since it's the most important. I'm not really visualizing what I'll look like at a given weight, but more the number. Right now, I visualize the 218 for the weight I want to be. And then think about that that's only 14 lbs from where I'm at now. And then think about when I was doing the same thing, but had 20 lbs to go to get to a 248 goal weight.
Visualizing the exercising required to reach the goal weight isn't particularly important to me. But, Visualizing exercise-related goals is. I use this also when I'm running, since it helps me actually get through the run - think about the end of the run at the beginning of the run and tell myself that I can do it.
I need to take that guy's advice, though, and set some financial goals. While my debt isn't that much, really, compared to most people, it'd be nice to have it gone. I worked on it quite a bit for awhile, but then I slacked, and lost my job, and the work I'd done is gone.
Somewhat in the same vein that I've been also thinking about lately. There's a series of books by an author named Robert Crais. The main character of these books is named 'Elvis Cole'. He's a detective. They're pretty fun detective novels. Elvis is a Vietnam vet (the books started in the mid-80's), and his 'silent partner' is a man named Joe Pike. Pike is also a Vietnam vet. Pike is described as being reasonably tall (I think around 6'1"
, and very muscular. He always wears trooper-style sunglasses - even at night, and a grey sweat shirt with the arms removed. On his shoulders/deltoids he has a bright red arrow facing forward. Through the series of books, the story of the arrows is told - it's to remind him to always keep looking forward, and keep moving forward, it's either move forward or die. For this character - someone that'd been in combat situations, it's quite understandable. But, I've been considering applying the same message to me. I have to keep moving forward, keep doing, otherwise I will go back to the way I was, and I don't want to do that. But, I'm not so big on tattoo's.
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a decade ago
I'm not big on tattoos either, but often think it would be neat if it was symbolic of something important to me or some accomplishment.
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