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Everyone should have a Big Audacious Goal! What are your goals?

Goals! Without them we are destined to meander about aimlessly just living day to day. Some of us have them in the “back of our mind” while some are very specifically focused on them each and every day. The people that look at them each day…will probably achieve those goals. Sorry…its just how it is. No one stumbles upon success.

A friend of mine and fellow Crossfitter just reminded me of the importance of them. My friend sent me a text message telling me he had just squatted 300 lbs. He mentioned that it was something he wanted to do before his birthday. That got me thinking up to my own birthday and what I wanted to achieve by then. What were MY goals? Hmmm…

Inherently I had them in the back of my mind but when it comes to the physical things you want to be able to do, it reminded me of how important it is to put them right out in front of you, each day. Crossfit uses the “whiteboard” they keep track of specific benchmarks to track progress on certain workouts.  I do some of this with my clients on our Long Beach Workout of the Week, but that is about general performance and testing one’s overall fitness.  I’m talking about specifically…

What do YOU want to be able to DO?

Each of us are individuals. We have different interests, needs, abilities but one thing is certain…we all want to be able to do something. We all dream of how cool, neat, fun, challenging it would be to be able to do…something.

So now I’m asking a couple things of yourself. Take time to think what would you really love to be able to do? Walk a mile, run 5, do a cartwheel? Anything! (and don’t listen to the voice that says you can’t or really don’t want to…its just sabotage.)

Make a list of those things that you want to do. No matter how crazy it sounds. There are baby steps to getting you to those goals and if you have them out in front of you every time you work out (or work out with me) then little things can be worked on each and every time to get you to that goal.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it? Then why haven’t you taken your first bite? Write those goals down, no matter how audacious, crazy, unattainable they sound. They are YOUR goals and no one else’s and you don’t have to explain yourself to anyone.

Baby Steps to your new goal…and DON’T hesitate!

Now armed with your goals then next thing to do is look at the little tiny thing you can do to get closer to it. It can be a matter of watching something on Youtube about it, or reading an article to make yourself more knowledgeable. It can be a big step like working with someone to help you physically prepare for it. The most important thing is to DO SOMETHING NOW!

Most people feel that when they work with a personal trainer that its all about “help me lose weight” but I have found that if someone has THINGS they want to be able to DO then I can take them towards many physical achievement goals while we work on losing weight too!

Think about that next time you just say “Oh if I lost the weight…THEN I’d want to do _____.”

Its not a “do this first, then you can do that” process. Baby steps towards ALL of your goals will make your weight loss goal more fun, FASTER and before you know it you’ll be checking off a whole lot of physical achievements from your list.

Remember: Your goals are YOUR goals! Dream BIG and start moving towards those accomplishments today. The only person who can tell you can’t do it…is YOU.

Get started today! If you need help, I’d be happy to work with you towards ALL of your goals. Feel free to email me or call 562.225.2244 and we can sit down and talk about the things you want to achieve and map out a plan to get you there fast!