Goals - Don't give up!

Hey all! Hope everyone is doing good and enjoying my daily posts so far ...

Today I am going to write about setting goals, and achieving them.
Yesterday I asked you to set some targets for two weeks, I hope you did and that you are sticking to them so far...
Today, I would like you to set a specific goal, be it fitness or other. It doesn't even have to be diet or health or fitness related! So , have a little think now about your goal...

Now, think about how are you going to achieve that goal, and how long would you like it to take to reach your goal.
If you want to lose a stone in weight by May for example, think about how are you going to do that. Remember, you will not achieve this unless you change something that you are already doing. You cannot expect your body to change unless you do something different to what you are already doing. If your diet is unhealthy, then make it healthy. If your diet is already pretty healthy, then look at it in detail and see where you can make more changes... Also, look at your exercise regime...
If you want to get fitter, then start training harder. Introduce some interval training, walk faster, exercise more frequently, exercise for longer, just change something from what you are already doing.
Whatever your goal is in life, then start doing something to achieve that goal.

After you have set your goal, and decided how you are going to achieve it, comes the most important part .... Never Give Up until you have reached your goal!!

When you are working towards a goal, you will have good days, and bad days.
I will give an example of weight loss.
Your goal is to lose a stone by summer. You are so motivated and determined when you set that goal. You have fire in your belly and a strong desire to reach your goal. You say to yourself that you will get there, how hard can it be?

I tell you now, it will be hard. You will have setbacks. You will work hard, exercise lots and watch your diet, and the scale will not move every week. You will have days when you are tired and demotivated. You will have days when you think "What's the point, I am not seeing any changes?". You will be busy with everything else in your life that finding time to exercise will be difficult. You might have social arrangements where there will be lots of food and drink tempting you. You might get bored with the healthy lifestyle when all your friends and family are out enjoying themselves and you might be sitting at home with a cup of herbal tea. If you have a lot of weight to lose, you might be demotivated with the length of time it will take you to get to your goal. You might hate exercise and to go for a walk is torture. The list is endless, there could be so many setbacks to reaching your goal, it will take a huge amount of self motivation to get there.

However, you know what? You will get there!!! If you stick at it, you will get there. It might take years, and you will have bad days where your healthy diet goes out the window. You will have days/weeks even, when you will not exercise. You will have weeks where the scales won't move, or might even go back up after moving down. The key to success is to keep going! Keep getting back up when you fall down. Keep digging deep and working hard. For anyone who tells you that they never ever have bad days where they are not motivated, or that they never eat junk, then, in my opinion, they are not being truthful.
Everyone has bad days, but the people who reach their goals are those who keep picking themselves up and start working hard again.

So, set a goal, decide how you are going to get there, be prepared for setbacks along the way, and NEVER GIVE UP until your goal is met!

And then, set a new goal :)