With a new year comes the desire for something - sometimes anything - new in your life. This is where resolutions come from. The desire to make a change and to feel something different than you've felt for the past few months. I've said it before: I don't like resolutions. I feel that many are made for the wrong reasons and are many times grossly unattainable. Also - by March, many are long forgotten, old habits return, and - not surprisingly - you're still the same person you were. So, instead of making a resolution to arbitrarily change something about myself without real reason, I make goals that have a purpose.
Over the years I've made a consious effort to make my goals attainable. Don't confuse that with easy, by any means, but they are realistic. More to the point, I make goals when they are needed in my life: different aspects of career performance, for a specific race, or perhaps something to do with an aspect of my wellbeing. This also means I don't set out to do everything at once, and they definitely don't all start on January 1st! For example, when I had a goal to qualify for Boston back in 2015, I needed to be strong enough to handle the volume of milage to run at that level. I needed to focus on gaining strength months before I started my training block. Some goals take time and require other goals are completed before you can work towards them. Goals need to be actionable. So starting on January 1st with a resolution to "lose weight" really means nothing to me. It's not really a goal. What does "lose weight" even mean? Is it 5lbs...or 20? And will it make you happy while leading to an ultimate, fulfilling outcome? Do you even know what you're trying to acheive and why? SMART goals, on the otherhand, I can get behind. Call me nerdy, but I love some structure. Make them specific, measureable, actionable, realistic, and time-based? Yes - I'm in! All that being said, I have some goals to share. Some of them I will start to work on right away, and some that will require other goals to be completed first. Some will require months of hard work, some will require money, and some will simply require dedication and/or resolve. I broke them into sections. life
career
fitness (okay fine: running)
These are the goals I currently have for myself in my life right now. It would be amazing if I could check every one of them off within the time I have defined... but I will likely need to adjust as the months progress. (That 5:40 mile has me terrified!) But these goals are specifically designed to help me grow and stretch myself in places I need to in my life right now. They are specific to reaching outcomes I desire: advancing my career, becoming a stronger and more competetive runner and continuing to live my life in a healthy and adventurous way. Cheers to crushing some goals! (With a bit more sparkling water than champange.)
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