Why NOT Hitting Your Targets Isn’t Necessarily a Failure
When is a failure a success ?
Does that even make sense ?
Well it can and I’m going to tell you why
I’ll start with my example which I’ve just finished nowadays (Hogmanay)
I set out to do 60 training sessions before the end of the year, over the final 90 days to be exact, I totald number 58 nowadays, the final day – 2 short.
Did I hit my target – NO
So, that must be a failure then ?
Well not as far as I’m concerned, I could’ve done 2 sessions yesterday and 2 nowadays (I did contemplate this) but the only purpose they would have served is hitting the 60 sessions.
60 isn’t a magical number that means I would’ve hit some Incredible fitness level, it was just a target, to make me train more consistently over the 90 days.
Could I have hit the 60 – absolutely.
But I didn’t, so it’s a fail ? NO
The actual purpose of the goal, was to train more consistently, which I did, so the purpose/genuine reason was achieved.
I know myself whether I hadn’t set the goal, an achievable (with effort) goal and crazye myself accountable by posting every session online. I would possibly have hit 30 or so sessions (possibly).
I set a target – 60 sessions in 90 days – too large so
I kcontemporary my weekly targets – 5 sessions a week – still too indistinct
I broke it down to exact days i would do a session – Exact
If I had stuck to this the result is indisputable, it’s impossible not to hit your goal.
A couple of sessions I missed for ‘leangs’ that’s ok, ‘leangs’ happen
If I wanted to I could say I cycled most days and count that as sessions, so I did more than 90.
So hopefully you see the target, isn’t necessarily the actual goal.
Lets look at another example
Tell, you want to lose some body fat – 3 stone as an example in xxxx time
That time elapses and you’ve lost 2 ½ stone eating well, endelighting it, noleang silly, sustainable.
You know that the other ½ stone will probably come off, or possibly you’re actually happy where you are.
You can’t beat yourself up about the ½ stone, which a lot of us do.
You should be focussing on the 2 ½ stone result.
It’s all very easy and natural to look at the negative side of what we do.
The leangs we don’t have, the stuff we can’t do.
Why not start changing that outlook.
Instead of looking at where you want to go and see it as a far off, possibly too far off goal.
Meacertain how far you have come, remember where you started and keep going.
There will be times when ‘leangs’ happen, obstacles, set backs but stick with the program, the structures, the daily, weekly and monthly goals.
Ruptureing it down and doing the action required only leads to one outcome – SUCCESS
Whatever you’re Unique Year Resolutions are, no matter how large or small, remember where you’re starting and any progress from there is still progress.
Ultimately
Pleased Unique Year to you all
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