Weight Loss Not a Goal (And video)
Recently my TKD master asked me what my physical goals were. I don't want to have physical goals. I want to take each step forward as best I can. Physical goals for me just lead to disappointment. He even talked about him visualizing succeeding to succeed, but after being disappointed that I shouldn't get my black belt this year, I kind of
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While I often talk about running goals in terms of time, I totally have used a different style for running as well:
Minimum: go running twice a week.
Base: go 3x.
Stretch: go 4x.
The key are things I can easily control. Me, I have trouble controlling my weight, so fine, don't try to control that. Me, I do find it relatively easy to get myself out the door for a run, so excellent, use that.
I also strongly like the use of objective measures: did I do X? should be measureable by a camera. "This is a photo of me out running", check! Did I go 2 miles or 12, did I go fast or slow, did I run 10% or 100% of the distance -- nope, not relevant. :)
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Getting back to martial arts, then maybe goals about whether you go to practice or not might serve you well. But if you're already easily going to all the practices, then hmm, that's a bit harder for me to think of good objective goals.
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My last go-round at goal setting wound up enabling a bunch of logging, which has been interesting and informative, and has nudged some minor behavior changes, but hasn't pushed me into daily exercise. I'm still trying to find the right motivational buttons. It's a topic I'm interested in talking about, but whether I have anything useful to contribute remains dubious. (I can visualize all kinds of things. That doesn't get me off my butt at all.)
Talking to your teacher about your goals is likely useful, as he's more able to assist you in taking your next step if he has a sense of what you'd like that to be.
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