The Eve of 2013

It’s December 31^st, the last day of the year. Now is the perfect time to reflect on the year that was and consider the year ahead. It’s time to set some goals. (Let’s not call them resolutions because we tend to break those.) This year, lets not set goals that are too lofty and too generic, like “Get in shape.” My version of being in shape may be different than yours. After all, round is a shape.

Instead, lets set attainable goals. The keys to reaching goals is making them specific, setting a deadline, and breaking them into achievable pieces. So one goal might be to run a 5K on July 4^th. (That’s a goal with a deadline.) The smaller goals will be to run a set distance each day. This goal will increase as you get nearer to your deadline. And an even smaller goal would be to go to bed each night at 10:00 so you can be up in time to add exercise to your daily schedule. So the one goal: to run a 5K, is actually 3 or four goals.

That’s why so many resolutions are never realized. We try to jump over important steps along the way to our goals and we stumble and fall flat.