Goal Setting and Sports
If you do not have a particular goal, then you're principally wasting your time. When you have a concrete goal with an overwhelming desire behind it then everything you do towards that aim will be much more effective. Just by setting the goal you are ten times as sure to hit it.
Have you heard of SMART goals? This is an acronym that stands for five significant pieces of goal setting.
Specific
Is you goal explicit? The straightforward question worth asking yourself if will you know the precise moment you have finished your goal? If your answer is yes, great. If its no, then your goal isn't specific, and you will not know the proper actions to take to hit it.
Measurable
Is your goal quantifiable? How will you know when you are closer to your goal then you are now? If you can measure it you can track your results. And with tracking comes improvement.
Actionable
Is your goal actionable? Is this a goal you can do something on? Is it something that is within your powers of control? If it is then you can handle it and it creates a good goal. If not, you can't do much about it so don't waste your time on it.
Realistic
Is your goal realistic? Is it something that you can realistically accomplish? If you're 300 lbs. oversized and need to enter the Olympic Games next year, I'm sorry mate, you don't have an opportunity, unless they make eating an Olympic sport. Whatever it is it's got to be realistic to you in your mind.
Time-sensitive
Is you goal time-sensitive? This implies has it got a deadline. When you set a deadline you dramatically speed up the method of your attainment of that goal. Without a cut-off point your achievement can just move more and more away.
If you cover these five points when for any exercise or sport related goals you have you'll achieve much more.
Have you heard of SMART goals? This is an acronym that stands for five significant pieces of goal setting.
Specific
Is you goal explicit? The straightforward question worth asking yourself if will you know the precise moment you have finished your goal? If your answer is yes, great. If its no, then your goal isn't specific, and you will not know the proper actions to take to hit it.
Measurable
Is your goal quantifiable? How will you know when you are closer to your goal then you are now? If you can measure it you can track your results. And with tracking comes improvement.
Actionable
Is your goal actionable? Is this a goal you can do something on? Is it something that is within your powers of control? If it is then you can handle it and it creates a good goal. If not, you can't do much about it so don't waste your time on it.
Realistic
Is your goal realistic? Is it something that you can realistically accomplish? If you're 300 lbs. oversized and need to enter the Olympic Games next year, I'm sorry mate, you don't have an opportunity, unless they make eating an Olympic sport. Whatever it is it's got to be realistic to you in your mind.
Time-sensitive
Is you goal time-sensitive? This implies has it got a deadline. When you set a deadline you dramatically speed up the method of your attainment of that goal. Without a cut-off point your achievement can just move more and more away.
If you cover these five points when for any exercise or sport related goals you have you'll achieve much more.
About the Author:
Logan Christopher teaches people sport mental training, which includes anchors, visualization, goals setting, and much more. For a free report on athletes mental training click here.
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