Make 2012 your best year yet
Sara Wegwitz, Instructor
It’s a new year and a great time for a fresh start. Goal setting is a fantastic exercise for setting your sights on making progress in any area of your life. In order for you to turn your goals into a reality, a bit of planning will go a long way.
Write them down. It seems like an obvious choice yet how many goals have you kept in your head and actually achieved? Make sure they excite you to your core and inspire you. Put them up where you will see them every day. Dream big to play bigger in your life!
Are they S.M.A.R.T.? Specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time sensitive. This is a great acronym to measure your goal against and set you up for success.
Begin with the end in sight. Get laser focused and clear about who you will be when you achieve your goal. What are you doing? What is happening around you? How will you know that you have achieved it? What will you be thinking, seeing, hearing, feeling and even wearing? Spend time every day visualizing this scenario.
Take action! Once a goal has been written down you must commit to taking action within 24 hours of setting it. What one small thing can you do to start to put into motion the achievement of your goal?
Be an innovative solution finder. Come up with as many different possible strategies, paths and action steps to achieving your goal. By doing so you are creating choices and alternate solutions to help you side step any roadblock or pitfall that comes along. More choices = freedom and flexibility.
By following these tips you are sure to move from being a goal setter to a goal getter! If you are interested in learning more about this topic, how you can transform your life and create your best and healthiest self this year “Tailor-making a Healthier You – Finding Your Fit” is the series for you. Investing in yourself is the BEST investment you’ll ever make!
Sara Wegwitz teaches an eight week workshop series “Tailor-making a Healthier You - Finding your Fit” at the Burnside Gorge Community Centre. Call 250-388-5251 for information about the next session.
“Ordinary things consistently done everyday lead to extraordinary results.”
- Keith Cunningham