Sometimes it’s easy to be focused on what you have to do to achieve success and conquer your end goal. IT’s what gets you excited every morning and springing out of bed to attack the day.
Other times it’s hard work…
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So what should we do at times like this?
Some people find the end goal is enough of a motivator to get them up and moving and into the gym on these colder mornings or on the darker nights. For others it starts to break them down.
I have found that the best way to focus on reaching your goals if you’re not the type of person that can just Turn up everyday, day in, day out, is to switch your focus.
Start to focus on task mastery rather than purely on your end goal.
Do you find it super satisfying when you get to the end of the week or end of the day even, and you have ticked the ALL of boxes on your to do list? If so then this is for you.
All we need to do is turn your end goal into a series of daily tasks.
Turn the completion of these tasks into one successful week and we are well on our way.
Turn one week into two, two weeks into four and you are on your way on the journey to accomplish your goal.
Say your goal is to run 10k’s in a respectable time of 50 minutes. What do you need to do to achieve that? What are the steps. How many times per week will you need to train to achieve that.
Break that down. Then have the Individual Tasks on a daily basis become your new goal. Completion of each of these individual tasks throughout the week become your focus.
If you don’t know how to break it down reach out. It’s what I do day in and day out with people and I’d love to help!
If the bigger picture scares you but you are the type of person who loves becoming proficient in something this is the ideal way to do that.
Stay the course and even when things go wrong. Mastery of your daily and weekly tasks can change when you need re-plot the course slightly.
If the course now has to include say rehab work to recovery from an injury or needs to include more speed work to ensure you hit your 50min goal for your 10k run then that can become part of the new bigger picture.
Break the big bits down into little bits, no matter the goal and you will find yourself a lot more focused, centred and able to front up when things are getting tough.
The big picture can wait. Do today.
– Luke
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