Deciding what is important for you to achieve, and what is irrelevant
Motivating yourself to achievement
Building your self-confidence based on measured achievement of goals
You can set goals effectively by:
Phrasing them positively
Defining them precisely
Prioritising multiple goals
Writing them down
Keeping them manageable: Not too hard, but not too easy.
Setting performance goals, not outcome goals
Failure in meeting goals is useful in improving technique and long term
success as long as you draw useful lessons from it and feed these back into
your training program.
You should allow yourself to enjoy the achievement of goals and reward
yourself appropriately. Lessons should be drawn where appropriate, and
should be fed back into training.
As a final point, if you do not already set goals, or if you have not yet
focussed on your life goals, now is a great time to start!
You will find a link below to a web page describing our LifePlan goal setting
shareware, which guides you through the process of setting goals. A full working
version of LifePlan can be downloaded from this page. Enjoy using LifePlan!
