Setting and Meeting Your Goals!!!

Today we are going to talk about setting and meeting your goals. Now, in order to set and meet your goals, you need to think about a goal you want to achieve. For me, I have a few goals I want to achieve.
My first goal is to start a blog for my business in order to talk about nutrition, fitness and how I achieve my goals and live day to day, in order to help and teach others how they too can live a healthier and active life.
My second goal is to become more involved in the fitness industry and try to model fitness and endorse companies within the fitness industry I support.
My third goal is to compete in figure competitions until I get my pro card.

Once you have your goals in mind I want you to write them down on paper, put them in your phone, put it on Facebook and/or announce it publicly to someone else you know that will support and encourage you to reach your goals. Remember, if you make your goals public and share them with at least one other person then chances are you will keep them and continue to try and meet them because you know someone else is watching you.

Next, you need to do research on how you can and will meet your goals. Read magazines, books, articles, google it and look at multiple posts where you are seeing consistent and accurate information and also speak with someone you trust and believe in who has great information and answers for you to meet your goals. The more information and research you do will give you more ideas and ways to meet your goal, just make sure the information you use isn't going to harm you and is realistic. I have done research, read articles and books, took classes and talked to so many people to get to where I am today and have the knowledge in order to succeed myself and help others succeed. I also know that I don't know everything so if there is ever anything I don't know, I don't just assume and research through the vast options we have in order to get the correct answer I need and believe in.
In order to meet my goals I had to research how to start and maintain a blog, I had to research what it take to be a fitness model and join different product company teams and I also had to research what it takes to get ready and participate in figure competitions.

After you have gathered enough information from research to meet your goal, you need to set a timeline, making it realistic. For me my timeline for my blog was to start it quickly and just update and develop periodically with extra time I had and to promote it more and more as I got more involved in my business and the fitness industry. My timeline to model fitness and join supplement and fitness industry companies is within the year 2012 and that is just to start with getting my name, face and pictures out there. My last goal timeline may take more or less time depending on how well my body responds and how quickly I can beat out other competitors at each figure competition I compete in. My first goal is to attend and compete in my diary competition in July in Ft Lauderdale and depending on how I do and what advice the judges give me I will work harder and go from their based on the guidance from my fitness mentors.
Also, if you happen to get off track or your not meeting your goal as quickly as you had hoped, just get back on track, your not going to have to start all over and keep on going with where you left off. You may also need to do more research and tweak your plan a bit in order to meet your goals because things can change and in order to meet your goal what you had originally planned to do may not be exactly what you started with.

Give yourself a reward for keeping up with your goals. Keep the reward realistic and give small rewards frequently instead of only one at the end. My person goal reward is that if I fulfill all of my workouts for the week and eat clean for all of my meals, on Saturday or one night of the weekend, I allow myself a cheat meal where I eat whatever my heart desires, usually including an appetizer, main course and of course a dessert.
Now, your reward doesnt have to be food, you can give yourself a spa treatment, a pedicure, a new piece of workout attire, a massage or anything you can reward yourself with every week or two that you are keeping on track as you fulfill your goal.

Last, keep track of your progress and your ups and downs. Whether its writing down all of your works outs everyday on your calendar as you do them or writing down what you ate for the day in a daily food log notebook, just keep track of what you do and also what you don't do. It also helps to keep track of how you feel and what happened that day because those thoughts, feelings and actions can relate to you succeeding or also why you got off track that day(s) and you can try to either avoid or continue to do what works and doesn't work in your life.

Remember, you can always ask for help if you don't feel like your on the right track, or are falling off track, or just don't know how to complete meeting your goals. It's better to ask for help than to give up on something you want to achieve.

Good luck and if you need help or ideas on how to meet your goals, you can email me anytime.