Good Morning Friends,
Got home from camping Sunday afternoon to find out about 2 deaths (1 dear friend's mom and another dear friend's husband) therefore I have a funeral and a wake to attend today so I'm not going to take up a lot of time catching you up on what's going on with me. Instead, I'm going to let Dr. Kelly Morgan, who was in our Spotlight Feb 5th, take it away...
The Ultimate Guide to Reaching Your Goals
We all have a vision of how we want to look, feel, and act. Your vision for your healthy self is as individual as you are.
Apart from those goals that are physically unachievable by humans, smart goal setting, detailed planning, and a system of support and motivation can take you from thinking about getting healthy to living that vision of a healthy you that’s floating around in your brain.
Setting Your Vision
Ask yourself these questions...and take the time to write down your answers:
• What do you want to achieve? Be specific.
• Why do you want to achieve this goal?
• What does this success mean for you?
• How might your daily life change?
• Where do you struggle the most in trying to reach this version of you?
• What needs to change about your attitude, environment, support system, lifestyle, finances to get you where you want to be?
• Most importantly, why haven’t you changed or succeeded in long term change in the past?
Setting Your Goals
When you begin to piece together your goals and plan, be both kind to yourself and realistic.
What are the most important outcome of making this change for you? How can you get there in the most painless way possible? The secret to habit-changing success is to - get this - make it easy. You’re going to be actively negotiating with yourself while formulating your goals and plan. Negotiate a deal you can live with and still reach your goals.
As you list your most important outcomes of this process, think of them as your goals. Break each of the outcomes down into separate goals that you are invested in achieving. Each one should be distinct and have only one outcome. The clearer you can get the goals, the simpler it will be to assign the tactics you need to achieve them.
Getting Tactical
For each goal, write a one to two sentence strategy. After writing a strategy for each goal, list out specific things you’ll do to achieve that goal. These are your tactics. Think of everything you can do to execute your strategy. How can you remove obstacles and barriers from your life to make way for goal attainment?
Think of tactics that can easily fit into your life and that can help you toward your goals. Anything you can think of that would help is fair game for this list. Be creative!
Making Your Plan
Once you have your goals, strategies, and tactics, it’s time to plan. Unfortunately, you can’t live in a bubble where you only have to focus on reaching your goals. Sorry. To be successful and efficient in achieving your goals, you need to figure out how your new tactics will fit in with your daily routine. What needs to change for you to do these tactics? Are there things you need to buy? Space you need to make? Schedule shuffling to do? How can you most easily and seamlessly incorporate these tactics into your current life?
A Final Word
This may take you a while to complete. Take your time and be thorough and detailed. Planning out your path to success now, while you’re motivated, will save you from difficult and tempting situations, setbacks, and, let’s be honest, a little laziness, in the future.
Best of luck to you in achieving your goals!
Kelly Vandersluis Morgan, Ph.D. owns Tsirona, where she is a health coach for busy, high-achieving women who have put their health on the backburner while kicking butt in the rest of their lives. She helps women gain control of their health and use it as a tool for continuing to lead their crazy lives and achieve their big dreams. She has recovered from anorexia, gained too much weight in a time of stress, and finally discovered how to make her health much easier.
Dr. Morgan’s online coaching and courses help her clients set their goals and reach success. She has been featured in media outlets such as Self, Yoga Journal, Elite Daily, and HealthyWay.
Dr. Morgan has a unique mix of formal education in writing, health communication, and business that is supplemented by her experience as a certified personal trainer, health coach, fitness nutrition specialist, and RYT 200 yoga teacher. She is also an adjunct professor in the Health and Sport Management departments at the largest university in Virginia, where she has had a near-100% success rate with guiding her hundreds of students through health behavior change projects to reach their goals.
Kelly's book, YOU but Better: Stop Making Your Health So Hard! can be found at Amazon.
Great information, Kelly, since we are still in the 1st Qtr. of this year. THANKS for sharing!
Thanks for dropping by Friends. Hope to see you again soon for another edition of Saturday Spotlight and Wednesday Words with Friends.
Until next time take care and remember to call, text or hug your loved ones. We're not promised tomorrow.
PamT
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6 comments:
Pam, my condolences to your friends.
Kelly, thank you for sharing. Goals, plans, and steps to get there are important. D.
I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of your friends, Pam. Dr. Kelly's post is very helpful. Thanks for sharing these tips.
Lots of love to you, Pam. Take care today - I know it's a hard one.
Kelly,
You offer excellent advice. Thanks for sharing. Best to you and Pam.
Thank you for the kind words about the post, everyone!
Sorry to hear of your loss.
Thank you for the great post.
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