If you are going to come up with an idea to do something, a harebrained scheme or a well thought out plan for the future, exercise, work or lifestyle decisions are all worth while making but how are you going to keep the momentum long after the initial motivation has died.
For some people the motivation is like a Mayfly, it bubbles up for a year threatening to be born, then, BAM its born and 24 hours later its dead in the water, less than 24 hours if it get hits by a car but your motivation is metaphorical so being hit by a car would mean you wandered into the road aimlessly while thinking about your future... don't do that because your future would be dramatically shortened!
The thing you should do is work out how to get from position A, where you are right now to position Z having hit the target you set. What are all the stages in between, the other 24 letters to complete your achievement if we are staying with the A to Z journey 23 if we don't want to think about Y.
This is why setting targets and having goals is necessary to achieve anything you have set yourself.
For me, setting targets is not where it ends, I will never write that funny book, loose any weight or learn French if I don't know where I need to be each day in order to get there. That date with Audrey Tautou where I tell her fluently in her native tongue all about how I had to buy a belt before the date because my trousers no longer fit and the guy in the shop was reading my book as well as fly fishing by J R Hartly, well that will all be fantasy!
I bought a white board and a marker pen to write my daily to do's and a wall chart to plot my weekly and monthly ones, I had to get this from £1 shop so those who read my 1st blog will know I now have £17 to my name, and I'm hungry!! Thankfully a gig tomorrow and some money coming in, also while I was out on my bike today I noticed a hedgehog and a squirrel who had clearly both been thinking about their future while aimlessly walking into the road, if the worse comes to the worse I'm sure I can season them and have a BBQ I won't go hungry is what I am saying here.
Each of my goals require steps,
not the band, although 5, 6, 7 ,8 is catchy on the mp3 while having a little jog!
The steps are what I need to think about, how will I loose the weight, what do I need to do differently so as to be slimmer for example. Now I know it's obvious, eat less exercise more and just because I'm northern does not mean I have to eat Greggs Pasties every time I go past one of their many outlets.
There has to be more though than that though, how many pasties I eat being reduced is no good if I decide to go have 10 pints of real ale and a kebab. I need to know things I was not paying attention to before, what is my Basal metabolic rate for example.
I had never heard of this before a friend told me to work it out, I was googling Basil metabolic rate and got information on the 81 year old former athlete Basil Heatley, while his 1964 Silver Olympic silver medal was nice to read about, the wrong tree that I was barking up showed how little I know about what I am actually doing.
It really shows if someone as daft as I am can do this, can achieve things, well you can. I mean learn French... I can barely speak English that well!
I figured out my Basal rate, I burn 1900 calories approx per day or would if I stayed in bed all day, I need to eat less than this to loose 2lbs a week unless I do any exercise in which case I need to eat more.
There is a little more to it than that, I will be speaking to my good good mate Robert Abbiss who is a personal trainer and nutritionist and if you are local to Leeds, or if you are not but are prepared to travel for excellent service, give him a shout, the boy is thorough and knows his stuff.
So I skimmed across the reasons for target setting, I am late getting this out today (sorry, been a hectic day but excuses are for losers!!) I will waffle on some more tomorrow about what I expect to happen and when I am going to check in on progress, please please please if you are considering trying to achieve something, join in, set some targets and lets go for this together.
See you tomorrow
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