More than ever before, you have reached out, asked, called, and been more determined to take goal setting seriously. We love seeing this shit and helping with it. It’s a huge piece of the training puzzle and really distinguishes you from the “workout” mentality. Taking your training seriously is what it takes to learn and develop into the person you’re trying to become.
Goal setting is tough if you don’t know what you want, or if you know what you want but have no idea how to get it. I was having a conversation with a group this morning about how to approach this very issue. Most of us at this point have had a goal in the past that we tried and tried to reach with no luck. In this case, you need to review why you were unsuccessful. Lack of plan? Accountability? Specificity? Just like we say for training, criticize yourself for the best reasons. If something works, replicate it, if it sucks, how do we fix it. And usually fixing it comes by more focus, more intent, more presence. This protocol is another kick ass parallel for your life. You can literally use this for anything outside our doors. Back to goals…a different approach to the same end goal can make all the difference. It could very simply be by some small change (i.e. writing something down, creating sub goals, accountability partner, etc.). You know you better than anyone, and you know what you would stick to versus no way in hell.
The criteria is limitless and this or these goals can be whatever you’d want. But it should be just that, WHAT YOU WANT. I’m always a fan of objective goals, like a PR or some performance goal. This time around you have 4 different assessments to go off of (strength, conditioning, mobility and body composition). The baselines are set. It’s clearly measurable. However, it doesn’t have to be something objective. We love the idea of using Sisu to becoming more disciplined or the master of mindset. So often, more focus to less things or even different goals can bring an outcome to another goal.
