goals

Listen up, people!

Attainable goals! Immediate goals, separate from your chief aim. What does this mean?

If you, say, planning to incorporate exercise into your life and become fitter by dropping 25 lbs, and learn to love something about workouts than your long term goal is going to be lifetime fitness and your immediate goal is weight loss. Not the whole 25 lbs, maybe 5lbs a month, consistently for 5 months. In the process, you will HAVE TO make exercise a routine and it’s hard to do without enjoying it (at first, it’ll just have to be a scheduled priority), but in the duration of those 5 months (in about 3, actually), if you really are consistent, it will become part of your life and something you can sustain in the long term. Hopefully by then you have found the fulfillment and joy that comes with having the power to change your body, your appearance, your daily attitude, your energy level, your sleep pattern and the way you feel about exercise and fitness in general. Hopefully by then you have realized that since fitness is becoming, or has become YOU, you have also become an inspiration to everyone around you, directly or indirectly, and now you have the duty to spread the knowledge and give a little push in the right direction to those who are still stumbling in the dark.

What goes around comes around. Sometimes in a great big circle, but it does. It's the rule of nature. So remember how you once needed a little push and now that you are taking great big leaps slow down, and push someone else along. (Or out of the way, if they cannot be helped)

By the way, I don't think it's inspiration that most are lacking, it's simply heart and self respect. ‘Don't got it’...and so there will be casualties. There will ALWAYS be casualties...

IS THAT YOUR CHIEF AIM?