SMART

Hello!

Happy New Year!  May this year be the year that you said one day when this
year comes I will do this and that different. Well it is here!  Are you in
gear?  I certainly hope that you are getting ready to be in gear. Leah and
I have our gears turning already and boy, can I say there are many goals
written down as a sign of good faith.  We believe in the future.

This year we want to do it differently.  Different than ever before.  If
you do not like the results, then you need to change what you do in order
to get different results.  We are going to go about it the "SMART" way...


S: SPECIFIC - My goal will have one focus like there is nothing else that
I am striving towards. Nothing else will distract my march forward. It’s
like that saying - - putting all the eggs in one basket and take really
good care of that basket.  I will concentrate.

M: MEASURABLE - What will I do to measure it to know that I am making
progress?  Will my inches be lower than before? Will my body composition
be in lower percentile?  Is the mile easier to run than before?  Etc...

A: ATTAINABLE - I am not expecting blood out of a rock or getting water
from the moon.  The length of time to reach the goal has to be reasonable;
otherwise we are just shooting ourselves in the foot.

R: REALISTIC - It has to make sense to you and be reasonable.  It cannot
be a goal that is unseeingly impossible.

T: TIME - There has to be an assigned amount of time that will accommodate
from start to finish, which by then the goal will be achieved. There has
to be a date that is written down as a form of deadline, so that the goal
is not pushed back.


Well my friends that is how this time we will get the results that we
want. This is how our year will be different than last year with very
specific differences. By now I know what it is that did not turn out the
way it should have, so we will make the SMART changes for 2009.