When you love the journey goals just happen- unknown quote
Unfortunately I wrote that quote down without taking not of the persons name.
However, a session this morning with a client named Sarah reinforces this message and makes it the topic of today's newsletter.
Like many of my clients, Sarah struggles with time.
She’s a medical professional and we all know how underfunded and understaffed our poor medical service is.
But she also carries some chronic issues that require some quite specific training protocols to manage, which require time to make happen.
In conversation this morning I commented on how consistent Sarah has been getting in her workouts. To which she told me how she was getting better at setting boundaries with work and making that time available for training.
I asked what changed that she felt the want/need to change her behaviour and establish these boundaries.
And the answer came back that she was feeling stronger, more mobile and in less pain due which was down to the exercise she was doing, therefore to operate better in work, she needed to put limits on work and get to the gym.
Simply put, if she didn’t workout, she would be in pain and would become less effective in work.
Sarah had that moment of realisation that committing to the journey makes goals happen.
In her case better quality of life.
In other peoples cases it could be sporting prowess, skill acquisition or more.
Sylvia springs to mind here, several years ago she came to me with aspirations and goal, but hated the training process.
Even as we ticked off the initial smaller goals, she still hated the process.
And one day something changed.
Something in her mindset changed and she fully committed to the journey. Realised that training isn’t just for this goal, but it sets up the next one, and the one after.
She realised that each goal wasn’t an end, merely a checkpoint along a longer route.
Where has this taken Silvia? Well last year she ticked off her lifelong dream and became the BJJ World Champion in Las Vegas.
This, I don’t believe, could have happened without her falling in love with the process, the journey.
It would never have happened if she hadn’t made the supplementary training, the S&C work as much a part of her lifestyle as the BJJ training.
If she hadn’t started seeing the S&C and the BJJ as complimentary parts of the whole rather than two separate endeavours, she may never have reached the dizzying heights she currently operates at.
It really is amazing what a person can achieve once you stop focussing on an end result and start focussing on turning up and getting it done.
It’s not that goals aren’t important, of course they are, but what happens after a goal is achieved? We don’t just stop, or wait until we have a new goal.
Goals should act as checkpoints, we train, we reach a checkpoint, we continue training, and we reach the next checkpoint.
But we are more interested in the journey, the longer term outcomes or training.
Being fit for life.
Regards
Dave Hedges
www.Wg-Fit.com
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