ON GOALS CONTINUED

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3. Goals must be specific - They must be measurable. A goal “to get stronger” is not as good as “my goal is to Power Clean 235 pounds or more by next football season.” “We want to have a winning season” is not as good as “Winning the Conference Championship puts us in the best position to challenge for the State Title.”

Having a goal to be “All Conference” or “All State” might be OK for some, but we have no control over how other people are going to vote for these honors. What we do have control over are our skills and abilities. A defensive back who hones his skills, learns his secondary assignments perfectly, develops himself physically and mentally, happens to lead the state in interceptions returning numerous picks for Touchdowns becomes a compelling force that voters just have to vote for. What would the specific numbers be for a running back? How many tackles for a linebacker? How many ‘pancake blocks’ for an offensive lineman? How many kills, blocks, sets for a Volleyball player? How many pins for a Wrestler?

4. Goals must be written down to be most effective. They should be stated in the first person, in the present tense, as though they have already been accomplished.
Not only does it help to have goals written, it also helps to complete a scrapbook of the way it will be once the goal is accomplished. Find colored pictures from magazines that relate to your goal. Paste them into your personal goal scrapbook. Paint yourself into the scenes you have created.
Picture the perfect end result.
These written goals and ‘perfect pictures’ need to be posted where you can see them daily (bedroom mirror, school locker, notebook cover, etc.).
Touch them and audibly say them each day. Visualizing how it is having achieved your goal cements the vision deep into your brain and activates the Goal Achieving Mechanism.

5. Use your BFS/Be11 Max, Resolutions, and Strength Standards Cards to chart your progress. Turn your Strength Standards Card into a Bar Graph by filling up the column under each core lift as it is attained.

6. You must be mentally prepared to discipline yourself to take the necessary action to reach your goals. List the obstacles between you and your goals. formulate an action play for overcoming these obstacles. Identify the people who will help. Set a time table, a schedule for defeating these obstacles.

7. You must be absolutely convinced that you can reach your goals. “You Gotta Believe!” What the mind of man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.
Believe that you are on a collision course with success, the only variable is time.

CHARACTERISTICS OF GOALS

CHARACTERISTICS OF GOALS

1. Goals must be BIG - “It is better to aim high and miss, than to aim low and hit.”

Two student/athletes are in the process of setting their academic goals for the semester. Bob decides that this year he is really going to buckle down and work to establish some academic respectability and formulates a goal of a 3.5 or better GPA. Tony, on the other hand, decides to keep on doing what he’s always done (just enough to get by) and only wants just to pass all his classes.

At the end of the semester we look at their grades and find that Bob has worked hard in all his classes. His GPA for the semester is a 3.33, not the 3.5 or better that he had established as his goal but certainly much better than the 2.45 accumulated over the past 3 semesters in school. Bob aimed high but missed. However he is infinitely better off than Tony who aimed low and hit a GPA of 1.5. Yes, Tony is eligible to play (according to the rules established by the State Activities Association), but his dream of playing college ball for State U is dashed because State cannot recruit any player with such low academic achievement.

2. Goals must be long-range. One should have:

- Very long-range goals - perhaps lifetime

- High School Career Goals

- Goals for next year

- Goals for next season (3-4 months ahead)

- Goals for next month (4 weeks)

- Goals for the week.

Each week ask yourself: What is the most important thing for me to accomplish this week to move me closer to the realization of my goals?”

Goals must be broken down into daily activities that will move you step by step closer to the ultimate achievement-the realization of your dream. To borrow from Economics, one must use a system called ‘Sub Goal Analysis’ in this Goal Achievement Process.

We believe that all athletic moves stem from a foundation of strength. To be more “Athletic,” therefore, one needs to be stronger. Consider a Freshman football player, involved in weight training during the season and after the winter holidays sits down with his BFS/Be11 Max Card, looks at the BFS/Be11 Strength Standards and decides that his High School Career Goal is to Bench Press 310 before the first game of his Senior football season. He knows that he is just getting started in weight training but has seen some good progress to this point having started in the weight room just this year.

Benching 90 pounds was difficult. But getting help and encouragement from his coaches and teammates, he has increased his Bench Press to 110 pounds, and he feels his strength building. Is this a realistic attainable goal for him? We know that most people over estimate what they can do in one year, but greatly underestimate what they can accomplish in three years.

Using the process of Sub Goal Analysis we can break this goal down into what it is going to take this player to achieve his goal. To meet the goal he must bench press 200 more pounds in two years nine months; that’s 33 months. When you take 200 pounds and divide by 33 months, you get 6.06 pounds a month or 1.39 pounds per week. Is that attainable? Certainly!

Having established the Big Goal of a 310 pound Bench Press, he can go to work filling in other boxes on his Max Card. His yearly goal would be 12 months X 6.06 pounds = a 72.92 pounds increase for the year added to his present 110 pounds gives us a next year’s goal of 183 pounds. Doable? Certainly!

His seasonal (next three months) goal would be 6.06 pounds X 3 months =
18.18 pounds. Since putting 18.18 pounds on the bar is not that easy, let’s round the number up 20 pounds added to his present 110 gives us 130 pounds. Of course, his end of January goal would be 116 or more; end of February would be 122.5 or more; and his end of March would be 130 or more.

This athlete now has a clear picture of what it will take to ‘make his dream of Bench Pressing 310 his Senior year’ a reality. Every time he goes to the weightroom for a workout, he has a goal, a plan and a purpose. He knows exactly how he is doing. He is in competition only with his own best self.

The BFS/Be11 Happy New Week Resolutions Card will help the athlete with his weekly/daily decisions. On the front of the form in the Column: My BIG Dream next to Physical he would put 310 Bench Press (along with similarly worked out goals for the other CORE lifts). Then when he sits down to answer the question, “What is the most important thing for me to do this week to make my BIG Dream a reality?” he has it laid out in front of him on his Max Card. On the reverse side of the Weekly Resolutions Form he can map out his week’s activities for his five most important goals and chart his activities.

GOAL SETTING is the single most important force in human motivation.
Without GOALS we leave great accomplishment to chance.
by CoachFree

People who want to become Elevens must be goal oriented. It is extremely important to set goals and to constantly monitor progress. A goal is a dream with a deadline, a dream in the process of being made real.

Today’s GOALS are tomorrow’s realities. Goals
- Inspire us to take action (produce Efforts)
- Direct Effort.
- Provide concrete meaning and direction for your effort and actions
- Provide standards to determine whether you are attaining your goals
- Encourage you to extend your limits
- Goals are measuring sticks
- Attainment of Goals provide step by step ways to get where we want
to go.
- Setting a Goal turns a “want to” into a “to do”

There is within each of us an automatic goal fulfillment mechanism. When we commit to a goal, we are “Programming” the automatic goal-fulfillment mechanism to arrange our life experiences to “make it happen.” When sufficiently programmed, the goal-fulfillment mechanism goes to work structuring our lives in such a way as to ‘make real’ what we envision.

GOALS need to be firmly entrenched, otherwise people begin to operate as independent entrepreneurs in a system that really needs cooperative work.

GOAL SETTING: FIRST STEP: Decide where you want to end up. Dreams allow for the unfolding of new realities. Goals are dreams with deadlines. Imagine what is potentially possible if all your limits are stretched. How good could you be? IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITY OF UNLIMITED POSSIBILITY.

What 'bad moment' have you bounced back from?

CHAMPIONS are made one day at a time with Hallmark ATTITUDES:
When you care enough to give your very best.
by CoachFreeb

The single most important trait we bring to any given situation is our attitude. The self-fulfilling prophecy simply states you will find what you are looking for and become what you expect to become. You can literally program yourself to have a better day. Unfortunately the converse is also true.

There are so many negative inputs from society that we become programed to be negative unless we really work hard to have the right mental attitude. Many have observed that few people will stop on the commute home to view a beautiful sunset, while just about everyone will slow down, stop and gawk at a grisly accident.

The single most important thing to remember is that, “You can do everything wrong and still succeed if you have the right mental attitude, however, you can also do everything right and still not succeed if you have the wrong mental attitude.” The right mental attitude is so very important. Not only for you, but for everyone else around you. When you are coaching and working with a team that has the right, positive, upbeat, can-do attitude everything flows so much better. Unfortunately in many of our working relationships we have developed a Hill Street Blues (US vs THEM) attitude. The squad meeting at the beginning of the once popular police show would end with the instructions, “Let’s go out and do it to them before they can do it to us.”

This attitude exists everywhere in our society. US vs THEM is a confrontational non cooperative situation. There is infinitely a whole lot more that can get done in our society through teamwork and cooperation than confrontation.

The Hill Street Blues mentality certainly does not fit well with the motto, “To Protect and to Serve.” Confrontational attitudes are not conducive to making IT happen (whatever your IT is).

Remember that life is a game of choices. If you are in the pursuit of a worthy ideal that exists for the benefit of others, the pursuit of your own personally selected goals and trying to make your dream come true, why would you ever have a “Bad Attitude?” Why would you ever do anything less than to give your very best?

SUCCESS IS EASY, BUT SO IS NEGLECT

What must you do to experience the Thrill of Victory and not the Agony of Defeat?

SUCCESS IS EASY, BUT SO IS NEGLECT
by Jim Rohn

People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple: The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I found it easy to set the goals that could change my life. They found it easy not to.

I found it easy to read the books that could affect my thinking and my ideas. They found that easy not to. I found it easy to attend the classes and the seminars, and to get around other successful people. They said it probably really wouldn't matter. If I had to sum it up, I would say what I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. Six years later, I'm a millionaire and they are all still blaming the economy, the government, and company policies, yet they neglected to do the basic, easy things.

In fact, the primary reason most people are not doing as well as they could and should, can be summed up in a single word: neglect.

It is not the lack of money - banks are full of money. It is not the lack of opportunity - America, and much of the Free World, continues to offer the most unprecedented and abundant opportunities in the last six thousand years of recorded history. It is not the lack of books - libraries are full of books - and they are free! It is not the schools - the classrooms are full of good teachers. We have plenty of ministers, leaders, counselors and advisors.

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is, simply, neglect.

Neglect is like an infection. Left unchecked it will spread throughout our entire system of disciplines and eventually lead to a complete breakdown of a potentially joy-filled and prosperous human life.

Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results suffer, our attitude begins to weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow shift from positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes even more...and on and on it goes.

So my suggestion is that when given the choice of "easy to" and "easy not to," you do not neglect to do the simple, basic, "easy," but potentially life-changing activities and disciplines.

SUCCESS IS EASY, BUT SO IS NEGLECT

EASY TO SAY, HARD TO ACCOMPLISH


FreeNote:

Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results suffer, our attitude begins to weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow shift from positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes even more...and on and on it goes.

Doing the things we know we should do creates confidence and is a boost to our self-image. As it rises, so does our level of activity. As our activity increases, so do our accomplishments. The more we get done bolsters our attitude. As our attitude gains strength, so does our confidence and self-image. We then embark on another round of success, accomplishment and achievement which strengthens our resolve and character. We felt compelled to do it again. We are on an upward hyperspiral of success.