Where Will 2010 Take You?
Inventor and educator, Charles Franklin Kettering, said, “My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” Whether it be next week or next year, what do you want your future to look like; and how do you plan to get there?
The beginning of a new year is always a time for reflecting on the past and planning for the year to come. We take a macro look of the year ahead and dream about where we might like to be this time next year as well as resolving how to get there.
Goal setting, or resolutions as they are commonly known around this time, are our map to success and our chance to improve on the year before.
According to an online poll, some of the top 2010 resolutions included spending more time with family and friends, fitting in fitness and a healthier life choices, enjoying life more and de-stressing, as well as taking on a personally important challenge or learning a something new.
From the our perspective, many of these goals can be embraced through the pursuit of martial arts.
Indeed, martial arts can be a means to an end rather than the end itself. For example, a mom and daughter join the kickboxing program as a way to spend time together; or, participating in a vigorous karate class can de-stress you while you learn a new skill.
But these resolutions need to be more than an idea, gone and forgotten by mid-February. You need a plan.
Goal setting is a process and, like most tools, when employed correctly can produce some fantastic results. The basic idea is to take some time to consider what you might like to achieve in various areas of your life, for instance, career, family, health, personal development. Then, on a piece of paper, write down all the great things you can imagine in each domain. Next try and boil the big ideas down into small attainable steps that you can tangibly work on each day. Finally, share your goals with someone you trust and who can help you stick to the plan.
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So dream big, set your course, and engage! 2010 is yet unwritten so, once again, according to Kettering, “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
