By John Morrison
At this time of year, people, especially sports people and sports teams, make New Year resolutions.
A number of these resolutions are not fulfilled simply because people did not want them or hadn't the conviction to carry them through.
A lot of resolutions fail because they were a "good idea", rather than a "specific goal".
Losing weight is a good idea but shedding two stones in nine months via a healthy eating plan is a structured goal and more likely to succeed than the good idea.
"Winning a championship" is a good idea, but a structured goal is likely to declare winning every game, maximising scoring opportunities (one score in every three attacks minimum), no sendings OFF, ensuring by appropriate training the team is injury free, as well as a raft of individual and team goals set for every game.
Most people would like to achieve the essence of a "good idea" but people definitely want to achieve a well structured goal.
Be mindful, therefore, in the year ahead that if you want to achieve your goals attend to the following:
- Be clear why you have this goal.
- Believe firmly your goal is possible.
- Have strong faith in yourself to achieve your goal.
- You have to give up all your excuses. 99% of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.
- If you don't like previous outcomes, change your responses to them.
- Remember: everything you experience today is a result of choices you've made in the past.
- You have to give up blaming. No matter how much you find fault with another, it will not change you.
- You have to give up complaining. A player who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
- Pay attention - your results don't lie.
- Don't live someone elses dream.
- Release the brakes because everything you want is just outside your comfort zones.
See what you want, get what you see. Be persistent and never lose sight of your vision.- Act as if you have already achieved what you want.
- Feel the fear but do it anyway.
- Be willing to pay the price - do whatever it takes.
- Ask! Ask! Ask! Until you understand and can do.
- Reject rejection and stay away from negative people telling you "you can't ?"
- Use feedback to your advantage.
- Commit strongly to constant and never ending improvement. Write down every day what you are better at.
- "Score" everything you do.
- Never, never, never give up.
- Practice the rule of five! Put simply, do five specific things every day that will move your goal towards completion.
- Face up to what isn't working.
- Acknowledge your positive past. Start everything you do with positives.
- 99% is hard work, 100% is a breeze because 99% effort or less is always 100% wrong.
- Just say "NO"!
- Redefine time. Use it as opportunity and don't waste a moment.
- Say NO to the good so you can say YES to the great.
- Be HEAR now. Listen a 100 times, ponder a thousand times. Speak once.
- Give more to get more.
- Find a way to serve - others, your goal etc.
- If you only do what you've always done, you only get what you've always achieved.
- Be a Class Act.
- Start Now!... Just Do It!
But what you are starting, IS IT WHAT YOU WANT? If in doubt, check it out.
