The Goal

I believe that one of the best things a person can do for themselves is set personal goals. My friend Chris has a list of 100 things he wants to accomplish/do before he dies, kind of like the Bucket List movie out there, except he's young and not planning on dying anytime soon. I like to choose a few goals to focus on at once and this blog is to document my progress toward achieving the goal of good (or at least better) health. Now, as a school psychologist I learned about operationally defining goals and writing them so that they are measureable and attainable, so the goal "Good Health" doesn't quite live up to that. Here's how I'm going to define the goal of good health for me: I'd like to lose weight, I'd feel a sense of accomplishment if I get to 210, but I'd love to weigh under 200 lbs. I'm not very keen on just making a goal about weight. I don't like to focus on the scale and would rather not weigh myself that frequently because it's going to be a long process and I don't want to lose heart. So, I've come up with a couple other goals for me to focus on that will help me to reach my goal weight.

1) I want to set a personal best in the 10k
2) PB in a half marathon
3) Compete in a triathlon

In a future post, I'll hopefully talk about each of these goals and give history/times for each one, but I'll have to do a little research before i can do that.