But as I think about marking that off the list I realized that was maybe the second time I made a goal and marked it off.
You see I never made goals growing up, I just did what was expected of me. Now don't get me wrong I had things that I wanted to accomplish, graduate high school, go to and finish college you know those sort of things. But never did I sit down and say "I want to do this." Here recently that has been more of troublesome fact for me. I have thought about it a lot. Why have I never written down goals, I remember one time in seminary for my class Wellness and the Minister we were required to write down a physical, a emotional/social, and a spiritual goal. Other than that I have never written anything down. When I set out to lose weight and get healthy that was all that was on my mind. I had a long term goal, but never something that I wrote down and never small attainable goals. I don't know if it was because I didn't want to have to face the possibility of not achieving that goal, because you see I hate failure. I hate disappointing myself and let alone others.
However, for some time I have been stuck in a rut. I haven't seen the scale go down, while I thankfully haven't seen it go up too badly. I also find myself saying never...alot. I will never accomplish this, I will never be able to do that and most people know me not as a negative person. I realize the time has come that I need to write down goals and set out to tackle those goals, So much of CrossFit is setting up goals for yourself, to make yourself better. However, how are you suppose to make yourself better if you don't have things you want to accomplish. When I say this I don't mean just in the fitness area, but in all areas of life.
So as I finish up this post I am looking at a notebook and a list of goals that I am writing down. Some are small, such as adding yoga into my workout routine and some are big, like running a half marathon. Some are also spiritual, because the its about having a relationship with God and growing closer to Him each day. Each day I will set out to accomplish these goals and thankfully have a great group of people who are going to helping me stay accountable. Now I just have to push through and stay the course and have the overwhelming joy of marking something off my list. Something tells me it is going to be wonderful...you might try it too, we can knock out some goals together!!
