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Yes...But, it also means picking the real goal - what is it you really want.
Yes...But, it also means picking the real goal - what is it you really want.
Which is where I think a lot of people go wrong. They think they want a goal that they really don't. Once they have it they are bewildered by the lack of satisfaction it brings.I'd say the lack of satisfaction comes from assigning some additional side effect that you expected to achieve as part of reaching the goal, which is setting yourself up for disappointment. If you set a goal of "I want to reach Simple", but you're actually thinking "because then I'll be 20# lighter and super buff and everything else will be easy" - you may be disappointed when you hit Simple, because the reality is you picked the wrong goal.
We commonly say to "keep the goal the goal" in the context of maintaining focus. But, it also means picking the real goal - what is it you really want.
@Kozushi, this oversimplifies things, IMHO. Not everyone has a clear or specific goal, not everyone with a goal will "pursue it to the death."I get the impression we arbitrarily choose a goal for very light reasons and then pursue it to the death. I'm challenging everyone to review their goals and decide if they are worthy or not.
That describes me perfectly. I think I have grown a lot through my exploration of strength training. I have attained things that were never my goals because I didn't even know they existed to be attained before I attained them.@Kozushi, this oversimplifies things, IMHO. Not everyone has a clear or specific goal, not everyone with a goal will "pursue it to the death."
An athletic/training goal needs to have its place in the rest of one's life, and that place is going to be different not only for each individual, it will change over the course of weeks, seasons, years, and a lifetime.
We have many folks around here whose training might best be described as "intuitive" - they do what they feel like doing because they're come to understand themselves and that "feel like" in a way that allows them to move forward in life while staying strong and healthy and not being bound to a rigid training schedule.
There are many ways ...
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Not everyone has a clear or specific goal
If you don't know where you are going any path will take you there...
Yes, exactly...... which often sounds negative. But it's not. Freedom to take any path that presents itself is not a bad thing, as long as you can accept that the destination doesn't matter.