Setting Goals

[AnonymousOne]

Do you train and I find yourself drifting along but deep down you know you want achieve a certain level, but havent reached out for it?

 

Without going into a huge psychological analysis I would like to share somethings that has helped me immensely.

 

1. If there were no barriers to what you desire, how far would you go?

 

2. Can you describe in writing specifically and exactly what your technique would look and feel like if you reached your full potential?

 

3. Set a long term goal and then break it down into parts. ie 20 years then break it down to 10 yrs, 5 yrs, 1yr, monthly then daily.

 

4. Work out a personal training programme that meets your goals

 

5. Ardently desire your goals. Really grit your teeth and say "I really WANT that goal!!!".

 

6. Sit down and work out a time plan for all the things you need to do. Training and study etc.

 

7. Commit to your goals and never left an exception occur. e.g If your body is too worn out to do your daily running, walk for the same time

 

8. Get good advice from your teachers, senior students, doctor and physio therapist.

 

9. If possible find a like minded MA and train together and work out a training programme together and have a "healthy" competition between yourselves. Encourage each other.

 

10. Review and think about your goals daily.

 

11. Build in measuring devices to check your progress.

 

12. Remember failing in a training programme is not failure it just means you are in the game, you are doing what you need to do.

 

13. Use set backs to propell you forward.

 

14. Always do the most productive thing possible at every given moment.

 

15. If your full potential is 100%, what percentage score would you give your current level of performance?

 

16. Accepting the difference between the two scores, what are you going to do to make up the shortfall and when?

 

17. If you achieved your full potential how would that make you feel?

 

18. If you fail to meet your full potential how would that make you feel, would it worry you and if so why would it worry you?

 

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[ This Message was edited by: AnonymousOne on 2002-03-02 20:02 ]

[spinninggumby]

My goal in martial arts is simple. My goal is to have fun.

 

That may sound hokey, but I find hard training and breaking every technique down step by step as a big game, and it is entertaining for me. The goal in a nutshell is for me to turn every foreign movement into something that turns into second nature.

 

From that single step, I find that over time as I keep turning things into second nature, I learn more about myself and I realize my true potential in many areas due to how I put things into perspective in my mind. I realize the changes in my attitude in all parts of my life. Martial arts is not my entire life, but it has affected my entire life. B/c of it I look at every challenge (whether it be applying for a job, doing well on an exam, asking out some girl, fixing the fax machine, whatever) in a different light. And this attitude happens naturally which is why it's so nice. Have fun and try not to worry about the result because the result is just a by-product of the journey that is supposed to be enjoyed.

 

Unless you are training for war. That is a little different.

 

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"Being able to move in and out of styles, movements, and rhythms with ease is the highest skill." - Donnie Yen

 

"If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost" - Rising Sun

 

"The finest steel emerges from the hottest furnace" - a smart guy

 

[ This Message was edited by: spinninggumby on 2002-03-02 20:05 ]

[AnonymousOne]

A good goal is what is important to you and excites you.

 

Everyones goals are different

 

 

[Bon]

My goal is simply to be able to fight. That's what I train for and that's what motivates me. I'd like to be able to annihlate someone with a few strikes, or take them to the ground and break an arm or whatever fairly quickly minimal effort.

 

 

[Joecooke007]

AnOne,

 

that was very insightful of you. Do you yourself follow this goal setting program? How is it working out? How many of your goals have you accomplished?

 

 

[three60roundhouse]

I think I train becasue the martial arts combine everything I love - healthy competition, nice people, good excercise, physical challenges, fun, definite goals (ie. black belt, kicking this high, doing a split), and another reason I train is becasue to me martial arts is a big puzzle, a simple game. when I spar, what will happen if i do this? And if I'm grappling, what do I do if he does this? They say that the next best thing to training is visualizing a fight that you are in. I enjoy sitting there and visualizing my opponent, smelling their stench, feeling my dobok, feeling the opponent's strikes, and thinking of what i will do back. It's kind of like chess to me, one big brain teaser.

[YODA]

I plan everything I do in relation to martial arts.

 

I plan my work - then I work my plan!

 

 

[kicker]

Well my goal in MA'S is to coutinue training hard and became better and maybe do another MA and to have Fun

 

 

[AnonymousOne]

On 2002-03-03 06:00, Joecooke007 wrote:

 

AnOne,

 

that was very insightful of you. Do you yourself follow this goal setting program? How is it working out? How many of your goals have you accomplished?

 

I have followed my goals programme for over 20 years now. And yes I have achieved and way surpassed what I ever imagined.

 

 

[thaiboxerken]

"If you achieved your full potential how would that make you feel? "

 

I dunno how a person would know.. this potential is a constantly changing goal and improvement is always in the future.

 

"If there were no barriers to what you desire, how far would you go? "

 

I'd go to Disneyland! Seriously, if there weren't barriers, I wouldn't go anywhere because there wouldn't be a challenge, barriers aren't things that stop instead barriers are things made to be broken.

 

"If you fail to meet your full potential how would that make you feel, would it worry you and if so why would it worry you? "

 

I don't think I'll feel anything, as I will die before failing to meet that potential.. full potential is unattainable, it's like trying to be perfect.