Stay on Target

 

The importance of staying on target can not be understated. Once you have laid out your objectives it is important to keep them in your vision. I am, by nature, very goal oriented. I have talked a great deal about the path to the eventual end, but I think the target itself is of importance. Setting a target can be a difficult thing to do. In reality we don't just set ourselves on one particular target, but a great deal of them throughout our lives. One target leads to another and that one to another.

It is important to evaluate just what our goals are. I made the decision to come to California quite hastily. Every mile I drove was one step closer to my goal. Once arriving in the area where I want to stay for a while I had to set my sights on a new target. Broadly stated that target is "staying here as long as you can"

My long term goals are to learn the olympic lifts from a great coach, and train with some quality people at Catalyst Athletics. The ancillary targets that come with it are finding a job to support myself for the time being and an affordable place to live. I have stated before that everything has been kind of handed to me throughout life. Goals have always been there, but help has always been provided. Now, although I am not without help, it seems as if I really have to figure out just what targets I want to pursue. Where do I want to work? Is it a career or just a job? 

This process has made me realize just how inexperienced I really am. The Catch-22 of the situation is that all employers I really want to work for require experience. (I know this is more of my own Catch-22 as opposed to the employers) I am supremely confident of my skills to learn and adapt to nearly any job out there, but getting that across to employers can be a bit difficult. I will have to take a big dose of humility and realize that no matter what I have to start somewhere. Further, I will have to get over my fear of committment and realizing that it is just a starting point.

Staying on target requires both broad and narrow goals. Broad goals to determine who we are in the situations around us, but narrow goals to capture our true desires and motivation. It is hard to stay on target when things go bad, but continuing the pursuit will eventually lead to good things.