goals vs whinging

Slap a date on there and I'm done.

The thing about picking a goal, and the thing I found so compelling about Dan John's approach, is that a single goal does not exist in isolation, at least, not for a person like me who isn't willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of a single goal. A decade ago, I had a goal to weight 185, and I reached it (for all of a week) by sacrificing drinking and eating foods I enjoyed. I'm not willing to give those up this time around, so instead of pretending that I am, those facts should be factored into my goals complex.

Once I'm set with a realistic set of goals, I can monitor my progress on all the goals at once, instead of maximizing one at the expense of the others.

This is a simple, brilliant concept. It may not have been exactly what Dan was getting at, either, but either way, it's an approach I plan to employ. I've been operating under the vague goals of "eat what i want, drink what i want, learn to power clean", but I think it's fast approaching time for a change, and the driver of that change will be a clean and precise listing of my goals for the near term.