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Long Weekends

1st February, Monday

Emotions: Tired, relaxed, annoyed (injury).

Weekly achievements:
  • Learning more about selling at icebreaker, through trial and error
  • Budgeting well this week, by only buying necessity's such as food, rent, petrol. Having sensible rewards at end of week (buying a sweet longsleeve, pub). 
  • Continuing to build great rapport with clients at vision.

This one and the next set of long weekends have given me some time to relax and catch up with jobs needing doing, like registering reps for PT, baking, knee rehab and an overall break from training (not going today). Also has reminded me how important at least one day off every week is, and some time to myself to get away from people and social environments.

Its also made me think about goal setting and working hard without a direction, which is what I and a lot of other people do, which is pointless. From now on, I will always stop and think before a hard training session, gym session or other job, is it worth it? is it worth the risk on my body? what is the long term goal? 
  • Aim for something or work hard for nothing. 
  • Sometimes aiming for less is more
  • Having one primary goal in each life area, for blocks of 9 weeks - 3 months
  • Short term goals allow more restructuring and room to move.

Short Term Goals (3 months/12 weeks) 

Primary:
Sporting/Fitness: Recover from knee and ankle injury's
Time-frame:  February-April
Action plan: 1. One training per-week max, with one low intensity throwing only. 
                     2. Leaving training at 8:30 pm latest (preferably 8 pm) to allow good nights sleep. 

Career: Become highest performing Mentee, building client base of 20 members after first month (April) 
Time-frame: February-April
Action plan: 1. Build rapport with minimum 3 clients daily, including 1 new introduction. 
                     2. Continue to study videos to learn more about exercise technique and function (my                                bread and butter)
                     3. Be punctual, on time every day and completing workbook and VIP. 

Financial: Save $50 per week, from $378 income

Secondary:
Sporting/Fitness: 
1. Start attending a martial art class? Boxing
2. Keep attending ultimate training, practicing playbook strategies

Long Term Goals (Two to two and a half years/24-30 months):

Sporting/Fitness: Be one of the top 5 contributing players, for NZ KEA U23, at the 2018 world under-23 champs in Perth.
Time frame: Two years and five months
Action plan: 1. February to June 2016: Recover 100% from knee and ankle, ensure they dont return.                            On field performance second priority to this.
                     2. June to October 2016: Take the mixed season off ultimate altogether. Now is a good                            time to get completely immersed in music clubs, boxing or hapkido/combination of                              these.
                     3. Play the 2017 competitive season at full health.

Career: Become a master trainer at Vision PT, and have my own group of Mentees to train up
Time frame: Two years

Financial: Earning 60k a year or over. Mortgage on a property secured.
Time frame: Three years

Next week is around the corner. Stay true to myself, keep working hard toward those goals.

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