Running

The Ultimate Goal Setting Sport!

Chris Kealey

We all love goal setters!

1. Set priorities

2. State goals positively

3. Clearly define your goals(Specific, Written and Reviewed regularly)

4. Lock on to an exciting, imaginable end result

5. Write your goals down!

6. Keep goals confidentialShare them only with people who can help you accomplish the goal

7. Update goals regularly

Goal setting 101

Contributing Factors to a

successful goal setter

Focus

The Power of the Word

Attitude

Hard Work

Do not fear failure

Focus

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”

Henry Ford

Focus

The Power of the WordWords can be positive and negative

Simple Words can set the tone for a day, a week, a month or for a lifetime

Words createPictures which bring aboutEMOTIONS!

Some of the toughest words come from your toughest critic….guess who

YOU!

Attitude – The Deal Maker

Attitude – The Deal Maker

“The 4 minute mile”

A story about attitudeFor years, the 4-minute mile was considered not merely unreachable but, according to physiologists of the time, dangerous to the health of any athlete who attempted to reach it.

Nonetheless it was broken by Roger Bannister on May 6th 1954 in 3:59.4 seconds

Attitude – The Deal Maker

John Landy, considered one of the great milers of that era, never had gotten closer than within 1.5 seconds of the 4-minute barrier before. Within 46 days of Bannister's breakthrough, Landysurpassed the record with a 3:57.9 in Finland. By the end of 1957, 16 runners had logged sub-4-minute miles.

Nothing had really changed. The mile was still 5280 feet long. The shoes were same.

Runners had not fantastically come from another planet. They simply changed their attitude during training and when they raced. They believed they could do it.

SIDE NOTE: Daniel Komen of Kenya holds the world 2-mile record of 7:58.61, set in 1997, which is two sub-4 minute miles back-to-back.

The Right Attitude is Everything

Hard Work“just because you live in a cave doesn’t make you a geologist”

a)Deliberate, mindful practice with feedbackb)Practice out of your “comfort zone”c) Coached by a superior mentor

"I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

-- Benjamin Franklin

Learn to Fail or Fail

to Learn

“The bravest sight in the world is to see a

great man struggling against adversity.”

Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

The Path of Failure

• Age 22: Lost job

• Age 23: Defeated for state legislature

• Age 24: Failed in business

• Age 27: Nervous breakdown

• Age 34: Ran for congress and

defeated

• Age 39: Defeated again

• Age 46: Ran for senate and defeated

• Age 47: Defeated for nomination for

vice president

• Age 50: Defeated again for senate

The Path of Failure

Often leads to the greatest success

•Age 51: 16th US President

1. Set priorities

2. State goals positively

3. Clearly define your goals(Specific, Written and Reviewed regularly)

4. Lock on to an exciting, imaginable end result

5. Write your goals down!

6. Keep goals confidentialShare them only with people who can help you accomplish the goal

7. Update goals regularly

Keep your eye on the prize

Why we do it!

“Over the years I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started… self satisfaction and a sense of achievement.”

Steve Prefontaine