I have talked to many friends who are close and dear to me in the last few months and this one particular day I was really struggling to get through the day.  So my friend suggested I make a list of all the things I was grateful for which was the exact same suggestion I gave to her a year or so ago.  Well I did and it made me feel better for the day and anytime I am having a tough day I hear her voice inside my head telling me to make a list so I can usually run through some things I am grateful for while I am driving or sitting at home relaxing.  It really helps me and I think if you give it a try it will help you too!

Since Thanksgiving is the holiday for giving thanks for all the things we are grateful for I thought I would share some of the things I am thankful and grateful for in my life today.

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So I guess it is about that time to talk about bringing in the New Year.  And usually when we talk about the new year we talk about our so called “new year’s resolution”.  Well I say “Screw the Resolution”.  Seriously how many times have you actually followed your resolution?  And I am not exempt from this so years ago when I gave up on one too many resolutions I decided to not make any more promises to myself that i could not keep.

What I decided to do was create goals for the year so instead of having a new years resolution I will have a 2010 goal sheet.  Now on thsi goals sheet I break it down into a few different areas of my life.  Some of them are finances, relationships, business, training, travel, etc.  I think you get the idea.  And within those list I have certain goals for the upcoming year.  The goals range from shorts term easily attainable goals to long term hard to reach goals.  Some of them I may not complete in 2010 and that is totally cool with me.  See it should not be and all or nothing sort of thing just a like a nutrition plan or training program should not be an all or nothing thing.  It should be flexible to some degree all the while moving in the right direction.  If I had an all or nothing mindset to my training than when I missed a lift it would be the end of it right?  WRONG.  You dust yourself off, get back up on the horse and get after it again with more knowledge, experience and character than you did before you missed a lift or didn’t reach a goal.

The goal sheet that I make for myself will have a number of things I would like to improve on and like I said I may not reach the end goal in mind within this year.  The beauty of the sheet is it goes on my corkboard at home right in front of my desk where I can review it each week and chip away at it little by little.  The way i do this is take a piece of it every week and go to work on it.  This is how you lose bodyfat and this is how you get stronger.  Little by little, day in and day out, week in and week out, month in and month out, year in and year out…………

If it happened instantly everyone would be jacked, everyone would have a six pack and everyone would be rich.  Unfortunately it is not how it works and if you ask anyone who is remotely successful in the world they will tell you that it cam with hard work and sweat equity.   this is how champions are built and this is how I live my life.  Day by day with a plan and a whole lotta hard work.

So if you are thinking about the year to come and have some goals in mind, WRITE THEM DOWN!  Make a plan,  if you don’t know how ask someone to help you.  Finally work your tail off and I guarantee that you will achieve ANYTHING you put your mind too.

If you like POST YOUR 2010 GOALS HERE and I will be sure to keep tabs on ya throughout the year.

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Have a Happy New Year and Be Safe

Yours in Strength,

Mike