End of December Fitness Goal Check

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

31 Dec 2006 01:33 PM

12 months, I began the End of the Month Fitness Goal Check. These Fitness Goal checks were designed to help you keep the finger on the pulse of your fitness program throughout the year. It's hard to believe that here we are at the end of our 12th month since we began this little adventure and we're doing our End of December Fitness Goal Check.

We celebrated our Anniversary here at Families.com, we celebrated Hanukah, Solstice, Kwanzaa and we celebrated Christmas. Tonight we celebrate the final rest of 2006 and the birth of 2007. It's been a busy, busy month here. I want to cheer each and every one of you who have made fitness a part of your lives. By now, you've thought about your resolutions, you've begun to make your plans.

You may have joined a fitness club. You may have hired a personal trainer. You may have received fitness gift certificates and more this month. You're mentally preparing yourselves for the arrival of 2007 and frankly whether we are ready or not - here she comes. Where were you when 2006 began? Where will you be with the dawn of 2007 and where do you want to be as 2007 begins to crawl, walk and run towards the turn of the wheel once more.

With the dawn of January, we're going to modify how we do our end of the month fitness goal checks. I haven't quite worked out how I am going to do it, but you'll get a taste of it over the next week as we post a calendar for goals and I ask you to submit your own. So consider what your goals are for 2007 as you go over your end of the month fitness check and please, don't hesitate to submit those goals so we can add them to our overall calendar.

What are your plans for January?

End of the Month Fitness Goal Check for December

• How are your goals going?
• Are you encountering obstacles in your path?
• What are the obstacles?
• Are you discouraged or are you challenged?
• Are you still striving towards your goals?
• Have you made it to the mileposts along the road to your final destination?
• What is preventing you if you aren't?
• Are you feeling good?
• Are you feeling bad?
• If there is one thing you could do right now to improve all of the above, identify it.
• Do you feel like you have met your goals this past year? Do you feel motivated going into 2007?
• What are your goals for January?
• What is your game plan?
• Where will you be in 31 Days?

Consider all of the above questions and answer them honestly. There's nothing wrong with admitting that you have been lax in some areas and harder in others. Goal checking lets us take a progress report. We get to see where we are and where we need to be. If you decide that your goals need modification, go for it. There's no law that says you can't alter your goals.

In fact, you may have set a fitness goal like many do at the beginning of the year. If you feel like you've done little or nothing to accomplish that goal, take the first step back towards it and forgive your lack of forward progress. Don't beat yourself up with regrets. What's done is done. You can't change yesterday, but you can make tomorrow happen.

Have a very Happy, Happy New Year.

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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