Circle of Trust

Today I want to talk about goals, with the new year coming up, many people will make resolutions, which in essence are goals.  There are Three types of goals, which many of us learned in school, but it took me doing some reading to relearn these.

Process Goals- these are specific actions, like in F3 posting 3-4 times a week.  these are goals that either happen or dont happen

Performance goals-  These judge your performance, such as in F3 running a 5K in a certain amount of time.  I have a goal to do a 5K in under 20 minutes by the end of the year, right now I am not there, but I am training and trying to get there

Outcome Goals-  these are based on achieving some sort of win.  Like winning the Reindeer games is a goal I have.  The hard thing about these goals is they are effected the most by outside influences. Such as in Reindeer games, I have teammates, and I cannot control how often they post or do EC work, I have teammates that have not responded to me.  These outside factors will determine whether I achieve my goals or not.

So why do i bring up goals, because I noticed my wife has been kinda moody lately, and very irritable, and I couldn’t figure out why.  Saturday we were sitting having a few drinks, and in that talking we realized she is not moving toward anything she doesn’t have any current goals.  She is just going through life with no direction.  So we talked on this for a while, and Sunday she took some “ME” time and figured out some goals.  Some are short term, some are long term.  Monday I got back from Indiana and I noticed she was in a very good mood, like the wife I remember, so I asked her what was up.  She said that she had made some daily goals and got them all accomplished………People need goals, it keeps them moving and staying out of the “funk” so make goals for your self, make daily, weekly, yearly goals, and keep moving toward them.