Putting the FORCE back into your LIFE through group fitness programs

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Napoleon Hill

Remember that happiness comes from progress through life. Moving forwad with the excitement & anticipation of achieving your ultimate dreasm & desires. The ongoing happiness as you keep moving towards your goal. Once you obtain success & hit your benchmark there are definitely large feelings of happiness. Ecstasy, elation, rapture, euphoria & jubilation. However it’s impossible for those feelings to last with the same intensity. Eventually they disipate & you’re left with monotomy remember? It’s the feeling of progress that gives the most long lasting happiness. The faster you move towards your goal, the happier you become.

So without a deadline, what is pushing you through when the going gets tough? Where is the motivation to move through with any haste when you’re getting out of your comfort zone, your struggling to continue, want to stop & want desperately to give up? If you have all the time in the world, human nature depicts that you’ll look for the easy way out & stay in your comfort zone. It may feel good at the time to jump back into what you know is comfortable (all our actions are either to gain pleasure or avoid pain), however before long you find yourself right back where you started. Even more frustrated & angry with yourself than ever before.

Set a deadline for yourself & all of a sudden you know exactly how fast you should be moving. Your focus is again back onto the progress & even though you’re still going through the same uncomfortable feelings you’re trying to avoid, your ALSO feeling the happiness of pushing through…AT THE SAME TIME!! Suddenly you feel strength to do this & this area of uncomfort has become something that you feel you can endure. This is something that doesn’t seem as bad as you originally thought it would be. This has now become part of your comfort zone! Hang on, OMG, you’ve grown!!!

Just as you need to set goals that are achievable, you also need to set deadlines that are believable. There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

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