Cue evil music …
The last few weeks, combined with little exercise, has also been little keeping to the diet.
The recent City to Surf showed me just how far I’d come even though I had slacked off.
But it begs the question: “How good could it be?”
So it’s back to the diet of more fresh fruit and vegetables, more water and less eating out.
This is a good lesson for me as I often coach people at work when they have relapses into old habits that they are just that: relapses. They should dwell on them and get right back to knowing what they know to do.
I’m setting some new goals this week that I hope to achieve by the end of the year. I’ll update my goals page when I have decided on them and begin working towards them.
For those of you in business you have probably heard of the GROW Process. It is a simple but very effective coaching process that asks the coachee to respond to the acronym G-R-O-W as follows:
Goals - what are you looking to achieve? What, specifically, are you wanting to gain? In my case it;s a lower weight, less body fat, lower race times, better fitness
Reality - where am I now and what am I doing? Are my actions moving me clearly towards my goals?
Options - okay, so what are my options? I can keep doing what I’m doing if they are productive actions but if they are not then I need to take different options. What are they?
Will/When - am I determined (will) to make the required changes to achieve the goal (mostly in my head) and when do I plan to start?
As I said I’ll update my goals page under this format by the ened of the week (another goal 
)
By the way, I have reverted to the tagline “From Average to Athlete” very consciously. It is more motivating to me, personally, and helps me focus more on actions rather than the true, but more vague, “Eat Better :: Move More.”
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Andrew is getting fit 09.01.08 at 6:04 pm
Good to see you are getting your focus back!
Bill Wallace 09.02.08 at 12:55 am
Hi Andrew, yeah, focus is good. I have you to thank a fair bit for that. You seem to be onwards and upwards all the time. And I know I say to myself “If Andrew can do it …” so thanks mate. You’re a big help. Keep it up.
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