Goal Setting and the Code

This is the time of year when most people make “resolutions.”  As we know, most resolutions fade within a few days or weeks.  Goal setting is an important exercise that we should and must take seriously.  Take a look at the Code and decide where you want to improve.  Hopefully, you will want to become a better athlete, a better teammate and a better citizen.  But those are fuzzy goals and we must do more than have good intentions.  We need to set a goal (for example: “improve my shot,” or “do my part to stop bullying”), but then we need to determine what steps we need to take (an action plan: “take 15 minutes extra to work on my shot,” “be kind to those others pick on”), and write them down.  Then, we need to determine actual actions that we can take daily to work toward those steps that lead us to our goal.  The most important aspect are these daily actions (“practice my shot from the same spot, not random spots” “be kind to someone that others pick on at least once a day”).  We have to have those bite sized daily steps that we can easily achieve, so that we will have a positive sense that we are working and moving toward our goals.  Are you willing to do that?