Happy New Year!!!

It is the New Year and time to make new resolutions and changes in our lives. the problem is that we all make grand plans and then fail to follow through and the year is the same as the one before. I am as guilty of it as everyone else. Sometimes I cheat and make a resolution such as cutting down on smoking, which is easy as I have never smoked before.

It seems that the best way to go out and make changes, to keep resolutions made, is to start small and move forward. I think that people often vow to make grand, sweeping changes to their thoughts and actions. Unfortunately it does not become a reality as it is such an overpowering, all encompassing goal, that it overwhelms the person making the statement. It is to much to bite off and chew, as the saying goes in Texas.

The first step is to make sure that your changes and desires, mesh with your goals and mission in life. There will be no follow through if they do not mesh. Everyone needs to have a Mission Statement. This gives them a framework from which to proceed through life. How can you make changes if you have no mission from which to base them on? You really cannot go forward successfully without a mission in life. Take some time and figure out what your mission is, it makes a difference in your life.

The next step to making changes in your life is to start with the end result and break the trip there into smaller bites. You do not drive Coast to Coast without your end result being a series of smaller trips. Let's say your goal is to earn a college degree but, you work 40+ hours a day, have 3 kids and a lot of other pressing matters in your life that make it hard. Is it possible? Yes, take one class a semester until it is completed. What is the hurry as long as you are on your path? It has taken this long to get back to that path and it might be a slow journey, but you are making it.

In this New Year, set your Big Goals, but also plan out the small trips that will get you there. The End Goal might seem to large and to hard to ever reach. It is not if you start the journey with way points to head towards.

Paul

Look for some changes in the next year with our training programs. We will be hosting more seminars in Kettlebells and Combatives across the country. I hope to have two training manuals out for KB's and Combatives. We have a KB seminar on January 19th. I will be posting my own video clips on this site soon.