Areas for setting goals:

• Hobbies / artistic / creative
• Career / profession
• Community
• Financial
• Health / fitness
• Fun
• Health
• Education / intellect
• Living environment
• Relationships (family, friends)
• Mental / psychological
• Recreation / leisure
• Spiritual
• Politics

As part of the ONDEG Fitness community, your focus regarding health and fitness should be on these areas:

• Fueling (consistently maintaining an appropriate volume of quality fuel for your body's metabolism):  achieved by focusing on educating yourself about the human body's reactions to the chemicals that are put into it and a commitment to restricting caloric levels to an amount that supports exercise but not excess body fat.
• Mobility (extending range of motion and flexibility):  achieved by focusing on consistent flexibility training and range of motion enhancement.
• Strength (overcoming resistance and moving loads):  achieved by focusing on a concentrated weightlifting program.
• Endurance (maintaining work output over long periods of time):  achieved by focused cardiovascular and respiratory conditioning.
• Coordination (developing and enhancing neuro-muscular relationships):  achieved by repeated activities with a focus on a particular set of coordinated muscle contractions.

That's not to say that we should ignore all the other areas of our life that require their own set of goals, but since ONDEG is a fitness-oriented community, we will stay focused within that realm.  I suspect that the short time spent in the gym focusing on fitness will help with the focus in other aspects of your life.

We are coming up on the time for "New Year's Resolutions", and we have already begun to focus on goals by committing to the 100 Day Challenge.  What are you doing to keep your focus on your goal or what do you do when you have to re-focus after losing sight of your goal?

In closing...did you notice that EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE OF THIS POST INCLUDES SOME FORM OF THE WORD FOCUS?