Small Steps II

In my last post I talked about how I have been approaching my goals this year in the I Ho Chuan with the mind set of small steps, and how by applying this concept has made this year enjoyable and my goals sustainable. I would like to elaborate on how I have been applying this concept throughout this I Ho Chuan year. At the beginning of the year I set my goals the same as everyone else, 50,000 push-ups and sit-ups each, 1000 acts of kindness, 1000 miles (1609 km) walked, ran or biked, 1000 reps of two forms, etc. plus person goals. In past years I have learned that if I looked at each goal as a total my mind would find any excuse not to do them and I would surly fail. So I had to come up with a strategy to trick my mind into not seeing each goal as a total but as daily goals. So I took each goal and broke each of them up into daily goals and some I even broke up into even smaller goals that needed to be achieved multiple times throughout the day and then I would focus only on the daily goals and not the end of the year goal. I also made a habit to enter my progress multiple times throughout the day and not just at the end of a day, so as not to fall into the trap of forgetting to enter for a week or more at a time. This is by no means a perfect system and I am noticing that it needs a little more refinement to make it better, but it is working for me especially on the larger goals.

Where am I? What am I doing?