Food For Thought Of Park City
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Nobody can see the future; this is why we set goals. Goals are our way of guiding ourselves from the past to the distant and unknown future. We set goals knowing that it will be a task for us to achieve them. Goals are our lives, we strive to achieve them and we feel like failure when we don’t. Goals are the way to our inner selves; we set goals because we want to become that great doctor, that great skier, or what ever our interests may be. We set goals, it is part of our lives, we must set goals for us to feel that we’ve accomplished something.
When I set a goal, whether it is short or long term, I want to set the goal so I have to work to achieve it, I need to do this in order for me to feel that I’ve done something with my life, I don’t want to be one of those people who walk around doing nothing because they feel they can’t. No matter if you’re talented or not, if you set your mind to it, and set reasonable yet hard goals, you can and will achieve anything you want. It is how we work. It can be done. Because I don’t know where my life is going to take me next, I’m not a fan of creating goals that are too far ahead. Doing this just seems to create stress in our lives that is not needed. My goals are just like the Olympics, four years apart, long and short term. My goals tell me who I am, and who I want to become. Setting a goal to me, is planning your future, planning your life, hell creating your life. Life itself is a goal, no matter how you steer it, you always have goals no matter what. Even if you’re not an athlete and you don’t consciously know that you’re setting goals, you’re setting them, it’s just how we work. For example, when you have a baby, every mother says that they want to raise a perfect child. Well, that’s a goal, and people try all their lives to accomplish a goal like that, because in the end, when you succeed in your task of completing the goal that you set, there is power, happiness, and most of all personal success that you feel. It is there, the butterflies in your stomach, the chills down your spine, when you reach, and achieve your goal, you feel that you have done your best, and come out on top, feeling great. (Tyler DeCol 2002)
My long-term goal in skiing:
To compete in the 2006 winter Olympics. It seems so far away, and such a long and hard road to travel, this goal seems that it will be one of the hardest. That is why it is my goal, I want to work as hard as I can for this goal. And I don’t care whether I get a medal, all I want is to make it to the finals, and say, “The Olympics, yeah, I was there, I competed, I did my best, and now I can move on to my next series of goals, whether it be to continue skiing, or to end an awesome career, and move on.
My Life Long Goal:
This is the true goal that I will always live by, though I have many small goals I need to reach before I can complete my life long goal. If I could put my life long goal in words, it would be this: I want to have completed all of my goals along the way "baby steps" I also want to have something to fall back on, Law has always interested me, as well as computers. An easier way to put it is this. When I near the end of my life, I want to look back and see if I have made a difference. I want to know that things that I have done have made a point in the world, this way, with my dreams and goals, I will become immortal with people believing in the same things I have, as well as believing in me. In the words of Vince Lombardi, "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." That is what life is, as well as my sport. I want to be able to look back, and see that I was victorious, and that I did work my heart out, and that I was a good person along the way. That will always be my life long goal, and it will never change.
Food For Thought Of Park City