Thursday, January 17, 2008

Goals: Appropriate and Attainable

Specificity. That's what this really comes down to. High level performers set specific goals that give a clear direction to their efforts. In a solid goal setting program, there are no vague, directionless goals - the goals become like a ladder, pointing a constant, straight, unwavering upward path.

Goals set in this fashion will be appropriate and attainable, and will mostly be "performance goals" as opposed to "outcome goals". A performance goal might be "Achieve a consistent 1.00 second draw with A-zone hits at 7 yards", as opposed to an outcome goal such as "Win every local match." I may talk about this a bit more in a later post - but for now, we left off last time with a promise to discuss those first two bits - appropriate and attainable. What do those mean to us, and how are they important in our goal setting??? I bet you can guess already....

That's right... head over to the DR Performance Shooting main site, and check it out!

1 comment:

Calamity Jane said...

Hmmm...ladder example sounds kind of familiar. Now where have I heard that before??? These comments really need to have smiley faces that can be attached.