{"id":8665,"date":"2023-01-22T13:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T18:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2023-01-22T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T18:36:51","slug":"me-fishability-goal-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/2023\/01\/22\/me-fishability-goal-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"ME FishAbility: Goal Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"

As written in the January 2023 edition (Pg 28) of Commercial Fisheries News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Brie Weisman, OTR\/L Maine FishAbility<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each New Year, 30-50% of Americans make New Year\u2019s resolutions. The practice helps us frame a vision of where we want to be in the future and invites sober self-assessment. Weight loss tops the popularity list, but fitness goals in general are very popular. Unfortunately, only 8% of people complete all their resolutions. This is not usually a matter of willpower, but instead an issue of planning and structuring resolutions for success. Fortunately, there are proven steps that greatly improve our likelihood of success.<\/p>\n

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Make goals achievable.<\/strong> Setting the goal of reclaiming your all-state high school basketball
\nbody is probably unrealistic, but a goal of participating in fitness activities throughout the year is
\nrealistic and will achieve results.<\/p>\n

Give goals observable relevance.<\/strong> \u201cI want to be fit\u201d becomes \u201cI want to be fit enough that
\nmy back does not hurt after work, and I have energy for other activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Break goals down into short-term goals (STGs) and long-term goals (LTG).<\/strong> STG: Participate in cardiovascular or strength training three days\/week for two months. LTG: In six months, graduate to cardiovascular exercise five days\/week and lifting three days\/week.<\/p>\n

Quantify goals.<\/strong> Vagueness and intangibility are success\u2019s enemies, definability and
\nmeasurability its allies. What does \u201cmore fit\u201d mean? For some it\u2019s climbing a flight of stairs
\nwithout sucking for air at the top, for others, it\u2019s being able to reach the local mountain peak
\nwithin two hours. Starting running? Say how many miles, how often. Losing fat? State how
\nmany pounds or inches around the waist.<\/p>\n

Understand the variability inherent in goals.<\/strong> Many people get discouraged by slowing
\nprogress, plateaus, and backsliding during the year. Life happens! Whether it\u2019s an illness,
\nseasonally longer workdays, or family obligations, expect things to get in the way. Remember,
\nyou\u2019re working for the LTG, those STGs are merely tools for getting there. Sometimes tools
\nbreak. Repair and move on.<\/p>\n

Review your goals.<\/strong> Our goals aren\u2019t always reasonable. Fortunately, unless one of your
\nresolutions was to learn masonry, nothing\u2019s set in stone. If you\u2019re putting in the time and effort
\nbut still cannot meet your goal, that\u2019s not an admission of weak character, it\u2019s a hard worker
\nmeeting an unrealistic goal. Modify it. Conversely, if you\u2019re easily blowing past original goals and
\nenjoy your challenging new activity, you may actually set yourself more ambitious goals.
\nPost your goals prominently on the fridge door or wherever you\u2019ll see them often. Consider
\nregularly scheduled reviews; weekly, monthly, or quarterly, depending on the goal and your own
\nneed for structure.<\/p>\n

Share your goals with friends and family<\/strong>. Informing people of goals increases our success
\nrate.<\/p>\n

Remember, the basic rules of good goal setting apply to any goal. We all have hopes and fears
\nand dreams, but we do not always address them with goals and plans to help achieve them.
\nThe most sure-fire way of never reaching a goal is to never set it. The second best way is to set
\nit without a plan. These are challenging times for fishermen, and good goal-setting will help boat
\ncrews and businesses to meet challenges just as much as individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As written in the January 2023 edition (Pg 28) of Commercial Fisheries News Each New Year, 30-50% of Americans make New Year\u2019s resolutions. The practice helps us frame a vision of where we want to be in the future and invites sober self-assessment. Weight loss tops the popularity list, but fitness goals in general are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"73","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[2,73,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrability","category-fishability","category-maine-agrability-blog"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"AgrAbility"},{"value":73,"label":"FishAbility"},{"value":66,"label":"Maine AgrAbility Blog"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/author\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"AgrAbility","slug":"agrability","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":54,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":54,"category_description":"","cat_name":"AgrAbility","category_nicename":"agrability","category_parent":0},{"term_id":73,"name":"FishAbility","slug":"fishability","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":73,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":31,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":73,"category_count":31,"category_description":"","cat_name":"FishAbility","category_nicename":"fishability","category_parent":0},{"term_id":66,"name":"Maine AgrAbility Blog","slug":"maine-agrability-blog","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":66,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":50,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":66,"category_count":50,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Maine AgrAbility Blog","category_nicename":"maine-agrability-blog","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8672,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions\/8672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}