Sport Psych Saturday

Hello, Cadre. Happy Saturday. Here. Garrett westwelling here for another edition of Sports, like Saturdays. I'm in my car right now in good old Phoenix, Arizona. I'm visiting one of my friends right now, and he's still asleep. So I just figured I'd come in my car at almost 930. He's got to wake up soon. But anyways, I wanted to talk about just something cool since I know, I just realized it's mid march or mid April, rather. And so we're about four months into the year, and I know a lot of people probably, maybe yourself included, myself included was really big on goal setting at the beginning of the year, so I just wanted to check in, how are your goals doing throughout the first third of the year?

A little bit more than that. Into the year, how are they doing? What has been the, the progress in your goals? What has made them successful in pursuing your goals? What has maybe made them not successful? What are some areas of improvement for your goals in 2024? Again, it was probably easy four months ago, a little bit over that, to set those goals, to be motivated by set goals. And it's important, and it's an important step that we often miss in the goal pursuit process is checking in on our progress.

So I encourage you to take some time today or tomorrow or sometime this week, just check in on those goals that you set for yourself a few months ago or, you know, even if you didn't set it for your New Year's resolution, anytime you set goals, just monitor that progress. And if it's easier when we set goals, which it often is for people, one way to leverage your motivation is to leverage your values. Maybe you've heard of the concept of extrinsic motivation versus intrinsic motivation. And just all summed up, essentially, it's much more sustainable, long lasting and effective motivation.

When you're motivated by what's inside of you, what do you value? Who are you as a person and what do you want to be in life rather than someone else or some reward or some punishment or some praise by someone else, it's much more sustainable for it to come within you. So if you feel like, yeah, I set that goal four months ago and I just don't really have the motivation right now, leverage one of your values for me. For example, I set a weight loss goal for this year and I had, I used my goal state goal staircase that I talked about in an earlier video on this platform, and it was really helpful in the goal setting process.

And basically I set short term milestones and I didn't hit one one out of the few months. I didn't hit my milestone. I didn't let it discourage me all that much. I was disappointed. But I reflected on why that happened and figured out ways to kind of combat those barriers for myself. But for my example, weight loss. I know my value is health and fitness. That's one of my biggest values in life. Just not just to be a fit person, but also the longevity aspect of it. I want to be healthy and be active later in life.

So if I'm trying to lose weight, that's a much more effective motivator, my value of health and fitness, as opposed to maybe I want to have a nice beach pod in the summer? Yeah, sure, that might be great. But health and fitness is a value that I leverage in my motivation in pursuit of that goal. So just overall check in on your goals. If you have any questions about the goal setting process, feel free to comment on this video. I can make more goal setting videos for you all. If anything that you're curious about, reach out to me on this platform and I would be more than happy to help you.

But check in on those goals and also enjoy the rest of your weekend and the rest of your Saturday. I'm going to go check on my friend how to make sure he's up, but have a good one.