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Target Tuesday has been progressing along in my blog for the last nine weeks and as we’ve just moved into a new month – I thought a quick recap was in order

If you’re new to Target Tuesday read here. We have five months left of 2009, so what do you want the rest of the year to be about?

Imagine yourself on a crisp December morning (or warm if you’re somewhere hot!). Picture yourself seeing the results and reaping rewards from moving things forward. Target Tuesday is a mechanism for you to keep focused each week and progress a little further with one or more goals.

What one thing would make the biggest difference to you? What do you want things to look like or feel like on that December morning? Be as specific as you can be and write down what comes out for you.

What’s bugging you right now that you’d like to change? What would make a huge or powerful difference to you?

Writing down your goals is key. Keep them with you and pay positive attention to your goals as often as you can. Feel good about them and imagine yourself there with your goal(s) in place – pretty darn good, right?!

Talk to people who are positive and can motivate you to keep progressing with your goals. You may wish to start a brainstorm group either face-to-face or virtual. This will help you keep on track. You can utilise Target Tuesday to share your ideas and we can help each other. Each week, Target Tuesday is for thinking about what decision you can make or what action you can take that will be one step forwards, no matter how big or small towards your goal.

Here are some examples of goals:

• I’d like to take a holiday abroad next year (short term goal)
• I’d like to buy a new house within ten years (medium term goal)
• I’d like to help the homeless (ongoing goal)
• I’d like to get married in three years’ time (short term goal)
• I’d like to have a comfortable retirement (long term goal)

These examples relate to different time periods. Short term is normally taken to be under five years, ‘medium term’ is around five to ten years and ‘long term’ is normally more than ten years.

Once you have a list of goals, you can prioritise. This activity from a previous Mid Week Inspiration on Thinking about the future, will help you to list your goals in order of priority for you, given your circumstances and resources.

Once you have determined your goals, you need to produce a plan to reach your goal.It doesn’t have to be complete, but you need to be moving in the right direction.

Taking the previous examples, they all had financial implications:

• I’d like to take a holiday abroad next year (short term goal) – Adjust your pattern of spending to save for your holiday.
• I’d like to buy a new house within ten years (medium term goal) – save for a deposit
• I’d like to help the homeless (ongoing goal) – your plan might be to adjust your pattern of spending to be able to give more.
• I’d like to get married in three years’ time (short term goal) – build up short term savings
• I’d like to have a comfortable retirement (long term goal) – build up long term savings

Once you have assessed your goals, decided on your plan, You must then ACT and Beat Procrastination. Finally REVIEW the outcomes. Utilise Target Tuesday to ACT and REVIEW!

My goals have financial implications, so I’ve been thinking about options for increasing income. here’s the list I’ve come up with so far… if you can add to my list, please leave a comment.

• Work longer hours or do overtime
• If you have space, you may want to think about taking in a lodger
• Check all benefit entitlements and do not overpay Income Tax
• Invest in yourself for longer-term increases in pay eg. studying or training.
• Take on an additional paid job – put together a good CV / resume
• Negotiate a pay rise with your employer
• Move jobs – moving jobs can often lead to promotion, a better paid job and progress your career
• Turn your hobby into a business
• Host a fundraising event
• Think about ways to save money – see this post on ‘how many days can you afford to live if you lose your job‘

In previous Target Tuesdays we’ve covered:

3 Goals

Career Questions

Create a perfect CV

Be a resolute success in 7 steps

Beat Procrastination

Work life balance

How many days can you afford to live, if you lose your job

Turn your hobby into a business

Calligraphy

Leave a comment to share your goals for Target Tuesday and keep everyone posted on progress……

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Time for a recap on Move-It Monday. If you don’t know what it is about read here. If you’d like to join in, add the above button to your blog to spread the word – it is simply about us moving more and sharing our successes along the way.

So far we’ve looked at six being a magic number and making Six O’Clock, the time to take six minutes out, to begin with, to do six little exercises, eg, dancing for six minutes or skipping.

We’ve looked at how we can enjoy lots of funs with children, family and friends and at the same time be moving about and burning calories. Here’s how.. click this link

In  Move It Monday Move your Booty! we discovered lots of ways to burn calories whilst simply going about our daily tasks and activity.

There’s five simple ways to get a bikini body – read here for the tips

and some facts on obesity have been identified and the benefits of skipping!

How’s it going for everyone? For me, I know that I just need to up my game now! Progress is slowing – and last week I put on 2 pounds! I need to remember and stick to the advice – drink water, no unhealthy food and MOVE MORE! Scheduling exercise is vital. I’ve noticed that when it doesn’t go into my daily planner, it just doesn’t happen and it needs to be treated just as important as anything else that goes in my calendar. Last week I just didn’t move enough and work took over.

When we don’t lose as much as we’d hoped or if we get distracted from what we want to be focused on, it is easy to feel down and give up – but don’t dwell on that, just move on! Stick with Move-It Monday and you will achieve your goal.

I’ve updated my ticker now to incorporate all the weight I want to lose, as my original target has passed and that was to lose 20 pounds. I managed 10 pounds in the last 7 weeks; but need to now focus on the ultimate target. To be in my normal BMI I need to lose 20 pounds on top on the 10 I’ve already lost, however, my ultimate goal will take me way way down into the ‘normal’ BMI category and for that I need to lose 38 pounds!

This week, I thought I’d share with you some really cool charts. As part of Move-It Monday, I’m slowly introducing new routines into my life and once they are established, then I’m introducing another new habit. My running is pretty routine now. I know I don’t run enough but it does take place every week now. This week I’m going to introduce yoga practice.

I’m going to follow my yoga chart from Liz Cook

Liz Cook produces fantastic charts and lovely books, which I recommend. You can order the charts and books from the liz cook charts website They are all fun and very helpful. I have them all. Liz Cook charts are sold in America -see this link

I also really like the ‘So What do you Eat book by Liz Cook. Click the image for details.

So that’s all from Move-It Monday this week. What new habit are you going to adopt this week? Please add a comment to share your ideas. I’d love to here.

Wishing you all a good week.

Cheerio for now…

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