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I meet a senior partner from a law firm who was a keen cyclist who road 250-300km per week which included a daily commute from his house 18km from the Melbourne CBD.

Like most of us, stuff happened and what was a healthy lifestyle quickly turned into a life of long working hours, deadlines and before you know it, something has to give, well it’s your health and fitness goals.

This person was in his 50′s with his stomach girth in excess of the 100cm waist measurement for men (85cm for woman) that places him in the high risk category for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

After chatting to him, there really was the time to ride to work, to do the weekend bike rides and to lead a healthier lifestyle but it was more about the lack of motivation.

Well after our chat, he was so confident about getting back onto the bike that I gave him some home work, I would call him in a weeks time to follow up on whether he successfully got back onto the bike.
Well to his credit, he had ridden to work 3 times and enjoyed a further 2 rides on the weekend but like all good starts to achieving goals it’s a marathon not a 50m sprint so as Mr Lawyer acknowledged, its about maintaining the momentum, something which is particularly hard.

When setting your goals write them down, statistically it has been shown that those people who write down there goals, whether in their diary, a vision board, or even a piece of paper they keep in their pocket will have a higher chance of success.

David Ogilvy was the original “Mad Man” who started from humble beginnings from a small office in 1959 on Madison Avenue with 3000 other advertising agencies all competiting for that lucrative advertising dollar. Over the course of 15 years David Ogilvy grew the business into the advertising giant of Ogilvy & Mather.
How can a young salesman who was a university drop out go onto achieve such mountains of success?

Well he wrote his goals down.

David Ogilvy wrote down his goals on a piece of paper he carried with him, a dream of being a major adverting company in 20 years with 5 blue chip clients, but not just any old clients but 5 of the biggest corporations in the world, General Foods, Bristol-Myers, Campbell Soup Company, Lever Brothers, and Shell. Today all five are clients of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather.

Well Ogilvy got there 5 years ahead of time and today has 450 offices across 152 cities, now that’s big things coming from a belief system, anything is possible:))

While it was a chilly one this morning, we were fortunate to experience an absolutely stunning sunrise. While the colder winter temperatures (2.5º) may be a little challenging, once you are out of bed, the hardest part of the mornings exercise regime has been completed.

I always like to say that moving your feet that 30cm from the bed to the floor is really the hardest part of any exercise program, once you are up and about the rest is a lot easier.

One massive benefit apart from feeling great after the session is watching these amazing sunrises with crisp blue skies and the warmth of the sun filtering through the trees.

In the 5 years I have been running boot camps, I can say that I have NEVER have had one person mention that they are cold after completing the session.
Provided that you undertake a thorough warm up & stretching regime prior to engaging in intensive exercise, you body will reach operating temperature very quickly.

Unfortunately for our Melbourne water storage levels, there is very little rain to fill the catchment areas but on a positive note it makes for more rain free days for boot camp training.

After talking to a friend who had a totally random event happen for the second time in their life, a pattern started to emerge that may have seemed a coincidence but was it really?

With concepts like the “the universe” and books like “The Secret” creating some consciousness about the “Laws of attraction” and projecting energy and thoughts, the events that happened to my friend may make some sense.

About 6 months ago, my friend was riding home from work innocently, minding his own business in the late afternoon, the sun was setting on the horizon when “BANG”, a motorist blinded by the glare, lost his view momentarily and not wanting to miss the lights speed up to make a right turn in front of my friend.

The results were a broken collar bone which will require surgery after not showing any improvement in healing naturally.
Well last week, it happened again, while being safely away from the traffic in his house, a totally random event happened, a motorist had a heart attack after returning from the local leisure centre (doing morning laps in the pool) and veared of the road into my friends parked car outside his house.

This time though although there was damage to his car, absolutely no damage to his body.

Mmmmm, so a random event or maybe there is a hidden meaning, it’s open to interpretation but maybe it was something about what thoughts were being projected at the time or over a period of time.
Personally I find this random event super positive, it means that what was ever being projected that had resulted in the body being directly impacted has know lowered in intensity.
My friend may have been walking to his car, been in the car or entering the main flow of traffic, so many possibilities.

While it’s still annoying and inconvenient (And horrific for the driver), it means having to get quotes for the car repair, contacting the insurance companies, getting the car repaired and being without a car while being repaired.
Ironically when I quizzed him about it, this year has had numerous things go wrong with these 2 events just being one of many.

The point being is what ever you want to achieve, whether it’s weight loss, getting more balance in your life between work and life or improving your health and fitness in general, you will keep throwing up these random events that make it difficult to achieve your goals.

Think about people you may know who are going through a financially difficult time, about to lose the house, car, job, no money in the bank then suddenly a random event, the car engine blows up, a fraudulent credit card transaction, the washing machine dies, all these events are really the end results of what is being projected and ultimately what ever you project you attract back into your life.

Well something to think about:)))

Are you finding that the fear of not succeeding, of failure is holding you back and stopping you from achieving your goals?

Have you tried committing to a new diet or exercise program only to find that you end up procrastinating, worrying about whether you will succeed, whther it will work, whether you can truly achieve the weight loss, whether it is realistic or we make excuses.

And guess what happens, not much and life continues to the same tune without any changes being made.

So we need to overcome the fear and determine where the fear is coming from.
The road to achieving your goals may be rocky and there is no such thing as failure in achieving your goals, it is only an event, not a lifestyle or something that determines your future.
There is only something positive to be learned.

So rather thinking of not achieving your goals as mistakes thing of them as habits that need changing.

Maybe heading for the fridge or cupboard at work through boredom or stress for example. Change the habit and you won’t make these indiscretions in achieving your goals.

These habits can become the noise in the background when trying to achieve your goals. Try reading a book while someone is talking loudly in the background, can you focus and concentrate on what you are reading, are you truly absorbing the content of what you are reading, can you remember the last paragraph that you have just read?

So don’t let the fear of failure stopping you achieving your goals.