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It’s easy to lose focus and lose direction even for an Olympic athlete.

To fall Olympians and world record holder Geoff Huegill, he had it all at the age of 25.
With Olympic silver and bronze medals, five world championships and eight times world record holder and on top of that five Commonwealth games medals.

However how can such elite athlete spiral out of control to 140 kgs. Well at the tender age of 26 with such her collection of world-class wins spanning his short career, Jeff decided to call he was highly disciplined lose his way so easily, by adopting a lifestyle of poor eating, lots of partying and not much exercise. Ultimately Geoff lost motivation and lost his way.

Well for Jeff it was all about not having any goals, if you don’t have any direction in your life, you don’t have any purpose, and without that purpose there is little motivation to even get out of bed in the morning.

Inspirational person Geoff

Well one of the most amazing comebacks in recent history fills you with inspiration and hope that anything is possible once you establish the direction of where you’re going. At the age of 30 Jeff recommenced training and managed to attain his ideal racing weight to qualify for world class events.
The goal was the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games and beyond that the 2012 London Olympics.

You may ask how can and overweight former athlete make such an amazing comeback to win gold in the Men’s 100 m butterfly at the Dehli Commonwealth games?

When setting goals it’s always about having a long-term plan, as Jeff says if you want to climb to the top of Mount Everest it’s all about having steps and the vision over a long period.

An unhealthy lifestyle happens slowly, so equally adopting a healthier lifestyle take time as well, it doesn’t happen overnight.

Any goal we may have, such as reaching an ideal weight, requires commitment and dedication to achieve.

There is an old saying that if you aim at nothing, you will hit it with amazing accuracy.

Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet to successful weight loss, but it does help to have key indicators that will track and measure how you are doing and the S.M.A.R.T system is a great way to do this.

S: Is the goal Specific to what you are trying to achieve

M: Is it Measurable? Can you determine if there’s any improvement i.e. clothes are looser, actual weight loss according to the the bathroom scales

A: Is it Achievable? Is there a high possibility that you will attain your given weight loss goal?

R: Is it Realistic? Like anything your goals have to be something that is within the realms of possibility. Having unrealistic goals will lead to failure, disillusionment and ultimately a lack of confidence in trying to achieve this goal again in the future

T: Have you given yourself the Time frame in which to achieve your weight loss goal? This can be be a specific date on the calendar, or a countdown of days i.e. 100 days to lose 5 kg.

However, always remember when setting you goals that there’ll always be externalities. These are factors that are outside your field of control that can have an impact on your ability to achieve your goals.

A big part of achieving your weight loss goals is to realise that subconsciously you may try to sabotage yourself and distract you and from your course of action to success.

Lastly like any goal your really need to be ready for the commitment to carry through all five steps of the S.M.A.R.T program.

While enjoying a relaxed ride (Bicycle) in Geelong to check out the UCI course, we cruised over to East Geelong to meet a friend who rode over from Arthur’s Seat on the Mornington Peninsula.

After a bit of miscommunication as to the meeting point and a few phone calls later, we suddenly realised that we only had 45 minutes to get to Queenscliff where the ferry terminal was located.
So we hand this micro goal of covering 29kms in 45 minutes, no problems if you were driving there in a car.

Given it was 30 odd kilometers we new it was going to be close to get to the ferry on time.

So what was going to be a nice gentle ride ended being a breathe gasping smash feast with all 3 of us taking turns at being at the front while the other 2 riders formed an echelon behind.

The point is that we never gave up, even when there was only 15 minutes left and it seemed unlikely that we would get there in time, we pushed through. Not that this was a life or death scenario but we were committed and all three of us had the belief that we will just make it on time.

Well with aching legs and fatigue as we had not sufficiently warmed up, so going hard from the very beginning was always going to be tough.

Well we just made it as the ferry was about to raise the vehicle loading ramp, so in the end we covered 29km in 46 minutes, so we were lucky that our watch was 1 minute fast.

How often do you have a goal or something that you want to achieve but it’s too hard, can’t be bothered or the likelyhood of success is low so it’s easier to give up than continue.

Everyday we are presented with situations or micro goals that we have created only to give up.

Keep focused and you we enjoy the rewards.

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:))