Podcast - Zen Goals
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 3:43AM Don't forget that tomorrow (Friday) is the IRONBABY! You can join in on the fun by following along on Twitter.com/ZenTriathlon.
Goal setting and achieving is an interesting animal. Setting big goals way off in the future such as, "I want to be ripped." or "I want the British out of India." are simply too big and don't tell you how to actually accomplish those goals.
Instead, a better approach is to do the correct things right here and right now that a person who would achieve those goals would be doing. You have unlimited number of opportunities every day to eat right and train right, just like a pro triathlete does. "What would Craig Alexander do right now?" is a question you could ask yourself continuously to triathlon greatness.
I talk on this episode about this concept in detail. I also play a clip from a Zen talk in Austin about this exact same thing and how Gandhi used it to take back India from the British. If he could free an entire country, you can eat your veggies.
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