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Once I had gone downhill skiing, I knew that I needed a new long range goal for my ankle. I needed to keep strengthening it and I needed to stay in shape. I was inspired when I saw people wall climbing.
I used to wall climb in university. It was my extreme sport where I could forget everything and release stress. It was just the wall and me. The vertical ascent was exhilarating. Somehow, once I left university and started my classroom teaching, I forgot about climbing. I am not sure why, but I did. Standing at the base of a wall, watching others climb, and knowing that my formerly broken ankle could no longer sustain my entire weight for a climb, made me want to climb again. The question was... "How was I going to prepare the ankle for a climb?" I searched for an activity that would strengthen the ankle the fastest and would only require the load of my body, nothing more. I didn't want to over-tax the ankle, but I did want to push it. My answer was Zumba. Zumba increased the impact on the ankle that I needed. It also prepared my body for the agility and fluid motion that would be required on the wall. By doing Zumba once a week, my ankle grew in strength and agility. In fact, my whole body grew in strength and agility. Today, I approach my long range business goals in much the same way. Wherever possible, I find the singular activity or exercise that is the most efficient for accomplishing the goal that I have in mind. That does not mean that what I do does not require time and patience. It always does! This approach ensures that my business has all of the pillars in place before the long range goal is reached. That way, nothing comes crashing down. It took over 18 months, after downhill skiing, for my ankle and my body to be ready for my 1st wall climb. I organized a "Ladies X-Treme Morning" with friends at one of the local Calgary climbing facilities. We got on that wall. We climbed it. We mastered it! If you enjoyed this article, let me know. Post a comment! Like it! Tweet it! You may also want to read another article in this series:
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AuthorSharon Eden-Smith (@sharonedensmith) is the entrepreneur who established Eden-Smith Music. She will be posting blog articles about the business of...
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As I stated in the previous blog article, entitled...
short-term goals lead to one singular long-term goal. This was true for my broken ankle and is true for my business. Even though the short-term goals form the backbone to accomplish the long-term goal, they do not provide the large stepping stones necessary to get to the long-term goal. Mid-range goals are those stepping stones. In the case of my broken ankle, I instituted mid-range goals that began as walks, up and down the hallway of my house. I extended those walks to walks down my street and around the block. I started on level surfaces, gradually changing the terrain. By May 2014, 5 months after breaking the ankle, I was hiking in Kananaskis Country and Banff National Park, both places near my home in Calgary NW, Alberta, Canada. I continued to extend those mid-range goals to longer and longer hikes that were more difficult. By the end of July 2014, I completed a 14.0 km hike, with switchbacks, up to one of the tea houses at Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, in Banff National Park. All the while, I continued with the short-term goals that my physiotherapist had implemented. I would heat the ankle, do the exercises she assigned, go on my hike and ice the ankle after. The short-term goals formed the backbone that allowed me to accomplish the mid-range goals. The mid-range goals strengthened my ankle and gave me the musculature to support my ankle when I put that ankle into a ski boot on January 1, 2015, and skied downhill. Each mid-range goal was important. Each signified a plateau of accomplishment. Halfway through a hike, I would eat my peanut butter sandwich and my frozen (or not so frozen) chocolate cake and drink my water. I would enjoy the beauty of the landscape and scan the horizon for possible hikes for the future. I do the same with my business. I take the time to stop at my mid-range goals. I enjoy the business landscape. I scan the horizon for the future. I allow my gaze to pierce the envelope of potential and possibilities. That is when I enjoy my peanut butter sandwich. I eat my chocolate cake. I take a long, satisfying, thirst quenching drink of water. Then, I get up and start making my way toward the next mid-range goal. Eventually, I have accomplished so many mid-range goals that the next mid-range goal becomes the one long-term goal that I had set months or years before. My mid-range goals, my stepping stones, along with the backbone of my short-term goals, have brought me to my final destination. That is when... I have arrived. That is when... I have mastered the one long-term goal! If you enjoyed this article, let me know. Post a comment! Like it! Tweet it! You may also want to read another article in this series:
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