{"id":512,"date":"2009-06-19T16:36:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T06:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=512"},"modified":"2009-06-19T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T06:36:32","slug":"ideals-of-life-the-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2009\/06\/19\/ideals-of-life-the-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideals of Life: The Transition."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed that whenever I start a project or define one of my dreams there’s always a couple stages I go through. Initially I’ll get an idea about something (this blog is a good example) and I’ll muse over it for a while. During this time I’ll do some research on it, discuss it with friends which gives me a really good grounding from which to work on. Then comes what I believe is the hardest part, which is actually getting off my ass and working on bringing this idea into reality. After working on it for a while something interesting usually happens, and this is what I refer to as “The Transition” whereby I’m no longer driving myself to achieve this goal, it’s driving me to completion.<\/p>\n

More recently this came to me whilst doing my daily CrossFit<\/a> work out. I’d completed the routine for the day and this is when I’d usually just pack up and leave. After thinking about leaving for all of 10 seconds I immediately thought I could easily do another 10 minutes and the best thing was I wanted <\/em>to. Now up until this stage I’d been making myself do the workout of the day and not really adding to it, as per usual I was doing the minimum work required. That day marked a change in my attitude towards doing these daily workouts and the transition from me driving myself towards the goal and the goal motivating me.<\/p>\n

What usually triggers the transition for me is when I start to see measurable results from the effort I put in. I find it hard to start anything that I can see immediate or short term results which is why I always split most of my long term goals up into smaller ones so that I don’t lose motivation. Some of the time though I’m lucky enough to discover something\u00a0 that doesn’t require small short term goals to keep me motivated, like my dream of becoming a pilot and eventually an astronaut. Although I’d class dreams as separate entities from goals, as they pose their own set of challenges.<\/p>\n

But that’s a post for another day! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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