When setting goals, the best person to compare your performance to is you.
When you set personal best goals – to do better than you have previously – you benefit. It’s about you and your personal best.
They’re your goals – all about improving you, achieving what is important for you – they aren’t about anyone else.
If you challenge yourself to learn, grow and develop through setting personal best goals, you’ll create opportunities to achieve – and, as a result, you’ll feel even stronger and prouder.
Your improvement doesn’t have to be record breaking.
Small improvements add up to become big improvements.
All you need to do is be positive and persistent, set and work towards personal best goals, and celebrate your improvement!
So, think personal best and choose a goal you’ve already set (or, set a new one) and create a goal plan with the steps (actions) you’ll take to achieve it. Remember, it’s all about you!
Develop the concept of personal best with participants. What does personal best mean to them? When is it important to be at their personal best? What do they notice when they are at their personal best? What is possible when they are at their personal best?
Coach participants to set a personal best goal in Goalhub, or to make an existing goal a personal best goal.
One reason people can give up on achieving their goals is because they compare themselves to others.
When they don’t think they will be as good as the person they’re comparing themselves to they lose confidence and motivation – they give up.
This can lead to the person feeling bad about themselves and their ability to achieve, which isn’t good for their confidence and wellbeing. They don’t feel strong and proud.
Not everyone can be first in the class, or best on ground (usually there is only one), but that doesn’t mean you can’t be achieving your best, improving your performance and feeling good about it. Being first in the class, or best on ground, is only one measure of success – and it may not even be the best measure.