I have always wanted to love running. If I do something for a long enough period of time I can learn to enjoy it. That has never happened with running. "Change - real change - comes from the inside out." I know I must gain an appreciative mentality for running and gradually my body externally will appreciate its benefits as well. Running on a schedule and consistently would help in my personal life and appearance as well as my academic (professional life). Running is a way that I can be alone and think, as well as relieve stress in my every day life.
             There are seven critical steps to goal setting. The first step is to write the goal or objective. This goal is my dream with a time limit. My goal is to go running at least three times a week for the six weeks of the time management project. I have a set route that I run, but in actuality it is about 2.5 miles. This goal is SMART. The specifics are that I will go running at least three times weekly and being that each week starts on a Monday. It is an obtainable and realistic goal because it will take my motivation to accomplish it. I will track it by writing the days I go running in my date book and show me which days I have ran and which days I can plan on going running, while giving my body time to recuperate. There is FEAR associated with this goal because I am afraid I may give up in the beginning if I feel it is too painful for my body, from soreness. I will keep my running as more of a mental goal than physical and not think of it as punishment to myself, but!
             The second step to goal setting is to set a deadline or a date of achievement. Knowing that you have a date to reach a goal by gives more motivation than one because without a time limit it will get "Put on hold until the time is found." My date to accomplish my goal is December 1, 2000. This is two days before my 20th birthday, which I see as a marking of going from "teenage" years, into true adu...