Look for the possibility
hello
my name is liam and i’d like to talk to
you today about goals setting them
why you need them but most importantly
how to achieve them i think that talking
about goals right now is more important
than ever before
because in this whole new world which
you’re living in it feels even harder to
work towards your goals in the usual way
for example if your goal is to bungee
jump you cannot leave your house to
travel to a place to go to to jump from
and obviously you can’t budge your jump
to home unless what if you could
what if you could jump up to your
ceiling and bounce back down again and
feels a few bungee jumping
or hang upside down on the light of your
bunk bed ready to be pulled up again
what i’m trying to say is that bungee
jumping like other goals might not be
available as they were before
but with imagination and creativity you
can still work towards your goals and
use your weight
i’m going to tell you the story of my
goals do something i love which is
football and
that i’m starting to love reading i
think that it’s important to know that
it doesn’t matter what your goal is
what is important is to aim for
something to be confident that you can
do it
am i breaking it up into smaller
achievable steps you’ll soon feel the
thrill of success
after all you don’t know what you can
achieve until you try for as long as i
can remember i’ve had football training
three times a week plus matches at
weekends
i love every moment of it scoring goals
with both feet dribbling past the other
team’s best plays
and i get such confidence from playing
well especially when my siblings are
there to film me
we always analyze how i played and i see
the improvements in my performance like
the exercises designed by my coaches
when i put the skills into play there’s
something quite like being picked as per
of the back by my teammates
but then covered i’m a training
suspended in mattress cancelled i’ve
needed to find new ways to readjust my
focus to be match ready at the earliest
possibility
i recently read gara southgate the
england football manager’s autobiography
anything is possible be brave and be
kind and follow your dreams
and it has really inspired me to the
possibility in any situation
surely even in lockdown there must be a
silver lining
i’ve had to find new ways to progress
because my usual activities have stopped
instead of training with my training in
a group session with my teammates
i’d train one-to-one and working on my
technical ability
rather than everything else i started
running with my family to keep my
fitness up
when i do a d10 squared in september
2020 i found out that there was a
program called jazz
similar to duke of edinburgh awards but
just for younger children
and it inspired me to keep motivated
and ready and ready to do things after a
few weeks i started to wonder
how i would find time to complete eight
hours of three different activities
plus a four hour adventure but i
designed a program to mark each
milestone and guess what
by dedicating an hour or so each week i
soon approached my goal
i learned to cook new dishes like
triple choc chip cookies and desserts
like victoria sponge
i went on a very long walk to london
bridge designed comics to charity
and i’m i’m most proud of achieving the
best personal best for kick-ups
more about that later while while
achieving my
bronze chat level dress challenge i
found it really interesting to mark my
progress in my online journal
this kept me motivated as it was really
exciting to see the number of hours
go up and up this motivated me
and now i’ve completed my silver
challenge and soon i’ll move on to gold
so setting a goal has been good for me
but it’s important to know why you want
to do it too
for us i must admit to you i’m not a
natural book clubber
as i know how important it is to read to
develop your imagination
create creative writing and
storytelling skills i struggle to stay
interested in most novels beyond a few
chapters
until i discovered a technique the
pomodoro technique it’s a time
management method developed by
university student francesco cherilo in
the late 1980s
on his website he states that for many
people time is an enemy we work
against time to complete assignments and
meet deadlines the pomodoro technique
teaches you to work with time rather
than struggling against it and that
is exactly what i needed following this
technique has completely changed the way
i approach reading
setting down for two segments of 25
minutes each with a five minute break in
between
i’ve said i have it for reading nearly
an hour a day this is definitely a plus
of lockdown
i’ve always been competitive and goal
oriented i think
that goals help me focus finish things
and move on to the next stage
as you can probably gather i’m a
football fanatic playing with my
teammates going to tournaments and
scoring goals
but now the grassroots and academy
football has been suspended i’ve needed
to find new ways to readjust my focus
like i said
i’ve started training with a group sp
with a group instead of
and started running with my family i
figured that instead of doing ten minute
intervals of football training
i can use our family walk time to
dribble for hours we went on walks to
notting hill
about to see all over hyde park my
football has seen it all
especially because i’m not allowed to
pick it up at any point on the road
wash your hands
i i figured that we can i can use our
family walk time treatable for hours i
just would through traffic cones i could
start forward with the opposition
defense
while being fouled by speed bumps and
dogs off their lead
i think my my fitness is good and my
ball control has definitely improved
now back to the kick-ups at the
beginning of the year i set myself a
chance to do 200 kick-ups in a row
my target was to do 25 or 30 three times
in a row then the target would move to
75 and after that 100
i can’t tell you how many times i get to
60 or 70 lose my balance and then lose
control of the ball
gradually each week i rounded the number
up to the nearest five
sometimes speeding unfortunately
sometimes not
but that didn’t stop me you can imagine
how elated i was the day i got 217 when
i was meant to do 185
and that’s it knowing that i could do 30
made 50 seem wrong and doing
50 made 70 achievable our record is now
217 kick-ups
soon i’ll hit 300.
so this whole new world what is it i’m
still getting used to things but it is
the world that i’m growing up in and i’m
going to make the
most of it for sure thank you