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One of the most important things to remember when making your New Year\u2019s Resolution is to make it realistic. While it\u2019s good advice to always shoot for the stars, a resolution shouldn\u2019t be about changing yourself entirely. If your goal for the end of the year to make a certain time, then make sure it\u2019s something that reflects the training that you put in at practice.<\/p>\n

2. Treat Your Resolution Like a Stepping Stone.<\/h1>\n
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As a swimmer in a sport all about dropping time, it\u2019s reasonable that would be your resolution going into the New Year. There are two issues that come about with a resolution that goes along the lines of dropping time. The first is that the meet that your season depends on for dropping time is two-to-four months after New Year\u2019s.<\/p>\n
The second is that while dropping time might be realistic, it\u2019s a big jump to say that because it\u2019s a New Year, that you\u2019re going to drop time. Any resolution that a swimmer has should be backed up by tweaking some part of your training. Whether it\u2019s turns, fixing your stroke, or training on a harder interval, these are all stepping stones to a greater goal of dropping time.<\/p>\n
3. Let Your Coach Know What Your Resolution Is.<\/h1>\n
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Your coach should encourage New Year\u2019s Resolutions and encourage you to be the best version of yourself that you can be. As great as coaches are, they aren\u2019t mind-readers. You can\u2019t expect them to be supportive of your goals if you don\u2019t let them know what they are. Your coach is your greatest asset in the swimming world.<\/p>\n
Your coach can help make sure that you\u2019re working towards your goal every day, even on the days when you don\u2019t want to. They can also help fine-tune your resolutions to make sure you\u2019re as productive as you can be with the incoming New Year.<\/p>\n
4. Visualize Your Resolution.<\/h1>\n
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Writing down your resolution is a way of making sure that it sticks. If there\u2019s any place at practice where you can put your resolution down, whether on the white board on deck or in the locker room, that would be the best place to write down your resolution because you can see it in the setting where you will be trying to accomplish your goals every day.<\/p>\n
Making a vision board or a similar representation of your goal could be another way to make sure that you are able to visualize and metabolize your goal every day. Worst comes to worst, you can write it down on a piece of paper and use that as a reminder every day.<\/p>\n
5. Keep Track of Your Progress.<\/h1>\n
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Your resolution should be taken step-by-step to maximize the potential of being accomplished. That step-by-step process can be used as a type of rewards system to help motivate you to continue to make progress with your New Year\u2019s Resolution.<\/p>\n
The most common way to keep track of your progress would be through a journal. Keep track of the way that some days, you\u2019re able to hit your goal more often than other days. Take away the triumphs of your good days and learn from the days that you think you could do better. There\u2019s something to learn from every practice, and that\u2019s much easier to keep track of when written down.<\/p>\n
6. Don\u2019t Be Afraid to Fail, or to Succeed.<\/h1>\n
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Winston Churchill<\/strong> once said, \u201cSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.\u201d There are so many things that can get in the way of a goal. One of those things is attaining your resolution sooner than you thought. This doesn\u2019t mean you throw in the towel on all your hard work because you got what you wanted. If you want to be the most successful version of yourself you can be in 2018\u2014you continue with your resolution even after you\u2019ve succeeded.<\/p>\n
A setback is another instance that may happen in the span of the first few weeks or months after you\u2019ve set a goal. It\u2019s easy to give up after you\u2019ve had a bad practice or a bad dual meet that diminishes your hope for the rest of the season. That\u2019s when, more than any other point in your career, you have to pick yourself up and remember that on the first day of 2018 you made yourself a promise to be the best that you can be. You owe it to yourself to have the courage to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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