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How Do You Know if a Goal is Out of Reach?

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How do you know if a goal is achievable or not?

I've worked out that what I do is pick a goal that in my mind is huge, but has a possibility of being achieved. I mean literally "in my mind" -- for example, I can see myself running a 36-minute 10k at altitude; I can't see myself winning the Olympic title. Anywhere!)

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How do you know if a goal is out of reach, or not?
Posted by simon on 6/22/2007 on simon's blog

Fellow-Brit Nev Johnson has got me thinking with his posts here. First he asked me to outline how I managed to take 11 minutes off my 10k time in a year.

My first item in my list was "Set a clear, quantifiable goal that I was really, really excited about."

Nev came back with the comment: "Most people would say that your goal was way out of reach."

That got me pondering again. How do you know if a goal is achievable or not?

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