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Setting goals is something I feel is really important, as of pretty recently actually. Before this year I didn't have goals. I didn't really know what I wanted to do or who I wanted to strive to become. I guess that's just a part of being a kid; living by the seat of your pants. Its fun, but not forever. Planning my future and working towards my goals is incredibly rewarding and exciting for me.
I pretty much know how I want to go about doing things for the next five years. Its not a step-by-step plan by any means, but more of a rough outline for how I would like things to go.
Maybe not surprisingly, most of the goals I have set revolve around dogs and agility. Honestly I really think I've found my niche in the world. I can't imagine myself without it. There is nothing else in my short life that I have been more passionate about and dedicated to than this sport and to my dogs. It is what drives me forward and fuels all my ambition. For the last seven years that is really the one thing that has been a constant in my life. I'm so incredibly glad to have found something to focus on, especially in my teenage years. Honestly, I don't know what kind of things I would be doing if I didn't have this to focus on. I have friends, I (sometimes) have a social life, but I enjoy going to trials and being with "dog people" far more than my school-mates.
So anyway, I have many short term goals I hope to accomplish in the coming year. First and foremost is to become a better handler. I want to be more aggressive in the way I handle. I want to run full tilt and get the information to Panic way ahead of time. I also have a tendency to wait on him and don't complete my crosses fast enough, or find myself standing still at some points. I want to push for all the speed I know Panic has, having the most fun we can have and never playing it safe or slow for a Q. Run run run!
This is the most important goal for me, as it will make every other goal I have achievable. Everything I accomplish builds up to make other things easy.
There is so much that I want to accomplish in agility and with Panic. There are million of agility competitors and thousands of border collies. There are so many wonderful, experienced, accomplished people. And here I am, young, unaccomplished and with a crazy rescue border collie. Maybe I am still naive. But there is a deep burning desire welling up inside me; it's such a furious passion that I think I'm insane to believe I could go far in this sport at all. It is why I set these goals for myself and why I'm working so hard to achieve them.
I want to talk about them, write about them because it somehow makes them more real; less like naive dreams and more like actual, tangible, achievements. Its all laid out on the table and I just somehow have to make the pieces fit together. I know I can get somewhere, one day, if I keep trudging forward.
I'm really excited about 2009. The future looks bright, and I want nothing more than to run towards the sun!
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I pretty much know how I want to go about doing things for the next five years. Its not a step-by-step plan by any means, but more of a rough outline for how I would like things to go.
Maybe not surprisingly, most of the goals I have set revolve around dogs and agility. Honestly I really think I've found my niche in the world. I can't imagine myself without it. There is nothing else in my short life that I have been more passionate about and dedicated to than this sport and to my dogs. It is what drives me forward and fuels all my ambition. For the last seven years that is really the one thing that has been a constant in my life. I'm so incredibly glad to have found something to focus on, especially in my teenage years. Honestly, I don't know what kind of things I would be doing if I didn't have this to focus on. I have friends, I (sometimes) have a social life, but I enjoy going to trials and being with "dog people" far more than my school-mates.
So anyway, I have many short term goals I hope to accomplish in the coming year. First and foremost is to become a better handler. I want to be more aggressive in the way I handle. I want to run full tilt and get the information to Panic way ahead of time. I also have a tendency to wait on him and don't complete my crosses fast enough, or find myself standing still at some points. I want to push for all the speed I know Panic has, having the most fun we can have and never playing it safe or slow for a Q. Run run run!
This is the most important goal for me, as it will make every other goal I have achievable. Everything I accomplish builds up to make other things easy.
There is so much that I want to accomplish in agility and with Panic. There are million of agility competitors and thousands of border collies. There are so many wonderful, experienced, accomplished people. And here I am, young, unaccomplished and with a crazy rescue border collie. Maybe I am still naive. But there is a deep burning desire welling up inside me; it's such a furious passion that I think I'm insane to believe I could go far in this sport at all. It is why I set these goals for myself and why I'm working so hard to achieve them.
I want to talk about them, write about them because it somehow makes them more real; less like naive dreams and more like actual, tangible, achievements. Its all laid out on the table and I just somehow have to make the pieces fit together. I know I can get somewhere, one day, if I keep trudging forward.
I'm really excited about 2009. The future looks bright, and I want nothing more than to run towards the sun!
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