Winter Garden Magazine March 2019 | Page 9

pictures of the trail, and read others’ accounts of their hike. You have to break down the goal into increments to bring success. A string of successes leads to completion of a long- distance hike. Establish goals that can be achieved in a week, month, or a year, and you will find quite a lot of successes, as well as a charged battery to make new intentions, all the while living a quality life. Start with small goals first, and take a week as an increment to pound out three well-rounded days in the gym to make strides for a successful hike. Once your week is optimal, work out what overall monthly accomplishments you can achieve, and take the steps to hold yourself to those goals. Without small specific goals, you cannot expect to reach the larger intention. A specific goal is designed to set a measurement in which to strive towards, whether it’s the yellow tape of the finish line, or remodeling your bathroom on your own, the proverbial yellow tape verifies the celebration of completion as you carry it forward to a succeeding goal. The best you can do is one foot in front of the other, until that is no longer an option. Until then, functioning even at the bare continued on pg. 48 minimum is still functioning, and the commitment to move forward. moving forward. You’re just as skilled with using basic tools to tackle minor repairs, Desiring to improve your fitness level however, the problem lies in snags requires training, and completing inevitably bound to happen during small goals like running a mile at a repairs. Screws become so corroded time at a time, gradually increasing from Florida’s humid climate that it the miles as you prepare to sign up is swollen, and vows and clings to its for a marathon. Preparation will make task at hand for dear life, disallowing all the difference to your goals, if not your removal of the offending piece physically, then mentally. There has to impeding your progress. Professionals be preparation and research, whether have different tools or techniques you it involves house renovations, or a may not have thought of, and they physical challenge. Some knowledge possess an infinite wider variety of of how to repair the screen outside tools that tackle the task with ease. your window, is required, along Experience sets professionals apart with a splining tool. Once you’ve from you, therefore their knowledge watched a video or two, the task is is saving you from possibly hours pretty straightforward and easy to of frustration. None of the taunts of complete; other home repairs are potential setbacks has altered your not as straightforward. Rate tasks in stubbornness to take care of installing phases, ascertain necessary research, a new faucet. How hard can it be if special tools, or how to thwart you’re simply undoing the old faucet potential problems that could arise and replacing it with a new one? during installation. Be prepared when you begin a new project, no matter how easy it may While it is frustrating to get started sound on the surface. Access several on a project that really calls for do-it-yourself sites, and view any another person to stabilize or offer potential issues as the ability to “look leverage, you’re not up for scheduling it up“ is vast. your life around the availability of a professional, so you have made With anything, time is of the essence, MARCH 2019 | WINTER GARDEN MAGAZINE |   9