Priorities and Choices

Designing and implementing an effective training program is always about setting priorities and making wise and prudent choices. It starts with what you are going to do. Then you need to know why you are doing it? Then how are you going to do it. And last but not least when you are going to do it - the timing of the application of the training stimulus. It comes down to a hierarchy of choices between what you want to do, what is nice to do and what is absolutely need to do. To get consistent positive results the need to do must be the choice. Want to do and nice to do are distractions from the task at hand. To focus on the need to do demands a very thorough understanding of the immediate, short term and long-term goals of the training program. Everything must be in pursuit of those objectives. The focus has to be clear and the process well defined. Setting priorities and making intelligent informed choices insures progress toward the goal of success in the competitive arena.