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Last Saturday I visited my friend Eric. He showed me a cork board full of pinned post-it notes. On the board, a sign: ‘2017 goals’.<\/em><\/p>\n

He said: “you inspired me to set my own goals”.<\/p>\n

I felt happy and surprised. Eric inspired me to share my own 2017 goals.<\/p>\n

I spent the first weeks of January thinking about\u00a0this. Last year I set goals using the SMART<\/a>\u00a0method and\u00a0it served me well<\/a>: I reached three out of four… a needed ego boost, I must confess.<\/p>\n

Hereby I’m announcing to whom it may concern my five<\/strong> 2017 goals.<\/p>\n

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1. Run 10km in 42 minutes<\/h2>\n

In Italy we say ‘fatta la legge, trovato l’inganno’.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>It means literally ‘when a law is made, a way to circumvent it is found too’, but equivalent to the English ‘laws are made to be broken’.<\/p>\n

And when in 2016 I set a goal to run 1,000 km, my mind started\u00a0working accordingly. My mind was only thinking about distance.<\/p>\n

Well, I can’t blame my mind for trying to reach a goal I set myself, but we know that our mind can be our enemy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Every training aimed to accumulate kilometers, to contribute to the\u00a0total mileage.<\/p>\n

Even if I became faster, (I did my 10K PB) it was a side-effect of running more often than I ever did<\/a>, rather than the result of the training. I didn’t train to get faster. Every time I was going out for a run, I was thinking quantity over quality<\/strong> and most of the sessions were steady moderated 8K run.<\/p>\n

This year I go the other way. Screw distance, I want to improve speed<\/strong>. Bring it on with fartlek, intervals, and sprints.
\nLet’s bring in some pain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BPSWqoWBR25\/?taken-by=danielebesana<\/p>\n

I was with my running buddy and friend Marko at\u00a0De Zotte<\/strong><\/a>, a great Belgium pub in Amsterdam, when after a Kwak and before a La Corne the idea came up.<\/p>\n

Hands were shaken, and a south European promise was made: let’s run 10K in 42 minutes!<\/strong><\/p>\n

My current PB is 45:25, so I have to improve it by 3 minutes. That means shaving off 18 seconds per kilometer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Achievable? Yes. Realistic? Yes. Easy? Nope!<\/p>\n

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2. Dedicate 3 hours\/week to Write<\/h2>\n

Originally this was ‘publish a piece of content a week’. Then Fabrizio (a psychologist (not mine) and mastermind member) pointed out that using the SMART approach with creative goals is tricky.<\/p>\n

While I can push myself to go out and run 30 minutes when I don’t feel like, I can’t push myself to write an article in 30 minutes if I’m not in the mood.<\/p>\n

Makes sense?<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I already tried the ‘I want to write more’ new year resolution. It never worked because, as we now know, it’s not following the SMART approach.<\/p>\n

The new approach is to focus on the process that helps the creative goal<\/strong>, not on the outcome.<\/p>\n

This year goal is to reserve time every week for creating content<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I’ll start dedicating one evening a week. I know that evening may not be the best time of the day. I know people that prefer to dedicate the first hours in the morning to this, they say are the most productive hours.
\nI may change this but I like evenings as I can fully concentrate for three hours in a row<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A piece of content can be a blog post, a video (let alone Snapchat & Instagram stories), an audio (like a podcast interview), or some other mediatic operation I can’t conceive yet right now.<\/p>\n

This material can be related to any of my projects<\/strong>, personal or business related<\/strong>. Here a few projects I’d like to\u00a0create content for:<\/p>\n