| You will hear and read the following often when | | | | with the rest of us back here on Earth. Because of |
| people talk about goal achievement - 'It's a simple | | | | her zero gravity environment, Williams' muscles, |
| theory to follow, it's not rocket science!' I say and write | | | | including heart, lungs, legs, arms, etc, will not be taxed |
| it myself all the time, and I believe it, I have done for | | | | anything like as much as they are to just move about |
| over 20 years, and have used it to great effect in my | | | | in the gravity we feel here. If she didn't exercise, over |
| life. I write about the theories in my book 'Transform | | | | 6 months, she would be in a bad way on her return |
| Your Life in 21 Days!', so why would I write this article | | | | home, she just wouldn't be strong enough to walk or |
| saying that goal achievement *is* in fact rocket | | | | do the simple functions we take for granted. Hence |
| science after all? Ooh, good question, and here's the | | | | her 2 hours a day. Now, an absolute classic tip in the |
| answer... Simply because we can look to the | | | | field of goal achievement is to give 1 solid hour a day |
| exploration of space (rocket science) to find an almost | | | | working on your goal. If you do this, you will make |
| endless flow of goal achievement nuggets. The | | | | leaps and bounds you hadn't thought possible. The |
| recently revived US Space Shuttle Progamme is great | | | | reason for this is that most people simply *don't* |
| to watch. Now they show the whole mission streamed | | | | commit this time. An hour a day adds up to 7 hours a |
| live online, so you get to see all the daily mundane | | | | week (I kept up at school!), and you can get a lot done |
| workings of the astronauts as well as the more | | | | in 7 hours. So, as you work towards your goal, think of |
| spectacular stuff. In December 2006 the shuttle | | | | Suni Williams in space. As I write this, Jan 4th 2007, |
| discovery docked with the International Space Station, | | | | she gives 2 hours solid every day - not to make |
| and although the shuttle only stayed a few days, they | | | | progress, but just to keep up with the rest of us! She'll |
| dropped a crew member, Sunita Williams, to start her | | | | continue to do it every day for 6 months! That's |
| 6 month stay at the station. Yes, 6 months in space! | | | | impressive in my book, and she can do it, imagine what |
| As I was following her progress, I was fascinated to | | | | you could achieve with 2 hours a day for 6 months! |
| learn that she has to do 2 hours of exercise a day. 1 | | | | Can't find 2 hours every day? Stick to the 1 hour a |
| hour of cardio work, and 1 hour of weight work. This | | | | day then. That will still take you hugely forward. So, is |
| isn't to turn her into a superhuman, it's just to keep up | | | | goal achievement rocket science? It can be! |