Creating positive goal statements is the first step towards meeting them. However, to advance in your plans, you need to think strategy. You need to set up a plan of action in order to attack your fitness goals one by one. Here’s how.

1. Get Organized

Begin by finding a place for all of your new fitness information, gear, equipment, health foods and beverages and any other fitness-related items. Take a time out, if necessary, to remove unhealthy junk foods from cabinets and rearrange your foodstuffs so that you have a special cabinet or shelf area just for your special snack bars, shake powder, supplements, recipes, measuring tools and other fitness aids.

Likewise, make room in your family room or other area where your fitness gear and equipment will go. De-clutter by tossing old outdated magazines, clearing away old toys and junk. And get a new storage bin for your hand weights, exercise mat and jump rope. Set up a smaller storage unit on top for your fitness cassettes and videos. And set up a special drawer or other storage unit for your fitness information; gym hours of operation, current monthly fitness class schedules, fitness logs, notebook, journal, audio cassettes, video tapes, DVDs, program literature, etc.

2. Review Your Program Materials

Next give your programs materials a thorough once over. Jot down any notes as you go along in a separate notebook. Place other materials in a folder; supplemental information that comes with your program, gym, equipment, etc. Listen to any audio components, read any instructions for equipment, watch any video tutorials. And review what your physician has shared with you about your health and fitness.

3. Study Your Competition

Then check out what your fellow fitness enthusiasts are doing as if you were in competition together. I.E. they are successful and you want to get up there and compete with fitness on their level, too. So read the mini-case studies that often accompany fitness program and gym advertising and program packages. And read fitness success stories in library books, print magazines, online forums and articles. Gather information to jot down in your notebook about what works best and what doesn’t for these success cases to prepare yourself.

4. Plot Your Action Plan

Based upon your initial research and studies of what your physician has said, any fitness information you have and case studies of the competition, plan a strategy for your fitness success. Your plan should include what to do each day, how often, and how to measure results. For example, an action plan may include something along these lines:

Meet with my fitness trainer once a week to set goals and measure progress.

Meet my daily goals we’ve established including exercising, healthy eating and journaling.

OK, time to move! Don’t delay your fitness success any longer. Take charge and attack your fitness goals today.