Your Goal…

Goals help us define what we aim to achieve in our lives. Those who have not set their own goals will not be benefitting from the guiding influence and power of setting goals that can harness your energy and passion, synchronise your physical and mental strengths and help you focus on the positive and self-championing voices within, and reduce the negative inner voices. 

Challenging Goal…

"The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break." In 1972, Rick Hansen broke his back when he was 15, paralysing him from the waist downwards. He won 19 international wheelchair marathons and 19 gold medals in track competitions for the disabled between 1979 an 1984. He made an audacious goal in 1985 to 'travel around the world in a wheelchair to raise money for spinal-injury research. According to Wikipedia, his Rick Hansen Foundation has generated more than $200 million for spinal cord injury-related programmes. 

Inspiring The Millennial Generation…

And back home in Singapore, we paid tribute to two young ladies, Jane Lee and Lee Li Hui who successfully crossed 560km of icy Greenland on skis just last month. In 2009, Li Hui became the first Singaporean woman to summit Mount Everest. She was part of the all-female team led by Jane. And in 2011, Jane was the first South-east Asian woman to accomplish the challenging Seven Summits. Considering that Singapore is alien to ice and snow and that its highest point is only 164 metres (537 feet), these two Gen Y ladies had already inspired others in their Millennial Generation to lofty goals. And perhaps help to erase remarks that theirs is a "soft' generation. Bravo…

Related article:  1. One Step At A Time To Your Everest 

                           2. Olympics – Opening Ceremony (Rick Hansen)

                          3. Singapore Duo Ski 560km Across Greenlad – AsiaOne