Goal Setting

Bowman focused on his goal

Goal setting is perhaps the one single discipline that sets the professional sailor apart from the keen enthusiast. If you are really serious about improving your sailing, then learning how to set goals is a habit that you must develop. Oh no, but that means: writing stuff down! Oh yes, that's exactly what it involves! But it's really not that painful, and the more you do it, the more addictive it becomes.

Rob Greenhalgh: Planning your keelboat campaign

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Volvo Ocean Race winner Rob Greenhalgh shares his secrets on how to put a winning keelboat campaign together... how he prepares and trains and what his priorities are ashore and on the racecourse. Download his Professional Sailing Campaign goalscape. It's a masterclass. Tailor it to your specific campaign, goals and budget and you are off!

Goalscape: Fill in Your Plan for Sailing Success this Year

Designed by two-time Olympic 49er sailor Marcus Baur, this skeleton Goalscape template gives you the basis of a great campaign planner for your sailing. Combine this with some of the ideas in the Goal Setting section of Articles in SailJuice and start building your comprehensive plan for the next phase of your sailing.

Never measure yourself against the scoreboard

Morgan Reeser and 470 team

An Olympic silver medallist from Barcelona 1992, Morgan Reeser coached Luke Patience and Stu Bithell to their own Olympic silver medal in the 470 20 years later in Weymouth. Here, Coach Morgan explains why you should never look at the scoreboard during a regatta...

Goalscape #2: goalsetting with Olympic & Worlds-winning 49er coach Emmett Lazich

goalscape-2-emmett-lazich In part 2 of our look at advanced goal-setting software, Emmett Lazich joins Goalscape's Marcus Baur and SailJuice's Andy Rice to explain how he uses goal-setting technology to help him coach teams to world championship winning success. Lazich has coached Nathan Outteridge to Olympic glory in London 2012 and numerous 49er World Championships, and also coached the Finland 49er team to Olympic gold in Sydney 2000.

Fast Start to Goal Setting

18 foot skiffs charging downwind

There are plenty of reasons and excuses we can come up with not to start setting goals. So break the habit and start laying out those targets right now. Identify your major weaknesses, give yourself a score out of 10, and have the courage and determination to keep on working on these weaknesses until you minimise or even eradicate them....

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