2017 Goals - Kyra Williams Fitness

At the beginning of each year I always write a blog about my personal fitness goals. I never wrote one in 2016, so when I was going over my accomplishments of 2016, I couldn’t say I reached any of my goals because I didn’t have them. It left me feeling kind of empty, and despite knowing I had accomplished a lot, I still felt like little was done.

It was this strange, kinda off, year for me. The way I describe my life lately is that in 2015 I made a lot of changes. I broke up with my ex boyfriend and business partner of 7.5 years after moving to Tampa, I moved out, twice, I started a new business and I began dating the love of my life. So it felt like 2016 was this year of adjustment, or like life happened to me.

But I am not the kind of person who likes to say or feel or think that life happened to me because if you are busy being the victim then you can’t be a warrior. But there was so much adjusting that had to happen. I started therapy.. my anxiety had gotten so out of control. I tried meditating, working out more, working out less, eating less sugar, listening to podcasts, reading books, journaling.. but ultimately all of the changes in 2015 had to be processed in their own time, in their own way, and still are. (I just want to say that I am very grateful for my friends who have been there for me during this time and my boyfriend who has been very patient with me and will not give up.)

Anyhow, over the last two weeks or so I’ve been diving in deeply to focus on what good was in 2016 that I want to bring with me and what I want to leave behind. The one thing I will say is that through everything I realized I am incredibly resilient and persistent. No matter how bad the anxiety has gotten I always try to breathe through it, rationalize and if nothing else, reset the next day.

I think that I finally gave myself enough time to work through everything because recently I just kinda hit a wall where I got sick of putting up with certain aspects of my life and my way of handling things and I decided things were about to change. I got angry.. focused.. and determined. I like feeling that way. It’s so familiar. It’s how I made it back to Tampa after five years of being “stuck” in Boston. It’s how I have hit a lot of my PR’s. Going into 2017 this way could not be any more perfect.

Then, to fuel my fire, I just watched this Tony Robbins video and he basically just says, if you want to truly change something, raise your expectations and change what you are willing to accept. If you are okay with making just enough money to pay your bills, then make that your expectation, but if that has been your way of life for the last few years and you are ready to start paying off debt, saving money or just make more in general, then you have to change what you are willing to accept. You have to increase your expectations. And that is EXACTLY what I am doing. I’m gonna grab 2017 by the….

So my goals for 2017 are…

Crossfit Top 200 in my age group (35-39, women) for the world
Kipping ring muscle ups
305# deadlift
Remain 138-140# and maintain visible abs
Read six books
Make $ (I have a certain dollar amount only I need to know)
Set an intention daily and write that down, along with one thing I am grateful for each day
Pay down 15% of my debt
Do something social with friends, excluding Tyler 3x/ month
Take Tyler to Bern’s for dinner
Complete my website
Launch the BFGF Cookbook with Tyler
Mail birthday cards to my closest friends
Do something with Stringer that isn’t a normal walk or gym once a week

Also, these are not so much goals because they are not SMART, but it’s worth mentioning.

It’s important to me that I spend most of my days feeling a certain way. Lately I’ve felt so insecure and down and that no longer serves me. So I made a list of feelings I want to embody each day, and those are…