by Carrie Cheadle | Dec 13, 2016 | Achieve Your Goals
I am a goal driven person. I gain a tremendous amount of pleasure and satisfaction from setting goals and then figuring out how to work towards achieving them. In fact, sometimes I have to remind myself that I don’t always have to be striving for something, and... 
by Carrie Cheadle | Jul 25, 2016 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Confident, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
This is a picture of me. I’m looking slightly stunned, helmet askew, and standing on top of what I like to call, “The Green Monster”. I can’t remember what it’s actually called, but I remember the experience vividly. It was last summer, at Diabetes Training Camp... 
by Carrie Cheadle | Jan 18, 2016 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated
It’s one thing to set a goal. It’s another thing entirely to achieve it. How many articles do you think have been written on goal setting? How many times do you think the words “How to Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick” appear in cyberspace? (That exact phrase... 
by Carrie Cheadle | Dec 20, 2015 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Confident, Get Motivated, Life Lessons
I love the renewal I feel with the coming of a new year; new hopes, new possibilities, new dreams. Or maybe old dreams, newly realized. I recently had one of my dreams realized – I got myself back to Petaluma. Life sometimes takes you in directions you don’t expect,... 
by Carrie Cheadle | Nov 9, 2015 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Confident, Get Motivated, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
Self-sabotage. It’s all too common – and most of the time – you don’t even realize you’re doing it. So why do you do it? Are YOU the only person keeping you from accomplishing your goals? Why do we end up sabotaging our goals and how the hell can we just... 
by Carrie Cheadle | Oct 11, 2015 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Confident, Peak Performance
What happens when you get to the big event and it is immediately apparent that you are going to have to adjust your original goal? This topic is big on my mind right now. I’ve been talking with several folks, both friends and athletes I am working with, about... 
by Carrie Cheadle | Sep 7, 2015 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Confident, Get Motivated
On May 6, 1954, a young medical student did what many people thought would be impossible to do. At the time, there were even doctors that claimed that the goal this young man had in mind was something that the human body was incapable of doing. In fact, there were... 
by Carrie Cheadle | Jan 21, 2015 | Achieve Your Goals, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
It was supposed to be sunny and it’s raining You thought it would be a blowout and now you’re behind You go to the pool for your swim and showed up on the wrong day You were on pace for a PR, but missed a course marker and added 5 miles to your bike You... 
by Carrie Cheadle | Apr 9, 2014 | Achieve Your Goals, Peak Performance
Anyone that’s ever worked with me knows that I love giving people homework. I love making people write things down. When I give my athletes homework and ask them to write things down, most of them are willing participants in the process. But every once in a...