More realistic goals and expectations?

My last post was super uplifting, I know. I was trying to think of something more fun to blog about afterwards, but my mood hasn't been helping.

I'm feeling less depressed than I was, but still not great and now I'm super unmotivated. I've been really good about doing my PT since I started in December, but the last couple of weeks (since my leg/ankle flared up again) I've kind of been thinking to myself, "WHY am I torturing myself by doing all these things everyday when its doing NOTHING?" That's not exactly a great frame of mind to be in.

Anyway, I spotted this article from Pointe magazine on Facebook today: Got Goals? Here's How to Effectively Reach Them.

It got me thinking, because I have given myself a fairly long-term goal and part of the reason I'm so frustrated is because I feel like the ankle is putting me behind schedule to reach said goal.

To TL:DR the Pointe article, its better to set realistic short term goals than very specific long term ones. So, I'm going to do that. Hopefully these aren't too unrealistic.

To be able to do turns on the bad ankle again by December (3 months).
To increase my ankle flexibility by a couple of degrees by December (3 months).
To get on pointe again by the time I go to the artÉmotion Adult Ballet Summer Intensive next summer (assuming I have the money to do so, ha!)

I guess we'll see?

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