In 2022, the best year will be achieved in five steps.

At the beginning of the new year, the national flag will fly all over the sky. Whether it is work or life, everyone will happily set goals, big or small.

However, scientific research shows that less than 50% people can persist for more than half a year, and less than 10% people can finally achieve their goals.

Some industries just use our semi-finished urine to make a profit, such as the gym. Human inertia is also human nature, so what can be done to change the status quo?

Michael Heath, an American best-selling author, summed up all his study, life and teaching experiences into a book "Planning the Best Year", aiming to help us clear our minds, enhance our confidence and finally achieve the most important personal and professional goals.

According to the author's suggestion, as long as you practice five steps well, you can break through the past and reach the best year.

0 1? Believe in possibility

"Our thoughts determine our lives." The author thinks that both positive and negative thoughts will affect our lives. Similar to the law of attraction, it is your thoughts that determine your results.

When you feel bad, you are at the frequency of attracting bad things. When you feel good, you are strongly attracting more beautiful things.

At the same time, life should not set limits for itself, such as:

* "I always give up easily."

* "I am not very self-disciplined."

* "I am not good at a certain technology."

* "Everyone else is better off than me."

The method given by the author is to correctly identify and record the concept of self-limitation, break through self-limitation and upgrade the concept. Nothing is impossible as long as you want to do it.

We must firmly believe that our ability is better than we thought.

02? Summarize the past

"People who forget the past are doomed to make the same mistake again."

In the past year, we must have experienced many setbacks and regrets. There's no need to regret it. We can't change the facts that have been formed in the past, but we can think better about the present.

Try asking yourself the following seven questions:

1. What do you think of the past year?

2. What are your plans, dreams and clear goals in the past year?

3. What disappointments or regrets have you had in the past year?

4. In the past year, have you ever had the experience that you thought you should be recognized, but you didn't?

5. What was your proudest achievement in the past year?

6. Are there two or three recurring themes?

7. What important lessons have you learned in the past year?

Take out a pen and paper and spend a day answering these questions. In-depth answers will help you know yourself more clearly. Only by growing up from past experiences and improving our cognitive level can we build a better future.

03? Design the future

Designing the future is to write down your goals. A professor at an American university studied the effect of writing down goals. She found that just writing down goals can improve personal achievement by 42%.

The author has modified and expanded the framework of SMART, and adjusted it to an upgraded version of SMARTER's target management principles, so the most important part of writing down the target is to meet the seven principles of SMARTER standards.

* Principle 1: Specific

To be clear about what you want, the clearer the goal, the less flexible it is, and the more attention and energy you may devote.

The goal of "learning photography" is vague, and the goal of "learning mobile phone photography course for a teacher" is clear enough.

:: Principle 2: Measurable

Testability is reflected in two aspects: first, you should be able to judge whether the goal has been achieved; Secondly, you should be able to judge the progress of the goal.

"I want to exercise more" is not an effective goal. "Running for 30 minutes three times a week" is a measurable goal, and it is easy for us to judge whether this week's "exercise" goal has been achieved.

If the goal is clear, you can track and record your progress. Because half the fun of achieving your goals lies in constantly witnessing your progress. This obvious progress will have a positive impact on our lives.

:: Principle 3: Actionable.

Identifying major actions is an important factor in setting goals. The author thinks it is best to use clear verbs to express planned actions. Don't use words like "more" and "more". It is best to use definite verbs such as "proceed", "finish" and "eliminate".

The goal of "learning more professional knowledge" is not feasible, but "reading and sharing a related document of this major every week" is a more feasible goal.

The feasibility of "more exercise" is not high, and the feasibility of "running for 30 minutes three times a week" is very high.

* Principle 4: Risk.

R in the SMART principle is reality and reality, while R in the smart principle is risk and adventure. The author believes that if we pay attention to reality from the beginning, we may set our goals too low.

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman's research on risk aversion shows that "we tend to avoid losses rather than gains, and people's aversion to failure is far stronger than their desire for success."

After the easy-to-achieve small goal in the name of "reality" is realized, we will immediately become lax. The essence of adventure goal is to jump out of the comfort zone and enter the discomfort zone, so that discomfort forces us to change ourselves and improve ourselves.

* Principle 5: Time-limited.

The author divides goals into two types, one is habitual goal and the other is achievement goal.

Habitual goals are aimed at regular and continuous activities, such as "meditation for ten minutes every day", "taking a nap for half an hour every day" and "climbing mountains with friends once a week". The goal is not to achieve something, but to cultivate a habit. Habitual goals have no deadline, and the key is to maintain frequency.

A goal with a deadline is to achieve it. Achievement-oriented goals focus on one-off achievements. When the deadline comes, we can judge whether the goals have been achieved. For example, "publish a paper in 2022" and "pass the title examination in 2022", the deadline can stimulate the sense of urgency and improve the mobility, and "spoon-feeding the Buddha's feet" is this principle.

:: Principle 6: Inspiring

Only when the goal is inspiring can the passion be aroused. When setting goals, we should not completely abandon our preferences, but dig deep into our internal motives.

New year's goals can't be things you don't want to do, and goals you don't want to do are doomed to failure.

As mentioned above, the goal is risky, so we are likely to give up halfway. Only inspiring goals can stimulate our internal driving force and find our own excitement, so as to persist.

* Principle 7: Relevance

Relevance means that goals must be realistic and closely related to our lives. Goal setting should not simply copy other people's goals, but should be based on one's current life and future planning, combined with personal interests, values and other factors.

Don't have too many goals, it's better to have seven or ten. Too many goals will dilute the energy allocated to each goal, making us in a hurry and unable to concentrate. Too few goals will lead to the inability to give full play to the ability, so we should grasp it well.

04

Find motivation

Every goal we list should list its reasons, and that is motivation. Write down the motives of the goals one by one, and identify and choose the three most important motives.

When the passion is gone and you encounter difficulties, when you want to give up your goal, look back at your initial heart and think about why you chose to do it in the first place, and you will gain the strength to move forward. Persistence by interest is always short-lived, and only love from the heart will last.

Besides self-discipline, you can also rely on other disciplines to gain continuous motivation, share your goals with like-minded friends, and introduce external supervision. One person can walk very fast, but a group of people can go further.

05

implement

In the process of achieving the goal, visualization is the key, and what you can see is the fact. Starting from the comfort zone and starting from the simple goal, the threshold of action is lowered, and positive feedback can be seen in time, so that the completion of the goal has a gradual process.

In order to avoid forgetting, we should review regularly:

* Daily review

You can make your goal into a mobile phone wallpaper, browse your goal list once a day, and give full play to the role of goal review.

Big goals can be broken down into realizable daily tasks, and three major tasks must be completed every day to serve the ultimate goal.

* Weekly review

The weekly review is actually this week's recovery. We should sum up the progress, list the gains and losses, and then list the improvement measures according to the experience and lessons.

Weekly review can also plan next week's tasks by the way, and break them down into three tasks to be completed every day, so as to ensure that we are approaching the overall goal every week.

* Quarterly review

The quarterly review can be seen as a reduced version of the New Year's resolution, which can be checked in five steps.

The key point is to analyze whether there is a high correlation between the goal and real life. If not, you can modify, delete and replace the target, so as not to wait until the end of the year.

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Life is like a game to upgrade monsters. Every time you accomplish a goal, you will be promoted to a higher level. The more difficult, the more interesting.

If you want to get rid of depression and confusion and move towards self-confidence and clarity in the next year, then upgrade your concept and plan rationally. This year must be a breakthrough year!