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Visualizing your goal

July 13th, 2009 Tony hu No comments

Post a picture of your goal someplace visible — near your desk or on your refrigerator, for example.

Visualizing your goal, exactly how you think it will be when you’ve achieved it, whether it’s financial goals like traveling to Rome or building a dream house, or physical goals like finishing a marathon or getting a flat stomach, is a great motivator and one of the best ways of actualizing your goals.

Find a magazine photo or a picture online and post it somewhere where you can see it not only daily, but hourly if possible. Put it as your desktop photo, or your home page. Use the power of your visual sense to keep you focused on your goal. Because that focus is what will keep you motivated over the long term — once you lose focus, you lose motivation, so having something to keep bringing your focus back to your goal will help keep that motivation.

Other similar ideas: Make your own motivational poster. Create a dream scrapbook, with clippings of photos or drawings of your own of each of your goals. Or use a bracelet, or other accessory, as a reminder of your goal.

From http://zenhabits.net/2007/02/top-20-motivation-hacks-17/

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激励系列——立即开始

July 13th, 2009 Tony hu 1 comment
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总有些时候你不想出门跑步、做预算或做其他当日计划中的任务。好了,别再想它有多难,过程将有多漫长,只要告诉自己该开始行动了。

我有一条原则(非原创),马上穿好跑鞋,关上门,出发!如此,一切就水到渠成。只有当你坐在房间里想着跑步就感到累时它才是难的,一旦行动,永远不像你想的那样难。这一条技巧我屡试不爽。

弥缝添:我还记得希拉里在去年的演讲中说过:“时间太精确,每当你回头望时你就浪费了继续前进。”又还记得乔布斯在斯坦福大学做演讲中说:

当我十七岁时,我读到一则格言:“把每一天都当成生命中的最后一天,你就会轻松自在。”这对我影响深远,在过去33年里,我每天早上都会照镜 子,自问:“如果今天是此生最后一日,我今天要干些什么?”每当我连续太多天都得到一个“没事做”的答案时,我就知道我必须有所改变了。

提醒自己快死了,是我在人生中下重大决定时,所用过最重要的工具。因为几乎每件事-所有外界期望、所有名誉、所有对困窘或失败的恐惧-在面对死亡 时,都消失了,只有最重要的东西才会留下。提醒自己快死了,是我所知避免掉入自己有东西要失去了的陷阱里最好的方法。人生不带来,死不带去,没什么道理不 顺心而为。

人生苦短,人应该要在有限的时间里去抓紧实现自己的目标!保尔·柯察金说:“人的一生应当这样度过:当他回首往事时,不会因虚度年华而悔恨,也不会因碌碌无为而羞耻。这样,临终前他就可以自豪地说:‘我已经把自己整个生命和全部精力都献给了世界上最壮丽的事业——为人类的解放而奋斗。’”那么,你呢?

原文:Top 20 Motivation Hacks – #15 – Zenhabits

译者:Sylvia(GTD翻译小组核心成员)
来自:http://www.mifengtd.cn/articles/top-20-motivation-hacks-15-do-it-now.html

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