How to maintain the passion for the New Year’s goal

In the new year, I believe that everyone has made a wish and set a goal. However, many goals will be aborted in the short term because the implementers are not persistent enough. How to keep the New Year's determination? Provide you with 3 rules.

Many of us will make up our minds at the beginning of the new year to become better, healthier and more productive in the coming weeks. Well, many of us will also violate these decisions within half a month. Because we lack perseverance? Maybe. But it may also be because when we set goals, we are doomed to failure - the goal is too high, or focus on what we can't do - not what we can do. There are three rules here that can actually increase your chances of changing your life.

1. Focus.

Choose a major goal and do your best. Losing weight, quitting smoking, or paying off debts are big decisions, but I hope you can live long enough so you don't have to deal with all the problems at once. Think about it this way: If you quit smoking this year, lose 10 pounds next year; although it takes two years, is it too much to want to reach both goals at the same time and give up halfway?

2. Propose specific and positive actions that will help you achieve your goals.

For example, if you want to lose weight, you can make up your mind to eat protein on breakfast on Sunday, vegetables on lunch, and a plate at night. In this way, you can leave two leftovers a week, and when you are hungry, you won't jump up and ask for a takeaway. Not saying "not eating dessert" is not a good goal, just because it is difficult to live in a negative goal. Using fruit or yogurt to replace desserts is more positive and fun, and it will make you feel that you are trying to do something, rather than entangled in what you can't eat.

3. The list records your progress.

Human beings are simple creatures. We all like our Venus chapter. So please be clear about all the actions you want to do, and mark yourself with the checkmark whenever you complete the action you are planning. Is that very old? Of course. This is more or less the practice of Ben Franklin's efforts to stick to the goal, and he did a good job.