Your views and understanding of success may always be wrong
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Editor ’s note: Usually, in order to achieve a certain goal, we will dismantle the goal in stages, and then let ourselves insist on day after day (even strictly according to the timetable) Routine arrangement. However, this way of achieving the goal, in the eyes of the author of this article, may be one of the inefficient ways of achieving it. This article, the original title is If You Want To Achieve Your Goals 10x Faster, You Need to Stop Following Routines, author Anthony Moore said that to achieve the goal, you should not be result-oriented, stop the daily tasks that are repeated daily, and turn to process-oriented, ensuring that a little progress every day is enough.
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After many years of research on personal motivation, goal setting and execution, and motivation formation and maintenance, I found that if you want to achieve goals faster, you must abandon routine tasks that set goals and repeat daily .
Maybe some do not agree with me, please listen to my explanation.
In fact, for most people, routine plans or tasks do n’t work at all. If you have children, have pets, often like to travel, work remotely, or have a physical disability, it may not be easy for you to insist on repeating routine plans or tasks every day. . If you hit the wall again and again, but you do n’t give up easily, you may eventually become more frustrated and have to choose to give up.
Before my wife and I adopted the pet puppy Penny, we basically maintained the same daily schedule every day.
Every morning, I wake up early and then get up and concentrate on writing. Throughout the day, I can also maintain a routine schedule that is basically repeated every day.
Until we adopted Penny, all these rhythms were disrupted.
Penny Penny gets up one or two hours earlier than us every morning, and then starts making various calls. So, we had to get up and play with her, which disrupted our original rhythm.
As long as Penny is not asleep, she is a mischievous crazy at home. I can’t even sit back and work at ease.
In addition, we also need to make more time to take care of Penny, for example, we must go out to walk every day, and we will go out regularly to participate in pet training classes.
We have to bathe her regularly, take her to the pet hospital from time to time, take care of her diet and sleep every day, etc. In short, since I had a pet, I found that I couldn’t complete the repeated routine work arrangements at all.
So, I gave up the practice of insisting on completing the daily plan every day.
But since then, I have found that not only can I still achieve my previous goals, but also less time to achieve them.
The loser only pursues the goal, and the winner pursues the system
Scott Adams, the best-selling author and author of the Dilbert comics, wrote in an article:
The goal is only effective in a simple environment. However, in today’s world, it is rare to encounter a simple environment.
You may not be able to predict your career development in a year. You ca n’t predict what the economic environment will be like in a year, and you wo n’t know what new technology will appear at that time.
Similarly, your personal life is unpredictable. The variables for future development are too large to be predicted at all, and the possibility that you can set the most ideal goal is very small, and it is even smaller to achieve it. After all, everything is almost always a goal that changes at any time.
Therefore, compared to the goal, you should improve your chances of long-term success through the system.
You should choose projects that will not affect your personal value regardless of changes. In terms of healthy diet and physical health, find corresponding systems to replace willpower based on basic knowledge.
In short, do n’t focus on setting goals. Your focus should be on how to create a better system that will allow you to make small progress every day without being affected by your daily schedule.
For this, I hope to share a story with you.
I used to live on a high mountain, and my goal is to ride a bicycle to the top of the mountain without stopping.
This is notIt is an easy thing, it is very difficult. I have tried more than ten times, and all ended in failure.
Specifically, the strategies I have tried include: I will pedal madly at the beginning to keep myself strong enough; I will drink energy before riding Gatorade; I have also tried to move forward and backward on the curve from left to right intentionally to ease the steepness of the climb.
But none of these methods work.
Finally, I decided to give myself another chance to try with these two simple rules:
Do n’t look at the top of the mountain.
You can only look down at the pedal.
I dare say, that may be the slowest speed in my riding experience. I didn’t look up, but I was also afraid of hitting something or passers-by. My focus was all on the pedal, and I slowly stepped on one side of the pedal at a time.
During that time, it seemed that it was an eternal riding time.
But it is through this method that I finally reached the summit without stopping. The direction was pushed out).
I found that most of the time, goals may really not work. Of course, having a goal is a good thing, but it also brings a series of problems.
James Clear mentioned in his book “Atomic Habits” that there are three main problems with the goal.
First, the loser and the winner may set the same goal, but this goal cannot make everyone succeed. span>
Secondly, in essence, the goal is only temporary.
Third, in the process of striving towards the goal, it is often not very pleasant.
Therefore, we have to try to abandon this practice of setting goals and then stick to the routine arrangement, and we must completely abandon it.
On this basis, we should focus on creating better systems. Create some rules so that you can complete more tasks every day. It doesn’t matter if the work speed is not fast enough. Just be slow. You are accumulating momentum for yourself, step by step, so that you will not feel any guilt or frustration.
Ordinary people pay attention to the results, outstanding people pay attention to the process
Bryan Cranston, starring Bryan Cranston, the American crime TV series Breaking Bad, shared in his autobiography Lessons. These lessons have also allowed him to develop from an ordinary actor into an outstanding actor who has won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In his autobiography, Cranston wrote:
When I first entered the film and television industry, I was always anxious to be successful, shooting various advertisements, guest appearances in various film and television dramas, and trying crazy. I think that life was pretty good at the time. However, I feel like I have always been in an array of second-rate actors. I even wonder if I ca n’t do it anymoreThere are new breakthroughs. Later, Breck Costin (his mentor) advised him to focus on the process rather than the result.
I go to various studios to try out the show, the goal is not to get a certain role, earn a film reward or get recognition. I did n’t try to play to accomplish and achieve these goals, I just wanted to give.
I am not fighting for an opportunity, but I am doing well in the face of an opportunity. If I pay attention to the result, then I will give myself an expectation, an expectation that may disappoint me. In short, my task is to express myself, seize the opportunity, and enjoy it at the same time.
Cranston continued to write that after he changed his mind, he thought he was more relaxed and free. He didn’t have any pressure anymore, after all, he didn’t have to care about what happened in the end.
Shortly after changing his mindset, Cranston won an important role in the later well-known film and television drama “Malcolm in the Middle” . He was also nominated for three Emmy Awards for this play. Today, Cranston is already one of the most well-respected and well-known actors of many fans.
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When you focus on the results, you may curb your growth. You may not pay special attention to the moment. But the real champions will all focus on the process. They also clearly realized that the champion did not come from the field, But from the training ground, and is the result of persevering practice every few months before the start of the real game.
The Boston Globe has published an article that records and reports on the day of the Olympic skiers.
In this article, the author writes, “All athletes get up just after dawn, do some stretching exercises after getting up, watch the training video of the day before Then they went straight to the training ground and stopped training until lunch. In the afternoon, they would attend training courses, and then continue to do some simulated live training until dinner time. After dinner, they would go to the learning center to study for an hour and a half. In the world, they only have an hour of ‘freedom’ at most. But in this hour, these athletes usually do some summative training. “
By virtue of their continuous training and continuous improvement of their exquisite skills, they have become world-class top skiers. So, long before they participated in the Olympic competition, they became champions. And what made them win the championship is the training they insist on every day.
This kind of enthusiasm in training has allowed these athletes to persevere in the repeated boring training day after day. In Anders Ericcson’s classic “Peak: Secrets of the New Science of Expertise”, Eriksson wrote:
In essence, practice is a lonely pursuit.
In the pursuit of excellence, you may often feel lonely, bored, and monotonous.
But this is exactly the standard that distinguishes first-class authors from second-rate authors, excellent athletes from general athletes, excellent managers from mediocre managers, excellent acrobats from general acrobats. The former of them have maintained consistent practice and hone. They pay attention to the process every day to make themselves better.
But the latter wo n’t do it. Ordinary people focus on results. Excellent people focus on what they can control, the process.
Every day, you should reflect on yourself and ask yourself if you have a 1% improvement in physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual aspects?
—— The famous investor James Altucher (James Altucher)
Written at the end …
For most people, in the process of achieving an important goal, they are unable to insist on repeating routine tasks every day. This is also the fundamental reason why most people cannot succeed.
Procrastination, various distracting distractions, and even daily laziness may all become stumbling blocks in our pursuit of goals. However, there are still many people, and when there is a prompt to “pull” the door, they are struggling to “push” forward, but they can only be blocked at the door.
Instead of strictly performing routine tasks as planned every day and winning from a fight that seems impossible to win, you should abandon these routine tasks according to your own time And the actual situation, strive for a little bit of progress every day.
Through this transformation, I successfully wrote a book, and also attracted a large number of readers on the Internet, and also achieved multi-channel business income through the Internet.
My series of achievements, in the final analysis, is actually a simple sentence: a little progress every day.
I will never set goals and specific action plans for myself, this model is not suitable for me at all. I started to focus on making a little progress every day. In the end, the compound interest effect of a little progress every day will not only allow you to achieve your goals, but also achieve faster than you think.
In short, if you want to achieve your goals more quickly, then do n’t stick to the routine tasks that are repeated daily. This method is useless.
Translator: Junyi