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设定目标的6大理由
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland 没有目标的烦恼就是你在球场上来回奔跑地消耗你的时光，切永远也不会射进门得分。---比尔科普兰 “You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” – Zig Ziglar (More quotes on goal setting) 你不得不绘制图纸来建造房子。规划人的一生，比有一个计划或者目标重要得多。---齐格勒 Do you set goals for yourself? What are your goals for the next 12 months? How about 3 years from now? 5 years? 10 years? What are your aspirations that you look towards coming true? 你有为自己设定目标吗？在未来的12个月里，你要达成什么样的目标?那3年后呢？5年？10年?什么是你目前最想要实现的愿望？ Goal setting is the first step towards successful goal achievement. It marks your first point towards success. It is what put your life into real action mode. Without this step, the other steps of goal achievement cannot take place. 设定目标是实现目标的第一步。是你迈向成功的第一点。是让你充实过每一天，付之实践。没有制定目标这一步，就没有实现目标、实现愿望的其他步骤。 Have you ever encountered people who have a passive approach towards life? They don’t set any goals and they just live life on a meandering, day-to-day basis. You see them 1 year, 3 years, 5 years from now, and their lives are largely the same, save for a few changes that are really more the result of others’ actions and desires rather than their own. 你曾经碰到过一些对自己生活很悲观的人吗？他们没有制定目标，他们只是浑浑噩噩的过他们的生活，一天又一天。你可以看到他们在1年、3年、5年后，他们的生活大多一样，没有多大的变化，除了一丁点别人行动和愿望的结果的变化，而不是他们自己的。 Below are 6 key reasons why setting goals is so important: 下面是说明为什么制定目标很重要的6大原因 1. Gives Clarity On Your End Vision 1.让你的愿望更加明确、清晰 As the opening quote by Bill Copeland put it across very adeptly, if you don’t have a goal in life, you are spending your life running around and not achieving anything for yourself. You get the illusion that you are doing a lot of things, but they aren’t what you want. You are just busy fulfilling everyone’s goals. It can be the fast food industry enjoying your patronage because you’re lovin’ it, multi-billion dollar consumer goods companies securing your purchase because they convinced you that their haircare products with 76% frizz reduction is something you need, fashion houses getting you to buy their clothes because it makes you look cool, or you working in a job you don’t love because it is safe, secure and rakes in the dough. 开头所写的比尔科普兰的名言已经很清楚的表明意思了，如果你没有生活目标，你正在漫无目标的消耗你的时光，最终一无所成。你可以想象你正在做很多事情，但是那些并不是你想要的。你仅仅是忙碌的实现每个人对你的期望。就像一个欢迎你光临的快餐店，因为你喜欢这样，几十亿美元的日用消费品公司可以牢牢抓住你的购买欲望，因为他们可以让你确信，他们减少76%卷发的理发产品是你所需要的。时装店会让你买他们的衣服，因为这些衣服会让你穿上以后觉得很酷，很好看，或者你在做你不喜欢的工作，只是因为这件工作是铁饭碗，保障，并且能很快的赚到钱。 How are you supposed to manifest what you want if you don’t even set concrete goals? How do you supposed to achieve your dreams and visions if you don’t clearly spell out the end output you desire? 如果你不设定一个具体的目标，你怎么明白你想要的是什么？如果你不清楚地说出你想要的最终结果是什么，你怎么实现你的梦想和愿景？ Setting your goals gives you clarity on what you ultimately want. It makes you crystallize and articulate the desires floating in your mind. It ensures that you are channeling your time, energy and efforts into things that really matter to you. It makes you live more consciously. 设定目标，会让你清楚的知道你最终想要的是什么。设定目标会让你心中的愿望更加具体明确清晰。它能确保你正在合理的规划你的时间、精力和努力去做那些和你相关的事情。它会让你活得更有意义。 Everything in this world is created twice: First – creation in your mind, followed by the manifestation in reality. Without the mental creation, there will be no physical creation. When you set a goal, you already accomplish the first creation. You have set into motion a decree for yourself and the forces of your universe to materialize the goal in the physical reality. 世界上的所有东西都是二次创造而成的：第一次，人脑创造成型。没有脑力的创造，就没有体力的创造。当你制定一个目标，你已经完成了第一次创造。你还要付诸行动，在物质世界中实现这个目标。 2. Drives You Forward 2.驱使你前进 Your goals are a representation of your inner desires; desires which motivate you in life. The point when you set goals marks one the points when you are most connected with your source of motivation. It is when your motivation is at its peak. Having goals at your side serve as constant reminders of your motivational sources. They are the fuel which drive you forward and keep you going when the going gets tough. 你的目标代表着你内心的愿望；让你生活有动力的愿景。你设定目标的重点是标志着你能拥有更多的动力源泉。它会让你的活力处于顶峰。你自己的目标一直充当着提醒你保持动力的角色。它们是促使你前进和当你面对困难继续前进的燃料。 If I ever experience moments where I lose motivation, I get into meditation mode and focus on some of my most important goals in life, including the goal to turn my personal development business into a full-time career. I will visualize the scenario with full mental clarity, as if it is happening in the now. When I do that, it’s like a clear connection is formed with my inner desires. The motivational energy suddenly surges through very readily and I channel this energy into my daily life and actions. 如果我曾经经历过失去动力的时刻，我就会沉思，并将注意力集中到那些我生命中最重要的目标中，包括使我个人事业的发展转向一个全职的职业生涯这样的目标。我将会全神贯注、清晰地想象这些事情，正如现在正在发生一样。当我那样做时，就会形成一个很清晰的内心愿望。激发的能量突然促使我前进，而且我引导这些能流向我的日常生活和行动中。 3. Gives You Laser Focus 3.使你高度集中 Goals give you a single focal point to place your attention in. Whereas your purpose gives you a broad, directional focus to move your life in, goals gives you laser focus on what exactly to spend your time and energy on. Think of your time, energy and efforts as input, and results as the output. A goal acts as your funnel which guides and channels those inputs effectively into your desired output. 目标会让你只关注一个焦点。而你的目的给你一个广泛的、定向的焦点去生活，目标让你高度集中在那些你真正需要花时间和精力的事情上。想像你的时间、精力和花费的功夫作为投入，而结果做为输出。目标作为你的行动指南，这个行动指南指引着那些有效地投入转变成你想要的结果。 When you don’t have goals, you are floating around every day. Your energy is randomly dispersed in ad-hoc activities which you engage on whimsical basis. These are activities that play no role in your larger scope of life, but you are not aware of because you are just living life as it is. You end up mislabeling a lot of ‘nice-to-do’ activities as important. You might also be engaging in these ‘nice-to-do’ activities because you can’t think of a better way to spend your time. Do you find yourself surfing and chatting excessively? Busy running errands? Play a lot of games? Spend the bulk of your time being a workaholic? Spend the remaining time lazing and/or partying away? What’s your objective for doing them? What end output does it lead to? Is that the top priority in your life? 如果你没有目标，你每天都是虚幻的度过。你的精力会随机的分布在一些特定、你所从事的古怪的事情上。有些事情在你的大部分生活中是没起什么作用的，但是你不留意，因为你总是习以为常。你不做那些大量的对我们不是很重要的事情是很重要的。你也许会致力于这些对我们没什么用的事情上，因为你不能想到另一个更好的方式去花费你的时间。你有发现你自己过度的网上冲浪和聊天吗？忙碌的做跑腿的事情？打游戏？花费大量的时间在工作上？悠闲地度过余下的时间？你做那些事情的目的是什么？最终的结果是怎样的？这是你生活中最优先处理的事情吗？ You may have a broad idea of what you want to do. But until you clearly articulate it out as specific goals, you are not channeling your efforts properly. You will often find yourself getting sidetracked because you don’t have goals to rein you in. It’s really quite easy to get swept away by the currents of everyday life, simply because there are so many stimulus out there in our environment. You may get the general overall impression that you are moving in the direction, but it is just an illusion that you are having. With no goals, you have no focus. Without this focus, your input is strewn around randomly to give you garbage output. That is, if you even get any semblance of an output at all. 你也许有一个你想要做什么的不够明确的想法。但是直到你把它设为一个明确的目标清晰的描述出来时，你才能完全的合理的运用你的精力。你将经常发现你自己转移注意力，因为你没有制定目标来控制你自己。在当前的每一天生活中，相当容易受到影响，仅仅因为在我们的生活环境中有很多刺激物。你也许会感受到大致的整体印象，但是它仅仅是一个你所有想象的幻觉。没有目标，你就不会集你的注意力、精力于一体。没有精力、注意力的集中，你所投入的换来的切是随意的对你没有任何作用的副产品。换言之，甚至你没有得到有用的产出。 4. Makes You Accountable 4.使你更加有使命感 Having goals makes you accountable. Rather than just talking about what you want all the time and not do anything concrete about them, you are now obligated to take action. Setting a specific goal gives you clarity on whether you are living up against what you committed yourself to do when you first set your goal. 目标使你拥有使命感。并不是一直谈论你想拥有什么，而没有制定计划着手做，光是纸上谈兵，制定了目标后，你现在就有义务去实现他们了。制定具体的目标让你清楚的知道当你制定第一个目标后，是否你一直在为实现目标而努力。 This accountability is accountability to yourself, not anyone else. This accountability is what you hold up to when you choose the healthy salad over that piece of fried chicken. It is what you answer to when you spent that hour working on your report rather than random web surfing. When you stay accountable towards your goals, you are in fact staying true to your desires (see point 1 above). 使命感对你自己来说就是义务，不是其他人的。义务就是当你选择绿色食品色拉附上一块炸鸡肉时欣然接受的事。它是你花费工作时间在你的报告上，而不是在随意的浏览网页。当你一直对你的目标始终肩负着责任时，实际上，你是在为实现你的愿望而努力奋斗(上面的第一点中有说明)。 For my blog, one of the goals I set is the number of articles which I want to write every week. When I set such targets in place, I become accountable towards delivering against it. If I find myself falling short, I will take the necessary actions to turn the situation around. I examine how I have been spending my time and start prioritizing across my daily tasks. I cut out the Quadrant 4 tasks (time wasters) or activities that bear little to no relation to my goals. From this, I have reduced considerable time on my biggest time wasters, including chatting, random web surfing, constantly checking my mail/web stats, certain outings which are not as important compared to my writing goal. 对我的博客来说，我所设定的目标之一是我每一个星期所写文章的字数。当我设定这个合适的目标时，我对它有了责任和义务。如果我发现没有达到要求，我将采取必要的措施去改变这个局面。我检查在我的每一天的任务中如何安排时间和怎样开始做优先级高的工作。我删去那些与我的目标毫无瓜葛的4分之1的工作（浪费时间的）或者活动。从这里开始，我已经在一些浪费时间的无用处的工作、活动上节省了一部分时间，这些活动包括谈话、无目的的浏览网页、经常查看我的邮箱/网络数据，当然还有对我写作的目标来说重要性劣等一筹的户外运动。 5. Be The Best You Can Be 5.尽可能的做到最好 Goals help you achieve your highest potential. Without goals, you subject yourself to the natural, default set of actions that keep you feel safe and comfortable every day. But this familiarity is the nemesis of growth. It prevents you from growing. It does not enable you to become the best person you can be. It denies you from tapping into all that potential inside of you. 目标会让你发掘你拥有的最大的潜能。没有目标，你会让你自己变成平庸，习惯性的一系列动作会让你每一天都觉得很安全和舒适。然而舒适的生活切是成长的克星。它会成为你成长的绊脚石。也会让你不能够成为你本来可以成为优秀的你。它会阻止你进一步的发掘你内在的潜能。 By setting goals, you set targets to strive against. These targets make you venture into new places, new contexts, new situations which puts you into growth mode. They make you stretch beyond your normal self and reach new heights. For example, setting a time limit for your run lets you know if you should be running faster. Setting a weight loss target makes you aware if your actions have been effective in losing weight. Setting a career goal ensures you are not settling for anything less than what you desire. 通过制定目标，你就会为实现目标而奋力去奋斗。目标会让你想去探险新的地方，新的领域，新的生活环境。目标会让你超越自己，而重新到达一个新的高度。例如，制定一个限时跑一定距离的计划，它会让你意识到你要跑得更快。制定一个减肥的计划，会让你意识到你的运动是可以减肥的。制定一个职业生涯规划，能确保你不会制定一些和你最终目标无关的计划。 In my goal achievement processes, I have found myself constantly bursting through new grounds and uncovering potential which I did not know existed before. Without those goals, I would be taking the path of least resistance, just doing things within their natural constraints. Goals have made me face and overcome countless barriers to get to what’s on the other side. It has made me much more self aware and learn a lot more things about both myself and life, compared to if I did not have those goals. 在我实现目标的过程中，我发觉自己总是冲破一些新领域的荆棘，发现一些我早已拥有的而没有被发掘的潜能。没有制定那些目标，我将会任由自己发展，仅仅做那些在我们自己本身局限内所能做的事。目标让我勇敢地面对和克服那些数不尽的与目标背道而驰的障碍。与没有目标的我相比，它现在让我更好的认识自己，和学习更多的和我和我的生活有关的东西。 6. Live Your Best Life 6.活得越来越好 Goals ensure you get the best out of life, for two reasons. 目标确保我们享受生活的精华，有2大理由。 Firstly, by becoming a better person, your new found knowledge and abilities let you experience more out of the same life events compared to the previous you. Think about how your worldview is different now vs the you 10 years ago. Do you see life with much more clarity, depth and perspective today than you were in the past? What may be a simple daily occurrence in the past holds a lot more meaning to the more highly evolved you today. 第一，为了成为一个更加优秀的人，和以前的你相比较，你现在发现知识和能力能够让你对同一件事情会有更多的体会、感受。想想现在你的世界观和10年前的相比有什么不同。你发现你现在的生活和你过去的相比，是不是更加的明确、深度和透视。过去每天发生的事情，有哪些对现在已高度升华的你来说是有意义的？ Secondly, time passes in our life, whether we want to or not. Goals with specific measures and deadlines ensure we are maximizing our output and experiences during our time here. If you have already discovered your life purpose, your goals will ensure you get the best out of your purpose. 第二，时间的消逝，是否是我们所想要的。有明确的措施和截止日期相伴随的目标能确保我们正在使产出最大化。如果你已经发现你生活的目的，你的目标将会确保你发挥最大的功效。 Imagine you are driving a car. When you identify your purpose, you get clarity on the direction to travel in. However, without specifying an exact destination and time frame, there is no yardstick to benchmark your progress against. It wouldn’t make a difference whether you are whizzing at an amazing 140km/hour or a paltry 10km/hour since you never set a target. Goals ensure you are maximizing your life for all that it can offer you. 想象你正在开着车。当你确定你的目的地时，你就明确了你行车的方向。然而，如果没有明确的目的地和时间，那就不会有一个标准的尺度去衡量你的进度。所以将车速开到惊人的140千米每小时和10千米每小时是没什么区别的，因为你没有设定目标。目标使你的生活受益最大化。 Start Setting Goals 开始制定目标 Ask yourself this – What are my goals for the upcoming 1 year, 3 years, 5, 10 years? 问问你自己，我未来1年，3年，5，10年的目标分别是什么？ If you are to take some time out to set your goals now, I can guarantee you that you will definitely experience more growth as a person. By just spending a few minutes to articulate some aspirations that have been in your mind, you will experience more progress in your life a year from now than compared to if you don’t. 如果你现在花费点时间去制定你未来的目标，我可以保证你将会生活得更好。如果你花费几分钟的时间去确定你心中的愿望是什么，从现在开始和你不设定目标相比，一年后你将会取得很大的进步。 |
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