Do you have such a friend? At the beginning of the year, they set a lot of goals with great pride. At the end of the year, they still stand still and have to come back next year?
Why is it so difficult to achieve the goal? Is there a shortcut?
The answer is:
Anyway, there is.
Two words: environment.
Environment?
Simply put, it is to create an environment that can remind us to move towards our goals.
Heidi Grant Hall Watson mentioned a scrabble experiment in How to Achieve the Goal:
Two groups of students were locked in different rooms and spelled English words with randomly placed letters. A few minutes later, the intercom asked them to stop spelling. But before the competition, one group also played a spelling and word search game, trying to find words related to success and goals, such as "win", "success", "struggle", "proficiency" and "achievement". In this group of students, 57% are still spelling words after hearing the stop instruction, while only 22% in the other group.
What is the reason? Researchers believe that this is a prompt signal to activate the subconscious in the environment, and the powerful subconscious quietly guides us to achieve our goals. In other words, the environment can trigger our pursuit of goals. Students who search for words related to the target, more people want to spell more words.
Not only that. When you pass the gym, it can trigger your exercise goal; Seeing a plate of fruits and vegetables will trigger your goal of healthy eating, and even seeing someone you don't know pursuing a certain goal will make you tend to do the same thing.
So how can we create a favorable environment to help us achieve our goals in life?
The more suggestive signals, the more likely it is to achieve the goal, because the more times the subconscious is activated, it will eventually become automatic.
I remember that I set an annual writing goal of 65,438+10,000 words in 20 18, and finally reached 200,000 words. What have I done?
I drew a time/writing coordinate and posted it in the study. I added the goal of writing words this week and the number of words I finished last week to my weekly schedule, and reported this week's writing progress to a Shanghai friend every Friday 12: 15 ... These are my hints, prompting me to achieve my goal.
Recently, I am preparing a writing decompression course, which was originally planned to be put on the chat platform before August 15, and now it is almost September 15. I haven't finished it. My excuse is that there are too many things and procrastination, but one reason is that there are too few warning signals for this goal-I have never drawn a goal schedule or reminded me every day in other ways. But writing this article makes me want to do it again-because it keeps reminding me of it.
Therefore, if you want to lose weight successfully, you might as well go to the gym often, put dumbbells next to the computer, use beautiful stars as desktops, join several fitness groups, often watch the circles made by fitness inspirational friends, and only put vegetables and fruits in the refrigerator ... Give full play to your intelligence and wisdom, and your environment will help you lose weight.
Anyway, I'm going to prepare for the writing decompression class.