褪墨最新系列短篇：你的生活由自己选择，挖掘激情与激励！

• 自我抑制

每当我设定一项新试行计划或正式的目标，并不急着开始。因为这时我只有亢奋和激情，而缺少对障碍和自己能力有限的认识，总觉得无所不能，不必多久我就将看到局限性，从而热情也开始减退。

没关系，面对一项新计划开始时的满腹热情和想一气呵成的冲动，我学会了一个非常奏效的激励措施——自我抑制。先别什么都干，只干计划里的50%- 75%，然后对容易使你停滞不前的地方制定一个方案。比如：我要去跑步，觉得自己能一口气跑下3公里，但取而代之的是我先让自己跑下1公里，跑完以后我觉得还能跑得更多，但我不会继续，而是等下一次健身再跑1.5公里。将精力良好地支配和释放，才能更好地驾驭它。

这还有个额外的好处，避免受伤和累垮。但我可以向你保证，如果你抑制自己，你达成目标的愿望只会有增无减。

原文：Top 20 Motivation Hacks - #19 - Zenhabits

译者：Sylvia（GTD翻译小组核心成员）

周末英语角，简单有意义的英语美文。

Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally. He answered it by saying: “I think, therefore am.”

But the best definition of existence ever saw did another philosopher who said: “To be is to be in relations.” If this true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations. Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned - poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs - you are dead.

Contrariwise, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest - even more, a new accomplishment - you increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in a large variety of subjects can remain unhappy; the real pessimist is the person who has lost interest.

Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts, new friends. What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are also alive. Where your thoughts are, there will your live be also. If your thoughts are confined only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow cir-conscribed life. But if you are interested in what is going on in China, then you are living in China, if you’re interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people, if you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination.

To be or not to be - to live intensely and richly, merely to exist, that depends on ourselves. Let widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let live!

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• 找一个训练伙伴或志同道合者

靠自己保持热情是艰难的，而一旦找到目标相仿的人（长跑，节食，省钱等等），看看他是否愿意成为你的拍档。也可以和你的另一半、兄弟姐妹或好友在实现目标上搭档。你们并不需要有相通的目标——只需互相激励，共同进步，迈向成功。

举例来说，我和妻子就是实现目标中的搭档。我们制定了各自的 年度目标排行榜，还每周碰头制定月目标、周目标，回顾前一周彼此取得的成绩（每月末回顾前一个月），我们持续彼此提醒、鼓励、促进，这在前进道路中很有乐趣。

我还有个健身伙伴。跑步我多数时间和妻子一起，游泳、骑车和一个叫Patrick的朋友一起。我们都是游泳新手，因此有个和自己在同一起跑线的同伴很好。他骑车比我有经验，这也很不错，因为这样练习时他能教我一些基本技能。

有一个训练伙伴或志同道合者很棒，因为你不仅只回馈自己——你还得向另一个人汇报，每周你都要和那人碰面，所以必须要坚持训练和你的目标，没人愿意让别人失望或在别人面前丢脸。

原文：Top 20 Motivation Hacks - #16 - Zenhabits

译者：Sylvia（GTD翻译小组核心成员）

周末英语角，简单有意义的英语美文。

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.

A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.

Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.

Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.

The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.

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• 立即开始

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）

褪墨最新系列短篇：你的生活由自己选择，挖掘激情与激励！

• 把它当作乐趣

我们拖延对达成目标有益的事，比如锻炼，其中一个原因是它看起来是一项艰巨的任务。好吧，或许是这样，然而，关键在于想办法把它变成或者当作一种乐趣。

以长跑为例来说：我每天早上在日出前开始跑步，跑着跑着，天空就变幻起奇妙的色彩，我一边跑一边抬头望望天空，享受这种奇妙，然后深深吸一口气，对自己说:“多么灿烂的一天！”，这确实是生活中的欢庆时刻。第二天早晨，我就会期盼能再这样迎接新的一天，这就是乐趣。

再举一例：把联系或其他活动变成社交性的活动，也能增添它的乐趣。比如，你可以和一组伙伴一起骑车，边骑边聊，也可以这样来跑步。如此，甚至会忘记自己是在锻炼！

又是一例：如果你想每天克制开销或在早晨进行写作，那么，你可以在记账或写了30分钟的时候给自己来点小仪式，享受晨间第一杯咖啡，闻闻咖啡香，在做事情的同时慢慢啜饮，当然也可以是一杯热可乐，或者跟我一样，一杯鲜果汁。无论怎样，这都会使你手头的事情充满乐趣。

一旦实现目标的活动成为享受，你就会真正的期待它，这将是一件好事。

原文：Top 20 Motivation Hacks - #14 - Zenhabits

译者：Sylvia（GTD翻译小组核心成员）

褪墨最新系列短篇：你的生活由自己选择，挖掘激情与激励！

• 持之以恒，要有耐心

我知道，以下这点说比做容易。我们很多人的问题在于急功近利，我把这归咎于寻求捷径（速成），即时满足的社会文化。我们希望节食两周就有成效；希望健身四周就使小腹扁平；希望两个月就摆脱债务；几年后就退休。嗯，除非你已经离目标一步之遥，否则这些都是不会发生的。

计划目标时，需长期考虑。要减肥，可能会有些快速的初期成效，但减掉其他部分则还需一个长期过程；要跑马拉松，不可能一夜间便实现。如果不能在短期内见到你想要的效果，也别放弃，要有耐心。同时，对迄今为止取得的成绩和坚持目标坚定持乐观态度。只要拥有耐心 ，一定会有好结果。

举例来说，我自从减掉最初20磅后减肥进度变得非常慢。我想大概是摄取了太多热量，我可以继续原来方式不变，但我还是减少了食用甜食并增加了运动量，还做着现在也在继续的三项全能。现在我觉得我的体重（或者说脂肪）慢慢地又有所减少了。我不经常称体重，但人们都对我的减肥效果大为称赞。事实上，我离拥有 一个扁平小腹的目标还很远，但我知道：只要我有足够耐心，那一天一定会到来！

原文：Top 20 Motivation Hacks - #13 - Zenhabits

译者：Sylvia（GTD翻译小组核心成员）

褪墨最新系列短篇：你的生活由自己选择，挖掘激情与激励！

• 学会奖励自己

这不只针对长期目标，应该学会把大目标分解成小而具体的目标。因此，每个小目标都应有相应的奖赏。把包含每个小目标的目标列成表，在每项旁写上适当的奖励。我指的“适当” 是：

1. 和总体目标的大小成比例：别把奢侈的欧洲14日游作为成功跑完1公里的奖励！
2. 别让它毁了你的目标：如果正在减肥，就别用一顿暴饮暴食奖赏一天的健康饮食，这会弄巧成拙。

这并不意味着不能时不时有些小甜点作奖赏，即使是在减肥中，但要适量且不频繁。比如，我会在周末时对自己一周来的健康饮食和控制食欲有所奖赏，这不是每天都有，而是一周一次，同时，我会去跑步（或参加比赛），周日骑单车，整理花园，以此消耗掉周末奖励得来的糖分和脂肪。

奖励品可以是你喜欢的任何东西。我的奖励中包括甜点、跑鞋、运动、mp3、书、运动服、一顿高级餐厅的晚餐，或其他我鉴于需要而控制着的愿望。你也可以选择一次按摩、鞋子、衣服、或修一次指甲、做一次美容作为奖励，我不用这些奖励，但你可以用。

无论程度如何，就是要放纵自己一下——庆祝！对取得的成就表示肯定，再回头看看你付出的那些艰苦努力，对它们作个交代至关重要，因为这会使你对目标的执行感觉更好，并激励你走得更远。将它告诉家人和朋友，为自己骄傲，给自己一颗五角星。

原文：Top 20 Motivation Hacks - #11 - Zenhabits

译者：Sylvia（GTD翻译小组核心成员）