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The author David Allen is considered to be one of world's top consultants1 when it comes to personal productivity. He's perhaps best known for his self-help time management book-Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity that has for years been an international best seller. Well, there's been two weeks into the New Year I caught up with him in Ohio, California to get his take on goal-setting in 2010. And write off the bad, he said that thinking about goals and the things you want to get out of life is:


Always gonna be better than the, you know, the things we’re 93% negative. So I’ll talk of most people do: Think of, well, life is hard, you know, I’ll never get there, so anything you can do to keep your mind focus on, you know, more positive stuff, that stuff you want to have, it's gonna be highly useful to you.


So, that's good news, but he also says to watch out for a few things when sitting down to think about your goals in a year ahead.


People need to get very serious about goal-setting and lighting2 up the time. What people don't need is to beat themselves up any more. And I think most people usually in the US anyway, you know, with such an optimistic creature and in general, we are really optimistic and really sort of make a cope of, I gotta, you know, ate too much, I slipped up last year, I'm really gonna make a difference this year. Then I would highly suggest that people be cautious about that.

 

And so, what is the best way to set goals?


The best way to set goals is to set about 45 and see which to stick around.

 

Forty-five? Forty-five goals of, of what?


Oh, anything, anything, what would you like to have true by the end of next year. Or what would like to wait, how would far fashion like to run a mile, you know what would you like to shoot on the golf course, how much money would you like to have in the bank? How would you like to feel when you wake up in the morning? What would an ideal Sunday afternoon a year from now be for you? I mean, just keep going. You know, just keep coming all those wonderful, your images of what life would be like if it were in some things in hands, or expanded, or better for you and whatever that means to you. And then just, you know, essentially3 keep focusing on them and reset4, you know that we almost never achieve our goals.


What? Then why are bother making them in the first place?


Because from where I'm looking right now, but the goal I set by the time I'm half way to it, I'm already more mature, more experienced, have better data, and so by the time I get half way to the goal I set. I looked down that goal: Oh, wait a minute, that over there is what I really wanted, but I couldn't see it from back where I started, so I had to pick something and get going. You know I learned years ago in the marshal arch what you don't is standstill. You are better-off to actually be going in the wrong direction 180 degrees, and course correct and turn around, you actually, you take actually less energy to do that than to get going from a standstill. So most people wanna know what to do before they start doing, but frankly5 you are not gonna know what to do until you start doing.


And so what's one practical thing we can do to keep and meet our goals in 2010?


I would recommend that before, before in the midst of our, or maybe instead of setting big goals that you might crash and burn from, that the best thing to do is cleaning up.

 

And why is that so helpful?


It’s really nothing, you know, more frustrating6 than when you try to add new stuff under a whole lot of incompletion and old residue7 setting in your psyche8 and in your house. So, one of the coolest things to do at the year end is actually to use this inspiration: Hey, you know, it's really time to get our falling system order. It’s really time to, you know, walk around, do a sidewalk around, just make a list of all the stuff that we really, you know, might or need to want to clean up. And then also sit down with you and any partners in life, and just make a list of all the cool things or new things or things you completed in the last 12 months. It’s a very very power exercise, psychologically for people, they give themselves from acknowledgement. When you think where you were a year ago, or even, you know, any kind of timeline that really I think give you more grounded view of, you know how cool things could be and also that you don't over blow your expectations, ‘cause if you set something too far, you’ll stretch over bend and break it. Really need to make it, what I call 51% believable. Need to be something that, you know, yeah it’s 51% believable, you need to have stretch goals, they are fun, I think that's a good thing and healthy, you know for people to stretch and expand. But again you don't want to stretch it too far.


So here is your 2010 and your far-reaching yet reachable goals.


 


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1 consultants c6fbb5ca6219111731f9c4c4d2675810     
顾问( consultant的名词复数 ); 高级顾问医生,会诊医生
参考例句:
  • a firm of management consultants 管理咨询公司
  • There're many consultants in hospital. 医院里有很多会诊医生。
2 lighting CpszPL     
n.照明,光线的明暗,舞台灯光
参考例句:
  • The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
  • The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
3 essentially nntxw     
adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
参考例句:
  • Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
  • She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
4 reset rkHzYJ     
v.重新安排,复位;n.重新放置;重放之物
参考例句:
  • As soon as you arrive at your destination,step out of the aircraft and reset your wristwatch.你一到达目的地,就走出飞机并重新设置手表时间。
  • He is recovering from an operation to reset his arm.他做了一个手臂复位手术,正在恢复。
5 frankly fsXzcf     
adv.坦白地,直率地;坦率地说
参考例句:
  • To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说,我一点也不赞成这个主意。
  • Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说,我不反对改革。
6 frustrating is9z54     
adj.产生挫折的,使人沮丧的,令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧
参考例句:
  • It's frustrating to have to wait so long. 要等这么长时间,真令人懊恼。
  • It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience. 那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 residue 6B0z1     
n.残余,剩余,残渣
参考例句:
  • Mary scraped the residue of food from the plates before putting them under water.玛丽在把盘子放入水之前先刮去上面的食物残渣。
  • Pesticide persistence beyond the critical period for control leads to residue problems.农药一旦超过控制的临界期,就会导致残留问题。
8 psyche Ytpyd     
n.精神;灵魂
参考例句:
  • His exploration of the myth brings insight into the American psyche.他对这个神话的探讨揭示了美国人的心理。
  • She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche.她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。

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