I Will succeed progress...作文

I Will succeed progress...作文
I Will succeed progress...作文

I Will succeed progress...作文
Sometimes you find yourself with a goal you think you should want to achieve,but you just don鈥檛 seem to be taking enough action to reach it.You aren鈥檛 really afraid of failure or rejection,the path to the goal seems clear enough and might even be an interesting challenge,and occasionally you鈥檒l make some progress.But most of the time you can鈥檛 seem to get into that flow state,and you鈥檙e not sure why.This often happens with long-term goals that require intermittent action,like losing weight or transitioning to start a new business and eventually quit your job.
One question I鈥檝e found helpful to ask in these situations is this:What will happen if you succeed?Forget about what you hope will happen or what you fear might happen,but realistically consider what probably will happen.So you achieve your goal.Then what?What else will change?
I鈥檓 not talking about giving a 5-second cursory answer,like 鈥淚f I lose the weight,then I鈥檒l be thin.鈥 Set aside at least 15-30 minutes just to think about how your life will really change once you achieve your goal (with no TV,radio,or other distractions).There are often unexpected side effects that you may not be aware of consciously,but subconsciously they can be enough to prevent you from taking committed action.For example,if you lose a lot of weight,here are some possible side effects:people will notice and will comment about it,other people will ask you for diet advice,you may feel you need to continue with a permanent lifestyle change to maintain your new weight,you may need to buy new clothes,you may become more attractive to others and thereby attract more social encounters (wanted or unwanted),overweight friends might become jealous,your family may resist your changes,you may feel stressed about whether you can keep the weight off,you may worry about the loss of certain favorite foods from your diet,and so on.
It鈥檚 rare that a goal is all roses.Success requires change,and change has both positive and negative consequences.Often while people claim to want to succeed at something,the reality is that the negatives outweigh the positives for them.But one way to overcome this problem is to consciously think about what those negatives are,and then uproot them one by one.Uprooting a negative side effect could mean figuring out how to eliminate it completely,or it could mean just accepting it and learning to live with it.
It鈥檚 certainly helpful to focus on the positive side of a goal.But don鈥檛 forget to take an occasional survey of the dark side and accept that you鈥檙e going to have to deal with that too.
Unlike fear of failure and fear of rejection,fear of success can be far more insidious because it鈥檚 almost always unconscious.But it鈥檚 not fear of success itself that is the problem but rather fear of the side effects of success,many of which may be genuinely unwanted.Fears that are never evaluated consciously have a tendency to grow stronger.The reason is simple behavioral conditioning 鈥 when you avoid something you fear (either consciously or subconsciously),you automatically reinforce the avoidance behavior.So when you (even unknowingly) avoid working on your goal because of a hidden fear of success,you actually reinforce the habit of procrastination,so as time goes by,it becomes harder and harder to get yourself to take action.Insidious!
Asking,鈥淲hat will happen if I succeed?鈥 can solve this problem because it focuses your conscious attention on those fears.Fear has a tendency to shrink under direct examination,making it easier for you to take action.When I say that fear shrinks,another way of stating this is that subconscious behavioral conditioning weakens under conscious scrutiny.I know some people dislike the word 鈥渇ear鈥 with respect to their own behavior 鈥 don鈥檛 get hung up on the exact wording; call it 鈥渁voidance behavior鈥 if that鈥檚 more to your liking.
But an additional benefit is that you can also devise intelligent work-arounds for those fears-made-conscious,some of which may indeed be valid signals of unsolved problems.For example,going back to the weight loss example,if you lose a lot of weight,you probablywillneed new clothes.And if you don鈥檛 have the money to buy new clothes,then that is a real problem you鈥檒l need to address (unless you don鈥檛 mind wearing oversized outfits).Left unacknowledged,even a simple problem like this can be enough to subconsciously sabotage you from achieving your goal.But once you examine the situation consciously and figure out a way to deal with it in advance,you鈥檙e sending a message to your subconscious that you needn鈥檛 fear this problem because you have a practical way to solve it.
Now let鈥檚 consider the opposite side.Suppose you ask,鈥淲hat will happen if I succeed?鈥 and upon considering all the side effects,you realize that you don鈥檛 actually want to achieve the goal at all.The negatives outweigh the positives.I encountered this when I made a plan to grow my games business but didn鈥檛 seem to make as much progress as I wanted.When I asked this magic question,I realized that I didn鈥檛 really want to achieve the goal with all its side effects 鈥 what I really wanted was to transition to writing and speaking full time,and further building my games business would actually take me farther from that more important goal.Growing my games business seemed like a goal I should want,but when I really thought about where I鈥檇 be if I achieved that goal,I realized it wouldn鈥檛 be the success I truly wanted.That was a difficult realization for me鈥 to recognize that my original ladder of success was now leaning against the wrong building.So I actually had to 鈥渦nset鈥 that goal once I really understood the likely consequences of achieving it.
Even now as I set goals in the direction of writing and speaking as my new career,I recognize that there are big side effects.I simply don鈥檛 have the mental bandwidth for two full-time careers.One of the hardest side effects for me was letting go of the goals and dreams I had for my games business.All those creative ideas for new games that will never be鈥 and the would-be players who will never experience them鈥?But this is outweighed by what will happen as I succeed in my new career.To create a new game that challenges,entertains,and uplifts people is wonderful; however,being able to help people grow fulfills me even more.I found it a very enlightening process to review all these side effects and one by one to acknowledge that I accept them.
What will happen if you succeed?If you lose the weight鈥 get the date鈥 earn the promotion鈥 start the business鈥 get pregnant鈥 quit smoking鈥 become a millionaire鈥 stretch yourself?