So True! That's How We Look Like.

Are you the kind of person who likes to change plans often because I don't have any motivation or desire to pursue your goals? 

As the proverb goes like: "One who has a strong mind will set one long-term target to pursue. One who has a weak heart may have a large number of goals but often changes them." we should admit that this expression fits me well.

At the beginning of 2017, I wrote a list of resolutions on my WeChat Moments. But the truth is: 

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Flag 1: Successful Weight Loss

I subscribe to weight-loss and body-shaper courses on some fitness apps, every time I exercised, afterward I ate like a horse. 

And because I didn't exercise regularly, my body was often in pain. So I'd just procrastinate exercising if I was busy or when my friends convinced me to go to dinner or watch a movie with them instead.

Flag 2: Finish reading plan

As for books, at first I set aside special reading time every evening, then it turned into once a week, then once a month. Now, every evening I just play on my mobile phone, watch TV or browse the internet until 1 am. 

I can remember every episode of a television series I've watched, but I can't recite any passage from the books I've read.

I merely set up a flag!

There is a new internet buzzword in China, "Set up a flag", meaning to make one's resolution. But this "flag" can easily be taken down.

 Admit or not, many of us share our latest new year's resolution lists on social media, including:

But as time goes by, such lists turn out to be so hard for us!

Why?

According to an experiment conducted by a psychologist at New York University named Peter Gollwitzer, people who share their goals and resolutions with others are the ones who most easily fail.

Because when you brag about your goals (for example, what kind of person you want to be in the future) you will create the illusion that you are already successful. Other people's understanding and recognition of your goals also make you think you have accomplished part of it.

But, sadly

The main reason most of us fail to achieve our personal goals and new year's resolutions is that we utterly lack the courage and determination to persist.

Now the Chinese New Year holiday draws to an end, so It's time to re-set up another flag in our hearts. Let's just hope this ”flag” works, because I really need to make some big changes in my unhealthy, lazy lifestyle.