Aquarius is the most idealistic! 6 tips to quickly achieve your new goals in 2017

Time flies! It is now the second month of 2017. Do you still remember your New Year’s ambitions and the wishes you made at that time? Losing weight, going to bed early, and exercising are what many people expect of themselves, but it is often just a passing fancy, and few people can actually do it. However, Aquarius, who is idealistic, visionary and wise, is very serious about pursuing his life goals! Why not make good use of these 6 tips to make achieving your wishes easier!

New Year, New Hope. At the beginning of every year, everyone is full of yearning for the new year, hoping that this year will be better and more wishes will come true! However, a US study found that as many as 92% of people lack the perseverance to persevere, and in the end only 8% of them successfully achieve their goals.

Are you the 92% who are just living there, or the 8% who are worthy of admiration? In fact, everyone has laziness, which is normal human nature. The key is to find the right way to fight laziness and help us achieve a better life! Even if you are not an Aquarius who is full of ideals and enthusiasm, it doesn’t matter. We have referred to the foreign website The Art of Charm and compiled 6 little secrets for you to easily achieve your goals. No matter which zodiac sign you are, you will make a big splash in 2017!

Tip 1. Take action today, now, at this very moment!

Stop saying "wait a minute" or "tomorrow"! No matter what your desire is, the best way to avoid laziness, procrastination and letting it go is to take action immediately. Take weight loss, which is what everyone cares about the most, for example. Once you have made a diet and exercise plan, start implementing it from today. Even if you eat and drink a lot during the day, you can go running or eat a light diet starting in the evening. Don't think: start tomorrow, next week, or even next month!

Otherwise, if you originally planned to lose 2 kg in a month, it might take more than a month or two months to achieve the goal, and you might not even lose 1 kg by the time spring is over and summer comes. Remember: the sooner you start, the sooner you succeed!

Taking the gym as an example, in order to motivate yourself to exercise regularly, you may join a membership, or even sign up for exercise classes or a personal trainer, and then follow the schedule. If you want to start an exercise plan as soon as possible, you must not have the thought in your mind "I am so tired from work today, I will just go to the membership class on the weekend"! Even if you don't have the energy to do some physical exercise today, you can still join as a member, choose your classes, and complete all the formalities first, so that you can go directly to class on the weekend without wasting any time.

If you wait until the weekend to join a membership, you will most likely have to wait until next week to start exercising, thus wasting a week. Don't forget! The sooner you start, the sooner you will succeed!

Tip 2. Break big goals into small tasks and achieve them easily without any burden!

When making New Year's resolutions, we are always full of ambition and resolve to lose 10 kilograms this year, go to bed before 12 o'clock every night, exercise three times a week, etc. However, when the annual holiday is over and we return to normal life, we will find that these all sound like fantasy. It is so difficult just to think about it, so how can we have the motivation to do it?

don’t worry! As long as you divide each goal into small tasks, it is not difficult to put them into practice and you can achieve them without realizing it. For example, if you distribute the 10 kg weight loss evenly in a year, it means you only need to lose about 0.8 kg per month, which is less than 1 kg! Doesn’t this sound much easier? If you feel that is still not enough, divide 0.8 kg by four weeks, which means you only need to lose 0.2 kg a week, which will make you feel more hopeful!

As long as you can achieve small goals every week and every month, you can lose 2.4 kg in a season, 4.8 kg in half a year, and a full 9.6 kg after a year, which is almost the goal of losing 10 kg a year. When you look back at that time, you will find that everything is not as difficult as you imagined!

Tip 3. Turn your goals into good habits in just 21 days!

Have you heard of the "21-day effect"? According to psychological theory, it takes about 21 days to develop and consolidate a habit, which is actually not a long time. As the saying goes, "habit becomes nature". If you can turn the goals you want to achieve into a lifestyle habit, it will be easier to execute!

For example, if you want to jog three days a week, then make jogging a good habit as regular as going to and from get off work, and as natural as eating and sleeping! Continuing with Tip 2, you can first break your running goals into small tasks to make exercise easier and increase your motivation to develop a running habit.

For beginners, they may not be able to run continuously for 30 minutes at the beginning. So start with 10 minutes the first time, increase to 20 minutes the second time, and advance to 30 minutes the third time. Isn't this meeting the standard? This small sense of accomplishment can support your continued progress and make you willing to spend more time running. Before you know it, you will reach the goal of exercising three times a week, and each time for 30 minutes!

In this way, exercise is no longer a boring "to-do item", but a habitual lifestyle that you cannot change even if you want to. If you don't run one day, you will feel something is wrong with your body! As long as you develop a habit, you will achieve your goals naturally and it will be easy to realize your wishes!

Tip 4. Use mobile apps to help you lose weight and exercise more easily!

On the road to your goals, in addition to strong willpower, you also need some small tools to help! Mobile phones are something modern people carry with them everywhere, even when they sleep. It is perfect to use them as a tool to motivate ourselves.

There are many useful mobile phone apps now, such as those that record exercise time, running speed, calories burned, sleep time, weight changes, and apps that can also calculate food calories and daily water intake. There are even alarms to remind you when to drink water. They are very practical! People who want to lose weight may wish to download this type of APP to record their daily exercise, diet, and sleep, which will facilitate self-supervision. They can also observe their long-term living habits and be more motivated to improve them.

If the APP has an alarm function, you should make good use of it! Not only should you remind yourself to drink water, but you should also remind yourself of the time to exercise, sleep, eat fruit, etc. This way, you will never miss out on doing what you should do no matter how busy your life is. It is best to use an APP with multiple recording functions to write down how much vegetables you eat and how many glasses of sugary drinks you drink every day. Before going to bed, check whether you have made small progress or big setbacks today.

Tip 5. Invite your friends to come together and encourage each other to succeed faster!

Is it lonely to struggle alone? Then find a partner to work with. Whether it is family, colleagues, or friends, as long as you have a common goal, you can supervise and encourage each other, making it easier to achieve the goal.

For weight loss through exercise, you can run with friends or sign up for the same exercise class to increase the fun. If it is not convenient to exercise together, you can change to reporting your exercise status and weight loss to each other every week to give yourself some positive pressure. If your partner is more hardworking than you and achieves better results, I believe you will feel embarrassed and dare not be lazy anymore!

Tip 6. Be clear about rewards and punishments! Success is rewarded, laziness is punished

In order to avoid giving up halfway during your struggle, it is recommended that you set some rewards and punishments. You can reward yourself when you achieve your phased goals, but if you do not act according to the plan or even often slack off, you will have to pay the price! Generally speaking, rewards are an effective and positive way of encouragement for human beings. However, some people lack self-control, so moderate punishment is necessary.

There are many ways to reward, such as watching a long-awaited movie, buying a favorite piece of clothing, or arranging a travel activity, going out for a walk on the weekend, and enjoying a good time with family and friends. If there are things you normally don’t want to buy or restaurants you don’t want to eat at, you can consider using them as rewards.

As for punishment, choose something that you hate but can be "altruistic", such as cooking for your family, doing housework, cleaning the room, etc. If the only housework you are responsible for is washing dishes, the punishment for the first offense is to add mopping the floor and washing clothes. If you are lazy again and fail to complete the stage goals, the punishment will be doubled. Not only will you have to wash dishes, mop the floor and wash clothes, but you will also have to wash the car, change bed sheets, cook for a week, etc. In short, you must "pay back double"!

Of course, we still need to urge ourselves to get as many rewards as possible rather than punishments, so that we can form a virtuous circle and have more time to achieve our goals, making 2017 more exciting than any previous year!