只留五件事

类别：成长

讲述放弃过多目标、学会做减法后，反而轻松完成更多事项的心态转变。

时长 64 秒 · 语速 130 wpm

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Every January, I write a list of goals. 每年一月，我都会列一份新年目标。

Last year, I had twenty. 去年，我列了整整二十个。

Learn Spanish. 学西班牙语。

Run a marathon. 跑一场马拉松。

Read fifty books. 读五十本书。

By March, I'd done none of them, 可到了三月，我一个都没完成，

and I felt like a failure. 觉得自己特别失败。

This year, a friend gave me a rule. 今年，一个朋友给我支了个招。

Write your twenty. 写下你的二十个目标。

Then cross out fifteen. 然后划掉十五个。

It was painful. 这过程挺痛苦的。

Every goal looked important. 每个目标看起来都很重要。

Crossing out "learn Spanish" felt like closing 划掉“学西班牙语”的时候，感觉就像是关上了

a door on a whole version of me, 通往另一个自己的一扇门——

the one who orders dinner in Madrid. 那个在马德里自如点餐的自己。

But I did it. 但我还是划了。

One line at a time. 一条接一条地划。

Five were left. 最后剩下了五个。

I looked at them, 我看着它们，

and my shoulders came down from around my ears. 原本紧绷耸着的肩膀瞬间松弛了下来。

Those other fifteen weren't goals. 另外那十五个根本不算什么目标。

They were weights. 它们是沉重的包袱。

Each one whispered, every day, "You're not doing me." 每一个每天都在耳边嘀咕：“你根本没在做我。”

Now it's quiet. 现在世界清静了。

It's October. 现在是十月。

I've finished three of the five. 五个目标里我已经搞定了三个。

That's three more than last year's twenty. 这可比去年的二十个还多完成了三个呢。