每日原则：用五步流程实现你的人生愿望

如果你能把那5件事都做好，你几乎肯定可以成功。这五步是：

这五步加起来构成一个循环，如图所示。现在我们来更细致地了解这一流程。 

首先，你要选择你追求什么，即你的目标。对目标的选择将决定你的方向。当你追求目标时，你会遇到问题，一些问题将迫使你直面自己的缺点。如何应对由此而来的痛苦，取决于你自己。要想实现目标，你必须沉着冷静，以便准确地诊断你的问题，进而规划一个方案来解决问题，然后做一切必要的事来践行方案，实现成果。然后你考察自己取得的这些新成果，并重复上述过程。为了快速进化，你必须迅速、持续地这么做，不断设定更高的目标。 

你若要成功就必须做好每一步，而且必须按顺序一步步来。例如，设定目标的时候就设定目标，不要想如何实现目标或者出错了怎么办。当你诊断问题的时候，不要想你将如何解决他们，只是诊断。混淆这些步骤会导致不理想的结果，因为这会妨碍你发现真正的问题。这个过程是不断完善的：认真做好每一步，你将获得进入下一步所需的信息，并将其做好。 

你必须以清醒、理性的方式来推进这个过程，从更高的层面俯视自身，做到近乎残忍的诚实。如果你被自己的情绪压倒，就退后一步，暂时停下来，直到恢复清醒的思考能力。必要时，向冷静、善于思考的人请教。 

为了帮助自己保持专注和高效，你可以假设自己的人生是一场武术比赛或一场游戏，目标是克服一个挑战，达成一个目标。一旦你接受了游戏规则，对于不断出现的挫折导致的不适，你就会感到习惯。你永远都无法把所有的事情都做得完美：错误是不可避免的，是生活的一部分，你需要认识和接受这一点。好消息是你犯的每个错误都能教给你一些东西，所以学无止境。你将很快认识到，各种各样的借口，如“这太难”“这看起来不公平”，甚至“我不可能做到”，都是无用的，而你坚持下去就会有收获。 

If you can do those five things well, you will almost certainly be successful. Swipe to see them in a nutshell.

Together, these five steps make up a loop, like the last image below/to the right. Let’s look at this process more granularly.                                

First you have to pick what you are going after—your goals. Your choice of goals will determine your direction. As you move toward them, you will encounter problems. Some of those problems will bring you up against your own weaknesses. How you react to the pain that causes is up to you. If you want to reach your goals, you must be calm and analytical so that you can accurately diagnose your problems, design a plan that will get you around them, and do what’s necessary to push through to results. Then you will look at the new results you achieve and go through the process again. To evolve quickly, you will have to do this fast and continuously, setting your goals successively higher.

You will need to do all five steps well to be successful and you must do them one at a time and in order. For example, when setting goals, just set goals. Don’t think about how you will achieve them or what you will do if something goes wrong. When you are diagnosing problems, don’t think about how you will solve them—just diagnose them. Blurring the steps leads to suboptimal outcomes because it interferes with uncovering the true problems. The process is iterative: Doing each step thoroughly will provide you with the information you need to move on to the next step and do it well.

It is essential that you approach this process in a clearheaded, rational way, looking down on yourself from a higher level and being ruthlessly honest. If your emotions are getting the better of you, step back and take time out until you can reflect clearly. If necessary, seek guidance from calm, thoughtful people.

To help you stay centered and effective, pretend that your life is a martial art or a game, the object of which is to get around a challenge and reach a goal. Once you accept its rules, you’ll get used to the discomfort that comes with the constant frustration. You will never handle everything perfectly: Mistakes are inevitable and it’s important to recognize and accept this fact of life. The good news is that every mistake you make can teach you something, so there’s no end to learning. You’ll soon realize that excuses like “that’s not easy” or “it doesn’t seem fair” or even “I can’t do that” are of no value and that it pays to push through. 

So what if you don’t have all the skills you need to succeed? Don’t worry about it because that’s true for everyone. You just have to know when they are needed and where you can go to get them. With practice, you will eventually play this game with a calm unstoppable centeredness in the face of adversity. Your ability to get what you want will thrill you.

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