拒绝苛刻

Too difficult. People set out with a lot of ambition and enthusiasm, and start out with a big goal. “I’m going to go to the gym for an hour a day!” or “I’m going to run 30 minutes every day!” The problem is that the goal is too difficult to sustain for very long. You can do it for a few days, but you soon run out of energy, and it becomes a drag to do it.
1、太苛刻。人们满载雄心和热情，开始时为自己制定了伟大的目标。“我打算每天去健身房健身一小时！”或者“每天跑步三十分钟！”问题是这些目标制定的过于苛刻，以至于无法维持很长时间。也许你能坚持一段时间，但不久你会耗尽精力，无法完成既定的目标。

目标具体

Too many goals. Often we set out to do too much. We want to run, and lift weights, and eat healthy, and quit sweets, and stop drinking soda. Well, those are multiple goals, and you cannot focus on the exercise habit if you’re trying to do all the others at the same time. Or we might start with one goal, but then get caught up in another goal (to stop procrastinating, for example), and lose our focus on the first one.
2、目标过多。通常我们想做的太多了。我们想要跑步，举重，吃的更健康，停止摄入糖果，停止饮用苏打水。然而，这些目标过于繁杂，如果你想在同一个时间段尝试所有的目标，那么你不可能坚持执行你的锻炼计划。或者说可能开始时我们执行A目标，但是不久后转而执行B目标（不要拖拉，举例来说），却失去了原有的目标。

足够的动机

Not enough motivation. It’s not a lack of discipline, it’s a lack of motivation. The most powerful motivators, in my experience, are logging your habit and public pressure. There are many others that help as well.
3、缺乏足够的动机。计划的失败不是缺少纪律，而是缺少动机。根据我的经验，最强大的激励因素是对你习惯的关注和公众的压力。当然离不开其他人的帮助。

记录

Written: Write this down. Post it up. If you don’t write it down, it’s not important.
4.记录：把目标写下来。贴在你可以看到的地方。如果目标不能落实在纸上，只能说明它还不够重要。

容易

Easy: Don’t — DO NOT — set a difficult goal. Set one that is super, super easy. Five minutes of exercise a day. You can do that. Work your way to 10 minutes after a month. Then go to 15 after 2 months. You can see what I mean: make it easy to start with, so you can build your habit, then gradually increase.
5.容易：不要-不要-制定一个苛刻的目标。制定一个极其容易实现的目标。每天锻炼五分钟。你可以做到的。一个月后把锻炼时间增加到十分钟。两个月后变成十五分钟。你可以明白我的意思：计划开始时要容易执行，为的是培养你的习惯，然后逐步增加。

具体

Specific: By specific, I mean what activity are you going to do, at what time of day, and where? Don’t just say “exercise” or “I’m going to walk”. You have to set a time and place. Make it an appointment you can’t miss.
6.具体：所谓的具体，我的意思是指你打算选择何种锻炼项目，在一天的什么时间段，地点选择在哪里？不要简单的说“我在锻炼”或者“我打算去散步”。制定一个具体的你不可能错过的计划。

触发事件

Trigger: I recommend that you have a “trigger” right before you do your habit. For example, you might always brush your teeth right after you shower. The shower is the trigger for brushing your teeth, and because of that, you never forget to brush your teeth. Well, what will you do right before you exercise? Is it right after you wake up? Right after your coffee? Right when you get home? As soon as you take off for lunch? A trigger that you do every single day is important.
7.触发事件：我建议在你的习惯开始前最好有一个触发事件。举个例子来说，你也许总是在洗澡后刷牙。洗澡便是促使你刷牙的触发事件，正是因为它，你永远不会忘记刷牙。那么，在你锻炼之前你会做什么呢？锻炼会在你起床后开始吗？或许是在喝完咖啡后？亦或是当你下班回到家中？当然你会选择在每次吃完午饭后开始锻炼吗？每天你完成你的触发事件对于你锻炼习惯的执行是相当重要的。

可量化的

Measurable: By measurable, I mean that you should be able to say, definitely, whether you hit or miss your goal today. Examples: run for 10 minutes. Walk 1/2 a mile. Do 3 sets of 5 pushups. Each of those has a number that you can shoot for.
8.可量化的：所谓的可量化，我的意思是你可以说出来，确切的说，今天你是否完成或者错过了你所制定的目标。举个例子来说：十分钟的跑步。步行二分之一英里。做三组每组五个俯卧撑。其中每一个项目都有可量化的数字让你能够按要求实现。

一个目标

One goal: Stick to this one goal for at least a month. Two months if you can bear it. Don’t start up a second goal during that 30-day period. If you do, you are scrapping this goal.
9.一个目标：你要坚持一个目标至少一个月。如果你能忍受下去，那么就坚持两个月。不要在一个月内开始你的第二个目标。如果你放弃了第一个目标，你可能也正在放弃第二个。

每天记录

Log it daily. This is the key habit. If you can log your workout, you will start to see your progress, and it will motivate you to keep going. And you have to make it a habit to log it right away. Don’t put it off, and say you’ll do it before you go to bed. As soon as you’re done working out, log it. No exceptions. And don’t make the log complicated — that will only make you resist doing the log. Just the date, time, and what you did.
10.每天记录。这是一个关键的习惯。如果你能每天记录你的锻炼情况，你会慢慢看到你锻炼的进展，它会成为你继续坚持下去的动力。你必须把及时记录作为一种习惯。不要停止，告诉自己你会在上床睡觉之前完成这次记录。不久后你就会养成习惯，每当锻炼结束，你就会记录你的进展。没有例外，不要把日志做的很复杂-那样只会使你对做记录产生抵触情绪。日志里只要体现日期、时间、你的锻炼情况仅此而已。（翻译：译言网）