42个提升自我的实用技巧

What do you see yourself as 5 years from now? Will you be the same? Different? What kind of person will you be? Write a letter to your future self – 1 year from now will be a good start – and seal it. Make a date in your calendar to open it 1 year from now. Then start working to become the person you want to open that letter.
5年后你会是什么样子？还和现在一样吗？抑或已经变了？你会成为怎样的人？给未来的自己写封信——写给1年后的自己也可以，然后封印好。日历标注上1年后读信的日期，然后努力成为信中渴望的样子。

12. Get out of your comfort zone.
走出舒适区。

Real growth comes with hard work and sweat. Being too comfortable doesn’t help us grow – it makes us stagnate. What is your comfort zone? Do you stay in most of the time? Do you keep to your own space when out with other people? Shake your routine up. Do something different. By exposing yourself to a new context, you’re literally growing as you learn to act in new circumstances.
真正的成长需要付诸努力与汗水。太安逸并不利于成长，而只会让我们搁浅。你的舒适区是什么？你是不是常常赖在里面？跳出舒适区和别人在一起时，你会不会保留自己的空间？打破常规，尝试不同。通过接触新领域、适应新环境，你就能获得成长。

13. Put someone up to a challenge.
和别人一起挑战。

Competition is one of the best ways to grow. Set a challenge (weight loss, exercise, financial challenge, etc) and compete with an interested friend to see who achieves the target first. Through the process, both of you will gain more than if you were to set off on the target alone.
竞争是成长的最佳途径之一。设定一项挑战（减肥、健身、经济目标等），和感兴趣的朋友相互竞争，看谁先实现目标。相对于单独行动，这么做更能两全其美。

14. Identify your blind spots.
揪出盲点。

Scientifically, blind spots refer to areas our eyes are not capable of seeing. In personal development terms, blind spots are things about ourselves we are unaware of. Discovering our blind spots help us discover our areas of improvement. One exercise I use to discover my blind spots is to identify all the things/events/people that trigger me in a day – trigger meaning making me feel annoyed/weird/affected. These represent my blind spots. It’s always fun to do the exercise because I discover new things about myself, even if I may already think I know my own blind spots (but then they wouldn’t be blind spots would they?). After that, I work on steps to address them.
科学上，盲点是指眼睛看不到的地方：就个人发展而言，盲点则是我们自身不曾察觉的方面。发现盲点有助于提升自我。我用来发现盲点的一个办法是：找出所有刺激我的人或事——所谓刺激，就是能使我愤怒、古怪或感动。这些能折射出我的盲点。这么做非常有趣，因为我总能发现自身新的特质，包括那些我自以为了解的盲点（既已了解，就算不上盲点，是吧？）。发现盲点后，我会努力攻克它们。

15. Ask for feedback.
寻求反馈。

As much as we try to improve, we will always have blind spots. Asking for feedback gives us an additional perspective. Some people to approach will be friends, family, colleagues, boss, or even acquaintances, since they will have no preset bias and can give their feedback objectively.
在提升自我的过程中，我们会发现许多盲点，而反馈则能提供给我们不同的视角。你可以向朋友、家人、同事、老板或认识的人寻求反馈，因为他们不持偏见，可以作出客观反馈。

16. Stay focused with to-do lists.
专注于任务清单。

I start my day with a list of tasks I want to complete and this helps make me stay focused. In comparison, the days when I don’t do this end up being extremely uNPRoductive.
我每天都按任务清单做事，这让我保持专注。相反，要是我哪天没这么做，肯定过得效率极低。

17. Set Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs).
设定野心勃勃的目标。

I’m a big fan of setting BHAGs. BHAGs stretch you beyond your normal capacity since they are big and audacious – you wouldn’t think of attempting them normally. What are BHAGs you can embark on, which you’ll feel absolutely on top of the world once you complete them? Set them and start working on them.
我非常热衷于设定野心勃勃的目标。这类目标远大而又野心勃勃，远远超出了正常能力范围，平时也很少会去尝试。你最具野心的目标是什么？实现什么样的目标会让你有种站在世界顶峰的感觉？定下这样的目标，开始努力吧。

18. Acknowledge your flaws.
承认缺点。

Everyone has flaws. What’s most important is to understand them, acknowledge them, and address them. What do you think are your flaws? What are the flaws you can work on now? How do you want to address them?
谁都有缺点。重要的是承认并理解缺点，然后克服它们。你觉得自己有哪些缺点？哪些缺点是你现在就能改正的？你将怎样克服它们？

19. Get into action.
采取行动。

The best way to learn and improve is to take action. What is something you have been meaning to do? How can you take action on it immediately? Waiting doesn’t get anything done. Taking action gives you immediate results to learn from.
学习与成长的最佳途径就是行动。有哪些事是你一直想做的？你将如何立即采取行动？等待无济于事，行动才能立刻带来收获。

20. Learn from people who inspire you.
向激励你的人学习。

Think about people you admire. People who inspire you. These people reflect certain qualities you want to have for yourself too. What are the qualities in them you want to have for yourself? How can you acquire these qualities?
想想你钦佩的人、激励你的人。你也渴望拥有这些人身上的某些品质吧？它们是什么呢？你将如何获得这些品质？