It might sound ridiculous that goal setting could actually hold you back from completing tasks and dreams you may have. But it seems like everyone tells you should be setting goals for everything you want to accomplish, short term and long term. Goals can help you sometimes, but in some cases they just lead to constant frustration and they actually bring you down.
Let’s look at this a little closer with an example. A lot of people might set forth as a goal. Many people jump online and are looking to start a business online as a way to make money from home and let’s say they set a goal to make $10,000 in their first month. They do this because they seem tons of people making large sums of money in very little time so they think, $10,000 a month, that shouldn’t be too hard.
But what happens when you only bring in $1,000 in your first 30 days online? If this is pure profit you might still be happy but this is nowhere near reaching the goal you originally set out to meet. So naturally you would feel like you failed to reach your goal and you may be a little disappointed in yourself.
If you continue not to reach this goal month in month , it starts to add up and really weighs on you. I’m not saying that they are bad and you shouldn’t set them but you need to realize that you should not be emotionally attached to your goals.
An alternative approach would be to set certain milestones for when you want to accomplish things and start out small. Build your confidence by accomplishing smaller feats and if you overproduce, then it will be a nice surprise. You have to have some sort of end result in mind but break it down in to a day by day task. It makes it a lot easier for you to handle by just knowing everyday you have to complete a few small tasks and over time the snowball will roll into great things.
小題1:The purpose of the passage is to _______.
A．show that it’s necessary to set goals
B．prove the disadvantages of setting goals
C．suggest way of setting goals to reach success
D．introduce how to reach success by setting high goals.
小題2:In Paragraph 2 , the writer used the example to _______.
A．persuade readers not to be greedy for money
B．prove that goals often result in frustration.
C．show goal setting sometimes stops you realizing your dreams
D．a(chǎn)dvise readers not to set goals to avoid frustration
小題3:According to the passage, always sticking to our goals is ______.
A．important B．unnecessaryC．ridiculousD．natural
小題4:What belief does the writer most probably hold?
A．The higher goals we set, the more success we’ll achieve
B．Goal setting is not always necessary and helpful
C．We shouldn’t set higher goals than other people
D．Goals should be set for short term and long term.
小題5:What information will probably be provided following the last paragraph?
A．Another helpful tip for setting goalsB．Benefits of setting small goal
C．Side effects of goal settingD．Success achieved without goal setting.
小題1:C
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:D
小題5:A
1.答案為C 第一段為全文中心段，根據(jù)本段內(nèi)容可以得知文章在談?wù)撚嘘P(guān)設(shè)立目標(biāo)的話題。
2.答案為C 根據(jù)第一段最后一句“Goals can help you sometimes, but in some cases they just lead to constant frustration and they actually bring you down.”目標(biāo)有時起到促進(jìn)作用，但是有時也會適得其反�！币约暗诙巍癓et’s look at this a little closer with an example.”舉例說明設(shè)定目標(biāo)的不利之處。
3.答案為B 根據(jù)第四段內(nèi)容所述，如果目標(biāo)長久不能實現(xiàn)會增加我們的負(fù)擔(dān)，帶來不利影響，所以由此推出堅持目標(biāo)是必要的。
4.答案為D 根據(jù)文章最后一段第一句可知答案。
5.答案為A 文章提到要成功需設(shè)立長期、短期目標(biāo)，最后一段提到短期目標(biāo)，由此得知下面要敘述長期目標(biāo)。
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