Learn Spanish? Finally quit smoking? Become a better cook? Whatever you've decided to achieve next year, you know all too well that you're probably going to fail, and that list of beautiful, aspirational goals is staying unfulfilled. Sorry.

想要学好西班牙语？下定决心彻底戒烟？希望厨艺有所进步？不管来年的目标是什么，你再清楚不过了，这些目标很可能都不会实现。那一个个怀揣着美好希望和满腔斗志的目标终究还是“目标”，无法实现。多么遗憾！

For this very reason some people forgo making any resolutions altogether, so we're here to help - this year you might actually have a chance, with help from a few tricks of the mind.

正因如此，一些人干脆打消了制定目标的念头。但不用着急，本文会和大家分享几个“小窍门”，让实现目标成为可能。

British psychologist Richard Wiseman has done several surveys on willpower - in 2007 he tracked the success of 3,000 people's New Year's resolutions, only to find that a mere 12 percent of them managed to achieve what they had set out to do. He looked into what the successful people were doing differently, and, based on their experience, devised a list of tips for others who want to stop failing miserably.

英国心理学家理查德·怀斯曼做过很多关于意志力的调查。2007年，他对3000人进行了追踪调查，统计他们新年目标的实现情况，结果仅有12%的人完成了自己之前制定的目标。他又对成功实现目标的人做了进一步调查，发现了一些与众不同的方法，最后他通过实验得出了几条建议，来帮助那些一度无法实现目标的人。

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