Accomplish short-term Goals with

Good evening, everyone. The keywords of my speech tonight are short-term Goals and Rites, which can be translate as "小目标" and “仪式感” in Chinese. Both are hot words, right? especially the word "小目标"。For example, to earn one thousant billion first!

So why I choose Short-term goals? Why not long-term Objectives? I thought the first reason was that as our living time is limited, we can have only one or several long-term missions. However, When comes to short term goals, we can set up as many as possible. ..

Okay, I want to tell a famous story first.

In the year 1984, on the Tokyo International Marathon, 山田本一 won the championship. When jourlist ask him for the secrets of winning, he said that I win the victory with wisdom. Many people thought that he deliberately made his success mysterious.

Then two years later...on the Italy International Marthon held in Milan, 山田本一 became the champion again. And many people wants to know his secrets of success. His Wisdom.!

The answer was finally solved ten years later..It was very easy, 山田本一 wrote in his book. Before each match,... I would ride along the race route first and draw down the striking Marks. For example, the first mark maybe a bank, then, second, IT is a big tree. And the third one maybe a beautiful red house. ...

WHEN the race begin, I will sprint to the first goal, then the second, the third...etc. 

Think about the little story for a moment...

What 山田本一had done was just break the long race route into several short ones with the help of bank, trees and red house etc...

I learned the word Rite from the Little Prince.

In the book, the FOX said to the little prince.

U'd better come to me at the same time everyday. For example, you can come at 4 o'clock every afternoon. Then I can feel the happiness since fifteen. If you could come at any time, I do not know how to prepare for you. There ought to have some kinds of Rite.

What is Rite? Asked the little prince.

Rite is something that make the day special in your life! Like today, as it is my birthday. So I would have a party tonight, the party is some kinds of rite.

Without rites, Life may become a long boring and tiring race, just like Marathon for most people! And I think rites for life are just like the striking marks for the Marathon race. They can raise us up whenever necessary and help us reach little goals. Then help us come to the final Dream. Thank U!

Finally, I have a simple idea. If sth worth your celebration, I believe it has a large possibility that it is something that really matters in our life. That's why I brought short-term goals with rites together. I think a good short-term goal deserves a rite. And the rite can help us polish up the short-term goal as well. Thank U!        Scott  2018.10.18