"Telling people to follow their heads as they decide, or highlighting that structure is a way to stay on track, encourages them to choose more structured plans for themselves, too," Scott says. The paper "In goal pursuit, I think flexibility is the best choice for me but not for you," in the Journal of Marketing Research, also suggests some options to make people more likely to add structure and detail to their own plans. "In other words, people give very good advice to others for how to plan for success but fail to follow that same advice for themselves." Why do they choose a plan that's less likely to work? "People follow their hearts more when choosing for themselves than for other people," Scott says. "But their recommendations to others reveal that they do know that it's less effective to be flexible than to have a more structured plan." "People like the idea of having some wiggle room in their plans," Williams says. Williams, associate professor of marketing at Olin, shows that people opt for flexibility in their own plans because they think flexibility is more appealing. So why choose a more detailed-and more effective-plan for your friend, but not for yourself? "If you're like many people, you might advise your friend not to be flexible, but instead to determine the details of their plan in advance," Scott says.Īdding detail and structure to a plan helps people achieve their goals. Now imagine a friend has the same resolution. "But is the issue your willpower, or your plan?" Scott, assistant professor of marketing at Olin Business School. "Setting yourself up for success and sticking to a goal is hard," says Sydney E. In February, you just might abandon your plan completely. In January, you skip the gym a few times. If you're like a lot of people, you commit to your goal-but leave your plan for how to accomplish it flexible you decide day-to-day whether to go the gym and what you'll do once you're there. Being fat is hard.Let's say you resolve to get more exercise. Yes it's hard, yes it sucks, it never stops sucking. You're the only one that will make or break you. There is no try, because everything you will or will not do is not dependent upon who is looking at you or what your schedule is like. Walking at a snail's pace because you don't want to exert yourself is retarded, it's a waste of your time, money, and space. If you aren't breathing hard, go the fuck home. If you're going to go to the gym, work the fuck out. What ticks me off are people that use every excuse not to commit to what they supposedly want. Not because I want to be, because I have to be.īut you know what? If you got time during your work out to think about how you look or what other people might be thinking, you aren't working out hard enough. I'm still not, which is why I'm there 5 days a week. Don't act like I didn't go through the same shit. Any time I see anyone sweating their ass off at the gym that was my size, all I'm thinking is "You go girl". I don't judge you while you're working out, and I hate that sorry ass excuse. This in turn makes me less homicidal when I want to run and it also saves you your gym membership money, because let's face it.by February you're not going to step foot in this gym again anyway.įuck you. And I do understand that life happens and 95 of the New Years resoluioners are going to quit after a few weeks. Just resolve to not go to the gym and spare yourself the misery. I 100 applaud and will get behind people who are really ready and willing to change their life styles to be healthier. Let's make 2010's New Year's Resolution something we can both enjoy. You take up all the machines, going at a snail's pace, while reading Harry Potter and drinking a Starbuck's frappacinno. Your presence makes my life miserable too. You made this resolution because a) After a month and a half of cookies and rich food, you were feeling fat in your New Years Eve cocktail dress, and b) You were drunk. More importantly, you don't want to be there. You don't wash off the machines you sweat all over. You and your hundreds of similarly minded friends drag yourselves reluctantly into the gym at peak hours. This month every year sucks for both of us.
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