I plan to run recently, because I don't want to find myself fat when summer comes. Last year, a fitted skirt could no longer hold up the increasingly round figure. So, I made a running plan about slimming, and planned to run for two days every weekend morning, and the location was set in the park near the community. Run twice along the park at a time. After this "great" plan was decided, I suddenly imagined that I would lose weight at once and my weight would plummet from three digits to two digits. The effect is more magical than the specific medicine, and I suddenly became a clothes hanger. However, that's just my imagination. Actually, I didn't make it all weekend. I only ran once, and the mileage on the pedometer always stays at 3 kilometers. In fact, the 3 km exercise is a high-intensity exercise. I'm so tired that my bones are falling apart. If I can stick to it, losing ten catties and eight catties is definitely not a problem, but that's just wishful thinking in my heart. My legs have never proudly taken a step towards that park. My weight is still at that historical peak, and I haven't lost a bit.
However, I still don't believe this evil. Obviously, many people around me have changed their bodies through exercise, so why is it so difficult to implement it when it falls on me? I began to ask my colleagues, uncles and aunts that they still kept extremely slim bodies in middle age. The answer is: you are too eager to succeed, you should learn to run at a constant speed.
I don't know what "running at a constant speed" means, so I listened to these uncles and aunts talking about their slimming experience.
Aunt Gu is 53 years old, but can you imagine that she usually wears a red T-shirt and carries a black backpack when she goes shopping on weekends? There is indeed suspicion of act young, but her dress is not abrupt. Because, except for the fine lines on her face, she maintains a girlish figure. And the secret of her slimming is to practice yoga. She said that she had been practicing yoga for almost ten years and insisted on going to the yoga studio three days a week. People around her go hiking, mountain climbing, or go to the gym to lift dumbbells and practice running. Watching her walk slowly to the yoga studio after work, it is said that you can't achieve this amount of exercise every day, which not only can't play the role of exercise, but also wastes valuable time after work. But Aunt Gu doesn't listen to the evaluation of people around her, and insists on it regularly day after day. She is not as thin as those who climb mountains and hike. She stops exercising and then bounces back. She has always been like that, maintaining the most standard figure, without adding a point or losing a point. She said that many people say that the exercise she does is like warm water, which is too comfortable, without passion and calories, but she said that these are just appearances. I persist every day and make progress every day, just like running at a constant speed. Although there is no acceleration or sprint, I will run to the end of the marathon one day. And those who try their best to try a sport from the beginning may end up either uninterested or exhausted.
Uncle Yu is about to retire, with a standard figure. He doesn't have a big belly and a bucket waist, which are common among middle-aged and elderly people. It's not sweating in the gym that trains him, just walking for an hour every day. Uncle Yu said that six years ago, when his physical examination report showed that cholesterol, triglycerides and other blood lipids were high, he started the walking plan. After dinner every day, he comes out of the dormitory and walks around the neighborhood, parks and main roads. His pace is actually not fast, that is, the speed of normal people walking, but he has persisted for six years, rain or shine. Although he didn't sweat a lot, and he didn't gasp after a lot of exercise, just like shopping, walking and walking the dog, he really never gained weight again, and his hyperlipidemia disappeared long ago. Uncle Yu said, don't mention how many kilometers you have to run and how many push-ups you have to do. Don't look down on these small sports that are not sports, and feel too naive and not hard enough on yourself. As long as you stick to it, it is inevitable to lose weight day by day.
After listening to the advice of these seniors, I wonder if I would stay longer if I hadn't run three kilometers for the first time. Therefore, don't think that eating a big fat man is an effort, ignoring the trivial persistence every day. Sometimes you seem to be content with the status quo, but you are actually running at a constant speed. Work hard bit by bit every day, and finally you find that both the numbers on the pedometer and the calories lost are enough to make you unbelievable.
02
This feeling about running unconsciously reminds me of people around me who seem to be content with the status quo, but actually run at a constant speed.
Xiao Lei, my classmate in senior three, is in the middle of the grade. Chinese, English and literature are ok, but math 150, the exam can only be about 60. Our class is a liberal arts experimental class in our school. Xiao Lei belongs to the kind of person who has been unable to get on because of math procrastination. At that time, I was sitting behind her, and my hair was curled down every time I took the math monthly exam. She looked at the music silently and began to wipe away her tears. I often comfort her and make her work hard in other subjects. If not, give up math. Anyway, the college entrance examination only looks at the total score. However, Xiao Lei wouldn't listen. Every time he wiped his tears, he began to do the wrong questions on the paper over and over again. He spent all his time studying math. But even so, she still failed to make rapid progress in mathematics. She got 60 points when she was poor. Occasionally she can reach 80 points in a good time, which is only an extreme value. I thought her talent was limited and her understanding of mathematics was too low, so no matter how hard she tried, it would be like that.
But it's really the college entrance examination, but Xiao Lei's achievements make us sit up and take notice. She got 1 10 in math, and her total score jumped from 20 in her class to 5 th, and she was successfully admitted to a good university. People in the class heard about this score, and they couldn't believe it. And only I know that the score from 60 to 1 10 is really not just the difference in the scores of an exam, but her seemingly futile efforts over and over again every day. I didn't set any challenges or goals. I just persisted in doing one question after another, and finally persisted in the day of the college entrance examination, but the progress was amazing.
Later, Xiao Lei was known as the dark horse of the college entrance examination in our class. Everyone thought Xiao Lei's qualifying match was an extraordinary performance. However, the head teacher said that Xiao Lei was a very unknown person in the class. She never likes to rush to answer the teacher's questions, and she never takes the initiative to ask the teacher questions, so we all think that she is not diligent enough and not motivated enough. Who knows that she has been running at a constant speed, neither accelerating nor slowing down. When you are in high spirits, she is working hard silently, and when you are exhausted, she is still working hard silently. She not only got 1 10 in math, but also got 120 in English and Chinese, and comprehensive literature was the first in her grade. Such a small ray is not the one who is content with the status quo in our memory, but the one who works hard to make people admire. Her efforts were gentle and quiet, but the results were jaw-dropping.
03
Like Xiao Lei, one of my colleagues, Susu, is also an informal student in the unit. When I first entered this unit, my major was not right, which made the leaders very optimistic. Susu accepted the leader's subjective assumptions about her and began the difficult road of learning financial knowledge. Once when she asked me a question with a copy of Basic Accounting, I pretended to be an expert. After answering her question, I didn't forget to say, Susie, basic accounting is too simple. You can't expect too little of yourself. You have to make high-level things so that you can make rapid progress. Susie just smiled and left. Later, Susie stopped asking me questions. I thought she had given up studying accounting.
As a result, half a year has passed, and Susie is not holding the simple "Accounting Basis" in her hand, but the book of the accounting primary title examination. She told me that she had passed the practicing certificate and was going to take the junior assistant accountant exam after reviewing. Once again, I used the class students' sense of superiority to guide her: there is no need to take the primary exam, and she will work for four years next year. Let's take the intermediate exam directly, which saves the primary step. She still smiled at me and left without saying anything.
Later, I occasionally met Susie on my way to and from work. It seems that she is still reading accounting books, because she often holds two books in her hand, one is elementary, and later it becomes intermediate. Last year, she had a tax law in her hand. She said that her notes have passed the accounting law and economic law, and the remaining four books will be ready in three years. Hearing her answer, my classmates' sense of superiority was shattered, because I once vowed to give up the primary exam and take the intermediate exam directly. I once vowed that my notes would win within two years. So far, I have not even passed the intermediate level. However, Su Su, a student majoring in science and engineering, immediately learned to take notes from the employment permit and primary school that I didn't like. And once when she came to me with the book "Accounting Fundamentals", I was very disdainful and looked down upon it. I don't think those things are worth studying at all I think you have to take notes to show your level and high standards. But the truth is that I lost to Susie.
Now people in the unit no longer ask me financial questions, but instead ask susu. They always ask Susan how she studied accounting and why she made such rapid progress. Susu said that she didn't work hard either, just read books every day and got acquainted.
Su Su's so-called familiarity seems light, but in fact, she has been steadily insisting on it every day for several years. She didn't shout any lofty goal slogan, nor did she despise the simplest financial knowledge. She gave me the illusion of poor foundation and no high goal, but the fact is that she tries to balance every day.
04
Nowadays, we are always eager for quick success and instant benefit. If we want to learn English, we should read the book "Getting Words of Band 4 and Band 6 in 30 Days" at once. If we want to stay healthy, we should go to the gym and get a membership card at once. We can't wait to run ten kilometers a day I wanted to write, and I started the so-called creation without an outline. The internet is full of "five minutes to teach you how to do it". "Doing these five points will make you a great person immediately." We will feel very excited after reading a post like this. Let us admire the so-called experience and dry goods. However, this feeling is only a flash in the pan. After drinking those chicken soups, we still haven't become cowboys, but ordinary people. On the contrary, those who have always looked very steady, they have not been brainwashed by chicken soup, nor are they as passionate as chicken blood, and they have not worked hard to exhaustion. They just persisted step by step, but in the end they became a model of diaosi's counterattack.
So, don't laugh at those who are content with the status quo. What you see is complacency. For them, it is actually running at a constant speed. Although there is no acceleration, there is always speed. Although there is no afternoon, the goal in my heart has always been motivation. No one stipulates that success must be all the way to the finish line, or it can be quiet, and those who reach the finish line quietly have been regarded as representatives of lack of progress countless times. It is those so-called people who are content with the status quo and do not strive for progress that have created miracles that we think are difficult or even impossible.