Intentional: How to Finish What You Start

在多工且極易分心的時代，我們需要而且能夠「刻意練習專注力」，有始有終地完成目標！
《極度專注力》(Hyperfocus)暢銷作家、生產力專家克里斯．貝利(Chris Bailey)最新力作：教你一套完成目標的全新方法。
「這是一本將雄心壯志轉化為實際行動的強大指南。」——《原子習慣》作者查爾斯．杜希格(Charles Duhigg)推薦。
對大多數人來說，設定目標並非難事。我們知道自己想要什麼，也大致了解達成目標需要付出什麼。然而，最難的部分在於：如何持續不斷地取得進展，直到最終達成目標。

在《Intentional》一書中，克里斯．貝利提出了一種更有效達成目標的方法。事實證明，完成任務的秘訣不在於意志力，也不是什麼最新的生產力小技巧，而是**「意向性」（Intentionality）**。

你內心深處的意圖（intentions）就是你最強大的動力來源。當你根據自己最在乎的事情來建構目標時——無論是工作上的安全感、決策的自主權，還是歸屬感——「把事情做完」就會變成一種直覺與本能。

本書結合了最新的生產力研究與實用的行動策略，將教你如何：
•重塑目標結構：大幅提升任務的完成率。
•轉化負面感受：讓枯燥、乏味或令人沮喪的任務變得更有吸引力。
•克服拖延：降低在長期目標上停滯不前的機率。
•建立追蹤系統：打造一套監控進度的有效機制。
•學會斷捨離：判斷何時該放棄不適合自己的目標。
有始有終地完成目標，其實比你想像中更容易。

From the bestselling author of Hyperfocus, productivity expert Chris Bailey, a new approach to finishing what you start.

‘An important new contribution to the genre!’ – Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep Work

‘A powerful guide to turning ambition into action’ – Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators

Most of us have no problem setting goals. We know what we want, and we have a pretty good sense of what it takes to get it. But consistently making progress until we’ve reached that goal is the hard part.

In Intentional, Chris Bailey presents a new and better way to accomplish your goals. It turns out, the secret to finishing what you start isn’t willpower or the latest productivity hack – it’s intentionality. Your deepest intentions are your greatest motivating force. By structuring your goals around the things that matter most to you, whether that’s feeling secure in your job, having autonomy over your decisions or being in a community, getting things done becomes second nature.

Drawing from the latest productivity research and packed full of practical strategies, Intentional will show you how to:

Structure goals to increase the likelihood of completion
Make unappealing, boring or frustrating tasks more attractive to do
Lower the chance of procrastinating on long-term goals
Create a system for tracking progress
Know when a goal isn’t for you – and when it’s time to let it go.

Finishing what you start is more possible than you think.


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