【推荐1】Fear is something we all experience, especially when setting out on any new undertaking. Failure is one of the most common and most damaging fears that many people struggle with.     1    . You can take a close look at your fear of failure and then work with it to shape your future success. Let’s learn how to move past your fear and to ward your goals.

    2     . When people are mastering a skill or project, failure is a necessary part of the learning process. Embracing failure as a learning experience allows you to see it as a gift, not a punishment or sign of weakness.

Re-evaluate your approach. Often times, when a result doesn’t match our expectations, we are likely to mark the attempt as a failure.     3     . However, if we view our results as more or less effective, with the aim of improvement, we are able to always make positive changes. Studies show that people who are successful usually don’t encounter fewer or more setbacks than people who aren’t. The key is entirely in how you interpret those setbacks. Don’t let them convince you that success is impossible.

Take things slow. Rushing into new ventures without any personal preparation can make things worse.     4     . Don’t push too far outside your comfort zone all at once.

Be kind to yourself. Don’t mock your fears; they are there for a reason. Work with your fears.     5    . The more you learn about why you have these fears and what causes them, the better you can work with them.

【推荐2】Shoppers are being warned by consumer advocates of a new wave of “shrinkflation (缩水式通胀)”— where companies shrink the net weight of a prepackaged product while still charging the same price, or sometimes more.     1    

The Queensland Consumers’ Association (QCA) has sounded the alarm on the issue, saying it’s already received reports of consumers getting less value for money at the checkout.

    2     This practice has been a common issue in Australia too,with eagle-eyed members of CHOICE’s Community forum sharing examples of shrinkage since 2016, calling out everything from pet food to breakfast cereal(谷类食物) .

Pet food label Purina One said it had been forced to shrink the sizes of its products to keep them affordable for shoppers.     3     In fact, we’ve discovered several examples in the supermarket cereal shelf. One is Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut, which sold for $6 for 670g in 2019, but now sells for $9 for 640g in 2022.

The QCA says the easiest way to know if companies are sizing down your favourite products is to check the weight and quantity displayed on the packaging.     4     You can also check the unit price. The unit price breaks down the cost of a product into standard units of measurement, showing how much an item costs per 100g. If a product has undergone changes in both price and quantity, unit pricing will tell you whether you’re still getting the same value for money as before.     5    

【推荐3】Why You Should Have Visions and Not Goals

We are constantly being told that we need to set ourselves goals if we want to go far in the world. But life isn’t all about setting goals.    1    

A goal is normally something quantifiable. This will normally mean that you either pass or fail.    2    This is something that’s much harder to put into words but it’s actually what ultimately motivates you more.

As the word suggests, a vision will generally tend to be something that you visualize(though not always). This is about a certain state of being, a feeling and a way of life instead of achieving something specific.    3    Maybe your vision is about how your business is going to change the world? Perhaps you’re going to gradually build up an entire empire that you can use to achieve incredible things.

    4    When you picture a vision in your mind, it will feel much more real than just a boring goal. By focusing on the emotional aspects – the very things that are motivating you to want to accomplish that goal in the first place- you’ll find that you feel much more compelled to jump out of bed in the morning and to get to work on whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

It’s true that visions do certainly have many advantages over goals.    5    They ‘ re much too distant to offer you any real structure. The pass-fail nature of goals is useful because it allows us to really see whether we’re progressing or not and whether we’re heading in the right direction. This will help us focus on the exciting dream and the concrete steps you take to get there.