It turns out that starting is not the hardest part

Turns out, the hardest part is never the beginning.

It’s been a long time since the article was updated, but it’s not over. On the contrary, it is more meaningful and meaningful than it has been in the past. It’s just that at this stage I’m suddenly “intimidated” by a new discovery.

What?

It is in the process of achieving a long-term goal that is theoretically achievable that the hardest part is not the beginning, but the small group that ends.

In some of the old words about doing things, we have often heard the phrase “it is difficult to begin with”. That’s because a lot of people don’t even have the courage to start, so it’s really crucial for them to start this! What if your quest is to end up in one thing? The “preliminary part”, at best, is the most basic threshold for doing the whole thing. Do you think that’s the way it is? It’s like you’re still in third grade, trying to get a high test. The first step is to get a high school, get a high-level exam, and that’s where you start.

And in the next three years of high school, that’s when it’s really hard. At this time, you are not only in a serious, stressful learning atmosphere and an orderly learning rhythm, but also need to keep reflecting on your own self-paced at all times. Not to mention three years of high school, each year has different learning tasks and rhythms, which are very different for each grade. So, at any stage that can be easily dealt with, that too low a margin of error would make the gap between you and your competitors very much different. Not to mention the last semester of the senior year, when you started a 100-metre sprint…

If the whole process of doing one thing is simply divided into 3 parts and sorted in order of importance and ease, this is generally the case:

The final stage, the most difficult, the most important and the most critical!

The middle stage, the necessary fermentation period for a mass transformation, with a very low tolerance for errors!

In the beginning, it’s just the basic threshold…

Take one example of what happened to me!

At the beginning, I’m actually struggling. What’s the struggle?

Two things:

— “Flammation plastics” and “learning foreign languages”.

At the beginning of March this year, I started a special project called “Operation Sculpture” inspired by the very aesthetics of MUJI. The aim is simple: to remove unnecessary body flesh and thus to achieve a state of extreme simplicity in order to do better. At the same time, my interior and my clothing have changed dramatically.

As a result, I lost a total of 30 pounds between 7 March and 27 June this year. It’s actually a remarkable achievement for the outside world, because it’s also a good way to finish my last year at the end of the year when a friend of mine summed up a little bit more neutral than a dozen days ago.

My friends, as honest as they are, are always impressed by my diet. They also encouraged and advised me from their heart, saying, “It’s the best, no need to lose” and so on, but stay awake, because I’m still a little short away from achieving my original goal! They think the current weight is the best. That’s more than three months ago. The ideal is not yet achieved! More interestingly, I have received such encouragement every week after I have lost a certain amount of weight, although in the recent past it has become more and more real. I call this encouragement a temptation or obstruction from the outside.

At the same time, at the most critical end-of-life stage of achieving the set goals, I am often vulnerable to “reprisal diets” arising from work or life, and often from the attention of friends, when there are many “eras of greed” and when there are incidents in which there are “disguised diets” which I have classified as being from inherent obstacles and challenges.

This has led to an overall loss of weight in the last month! And so, every pound of meat less is a great advance! I have also drawn the entire weight reduction process into a schedule, as shown in the figure:

As can be seen from the figure, the most difficult phase is far from intermediate, but final. If you want to sum up the recent loss of lipid, that’s the eight words: climbing through the pit and fighting the disaster. If you don’t do anything, you’ll lose your job, and you’ll be crushed to pieces by your hard-earned grades.

It’s not just about this weight loss. The 1,000-hour English-language exercise, which I launched in 2024, was more or less bad because of the lack of practical exercises that were ultimately and most critical; In the period 2022 to 2025, when self-programming python languages were taught, it was also due to the lack of the last and most critical “use” phase that created the state of half-strung today…

These are some examples of what happened to me. What about you? If you had a similar experience, how would you cope with it? Welcome to the comment section to share and communicate!

And I’m looking forward to sharing my full feelings after I’ve finished a whole thing!