Be a Man and Do Things Pillow Book

Chapter 3 Be a person with ideals and goals (3)
From a practical point of view, it is often the clearer and more specific the goal of struggle, the more conducive to success.As the writer Gorky said: "The higher the goal a person pursues, the faster his talents will develop, and the more beneficial it will be to society."

In more than 300 BC, there was a man named Timoston in Athens who aspired to be an orator when he was young.So, he went around to learn from teachers and learn oratory.In order to practice his speech well, he built a basement where he practiced his voice every day; in order to force himself not to go out for picnics and concentrate on training, he cut half of his hair and left the other half; He recites long poems; he sits under a sword in order to correct certain inappropriate movements of the body; he speaks in front of a mirror in order to correct his facial expressions.After hard training, he finally became the "greatest orator" at that time.

Wang Chong, a thinker and philosopher in the Eastern Han Dynasty in my country, lost his father when he was young and his family was very poor, but he was determined to succeed in his studies.First of all, he was recommended by the village through his excellent grades, and entered Taixue, the highest institution in the country at that time, and used the collection of books in Taixue to enrich his mind.Later, when the books in Taixue were not enough for him and he had no money to buy them, he used the bookstores in the market as his study rooms, and read in them all day long, in exchange for free reading qualifications by helping others with odd jobs.In this way, he read almost all the bookstores in Luoyang City.Because of his accumulated rich knowledge, he finally became a famous scholar in the history of our country, and wrote "Lunheng", which is still of great value today.

Tan Qian, a famous historian in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, began writing Guoyan at the age of 29.Because his family was poor and couldn't afford reference books, he begged for help everywhere, and sometimes he had to travel more than 100 miles with bedding and food to collect some information.After 2 years of hard work, the first draft of "Guoyan" was written and revised six times, with a length of more than 500 million words.Unfortunately, the first draft was stolen before it was published.This heavy blow made his liver and gallbladder split, and he cried bitterly.However, this blow did not shake his ambition to write a book.He wiped away his tears and started from scratch.Regardless of his old age and sickness, he ran around for eight or nine years, and finally wrote this voluminous masterpiece at the age of 5.

Goals will excite us, goals will make us work hard, because to go to the goal is to go to success, and to achieve the goal is to achieve success.Success is a high-level need of people. What else in the world can have such a huge and lasting attraction to people than success?

Set your sights on a goal.

There is such a phenomenon: the most famous successful businessmen are those who can make decisions quickly and decisively. They always have a clear main goal when they work, and they all regard a certain clear and specific goal as an important impetus for their efforts Power.

Similarly, although 20-year-olds are not very old, maybe people of this age are still enriching themselves through learning.However, ambitious people should think about what kind of job in this world is suitable for you at this time, and you can definitely do better in this respect.Therefore, you must try to find this kind of work or industry that is particularly suitable for you, make it your clear and main goal, and then concentrate all your strength on it, attacking it, and be sure that you will win.In your search for the job that suits you best, it will help you to keep in mind the fact that once you find a job you like best, you are likely to be very successful well-known fact.A man can usually achieve his greatest success by engaging in a particular kind of work on which he can devote his whole heart and soul.

Some people say: If a person only does one thing in his life, then that thing must be a masterpiece, and maybe it will be passed down.

Naturally, it takes a lot of courage, a lot of patience, and loneliness to do only one thing in a lifetime.That way, you have to keep your eyes on your target.

Throughout the ages, all scientists, artists, thinkers, and politicians who have made a difference have all paid attention to their ideals, aspirations, and goals in life.What is a goal?It is like the sun of life, dispelling the fog on people's way forward and illuminating the road signs of life.Goals are the blueprint for a person's future life and the pillar of a person's spiritual life.

In the history of scientific and technological development, there are many famous talents who have kept their eyes firmly on the goal and achieved the purpose of grasping the opportunity.Fabre, a German entomologist, advised some young people who have a wide range of hobbies but have little effect. He gestured with a magnifying glass: "Put your energy on a focus and try it, just like this convex lens." This is actually his personal experience of success.He has specialized in "insects" since he was young, and he can even lie on the ground motionless and observe insects carefully for hours.

Zhu Kezhen, a famous Chinese meteorologist, is a practitioner of goal focus. He has observed and recorded meteorological data for three to forty years. Until the day before his death, he made a meteorological record for the day on his hospital bed.

How can I keep my eyes from moving away from the target?
One is to determine the goal, and the other is to examine one's own strengths and weaknesses, and combine one's own situation to maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses.

Gao Shiqi, a famous popular science writer in my country, has gone through 83 years on the difficult journey of his life.Since 1928, when he was experimenting in the laboratory of the University of Chicago Medical Research Institute, the cerebellum was infected by the Japanese encephalitis virus, and he had been fighting against the disease tenaciously for 0 years.Before his whole body was paralyzed in 1939, he firmly chose "science popularization" as his career based on his health status and relatively comprehensive medical and biological knowledge.He was a scientist and became an outstanding science popularization writer and popular science activist.He was paralyzed all over his body, unable to hold a pen in his hand, unable to walk in his legs, and even lost the ability to speak normally. He has been engaged in science popularization creation for more than 50 years, using popular language, vivid style of writing, and lively forms. Wrote a large number of popular science works with unique style.

Focus on the goal, although the direction is correct and the method is correct, the opportunity for success may sometimes be late.If there is a lack of tenacious will, there will be a tragedy of failure.The biologist Pasteur said: "Tell you the mystery that makes me achieve my goal. My only strength is my persistence." Many people who achieve their careers are like this.For example, Hong Sheng spent 9 years writing "The Palace of Eternal Life", Wu Jingzi wrote "The Scholars" 14 years, A. Tolstoy wrote "The Course of Suffering" 20 years, and Leo Tolstoy wrote "War and War" "Peace" took 3 years, and Sima Qian exhausted all his energy writing "Historical Records", and so on.Cheng Guopeng, a famous doctor in ancient my country, said in his discussion of the way of scholarship that "thinking is precious and single-minded, and the impetuous are not allowed to care; learning is expensive and deep, and the impetuous are not allowed to dabble." This is what he said.

Chen Ailian, a well-known dance artist at home and abroad, also told people about the experience of "focusing on the goal" when recalling her path to success: "Because I love dance, I am prepared to suffer for it for the rest of my life. In my life, there are almost no 'eight hours' There is no difference between inside or outside, and there is no difference between holidays or non-holidays. The pain of muscles and muscles, and the pain of mental fatigue are all caused by my love of dance. But I am also happy. I focus all my energy on In the dance career, I am willing to endure hardships for it, which makes my life more fulfilling and colorful, and my mood is more comfortable and open-minded.”

When President Roosevelt was studying at Bennington College, she wanted to find a job in the telecommunications industry and take a few credits.Her father made an appointment for her to meet one of his friends, General Sarlov, who was the chairman of Meitu Radio Company at the time.Mrs. Roosevelt recalled: The general asked me what kind of job I wanted to do, and I said whatever.The general told me that there is no such thing as "casual".He reminded me with a compelling look that the road to success is paved with goals!
Remember what the famous philosopher Hegel said: "A man of character is a man of reason. Because he has a definite goal in his heart, and he is determined to achieve his goal...he You must know how to limit yourself as Goethe said; on the contrary, those who want to do everything can actually do nothing, and eventually fail.”

Yes, opportunity is within the target.Keeping your eyes on the target, you must use your reason to overcome the erratic interest, and don't think differently.As the American writer Mark Twain said: "People's thinking is amazing. As long as you focus on a certain cause, you will definitely make achievements that surprise you."

Know exactly what you need.

Among all living beings, whether the success accounts for 1% or less than 1%, although we cannot count this number, they have a prominent feature that is completely different from others.This is the strong directionality of life, that is, successful people always carry a plan of action to win the battle of life.

All successful people know exactly where they are going anytime, anywhere.They have clear goals and will take concrete actions.Know what you want and where to get it.They define the goal and at the same time decide the path to be taken to get to that goal.

The achievement of goals is success, and each of us is constantly achieving our goals, so we can all continue to achieve success.

Successful people know how important it is to set goals step by step.Therefore, here we propose that when you are 20 years old, you can make the following plans: "five-year plan", "one-year plan", "six-month goals", "this year's goals", and so on.

However, the most important principle of success for successful people is that success is accumulated every minute and every second.Many people throw time away in slow movements; in meaningless chats; in looking up useless information; in aimless communication ; in the rhetoric of uttering well-known points; in the fuss about insignificant actions and events; middle.These people spend their time recklessly on unimportant and non-urgent activities while relegating activities that are truly related to achieving important goals.Because the content of the plan is not put in the first place, even if the plan is worked hard, it cannot be implemented, and most of the results fail.

Then there are those who are passionate about making party plans, cutting and clipping newspapers, and even making a record of the residence of friends who give New Year's cards.The time they spend on these things is far more generous than the time they spend making life plans.

The daily goal of a successful person must be formulated at least in the evening or evening of the previous day, and the order of things that should be done the next day must be ranked, and at least [-] or more clear and orderly contents must be written.So when they woke up the next morning, they went to practice one by one according to the order of things.

At the end of each day, they reconfirm this goal sheet.Completed projects are drawn with pens, new projects are added, and those that have not been completed in one day are pushed to the next day.

What happens if you go to a department store and you don't have a shopping budget?You are strolling in the hall full of products, the advertisements on TV come to your mind, the new products in front of you dazzle you, and your desire to buy is ignited.As a result, you come home with a handbag full of things you didn't intend to buy, didn't need, or even objected to you.

A successful goal should be comprehensive for yourself and your family, from reality to long-term interests.

Goals should be clear.The mind is like an automaton, a computer that doesn't think for itself.It only does what you decide.If you don't give it clear information, you can't have clear functions and behaviors.

Computers cannot follow vague concepts such as "happiness", "sufficiency" and "health".However, if you say that you earn 5000 yuan a month, buy a new computer, lose 5 kilograms in weight, or pass a qualifying exam in a certain month of the year, it will immediately respond to these clear goals.

So, how exactly does active “goal setting” work?The secret is to clearly define the goal, put it in writing and keep it safe.Then, as if that goal had been achieved, imagine talking about it with a friend, describing it in specific detail, and maintaining that mood from morning till night.

The automaton of your "self-image" cannot tell the difference between a real experience and a fake one;So no matter what kind of goal you set, it seems that it has become a part of your life, and you are moving in the direction of that goal unconsciously.

People have a natural tendency to unconsciously move towards the image they yearn for.The wind has lost its meaning to the small boats drifting in nowhere.A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. "When the wind blows, some ships will sail east, while others will drift west. Their course does not depend on where the wind comes from, but on which side the sails on the ship are facing."

How similar is this to our life.On the ocean of life, the passing time is like the wind blowing on the ship, and only we are the ones who raise the sails.Nothing that happens around us can take the place of us driving our own boat.

Don't forget to keep a firm grip on your rudder.With a plan in place, it is bound to propel it without swaying in drag.One day at a time, take immediate action.Unswervingly implement the established goals to the end.As long as you can "rehearse" it every day, your subconscious mind will naturally accept it and make you move towards your ideal goal day by day.

You have to keep your eyes on yourself and the self-image of each goal achieved.For the future life, formulate a successful action plan.If you can do this, you will win life in no time!
Time is passing by every minute and every second, there is no need to delay!
Goals require a realistic plan.

If you have become more convinced of the importance of setting clear goals in life, then how to determine your goals and how to ensure that your goals are achieved is very important.

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