Be a Man and Do Things Pillow Book

Chapter 30 Be a person who can put it into action (1)
Action is the only way to success.

There is an American girl named Sylvia, her father is a famous plastic surgeon in Boston, and her mother is a professor at a prestigious university.Her family has given her great help and support, and she has every chance to realize her ideal.Since she was in middle school, she has always dreamed of being a TV presenter.She felt she had a talent for this because whenever she was with people, even strangers were willing to get close to her and have long conversations with her.She knows how to "get what's on her mind" from people's mouths.Her friends called her their "close psychiatrist".She often said: "As long as someone is willing to give me a chance to be on TV, I believe I can succeed."

But what did she do to achieve this ideal?Actually nothing.She is waiting for a miracle to appear, hoping to become the host of a TV show all at once.

Sylvia expected unrealistically, but no miracle happened.No one would hire an inexperienced TV presenter.And the director of the show has no interest in going outside to search for talent, someone else is going to find them.Another girl named Cindy realized Sylvia's ideal and became a famous TV presenter.The reason why Cindy is successful is because she knows that "there is no such thing as a free lunch" and all success depends on her own hard work.She didn't have a reliable source of income like Sylvia, so she didn't wait in vain for opportunities to arise.She worked during the day and took night classes at the university's stage art department at night.After graduating, she started looking for a job, traveling to every radio and television station in Los Angeles.But the manager at each location had the same answer to her: "We wouldn't hire someone who hadn't had a few years of experience."

However, Cindy did not back down, nor did she wait for an opportunity, but went out and looked for it.After months of poring over broadcast and TV magazines, she finally came across a job ad for a small North Dakota TV station looking for a weather girl.

Cindy is from California and doesn't like the North.But it doesn't matter if it's sunny or rainy, she hopes to find a career in TV, anything.She jumped at the job opportunity and set off for North Dakota.

Cindy worked there for two years before finally finding a job with a television station in Los Angeles.After another five years, she was finally promoted to the show host she had always dreamed of.

Why did Sylvia fail and Cindy get her way?Sylvia's loser's mindset is the exact opposite of Cindy's winner's perspective.The point of difference is: Sylvia has been stuck in fantasy for 10 years, waiting for an opportunity; while Cindy took action, and finally realized her dream.

People who only fantasize about not taking action will never succeed.And action is the only way to realize the ideal.

Actions are a means to an end.

You can't get close to your true purpose in life without taking action.But for most people, the mortal enemy of action is indecision, that is, when encountering problems, they are always unable to make a quick decision and think twice beforehand, thus losing the best opportunities.

"Quick! Quick! Quick! Quicken your pace for life." This sentence often appeared on the message notes in the reign of Henry VIII of England to warn people, often accompanied by a picture of the messenger who did not deliver the letter on time Struggling on the gallows.There was no postal service at that time, and letters were sent by couriers sent by the government. If the courier was delayed on the road, he would be hanged.

In the days of the old, slow-paced carriage, what would have taken a month's long and dangerous trek, we can now traverse in a few hours.But even in those days unnecessary delay was a crime.A great progress of civilized society is the accurate measurement and utilization of time.What we can do in one hour now is what people did in twenty hours 100 years ago.

Success has a pair of plain-looking parents who are punctual and precise.Everyone's success story hinges on a moment of truth, when that moment of indecision or retreat occurs, and the opportunity is lost, never to be re-emerged.Andrew, the governor of Massachusetts, wrote to Lincoln on March 1861, 3: "As soon as we received your proclamation, we went to war, doing our best and fighting with all our strength. The will of the American people, we have completely abolished all red tape." On Monday, April 3, 1861, he received a telegram from Washington's army in the morning, and at nine o'clock the next Sunday morning he made a statement. "All forces required to be dispatched from Massachusetts have been stationed near Forts Washington and Monroe, or are on their way to defend the capital."

"My first question is what action to take, and if that question is answered, the second question is what is the next step," Premier Andrew said.

British social reformer George Ruskin said: "Fundamentally speaking, the entire youth stage of life is a stage in which a person's personality is formed, in which he meditates and hopes to be guided. Youth is at the mercy of fate all the time. It used to be that assigned work was never done, or a certain task might never be done if the iron was not struck while it was hot.”

Napoleon attached great importance to "golden time". He knew that every battle had a "critical moment", and grasping this moment meant the victory of the war, and a little hesitation would lead to a disastrous ending.Napoleon said that the reason why the Austrian army was defeated was because the Austrians did not understand the value of 5 minutes.It is said that, on that fateful morning at Waterloo, in an attempt to defeat Napoleon, he and Grouchy were miserably defeated by being five minutes late.Blücher arrived on time, Grouchy a little later.Because of this short period of time, Napoleon was sent to St. Helena, thus changing the fate of thousands of people.

There is a well-known saying that can almost become an aphorism for many people, that is: there is often no time to do things that can be done at any time.The African Association, which has turned public into private, wants to send the traveler Liard to Africa, and people ask him when he can leave.He replied: "Tomorrow morning." When John Jervis, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was asked when his ship could join the battle, he replied: "Now." The commander-in-chief of the army, when asked when he could send troops out, said without hesitation: "Tomorrow."

Instead of trying to put off until tomorrow a task that can be done today, it is better to use this energy to get the job done.And the longer the task is delayed, the more difficult it is to complete, and the more reluctant the attitude of doing things.Work that can be done when the mood is high or the enthusiasm is high can become a miserable burden after being postponed for days or weeks.If you don't reply to the letter when you receive it, it will not be so easy to pick it up and answer it later.Many large companies have a system in which all correspondence must be answered the same day.

Being decisive can often avoid the tedium and uninterestingness of doing things.Procrastination usually means avoidance, and the result is often nothing.Doing things is like planting seeds in the spring. If you don't act in the right season, you won't have the right time later.No matter how long summer may be, it cannot accomplish what has been delayed by spring.Even a single second of delay in the rotation of a certain star can throw the entire universe into chaos, with irreversible consequences.

"There is no moment as important as the present," said Irish author Mary Egypt Chiworth. "Not only that, but no time exists without the present moment. There is no power or energy that is not at work in the present moment." If a person does not take decisive action when enthusiasm is high, he will never have the possibility of realizing these wishes. All hopes will be lost, will be drowned in the trivial busyness of daily life, or will be lost. Gone in sluggish depression."

Act now and don't let your dreams shrink.

Most people have great dreams at the beginning, because they lack the personality of immediate action, the dreams begin to shrink, and all kinds of negative and impossible thoughts are derived, so that people dare not have any dreams anymore, and live a happy life , A mediocre life that is willing to know fate.This is why the winners are always in the minority.

A humorist once said: "The greatest difficulty of the day is getting out of the warm bed and going into the cold room." He was right.When you lie in bed and think getting out of bed is unpleasant, it actually becomes difficult.Even the simple act of getting out of bed, the automatic response of throwing back the comforter and putting your feet on the floor, can beat back your fear.

Those who have made great achievements do not wait until they are in good spirits to do things, but push their own spirits to do things.

The use of the word "now" is endless for success, but using "tomorrow," "next week," "later," "sometime in the future," or "someday" is often synonymous with "never."There are many good plans that don't come to fruition simply because "I'll start doing it someday" when I should say "I'm going to do it now" instead.

Everyone agrees that saving is a good thing.While it's great, it doesn't mean that everyone will follow a systematic savings plan.Many people want to save, only a few actually do it.

Mr. Bill's monthly income is $1000, but his monthly expenses are also $1000, which is just enough to make ends meet.Both couples really want to save, but often they find reasons why they can't start.They've been saying for years: "Start saving as soon as you get a raise," "After paying off your installments, you'll..." "After you get over this difficulty, you'll..." "Next month," "Next year." save money."

In the end it was his wife Jenny who didn't want to procrastinate.She said to Bill, "Think about it, do you want to save money?" He said, "Of course. But you can't save it now."

Jenny made up her mind this time.She went on to say: "We have been thinking about saving money for several years. We have not saved because we have always thought that we cannot save. From now on, we must think that we can save. I saw an advertisement today saying that if you save 100 every month $15 in 18000 years, plus $6600 in interest. The ad said: 'Save first, then spend' is much easier than 'spend first, then save'. If you really want to save, you can Save 10% of your paycheck and don’t use it for anything else. We might end up on biscuits and milk until the end of the month, but we can if we do.”

In order to save money, of course they suffered a lot in the first few months and tried to save as much as possible to set aside this budget.Now they feel that "saving money is as fun as spending it".

Want to write a letter to a friend?Write it now if you want to.Have you ever thought of a plan that will help your business a lot?Start right away.Always remember the words of Benjamin Franklin: "Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today." This is what our Chinese saying goes: "Today's work, today's end."

If you think about "now" all the time, you will get a lot done; if you think about "someday" or "when", you will get nothing done.

Dreams are the starting line of success, and determination is the gunfire at the start.Action is like a runner running with all his strength, only those who persist until the last second can win the championship.

All that is needed for success is courageous action.

Hearing that the British Royal Academy publicly published a list for the selection of scientific research assistants for the famous professor David, the young bookbinder Faraday was so excited that he hurried to the selection committee to sign up.But the day before the selection exam, Faraday was accidentally notified that he would be disqualified from the exam because he was an ordinary worker.

Faraday was stunned, and he rushed to the selection committee angrily, and the committee members laughed arrogantly: "There is no way, an ordinary bookbinder wants to come to the Royal Academy, unless you can get Professor David's consent!"

Faraday hesitated.If he couldn't meet Professor David, he wouldn't be able to take the selection exam.But if an ordinary worker wants to meet the famous professor of the Royal Academy, will he pay attention?

Faraday had many worries, but for his own life dream, he still mustered up the courage to stand at the gate of Professor David.The door of the professor's house was closed tightly, and Faraday lingered in front of the professor's house for a long time.Finally, the door of the professor's house was knocked by a timid heart.

There was no sound in the yard. When Faraday was about to knock on the door for the second time, the door opened with a "squeak".An old man with ruddy complexion, white beard and hair, and hale and hearty was watching Faraday, "The door is not latched, please come in." The old man said to Faraday with a smile.

"Is the door of the professor's house unlocked all day long?" Faraday asked suspiciously.

"Why do you need to lock it?" said the old man with a smile. "When you lock others out, you lock yourself in. I don't want to be such a fool." The old man is Professor David .He took Faraday into the house and sat down. After listening to the young man's narration and request, he wrote a note and handed it to Faraday: "Young man, take this note and tell the committee members Said old Davy agreed."

After a rigorous and fierce selection examination, Faraday, a bookbinder, unexpectedly became Professor David's research assistant, and walked into the noble and gorgeous gate of the Royal Academy.

The door to success is always open to everyone.But too many people pass by it in a hurry, because they are cowardly and think that it is locked. Opening it requires knowledge, experience, background, etc., but a few elites walk past and find that success requires only brave actions .

Thinking about it and doing it is the only shortcut to success.

A person with lofty ideals and goals in life will undoubtedly have more achievements and achievements than a person with no goals at all.The ancient Chinese said a long time ago: "The one who takes the law from the top will get the middle, the one who takes the middle will get the bottom, and the one who takes the bottom will get nothing." And there is such a proverb in the West: "Those who want to hold on to the golden robe may get a piece of gold." Only gold sleeves."

Once upon a time, there were two people who both wanted to go far away, one wanted to go to Japan, and the other wanted to go to America.They sailed from Penglai at the same time, but neither of them reached their destination.But those who wanted to go to America reached Japan, while those who wanted to go to Japan only went to the Korean peninsula.

Those who have lofty ambitions and dare to imagine, their achievements must be far beyond the starting point; a person with high ideals and big goals, even if he does not realize the ultimate ideals and goals, but the actual goals achieved are lower than the ideals , People with small goals finally achieve big goals.

Therefore, if anyone wants to be successful, he must first dare to think, that is, he must dare to imagine his future, raise his ideals and goals, and not shrink back in a crappy, narrow corner.

It is safe to say that great lives are the product of lofty ideals.However, this is only one aspect of the problem; another aspect that cannot be ignored is that people who only dare to think but do not dare or do not want to do will not have success.

Someone once asked the famous thinker Blake: "You can become a great thinker, what is the key to success?"

"Think a lot!" Blake replied.

The man returned home like a treasure, and began to lie on the bed all day long, staring at the ceiling, motionless, and entered the state of "thinking and thinking" according to Blake's instructions.

A month later, the man's wife found Blake and said with a sad face, "Please go and see my husband. After he came back from you, he was like a demon, lying on the bed all day long thinking about it!"

Blake rushed to take a look, only to see that the man had become scrawny.He struggled desperately to get up, and said to Blake, "I've been thinking all the time recently, even to the point where I don't think about eating or drinking. How far do you think I am from a great thinker?"

"You just want to do nothing every day, so what do you think about?" Mr. Black asked slowly.

The man replied: "There are so many things I think about, and I feel like I can't fit them in my head."

"Oh! I probably forgot to remind you one thing: people who just don't want to do it can only produce ideological garbage, success is like a ladder, and people with their hands in their pockets will never climb up." Then, Blake raised this one example:
There is a professor full of wisdom and an illiterate living next to each other.Although the status of the two is very different, and their knowledge and personalities are vastly different, they both have a common goal: how to get rich as soon as possible.

Every day, the professor, with his legs crossed, prattled about his "experience on getting rich", while the illiterate listened devoutly beside him.He admired the professor's knowledge and wisdom very much, and put it into practical actions according to the professor's idea of ​​getting rich.

A few years later, Illiterate really became a real millionaire.And what about the professor?He still has nothing in his pocket, and he is still talking about his theory of getting rich every day.As they say, "Professor, professor, the more you teach, the thinner you are".

Success lies in the idea, but also in the action.In fact, it is easier to set goals than to put them into action.Many people have goals in life for themselves, and everyone seems to be a strategist in this sense.However, a considerable number of people set goals but did not implement them, and dared not take action. In the end, nothing was achieved.Dare to think and dare to do are a pair of twin brothers that promote success. The two complement each other and are indispensable.

Break up big plans into segments.

(End of this chapter)