Be a Man and Do Things Pillow Book

Chapter 4 Be a person with ideals and goals (4)
Some success articles in Western countries believe that after setting goals, "learn from successful people, do what successful people do, apply them to yourself, and then create your own set of successful philosophies and theories in your own style. ", plus practice, you can achieve success.

For successful people, personal growth, contribution, creativity, love, and sharing the joy of success with others make them extraordinary, but their goals are ordinary.

Clearly writing down the goals you have identified will help you reach them.The reason most people don't reach their goals is that they don't have a defined goal.They never take this seriously; if they have a goal, they treat it as implausible and unattainable.In other words, they never set a goal, and they fail because they don't follow the plan.A successful person can tell you where to go, how long it will take, why to go there, what to do along the way, and who to share troubles with.

Make a plan for a lifetime of success!
Specifically, a successful plan should look like this:

What is the purpose of life?How to achieve the goal?What would you like to tell future generations about you?Roughly write on paper.

What goals do you want to achieve in recent years?Set the main goals for the next five years in the following eight areas: career, physical strength, family, personal attitude, economy, public utilities, education and entertainment.

List the plan to be implemented next year, check the progress of your goals for this year from the above eight aspects, and implement your plan for one year on December 12 or January 31.

Record on the desk calendar what to do next month, what purpose to achieve, and who to contact in order to achieve the annual goal.

Use a small notebook to record the experience of the week, determine the activities to be carried out to achieve your goals next week, and summarize the completed situation every morning and evening.

Determine specific tasks for each day.At the end of each day's work, draw up the work items to be done tomorrow.Before going to bed every day and before getting up the next morning, check the completion of the day's work, and try not to transfer the unfinished work to the next day.

Design a plan to stimulate personal growth with financial success.Think about the level of income you'll be able to achieve by the time you retire, and start working on it now.Check your current balance and savings for emergencies and accidents.Plan your income and expenses for the next month and make a savings plan.

For each of your goals, you must consider relevant information and collect materials that will help you achieve your goals.Such as newspapers, books, tapes, pictures cut from magazines, consumer reports, color samples, etc., and are happy to use these.

Often communicate with successful people or relevant experts, get their help, and carefully distinguish between dishonest people and those who sincerely want to help you.

In addition, the following exercises will help you find the right course in life.

(1) Interrogate yourself.Ask yourself in your heart: "In this world, what do I want? What kind of goal do I want to achieve? Have I set up a beacon of life?..." "What do I want" is your life goal ; And the lighthouse of your life is the starting line of your voyage.Without a goal, there is no direction to go; without a starting line, there is no way to plan your own voyage.

DRAW YOUR DREAM BLUEPRINT Set aside a specific time to contemplate and plan your ideals.Avoid all distractions, and don't let others interrupt your train of thought.You can choose a quiet place and ask your questions alone, writing down the answers to these questions:

1 What is the greatest thing I can imagine myself doing in my life?
2 What do I really want in this life?Where is my desire?

3 What talents and talents do I have?What things do I do best, or better than anyone I know?

4 What am I most passionate about?What fascinates me the most?If yes, what is it?
5 What is special about my time and environment?What factors tend to produce the chance of success?
6 Who are the successful people I envy?What strengths should I learn from them?

The above process should be repeated once a year, or redone when you feel it is necessary.This makes it easy to revise your goals in time.If you have held the same ideal for several years, and you find it more attractive in the new environment, then you have probably aimed at one of the most ideal goals in your life.Once the goal is determined, you have to express it in various ways and turn it into concrete and feasible plans and actions.Articulating your goals clearly will allow you to focus, realize your potential, and bring your dreams closer to you step by step.

(2) Act now.After the goal is set, you have to start taking action immediately. "Think twice before acting", don't "think twice before acting".The kind of "giant who thinks, dwarf who acts" will eventually accomplish nothing.Thinking hard, not practicing, can only be daydreaming.

1. Read your dream list and life goals aloud every morning.

2 Carefully plan the progress of each period.You can schedule by the hour, by the day or by the month.

3. Effectively guarantee the implementation of the plan.

Don't procrastinate, you already know that you have to chop the wood you burn, pick the water you drink, and decide what major goals you want in life, so why not implement what you already know as soon as possible What about the truth and principles?

From now on, analyze your desires, find out what you really need, and then make up your mind to get it.When you are choosing your "definite main goal", you must keep in mind that you cannot set your goal too high or too far.Also, remember one unchanging truth: If you don't set a clear goal from the beginning, you will get nowhere.If your purpose in life is vague, your accomplishments will be indeterminate, if any, insignificant.Find out what you need, when you need it, why you need it, and how you plan to get it.

Stay away from unambitious days.

There are so many people in life who do not have clear goals and ambitions, and do not have a well-planned life plan, but just muddle along day by day. Those who hold this attitude in life, let alone achieve overall success, even if they want to achieve success in a certain field It is also impossible.

In the ocean of life, we can see such young people everywhere. They just drift with the current aimlessly, without a fixed direction, and they don’t know where to dock. How many years of youth have passed.They don't know the meaning of anything they do, they are just forced to move forward in the crowded flow of people.If you asked one of them what he was going to do, what his ambitions were, he would tell you that he didn't know exactly what he was going to do himself.He's just there aimlessly waiting for an opportunity to change his life.

How is it possible to expect a person who has no purpose in life to reach a certain destination?How can it be expected that such a person will not be in chaos and confusion?
I have never heard of a lazy, idle, lazy person who has ever achieved much.Only those who face obstacles and strive hard in the process of reaching their goals can reach the pinnacle of overall success and be at the forefront of the times.

Those who never try to take on new challenges, those who can't force themselves to do the seemingly arduous work that is best for them, will never achieve much.

Everyone should have strict requirements on themselves.You can't just idle away time whenever you get a chance; you can't let yourself lie in bed in the morning until you think about it; you can't just go to work when you feel the mood to work, but you must learn to control and regulate your emotions, regardless of No matter what state of mind you are in, you should force yourself to work.

The vast majority of unambitious people fail because they are too lazy to succeed.They are unwilling to do the toiling work, to pay the price, to make the necessary effort.All they want is to live an easy life and enjoy everything they have.In their view, why should they struggle desperately and shed blood and sweat continuously?Why not enjoy life and be content with the status quo?

Physical laziness, mental indifference, the tendency to let everything go, and the mentality of always wanting to avoid challenges and live a once-and-for-all life, all these are important reasons why so many people are unknown and achieve nothing .

For those who do not resign themselves to mediocrity, it is absolutely essential that they develop the habit of constantly checking their ambitions and keeping their spirits high forever.You know, everything depends on our ambitions.Once it pales, all living standards fall with it.We must keep the ideal lighthouse lit forever and make it shine brightly.

If a person has no ambitions and plays games in life, it is very dangerous.

When a man has taken too much morphine, the doctor knows that sleep means death for him, and he will try to keep him awake.Sometimes, to achieve this goal, some very cruel means must be used, such as pinching, pinching the patient, or giving him a heavy blow. In short, all possible means must be used to expel the Sandman.In such cases a man's willpower plays a decisive role; once he sinks into sleep, it is likely that he will never wake up again.

Everywhere we see men who are best equipped, have all the best conditions, and seem to be ready to go, and yet their footsteps are slow to move, they have not seized the best timing.The reason for this phenomenon is that they have no motivation to move forward and no lofty ambitions.

A watch may have the finest hands, may be set with the most expensive stones, and yet it is still useless if it lacks a mainspring.The same is true of people, no matter how advanced a young man's university education is, and no matter how strong his body is, if he lacks lofty ambitions, then all his other conditions, no matter how excellent, are meaningless.

There are some talented people who, despite being over thirty years old, still haven't chosen a career for life.They said they didn't know what they were suitable for.For such a person, no matter how talented they are, their vigor will be eroded by aimless collisions.

Ambition often emerges from a very young age.If we don't listen carefully to its voice, if it has been lurking in us for many years without any encouragement, then it will gradually cease to sprout.The reason is simply that, like many other qualities or functions that are not used, they inevitably tend to degenerate or disappear when they are left unused.

This is a law of nature, only those things that are used frequently can radiate vitality for a long time.As soon as we stop using our muscles, brains, or certain abilities, degeneration happens naturally, and the energy we originally had leaves us without knowing it.

If you don't pay attention to the deep voice of your heart to "go up", if you don't give your ambition a constant push, if you don't effectively reinforce it through vigorous practice, then it will quickly wither die.

Aspirations that are not supported and reinforced in a timely manner can feel like a delayed resolution.As wishes and passions are denied again and again, their demands for approval become weaker and weaker, and the final result is the complete death of ideals and aspirations.

Among the people around us, there are countless people who have lost their ambitions and ideals in the end.Despite their outward appearance, the fire of passion that once burned deep in their hearts has now been extinguished, replaced by boundless darkness.They walk on this land, but it seems that they are just walking corpses without souls.Their lives become meaningless.Their existence becomes worthless, both to themselves and to the world.

If there are some poor and humble people in this world, there is no doubt that those whose ambitions have died are one of them. They repeatedly deny and suppress the inner cry for progress and struggle. fuel, the ideal fire in them has been extinguished.

For anyone, no matter how bad his current situation is or how bad his congenital conditions are, as long as he maintains a high fighting spirit and the fire of enthusiasm is still burning, then he is very hopeful; He is decadent and negative, and his heart is like ashes. Then, the sharpness and vigor of life will disappear.

In our life, one of the biggest challenges is how to maintain the passion for life, stay away from blind and aimless life, keep a firm and clear goal, keep the blazing fire burning forever, and maintain this high state.

Many people often use this kind of thinking to deceive themselves psychologically and anesthetize themselves.As long as they are optimistic and look forward to realizing their ideals and aspirations, they have actually achieved their goals.However, this kind of people who just talk but don't do it, or do things procrastinatingly, are actually just worried in their hearts that their fantasy of success will be tested in reality.On the one hand, their waiting is to enjoy the illusion of "possible success" for a while, and on the other hand, they want to be lucky and succeed naturally.However, there has only been wind, snow, rain and hail in the sky, and there has never been pie and great luck.

Ideals and aspirations need to be nourished by many different kinds of nutrients, so as to make them vigorous and fresh.Empty, unrealistic ambitions mean nothing.Our ideals and aspirations will only become effective if they are supported by strong willpower, indomitable determination, abundant physical strength, and dogged endurance.

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