Be a Man and Do Things Pillow Book

Chapter 60
In people's daily life, they will encounter many things of one kind or another. Although some of them are not the most urgent things in front of them, they are of great significance to the long-term and overall situation.For example, exercising, whether or not exercising does not make much difference, but it is extremely important in the long run and has profound benefits.Some people are not willing to spend time on such things. It is really unwise, and it is not worthwhile compared with the long-term calculation of the general ledger.

In terms of efficiency management, it is necessary to take both long-term and urgency into account, and attach great importance to the handling of affairs that are not urgent but have far-reaching impact.This law raises efficiency management to a strategic level.

Finally, to become a master of efficiency management, one must not only master the rules and techniques of efficiency management, but also need to practice hard to cure mental laziness.Efficiency management and emotional governance are mutually restrictive, complementary and synchronously developed.

If there is no positive and exciting emotion, even if you have mastered a lot of efficient management rules and techniques, it will not help.Those who are full of negativity and boredom towards work and life, those who are lazy and do not seek to make progress, how can they improve their efficiency and successfully do everything well?

Active breaks are also key to productivity.

Bill Gates said: A person who knows how to combine work and rest is a happy person.

There is a good saying: Effective time management is a process of pursuing change and learning.Especially a person who makes good use of leisure time will be more productive at work.

Bill Gates reminded us: There are really many people who can make great achievements in the world, but they are unknown because they let go of the rare time.

Around us, many people often say that they are always "very busy", "have no time for entertainment" or "hasn't watched movies for several years". People who complain like this have made the biggest mistake: they emphasize their own importance too much, Consider yourself irreplaceable.Especially for people who sit higher, this problem is more serious.In many cases, it's not that he really doesn't have time, but that he can't let go.This kind of person always keeps saying "wait until I have time" and "wait until I am free"... As a result, he has never waited for the time in his whole life, and has never enjoyed life in his whole life.

Bill Gates believes: The first principle of time management is: respect for everything, including respect for leisure.Mood can be created, time can be controlled, and a person who is good at arranging will never shout "busy", because he knows what he wants and what he doesn't want.

There is a man named Nibson in foreign countries. Through a survey of people who have been active in the world's industrial circles for a century, he found that the key to their success lies in their ability to use their leisure time to learn.

What is leisure time?Leisure time is the time that people can freely control, which is what we usually call spare time, and some people call it "beyond eight hours".Strictly speaking, the real leisure time should exclude the time spent on housework, eating, etc., that is, the time that is completely at the discretion of the individual.Freedom is a characteristic of leisure time.Generally speaking, working hours cannot be freely controlled, and the flow of working hours is basically determined, with certain stability and restrictions. For example, during working hours, workers cannot practice medicine, and doctors cannot work.However, leisure time is completely different. It does not impose mandatory regulations on where people go, and has a large degree of freedom. Basically, they can choose according to their own interests.

In leisure time, in order to meet their own needs, people can fully engage in those valuable and meaningful activities that can reflect their personality.The value of leisure time is very high, it is like a shuttle that weaves knowledge networks back and forth; for inventions and creations, it is a factor that stimulates people's psychological potential.

Active breaks are also key to productivity.The so-called "active rest" is because this kind of rest is different from simple rest. It is a rest for maintaining work efficiency. This kind of rest must achieve the maximum effect in a short time.

We all know that people who work in the office for a long time have a feeling of fatigue from time to time. It is because they maintain the same posture for a long time, which leads to poor blood circulation and muscle fatigue.Therefore, if you have always maintained a forward-bending position, you can do some movements in the opposite direction during the rest, so that the blood in the originally compressed parts can be unblocked and the overused muscles can be stretched.These actions are really effective.

The feeling of tiredness is a warning that comes naturally from your physiology.Reminding us that a body part is overloaded.If ignored, it will increase the burden on the body.Therefore, once the warning message appears, it is wise to let the overloaded parts return to normal.

In order to adjust your fatigue, you can take a short break, but the time should not be too long, generally set to 3 minutes.Set a break time of 3 minutes.Although there is no theoretical basis, 3 minutes happens to be the smallest paragraph for many things.A phone call, a boxing round, etc., are all based on 3 minutes.Therefore, as long as 3 minutes, it is enough to restore the original vitality of the tired body.If it exceeds 3 minutes, it may be too long to continue the previous work immediately because of the interruption.As a result, rest reduces work efficiency.As for how to use these 3 minutes, it varies from person to person.In order to rest your tired body and mind, you can put down the work at hand, listen to music, or appreciate the works of your favorite painters.

Of course, 3 minutes is just a rough estimate.As long as the effect can be achieved, two and a half minutes or two minutes is also possible.Of course, you don't have to take a 2-minute break every hour.As long as you feel your body and mind are at their best and you don't feel tired at all, it's okay to keep working.If it is strictly stipulated that you have to take a break every hour of work, it may interrupt the work in progress, which will not only fail to improve work efficiency, but reduce efficiency.

A necessary lunch break is indispensable to relieve physical fatigue, but sometimes the work progress cannot be ignored. If you take a break just because the time is up, it will often interrupt the work that is entering the state.Therefore, if the work at hand is going well, you might as well take a rest after you come to an end.

It can be said that there are countless ways to improve efficiency, and there are many coups and clever tricks.

For example, the brain and motor organs are used together.A certain worker nailed wooden boxes, and he recited a foreign word every time he knocked a nail.A year later, he not only completed the work tasks, but also memorized more than 5000 foreign language words without any difficulty.A study by the University of California showed that a person listened to the program during 3 years of driving time.You can get the equivalent of two years of college education training.

Another example is the combination of conscious and subconscious.Subconscious activities are often unnoticed.When doing something, other inspirations suddenly appear, and they are recorded in time, which kills two birds with one stone.You can also learn while sleeping. The famous "super learning method" popular in European and American countries is to listen to foreign language recordings while sleeping, and the effect is very good.Bill Gates said: "Don't rush to make a decision on anything, as long as you sleep for a night, good wisdom will emerge." Many celebrities love to use this method.Give yourself instructions before going to bed, and you can often find answers to difficult problems after waking up. This is called "success while sleeping".

Bill Gates said: The reason why I have achieved what I am today is that I don’t have any superhuman abilities. If I have any, it’s just that I’m better at using time and managing time than others.

There are many ways to arrange leisure time scientifically, and they also vary from person to person, place to place, and time to time.

There are mainly the following ways:
·Development style, which is to use leisure time as the time to develop one's own potential and realize self-worth;

Combined type, leisure time and working time are mutual feedback and mutual influence, combined type is actually taking leisure activities as the extension and expansion of one's own work, and the reserve and supplement of professional knowledge;
·Cultivation style, that is, engage in various beneficial activities in leisure time to cultivate temperament and increase knowledge;
Adjustment type, that is, leisure activities and work are adjusted each other. For example, mental workers should do some physical work in their leisure time, and indoor workers should go outdoors in their leisure time. People whose work is logical thinking should use Visual thinking is dominant.

Another meaning of adjustment is to achieve a combination of relaxation, busyness, work and rest, and relaxation.It’s not about just being relaxed, or just forgetting to relax, and making it very tense, and don’t relax and forget, and refrain from blindly seeking leisure, adding leisure to leisure, advocating a combination of relaxation and relaxation, and moderate work and rest.

Try to work less and be more productive.

For us, most of the time pressure is ego.Go over your work schedule and delete unnecessary things you added.Ask yourself the most basic question: "Do I 'really' have to do this?"

Don't take pride in how much you overwork.Always ask yourself whether the work at hand is the most important thing in front of you, use your mind to make a smart plan, and don't let yourself be proud of the hours you put in.Find the best helpers you can, and offload work and responsibilities to be more efficient at work, whether you're dealing with domestic or business responsibilities.

Pause from time to time and listen to your inner voice to develop your creative potential.If you can focus on yourself and engage in quiet introspection, you will be much less likely to burn yourself out.Drive and hard work are essential, but creativity and enthusiasm are even more important.

Don't push yourself too hard on your schedule.Most people have a tendency to want to accomplish more than they are capable of in a limited period of time.Arrange a plan without taking into account the inevitable errors and necessary delays in execution.This situation is not uncommon.A more efficient countermeasure is that the deadline you set should have a balance of 30% in addition to the scheduled completion time of the work itself, as the processing time for human errors, delays and unexpected problems.

Take everything down, that will only lead to inefficiency.Choose jobs that really matter to you.Sooner or later everyone has to learn to accept human limitations.It is impossible for us to please everyone, and it is impossible for everyone to recognize the cycle of rest and work that they can be satisfied with.Just as you have a personality different from others, you also have your own cycle of rest and work.Some people have the most energy in the morning, while others are most active and creative in the early afternoon and early evening.You can schedule your routine to take care of when your energy is low, and once it's high time, it's best to avoid interrupting yourself with calls or errands.

It is more efficient to reduce stress and take some preventive measures than to wait until you burn out and try to fix it.

Build a friendly relationship with time.Start making time a creative tool rather than a competitive enemy.Whenever you set a reasonable goal and take it easy to achieve it, you should give yourself some encouragement.If you can find ways no one else has thought of to lighten your workload, avoid time-consuming activities or remove unnecessary steps, you can get extra time for fun activities.

Don't forget that failure is part of success.Some people's tension and anxiety are forced out by the fear of failure.

The pursuit of achievements is only one of the games, so don't take it too seriously.No matter how talented and hard-working you are, you won't win every challenge.

Schedule leisure time very seriously.Just as sloppy as if you were scheduling a meeting with an important client.Too often we get so preoccupied with work issues that everything else gets sidelined by it.In fact, the ideal way of life is not just spending time accumulating money, walking in the park or sprinting to cross another fence. Both have their own importance. You choose.

Procrastination is the enemy of efficiency.

Some people can decisively overcome inertia in an instant and face challenges proactively; while some people are deeply trapped in the quagmire of "struggling", being pulled back and forth by initiative and inertia, at a loss and unable to make up their minds... ...time is wasted every minute and every second.

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