Be a Man and Do Things Pillow Book

Chapter 62
Get into the habit of being organized.

A magazine ran this story:
There was an old businessman who had been in the real estate business in a small town for several years, and then it failed completely.When the creditor came to collect the debt, he was frowning, thinking about the reasons for his failure.

"Why should I fail?" he said. "Aren't I very polite to my customers?"

"You can do it all over again," said the creditor. "Don't you see that you still have a lot of property?"

"What? Start from scratch?"

"Yeah! You should pull out a balance sheet, clean it up, and start over."

"Do you mean that I have to calculate all the assets and liabilities in detail and write them into a table? I have to rewash and paint my facade, floor, tables and chairs, coffee tables, and bookshelves to make it look like Does it look like it's newly opened?"

"Yes!"

"This is something I wanted to do 15 years ago, but I have never done it because I was addicted to watching boxing. Now I know why I have failed to such an extent over the years!"

Especially when doing business in a big city, it is even more important to keep everything and everything in order.The president of the American Trust Industry Association said: "According to the experience I have gained from dealing with general large companies in the past few years, their bosses can get reports about the company's operations at any time, and they can know the situation of the entire company well, so they will never fail. "

Whether you are running a business in a big city or a town, you should keep your supplies clean and tidy, and remembering your accounts clearly is the most important thing.Those who make a mess of everything will fall one day.

There are many merchants who tend to pile up their goods in a mess without good management.Occasionally, when a customer came to buy a certain item, the clerk had to search and turn for half a day to find it.

The same is true of many young people, who are born with a queer temper, who just put everything off, and never think how they should be done better.They took off their clothes and ties and threw them here and there.When they have to let go of what they are doing and run away, they don't care what they have done, and immediately put it aside, and wait until they come back and continue.Once this kind of young people step into society and start a career, they will definitely make a mess around them, and they will definitely hold "prevaricationism" about everything.

If you spend a little more time and energy to make your affairs a result and put your things away; when you continue to find things out in the future, you really don’t know how much time you will save and energy, and I don’t know how many unnecessary disputes and troubles to save.

Some people often can't think of reasons for their failures.In fact, the writing desk in front of him has already told him the reason honestly: there is a pile of messy papers on the desk, and a pile of letters on the west; the drawers seem to be stuffed with cotton; The papers and notes are all miscellaneously stuffed.

All the utensils and furnishings around us are the most faithful witnesses to our habits.Our actions, speech, attitude, mannerisms, eyes, clothing, adornment, etc. also tell us honestly and unceremoniously about who we are.They tell you the reasons for your own inexplicable failures, and the reasons for your poverty that you don't know why, and tell you exactly why.

Do anything, don't stop and do it, stop and do it again.There are often many people who speak a great deal of truth today, but tomorrow they will have nothing to do, and they will not see any action.Such people can be called "reckless pigs" and "cold-blooded".They don't know that any business can't be successful just by bragging like that. It must be concentrated, methodical, persevering, and continuous efforts!
Pay attention to the rhythm of life.

Life is like a symphony, with melodies that alternate in speed, strength, and relaxation.It reflects people's lifestyle and spiritual outlook to a certain extent.Some people are quick and efficient no matter what they do; others are slow and dawdling, and their efficiency is very low.Just like the beat in music, the former is sung half a beat by an eighth note, and the latter is sung by a quarter note, and the former is twice as fast as the latter.By extension, if people can change the rhythm of life such as getting up and dressing, washing their faces, eating and walking, etc. from the original "quarter note" to "eighth note", then how much more work will people do? Woolen cloth!
Now the world is entering the information age.Information, without "fast", its value will inevitably be [-]% discounted, or even equal to zero.In the market, sooner or later a piece of information is obtained, which may make some companies prosper or go bankrupt.The sequence of publication of a new discovery or invention in science and technology may affect the right of creation or the attribution of a patent.

The first rule of fast-paced work is to have the motivation to work.It is important to know how to stimulate it and how to use it sparingly and intensively, but it must be possessed first.

(1) Excess control time.British sociologist Ba Jinsheng pointed out in the book "Ba Jinsheng's Law" that if senior scientific and technical personnel have too much time, they will have a sense of distrust, so that they will develop those harmful products and waste time to fool themselves, or become a doer. They are all slow and slow.But the excess of time is not terrible, it is normal, because anyone's demand for time can never be consistent.The key is to control excess time and turn it to your advantage in time.

(2) Form a habit and never slack off.A great philosopher once said: "Habit is really a tenacious and huge force, it can dominate life." The psychological law of people is like this, before the temporary neural connections formed by new conditioned reflexes are "fixed", always Unstable; and before the "stereotype" of the neural connections formed by the old conditioned reflexes is completely disintegrated, there is always a certain instinct of regression.As Lummus puts it: "Every time an exception is made, it's like a ball of string you've worked so hard to wind up falls to the ground, and the skater looses more string in one go than you can wind up many times. "So before the fast-paced habit is formed, there must be no slack.

(3) Always ring the alarm bell to promote work.Some time research experts guide people to make assumptions like this: If I now know that I will suddenly lose the ability to study and work in six months, what speed should I work before that; every day I live as my second It is arranged that the sky is about to die.The famous female scholar Helen Keller was blinded and deafed by scarlet fever since she was a child. In an article "If You Give Me Three Days of Light", she always thought that the future would be long, and she didn't cherish today's time, but satiated all day long and had nothing to do. The mediocre generation sounded the alarm.The author tactfully asked: "If you only had three days of light, how would you use your eyes?" Using such questions to inspire people to think, calling on people to work fast-paced, and to regard every day of life as life. The last day in order to fully demonstrate the value of life.

Form your own work rules.

People, there are lark type and night owl type, Jason said he probably belongs to the night owl type.In the past, he was also a daytime person. Even in the days when he was preparing for the university entrance examination, he rarely stayed up late, and he had to sleep for at least 8 hours and get up very early in the morning.Now, work has turned him into a "night owl".

The biggest reason why Jason became a "night owl" was to stagger the rush hour and make the most effective use of time.He felt that it was a pity that he couldn't do anything on the way to the law office by tram every day.Assuming that a person goes to work five days a week, and it takes 2 hours to go back and forth every day, more than 400 hours will be spent on the road in a year, and these 400 hours will be used for reading or doing things, and considerable results will be obtained.

Another reason is related to the work of lawyers.Legal person institutions such as companies and lawyers can have talks during the day, but people who work in the company can't, because I always feel that it will cause the company colleagues to look sideways.In a company, "I have to go to the doctor today, please allow me to leave early" is relatively easy to say, but "I have to meet with a lawyer, please allow me to leave early" is hard to say.In addition, most people don't want others to know about going to see a lawyer.So if Jason heard a customer say, "Can I come back after six o'clock?" he would definitely say, "Okay."

Lawyers often have to prepare various documents and write a lot of written materials.Lawyers are expected to keep confidentiality for their clients, so the work must be done within the firm.However, there are many annoying phone calls in the office all day long, and there are only fewer calls at night, so he gradually becomes a "night owl".

Day type or night owl type depends on the individual's situation.Regardless of individual conditions, it is impossible to determine whether the day type is good or the night owl type is good.The most important thing is to "handle good things at the time that suits you best" to improve efficiency.

Avoid chaos in the pace of life.

It is often said that if you want to get up early on the day of an important exam, you just need to get up early the morning before.Because you get up early the day before, you will definitely go to bed early at night, so you won't oversleep on the day of the exam.However, I'm not a big fan of this approach.

This is because the pace of life will be affected.Of course, it depends on what kind of exam it is. If it is an important exam, it is best to avoid using this method.Although this method can get up early, it disrupts the pace of life, and I am afraid that the mind will not be very flexible.In such a situation, you should slowly change your pace of life from the week before the day of the exam, and get up a little earlier every morning, so as not to cause your brain to be inflexible due to the sharp change in your pace of life.

In physics, there is a "law of inertia": when there is no external force, all objects always remain at rest or in a state of uniform linear motion.

The pace of work or study is similar to linear motion.Make up your mind to get up early every morning and read for an hour. This determination will be accompanied by pain in the process of developing a habit.However, if it lasts for a period of time, reading for an hour every morning will become a matter of course, and it will no longer feel painful.

The most difficult part is the moment from stillness to movement, because at this time, considerable mental perseverance is required.But as long as you put in the effort, you will eventually see results.However, if you are discouraged halfway, then all previous efforts will be wasted.

Halfway efforts must be persisted.Just like once an airplane leaves the land and reaches an altitude of [-] meters, it no longer needs a lot of energy necessary for take-off and can continue to fly.However, once you are on track, if you break your habit by saying "today is a special situation", you will be over immediately.Because, if the falling plane wants to get on the track again, it must have superb technology and strong will, that is, great perseverance.

Tension helps to concentrate.

Whether a person can concentrate depends not only on his own ability, but also on the content of his work and the working environment.

But what is certain is that no one can maintain mental concentration for a long time.Whether it is work or entertainment, the time a person can concentrate on doing things is absolutely limited.

If you can understand the maximum time limit for you to concentrate on doing things, it will help improve work efficiency.Because you know your maximum time limit, you will not extend your work to three or four hours meaninglessly.Because you know that extending the working hours reluctantly will only increase the physical and mental burden, and there is no work efficiency at all.If your maximum time limit is 90 minutes, then you might as well take a break after every 90 minutes.Rest is to go a longer distance, and after a moderate charge, it can improve work efficiency.It doesn't matter if your maximum time limit is only 20 minutes, as long as you can maximize your productivity.

In addition, moderately changing the content of work can also help improve efficiency.If you are tired of doing mathematics, you can read history instead.If you are tired of writing, you can change it to reading materials.Although the content of the change varies from person to person, the most important thing is to remember the principle of "it is impossible to keep concentration forever".

(1) Maintain a certain level of tension.

In fact, another meaning of "tension" is "devotion".When the ancestors of humans in the primitive era were chased by ferocious beasts, their hearts beat faster and their palms were sweaty to run away desperately, and the sweaty palms were just enough to prevent slipping, so that they could climb to the top of the tree to avoid the attack of wild beasts.In other words, "nervousness" is the preparation for the next action. If you are not nervous, you will not be able to escape with all your strength.Therefore, "tension" was an indispensable instinct for people to survive at that time.

Such "tension effect" not only plays a role in primitive times, but also is indispensable even for modern people, because nervous emotions will stimulate mental concentration and make thoughts clear and lively.Therefore, nervousness is a normal mental reaction; it is a normal reflection that arises after understanding the importance of the problem you are facing.

Therefore, it is not a good thing to face a major exam without being nervous at all.Because if there is no tension, there will be no vigilance, and things will easily go wrong.Of course, being overly emotionally reactive, being too nervous to do anything, is worse than not being nervous at all.But moderate tension is absolutely necessary.

(2) Cultivate your ability to concentrate.

In order to improve the efficiency of work or study, it is necessary to train your ability to concentrate on weekdays.

Another proof that "tension helps you focus" is when you stand in a bookstore and read.I believe that many people have this kind of experience. Sometimes they don’t plan to buy books, but just want to look up information in bookstores. Although they randomly browse through books here and there, the content they see at this time is surprisingly impressive.In fact, this should be caused by the nervous feeling that the bookstore owner or the clerk will interfere, because the nervousness stimulated the abnormal concentration.

A method for continuous improvement of work.

There will be some gaps between the ideal goal and the actual situation.For example, if you plan to study for 8 hours a day, but due to various reasons, you only reach 7 hours, or even 5 hours. Such a gap should be recorded on your "schedule" every day.

In fact, no matter how ideal the predetermined plan is, there will always be unforeseen circumstances in real life that will affect the completion of the plan.Although there are not many dramatic emergencies in real life, there are too many things that hinder the realization of the plan.It may be due to illness, or a sudden visit from a friend. Therefore, when the expected goal cannot be achieved, don't be depressed or pessimistic. It doesn't matter if the goal cannot be achieved.

However, you can't stop doing your best to complete it just because "it doesn't matter".The efforts to achieve the goal are important, but the work done to bridge the gap between ideal and reality cannot be ignored.Although this gap may never be bridged, it is always a step closer to the goal anyway.

The importance of "goals" does not lie in completion, it is an assumption made to improve work performance.In other words, setting goals is just a means to get work done.Because without a goal, there is no direction, and without the fun of trying, it is impossible to make any achievements. "Goal" is necessary to avoid the weakness of human nature.

Utopias with high eyesight and low hands are of course another matter. If it is a possible goal that cannot be achieved, it is necessary to investigate the reason.Because in the gap between ideal and reality, there must be hidden work potential that has not been stimulated.

For example, if the work performance of a certain salesman is not satisfactory all the time, then it is necessary for him to review and review his previous working methods.The problem may be due to my ability to negotiate, or it may be due to the incomplete work beforehand.In short, there must be something missing somewhere in the process.If the salesman does not review and improve the lack of work in the past, he will never be able to improve the performance of his work.In the gap between ideal and reality, not only can we find the potential to improve work performance, even if the work results are already satisfactory, we can also make it more perfect.In short, it is absolutely necessary to review the process again when the work is completed.From the inspection process, you can find out the standard for objectively measuring your own ability.Regardless of work or study, if you only see the 70 points you get on the surface, but never discuss the reasons for losing the other 30 points, you will never be able to improve, and you can only stay at the level of 70 points forever.

"Progress table" is the best information for individuals to find out the reason for the gap between the goal and the reality.The more you highlight the existence of the gap, the more you will feel the importance of examining the reasons for the gap.And strengthening its visual effect is more helpful for early detection of gaps.

In order to effectively review the lack of work, the best way is to look at the problem from another angle.There are times when you can improve with the help of others.There is a saying that "bystanders are obsessed with the authorities", and others may remind you of your negligence.

If no one can provide you with ways to improve, you must actively seek breakthroughs yourself.At this time, you have to try to look at things from another angle.This is like writing an article. When you are finished, you have to check from another angle whether there is a colloquial style in the front and an article style in the back, whether there are any inconsistencies, or whether the article involves personal attacks, typos, and the format of the article. Is it consistent and so on.If you can review it again and again, you can make the article more perfect.

Make it a systematic habit.

According to statistics, the average company employee wastes 6 weeks a year looking for things that are cluttered.This means that nearly 13% of working time is wasted each year due to untidy and disorganized habits!

Developing a well-organized habit has another meaning, which is to find your own "circadian rhythm".

(End of this chapter)