Do it and you can beat procrastination

Chapter 11 The Horrible Truth: How Deeply Procrastination Has Killed You (5)
The workplace is like a battlefield, even the invincible "brave warrior" will inevitably be injured sometimes.The reason why you lose your enthusiasm for work and become unmotivated is mainly caused by psychological stress.For those who are not strong enough, once they encounter setbacks or get hurt in the workplace struggle, their psychological self-protection mechanism will start.In order to heal themselves, they will start to escape from reality, and start to keep implying that they should be satisfied with the status quo and know how to be content and happy.As everyone knows, it is this psychological defense mechanism that makes your procrastination worse and worse, and your ability to work is getting worse and worse.

· Pursue excellence and rekindle the fire of passion

No one will willingly become a "waste" who doesn't want to make progress. If this is the case, why do you continue to muddle along?If you don’t want to be a “rubber man” in the workplace, you must regain the lost enthusiasm for work and rekindle the enthusiasm for struggle, starting now.

Jack Welch wrote in his autobiography: "Every time I go to Crotonville and ask everyone what it takes to be a 'top player', I'm often delighted to see the first One person who put up their hands said it was work ethic. To me, great enthusiasm can do a lot of work. If there is one quality that successful people share, it is that they love their work more than others. More enthusiasm. Nothing is too small to be worth doing, and nothing is too big to be done. Over the years, I have found enthusiasm at work in the leaders we choose, and enthusiasm is not a show of grandeur, It’s something that comes from deep within.”

What motivates a person to stay up for days and nights to complete a task?Can afford to spend a few years or more doing menial jobs and always strive for excellence?Can face any difficulty without flinching?Can you face countless rejections and still not give up?Can you do things at all costs and never give up?It's a passion for progress.

Bill Gates said: "When I wake up every morning, I will be extremely excited and excited when I think of the huge impact and changes that the work I have done and the technology I have developed will bring to human life." Passion inspired him to create the world's most famous Microsoft Corporation, making personal computers popular in the world.

Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, was still in his 80s touring his numerous chain stores across the country without stopping.When he went to South America for inspection, because he kept climbing up and down in the supermarket to measure the distance between the shelves, the supermarket called the police and sent him to the police station.

Of course, everyone has their own considerations for ideals, and it is not necessary to accumulate huge wealth like these rich people.Everyone has their own pursuit.You must know that you came to this world not to spend your life in a muddleheaded way, but to reflect your own value in life, bring out your true colors, and be the best of yourself.No one wants to waste their life in vain. Everyone hopes that their life will be fulfilled and meaningful.Everyone has the spirit of progress.But as the years passed, more and more people lost their fighting spirit and passion.

How to discover and release passion?With or without passion, work is very different.Famous life insurance salesman Frank Bettger exemplifies this point in his autobiography:
"Shortly after I turned pro, I got the biggest blow of my life -- I got fired. The reason was that I wasn't playing well. The owner said to me, 'Frank, when you get out of here, wherever you go, Pick yourself up, work with energy and enthusiasm.' That was a big piece of advice, costly, but it wasn't too late. So when I got to New Haven, I made up my mind to play in this league. Must be the most passionate player.

"Since then, I've been on the court like a fully charged warrior. Throwing the ball so fast and so hard that it almost knocks off the glove of my infield catcher. In the scorching sun, in order to win crucial The big one, I was running around the field completely forgetting that it was easy to suffer from heat stroke. The next morning's paper was full of our news and it said, 'This rookie is full of passion and Infected our lads. Not only did they win games, but they looked better than ever.' The newspaper even nicknamed me 'Spirit' and called me the 'soul' of the team. 3 A few weeks ago I was called a 'lazy guy', but now my nickname is 'Spirit'.

"So my monthly salary went from $25 to $185. It wasn't that I was good at the game or had a lot of ability. I didn't know much about baseball until I played it with passion. What else could make a My monthly salary increased by 10% in 640 days?
"After I quit professional baseball, I went to work in life insurance sales. After 10 dismal months in sales, I was shocked by Mr. Carnegie. He said, 'Bettger, what's wrong with your lifeless talk? Interesting people?' I decided to put my passion into playing for the New Haven team into sales. One day, I went into a store and tried with all my courage to convince the owner of the store to buy insurance. He has probably never met such a passionate salesperson. He straightened up, opened his eyes wide, and listened to me all the time. In the end, he didn't reject my sale and bought an insurance. From that day on , I really started working in sales. In my 12 years of sales career, I have seen many salespeople multiply their income through passion, and I have also seen many people achieve nothing because of lack of passion.”

Frank Bettger's success in his career was less due to his talent than to his passion.With passion, he worked hard in the scorching heat of the sun; with passion, he convinced his clients, and finally created extraordinary achievements.

If a person just barely completes his duties, then he will be sloppy in doing things, and will retreat when he encounters a little difficulty. It is hard to imagine that such a person can consistently complete his work with high quality, let alone be able to make great achievements. Good performance.If you can't put your whole body and mind into your work, you will hardly get the opportunity to grow and develop, and you may become mediocre no matter what job you do.

Only when you love your work can you do your best work.To love your work is easier said than done, the key is that you have to see the meaning and value of what you do.If you can look at your work in a different light, your feelings may change.The more you know about something, the more interested you will be in it.Think about it, are you interested in things you haven't touched before?Absolutely not, and you may not even be interested in touching it at all.However, once you know more about it, you can find the fun in it.So, you may wish to do more research on your work and think more about the tricks. This is a very effective technique. You will find that you not only enhance your work skills, but also feel more fun from your work.

·Wealth follows passion
The greatest asset of a businessman is hope, and the greatest trap is satisfaction with the status quo.If a person is content with the status quo, has no assertiveness, and follows the old ways, then there must be no possibility of success.

If you want to succeed, you must be brave and aggressive.How can you succeed without passion?People around you often say something like this: "Oh! I'm destined not to make a fortune in my life! There's no way, I'm just going to die like this." People who say such things are completely deceiving themselves and comforting themselves.It's not that they don't have a life to make money, but they lack the passion for entrepreneurship and the courage to take risks.

Japanese billionaire Eitaro Itoyama started his business from scratch. At the age of 30, he has assets worth billions of yen and runs 18 companies.He devoted himself to politics at the age of 32 and became the youngest senator in Japanese history. In the fall of 2001, at a seminar for business operators across Japan, the billionaire revealed his philosophy on making money: "Don't associate with 'poor people'."

Itoyama Eitaro's point of view is that there are two kinds of "poor people".One is the "poor" who has no money. If you associate with this kind of person, you will only fall into the situation of always paying out of your own pocket.If you want to save money, you must save this unnecessary expense.If you want to eat and drink with someone, it is of course wiser to find someone who is richer than yourself; and the other kind of "poor" not only has no money, but also lacks ideals and fighting spirit.Associating with such a person is an absolute waste of time and meaningless.

Those who have no courage will definitely not have the passion to make money, and no matter how good the opportunity comes, they will not dare to try it.What do you need most to make money?There is only one answer: passion!
Among the successful billionaires in China today, many of them started their businesses as ordinary people with no background, such as Liu Yonghao, Nan Cunhui, etc. Their success lies in their strong mentality of not believing in fate and not admitting defeat.The size of a person's achievements depends on a person's mentality.If you always think of yourself as an average person without the passion to start a business, you will never succeed.

Passion can stimulate people's creativity and action.Studies have shown that if a person has high enthusiasm for work, he can exert 80% to 90% of his full ability; if he has no passion for work, he can only exert 20% to 30% of his full ability.If you were given a basket of eggs, would you turn it into a farm?Perhaps the vast majority will think that such a question is too incredible and give a negative answer.However, in the eyes of people with courage, the answer to this question is yes: no problem!

These courageous people will first hatch the eggs into chickens, then let the chickens lay eggs, and then hatch the eggs into chickens... This cycle repeats, more and more chickens hatch, more eggs are laid, and more money will be bought. Cattle and sheep, purchase land.Thus, a basket of eggs becomes a large farm.

This miracle is nothing new, and it proves that even self-made men can become millionaires.

Procrastinating: 4 Tips to Restore Your Work Passion

The state of being full of passion at work, almost everyone has it when they first enter the workplace.However, this passion comes from the freshness of the work and the sense of conquering unforeseen problems in the work. Once the freshness disappears and the work is easy to master, the passion is often annihilated.Everything started to be flat, the old creative ideas disappeared, and the daily work was just coping with it.They have also changed from promising employees to ordinary employees in the eyes of the boss.

Sometimes, stress is also one of the reasons why people lose enthusiasm for work.Professionals are under enormous tangible or intangible pressure, competition among colleagues, work requirements, and some trivial matters in daily life, which affect your mood all the time.So under all kinds of pressure, listlessness, dejection and indifference kill your passion for your career.From loving your work to coping with it to avoiding it, your career has been devastated.

However, if you were as excited last Monday morning as Friday morning; if you got along well with colleagues and friends; if you were satisfied with your personal income; You are proud of your products and services; if you feel that your job is relatively stable; as long as you answer "yes" to any of the above questions, you will be told: "You have regained your passion for work."

The famous American motivational guru Bossy Trien put forward the following suggestions on how to restore work enthusiasm. 1. Correct the view that interest determines passion. It is true that interest is very important, but interest can be cultivated.You may choose a certain career because of your interest, but after a long time, you will find that what supports you to do it with passion is no longer just the initial interest, but more of a responsibility, a kind of familiarity. Nostalgia, a kind of confidence to persevere because of achievements.At this time, the interest has transformed into a deeper emotion.

2. Treat work as a career

If you treat your work like a chore, or if you only focus on the work itself, you won't be able to sustain the passion for it even if you're doing the job you love the most.But if you look at work as a career, it's a completely different story.

There is a saying: "Today's success is the accumulation of yesterday, and tomorrow's success depends on today's efforts." Link your work with your career, be responsible for your future career, and you will tolerate the pressure at work And monotony, I feel that what I am doing is a valuable and meaningful job, and I can feel a sense of mission and accomplishment from it.

3. Set new goals
The secret to maintaining long-term passion is to constantly set new goals for yourself and find freshness."Pick up" the dreams you once had, look for opportunities to realize them, look at your work, see what things have been procrastinating, and then finish it... After you solve one problem after another, it will happen naturally Some small sense of accomplishment, these sense of accomplishment is the sense of freshness.

4. Don’t be complacent
At work, the most important thing to watch out for is complacency.Complacent people don't find ways to move forward and lose enthusiasm for their work.If you are satisfied with the work achievements you have already achieved and ignore the importance of creating the future, then the work at this stage will naturally lose its attractiveness.When you use past achievements as motivation to push yourself to the next level, trying to surpass past performance, passion will be "fired" again.There is a proverb that says, "Wet matches won't light fire." When your work feels dull and uninteresting, sometimes it's not because of the work itself, but because your "flammability point" isn't low enough. "Ignite" the enthusiasm in your heart, discover fun and surprises from work, and create your own miracles in the passion of work!

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