Chapter 21
Some people can't finish their work, so they complain about the bad weather today, their health is not good, or they can't find a few materials and it's hard to do it, and they can finish it in one go after finding all the materials; Come on; or that I didn't sleep well last night, and my head was dizzy; or that it has always been "shooting the head of the bird" and "rain hitting the head of the rafters", let's talk about the "neighbors", and so on.Forgive yourself for a variety of reasons.In short, it is not suitable to do things today, and even refer to the experience of the predecessors, "Aren't those who make mistakes are people who do it in a hurry?" In a word, don’t do too much, and never do today what you can do tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and never make mistakes.” It seems that making mistakes is the result of “doing what you say”; it seems that you must make mistakes if you fully “seize today” .Making the most of your time is not necessarily related to making mistakes.If it violates the laws of the country, what you do is not in line with social and public morals, it is wrong to do it early and late, and to do it quickly and slowly.The kind of work procrastinating, lifeless people themselves are wasting youth.

In the face of time, the weak are powerless, he can only watch the precious time go by in vain; but the strong are the masters of time, making full use of every minute and second to work hard to realize their ideals.

·Having ideals and decisions every day

Such things often happen in life.For example, a friend called you with something to ask, and you were not there, and your colleague told you to call your friend back when you were free. I called a friend, and the friend said on the phone that a few days ago, I happened to introduce a business to you, but I couldn't wait for you, so I had to fall through.After you hear it, you must regret it.Because of procrastination, you missed an opportunity to get rich.Another example, many people write to you, some of them must reply immediately, but every time you will lazily think: "wait a while."For another example, many people ask you to write a manuscript, but even though the paper and pen are placed on the table, they can’t get up. They wait until the other party urges you to write in a hurry, but the quality of the manuscript is not satisfactory.

At the end of the day, you should have daily plans and choices every day.Yesterday has yesterday's events, today has today's events, and tomorrow has tomorrow's events.Today's plans and choices must be made today, and must not be delayed until tomorrow, because there will be new ideals and new decisions tomorrow.

Don't do today's work, and have to save it for later. In fact, the time and energy consumed in this procrastination are enough to do today's work well.Therefore, it is actually very uneconomical to postpone today's work until tomorrow.For example, it is easiest to reply to a letter as soon as it is received, but if there is a delay, the letter will not be easy to reply.Therefore, many large companies stipulate that all business letters must be answered on the same day, and these letters cannot be delayed until the next day.

Good opportunities are often fleeting, like a flash in the pan.If you don't make good use of it at that time, you will regret it after you miss it.

American business elite Bob Pfeiffer, in his every working day, the first thing to do at the beginning is to divide the things to be done on the day into three categories: the first category is all things that can bring new business and increase turnover The second category is all work that is required to maintain the existing situation, or to enable the existing situation to continue; the third category includes all work that must be done, but has no value to the company and profits.

Bob Pfeiffer would never start a second type of work until he had completed all the first type of work, and he would never start a third type of work until he had completed all the second type of work.

"I must complete the first type of work before noon," Bob stipulated for himself, because the morning is the time when he thinks he is most awake and most constructive. "You have to stick to a habit. Everything has to be done in a set number of minutes, a day, or a week. Everything has to have a deadline. If you stick to it, you will try to catch up." Meet deadlines instead of procrastinating forever."

Now there is a kind of person who has "big vision" and never sees tomorrow, except today.Tomorrow became his reason to be confident.In his logic, tomorrow is a symbol of hope, and today is too meaningless compared to tomorrow, and he will not realize that one day, there will be no tomorrow in his life.Moreover, how can tomorrow's success be achieved without today's hard work as a pedal?Everyone understands that no one can reach the sky in one step.If you are responsible for yourself, don't bet on tomorrow with your youth.

The poet Qian Hetan wrote a song "Song of Tomorrow": Tomorrow after tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows.I live for tomorrow, and everything is in vain!If people in the world are tired of tomorrow, spring will come and fall will come.Look at the water flowing east in the morning, and watch the sun fall in the west at dusk.

How many years will tomorrow be?Please listen to "Song of Tomorrow".

This poem understands the word "tomorrow" clearly, and its role as a warning to the world cannot be underestimated.Someone once said: "In order to have a better life tomorrow, the best preparation is to live a fulfilling and happy life today. It doesn't make much sense to put all your expectations in the future unless you create a better present first." This This sentence expresses the correct concept of time use, and at the same time, it can be extended to others and become your "view of tomorrow".

· What should be done quickly
Time is an invisible and intangible thing, it just passes away quietly in a little bit of delay.However, procrastinators don't appreciate that they always have to wait until the last minute to do it, which not only makes things more difficult, but also often delays the time limit, making them always live in anxiety.

They always hold the idea: "If you can't finish it during the day, you can still do it at night; if you can't finish it on weekdays, you can still do it on weekends. There is so much time." This kind of thinking makes things that can be done in 8 hours be delayed It takes 10 hours to complete; what can be completed in 5 days will not be completed until 6 days or even 1 week.This is already a law of effect.

1. Typical cases of procrastination

One morning, on his way to work, Zhang San made up his mind and began to draft the departmental budget for the next year as soon as he arrived at the office.He walked into the office exactly at nine o'clock.But he didn't immediately engage in the drafting of the budget, because it suddenly occurred to him that it would be better to tidy up the desk and the office first, so as to provide himself with a clean and comfortable environment before doing important work.It took him a total of 9 minutes to bring order to the office environment.Although he failed to start work at 30 o'clock as originally planned, he did not regret it at all, because the 9-minute clean-up work had not only achieved obvious achievements, but it was also conducive to the improvement of work efficiency in the future.With a smug expression on his face, he casually lit a cigarette and took a short rest.At this time, he accidentally discovered that the color picture on the newspaper was a celebrity he liked, so he couldn't help picking up the newspaper.After he put the newspaper back on the shelf, another 30 minutes passed.At this moment he felt a little uncomfortable, because he had broken his promise.However, after all, newspapers are spiritual food and an important communication medium. As a department head of a company, how can he not read newspapers, not to mention not reading newspapers in the morning, but also in the afternoon or evening.When I think about it this way, my heart relaxes.So he sat down and prepared to immerse himself in work.At this moment, the phone rang, it was a customer's complaint call.It took him 10 minutes with an explanation and an apology to convince the other party to calm down.Hanging up the phone, he went to the bathroom.On the way back to the office, he smelled the aroma of coffee.It turned out that colleagues from another department were enjoying "morning tea" and they invited him to join.He thought to himself that he had just worked hard to deal with the complaint call, and he couldn't get into the state for a while, and the drafting of the budget was a labor-intensive job, and it would be difficult to do it without a clear mind, so he was invited to join without hesitation, and then Chatted there for a while.After returning to the office, he really felt refreshed and thought he could start working hard.However, when I looked at the watch, it was already 20:10!There are only 45 minutes left until the 11 o'clock departmental joint meeting.He thought that in such a short period of time it was not suitable to start a relatively large work anyway, so he simply left the work of drafting the budget until tomorrow.

There are many shadows in Zhang San, and if he develops such a bad habit of procrastination, he will eventually accomplish nothing. 2. The price of procrastination No other habit can make people slack off and reduce people's ability to do things more than procrastination.If you always procrastinate, you will pay the following price: Cost [-]: Procrastination is today's "killer".Days pass day by day amidst hesitation and hesitation. The more you delay, the more you panic, and the more you delay, the more uncertain you feel.Shakespeare has a famous saying: "He who gives up time, time will give up him." If time gives up on you, what awaits you will be an infinite vicious circle. If you don't wake up in time, the consequences will be disastrous.

Cost two: Procrastination will make you live in regret all day long.Nothing can be done, and everything seems to be getting worse and worse.Looking back on what you have done in a day, you will sigh: there are so many things left unfinished today, and so many things to do tomorrow.You can only live in endless regret forever.

Cost Three: Procrastination puts you in an irritable mood.One thing has been left unfinished for a long time, which makes you feel stressed, like a stone hanging around your neck, and seems to be stuck in a mud pit from which you cannot extricate yourself. How can this not make you anxious and irritable, and have trouble sleeping and eating?Cost [-]: Procrastination makes your unresolved problems pile up.

Facing the mountain of unprocessed work on the desktop every day, but don’t know where to start, the result is often to lose this one and forget that one, and to give up halfway when one fails, which takes time and effort, and the result is more and more problems.

Cost five: procrastination causes you to suffer psychological setbacks again and again.It will make you lose confidence in yourself more and more, and you will start to doubt your ability, or vent your anger on the working environment you are in, generate resentment, complain that your talents cannot be brought into play, or that there are always such and such things that hinder your progress. Work.

Cost Six: Procrastination can also cause you health problems.The frustration at work caused by procrastination will make you depressed and irritable all day long, which will definitely make you develop from mental depression to physical illness, physical and mental discomfort, and depression, followed by various All kinds of diseases, severe hair loss, chest tightness, and even more colds, it is important to know that physical health is also very important.

Cost Seven: Delay makes your future bleak and promotion missed.

A leader will never allow employees to procrastinate over and over again, do not pay attention to practical results, and fail to make any achievements.Leaders need strong supporters, not indecisive followers.

Cost Eight: Procrastination makes you lose good relationships.If you procrastinate and stop doing things, most of your colleagues and friends will not want to associate with you.A lot of inadvertent procrastination will make you lose what you have, such as the friendship of friends, the help of colleagues, and so on.If you want to have a good interpersonal relationship, you must first make yourself a punctual, trustworthy, and non-procrastinating person, so that you can win good popularity.

·Relieve procrastination
"I'll talk about it later" is something you often say to yourself, especially when you're online.But when work comes around, procrastination can cost you dearly. "If those 'check new email' icons and beeps disappeared, the U.S. gross national product would rise by $500 billion." Pierce Steele, professor at the University of Calgary.Identifying the causes and temptations that trigger procrastination is the first step in eliminating it.This book collects a series of suggestions from psychologists to help you get rid of procrastination.

1. Plan your time in smaller unit increments

If your time frame is too long, the deadline becomes meaningless.For example, if you plan to write a 1-chapter book in 1 month.Then you won't realize you're procrastinating for the first 4 weeks of the month.

Planning your time into smaller units will make you less likely to procrastinate until the last minute.

“我会1周写1章”要远远比“我会1个月写1本书”来得有效。2.设置一个紧迫而有力的期限你应该设定一个完成任务的时限,而非每天早晨花3个小时去思考哪些可以不做。

If your boss gives you a task, he won't say "do this every day", he will just say "give it to me by next Friday".

3. List all your deadlines on one calendar
List the completion deadlines of all your tasks, and you will find that all tasks are interrelated. If your tasks today will affect tomorrow, then you will have a sense of urgency that "must be completed".

4. Find a job that is challenging, but not excessive

If your task is too easy, you will lose enthusiasm, which is very important in completing the task.But it's very important to maintain a certain pace, and the tasks shouldn't be so hard that you get discouraged and give up halfway.

5. Change your environment If your work environment distracts you, change your environment immediately. 6. Find a partner who can help you Having a partner who can help and motivate you will help you beat procrastination.Your partner doesn't have to have the exact same goals as you, but if they do, it will be more helpful for you to overcome procrastination.

7. Hang out with people who don’t procrastinate

Being around these people motivates you, they give you a surge of energy and get you back to work.

8. Find a role model
Hang out with "winners" who have accomplished their dreams, and get motivation and advice from them.

9. Keep telling others about your dreams
If your friends and colleagues know about your dreams, they will keep asking you questions, which will motivate you to keep working hard to achieve them.

10. Remove distractions
Keeping those distractions out of your way will make you better at fighting procrastination.For example, if tweets are causing your procrastination, block it briefly; if it's email, turn off your automatic reminder settings.

Stop waiting for the best time, because the best time is now, today.

Fighting Procrastination: How to Fight Your Procrastination Habit
If procrastination is the main problem in your behavior pattern, then you should change the behavior pattern and stop procrastinating.

You have at least 3 ways to effectively deal with procrastination:

① Implementation in stages.

②Balance evaluation form.

③ Develop good habits.These three methods are analyzed in detail below. 3. A common phenomenon in life is implemented in stages: the sausage is very thick before it is cut, which looks unappetizing.But when you slice it, it looks and feels different.After you cut it, you chew it in your mouth and notice that it tastes even better.

When you find yourself procrastinating on an important task, you can try to break it up into as many small tasks that can be done immediately instead of forcing yourself to complete the entire task at once.

For example, you've been procrastinating on making a phone call that you should have made that might have been unpleasant for you.In this case, using a phased approach you can do something like this:
First, find out the phone number and write it down.Second, set a time limit for getting through the call.Third, find some relevant information to see what the call is related to and what it is all about.

Fourth, you must first think about what you want to say.

Fifth, make this call.If this is a major job, and there are many subdivided stages, then arrange a detailed schedule, so that every small job can be simplified and convenient enough to be done within a few minutes.That way you can tackle one or two little things that can be done right away between every meeting you have with someone, or while you wait a few minutes on the phone.Without this work breakdown sheet, you may never set out to do the work.

(End of this chapter)

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