Do it and you can beat procrastination

Chapter 28 Your Time is Yours: Super Time Management (1)
Time is money, and only by paying attention to time and saving time can we succeed.In today's society, saving time is saving money, and wasting time is wasting money. Regardless of whether it is time or money, the responsible person cannot afford to waste it.

infinite time, limited life

Time has become the abscissa of the life curve from the moment the baby is born.People grow in time, create in time, and compose their own life songs in time.

To cherish time is to cherish life. Don't wait until the time is running out to realize the preciousness of life.In the crowded waiting room, an old man suddenly stood up and walked towards the nurse on duty. "Miss," he said politely, "I made an appointment at 3 o'clock, and it's already 4 o'clock now. I can't wait any longer. Please make another appointment for me. I'll come back another day!"

The two women commented: "He looks at least 80 years old, what can he do now?"

The old man turned to them and said, "I'm 88 years old, that's why I can't waste a second!"

Time and life are closely related.People who are good at using time always count against every second, cherish time like gold, and strive endlessly, so as to make their limited life more fulfilling.Some people who have the habit of procrastinating always spend their rare time in endless dreams and waste in ignorance, and what they get is only empty spirit and aging body, which undoubtedly shortens their life span.It can be asserted that a person who always wastes his time at will will never have any meaning in his decades of life.

The preciousness of time lies in its ungraspability. It can neither be created nor stored. There are many collectors of rare antiques in the world, but there are no collectors of time.

Human life is limited.Based on the current average life expectancy, a person will occupy more than 60 hours in a lifetime, and there will be more than 40 hours excluding sleep time.A person's life is a time-consuming process. The difference is that each person uses the actual time differently, so the length of the actual life is also different.For example, people who count time in minutes have 59 times more time than those who count time in hours; people who count time in seconds have 59 times more time than people who count time in minutes.For those who cherish time, time keeps increasing like this, even multiplying.

Therefore, time is infinite and life is limited.People who can make full use of time in a limited life have the capital to do more things.

· Possess the concept of time
People often say that life is the most precious, but if you analyze it carefully, you will find that the most precious thing for people is actually time.Because life is accumulated hour by hour, minute by minute.Time is precious life.

The preciousness of time lies in the fact that it is not only a constant that is distributed fairly to everyone, but also a variable. Different attitudes towards it will result in vastly different values.

Lazy people waste a lot of precious time, muddling along and wasting their time.Only those who are diligent, efficient, and know how to manage time scientifically can turn 24 hours a day into 25 hours or more.

Time is fixed, and time will only remind you not to run aground on the "beach" of life, and inspire you to keep forging ahead.For those who cherish time, time will give "enthusiasm reward"; for those who strive to catch up, time will selflessly "help" him.However, for those who do not cherish time, time will "abandon" him; for those who squander time, time will "pass away with a smile", leaving him with nothing; "Go" will make him too late to regret; and for those who "trick" time, time will "mercilessly" let him suffer.

Only those who have a deep concept of time can become masters in managing time.Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Hong Kong, in order not to delay the meeting or miss the appointment, set his watch 10 minutes ahead without any hesitation, so as to ensure that he attended or attended the appointment on time.He is decisive, experienced, and never drags his feet.He once negotiated a transaction of HK$17 billion within 29 hours, then called HSBC, and negotiated a loan of HK$2 million within 1.9 minutes.He often said to his employees that for matters in the morning, there must be a decision or answer in the afternoon; if something very complicated happened within 17 hours, a reply must be made within 24 hours.This is the attitude of Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Hong Kong, to time.

People who have a concept of time will regret it because they are bored for an hour, and will try their best to find a way to manage time.At all times and in all over the world, all successful people have the concept of time.

Washington, the first president of the United States, is well-known.Many of his subordinates had learned of his strict punctuality.Whenever he agreed on a time, he would definitely do it on time, not a second off.

Once, one of his secretaries was 2 minutes late. Seeing Washington's angry face, he quickly explained that his watch was not accurate.

Washington said seriously: "Either you change a watch, or I change a secretary!" Washington's emphasis on time made the secretary no longer late for a minute.Washington's sense of punctuality is, in fact, what every modern man should have.No matter how good a machine is, if it is not maintained on time, it will break down and have a limited lifespan.It's the same with people. If you work all day, overwork yourself, and wait until you can't support it, then you, too, may collapse and never regain your former health.A healthy body is a prerequisite for success.

· Accurately calculate time

Only by accurately calculating time can we arrange time accurately.Rybakov said: "Time is a constant, but for diligent people, it is a variable." To control time scientifically, you must completely eliminate ambiguity and outdated timing units and timing methods.For example, "I'll call you in the afternoon", "I've been away for a while", "It's time to smoke a cigarette" and so on.These units and methods of expressing time are fine for writing novels, but not suitable for work.A meal can be eaten for 10 minutes, or 2 hours, or even longer. It is extremely inaccurate to describe the length of time with "time to eat a meal".These ambiguous concepts of time must be completely abandoned in the high-tech era.

More than 200 years ago, the Russian military strategist Suvorov said: "One minute decides the outcome of the battle, and one hour decides the outcome of the battle." "I don't act in hours, but in minutes."As in war, so in everything else.

Modern society requires more and more accurate calculation of time.The radar range measurement and speed measurement used now, the navigation of nuclear submarines, and the guidance of multi-warhead missiles allow an error of no more than one millionth of a second.If there is an error of one thousandth of a second in the time calculation of the spacecraft flying to Mars, the spacecraft will deviate from the orbit by 15 kilometers.Therefore, in the high-tech field, milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds, and picoseconds in timekeeping will cause major errors.

The French philosopher Helvetia said it well: "In fact, the happiness or unhappiness of most people is mainly different from whether the use of these 10 or 12 hours is clever." The unplanned state can plug the time-wasting loopholes, and splicing the spare minutes and seconds of each link throughout the day into large "time blocks" to do more valuable things.To save time is to create time, and to win time is to win the initiative.This is the difference between winners and losers.

There is a game of "cutting the time ruler" that can clarify the meaning of time to life, which is very popular but very profound.

First, you need to prepare an 80-inch long soft ruler.If you have a life span of 80 years, then every 1 inch represents 1 year, 1~20 years old may be beyond your control, let’s not talk about it for now.Now your soft ruler is 60 inches, which means you are 20 to 80 years old.Your 60 years from 80 to 20 years old are old age, and you are in a semi-retired or retired state, so you can use scissors to cut off the 60 inches on the soft ruler that indicates your 80 years from 20 to 20 years old. Now your soft ruler is only There are 40 inches left, this is the golden time of your life.

一般人平均每天睡眠8小时，1年365天，1年平均的睡眠时间约是总时间的三分之一，40年就是13年。软尺便只剩下了27寸。

The average person takes three meals a day, morning, lunch and evening, and takes an average of 2.5 hours. It takes about 1 hours a year, and 912 years is 40 hours, which is equivalent to 36480 years. So please cut off the tape measure by 4 inches. The current tape measure is still 4 inches left.

In terms of transportation, the average person spends an average of 1.5 hours a day on transportation. If you are a field worker or a salesman, the time you need may be 2 to 3 times that.Now you ask yourself how much time do you spend in transportation every day?If the answer is 1.5 hours, 40 years is 2.19 hours, equal to 2.5 years.Please cut 2.5 inches off the tape, now there are 20.5 inches left on the tape.

If you spend 1 hour a day chatting with relatives, friends and colleagues, making phone calls, or chatting in ordinary times, 40 hours have been spent in 1.46 years, which is equal to 1.5 years, so now your soft ruler should have 19 inches left .

In addition, according to statistics, the average person spends nearly 8 hours a day watching TV, while some social elites with successful careers spend less than 1 hour a week.Assuming that you watch TV for an average of 3 hours a day, the time spent in 40 years is 4.38 hours, which is equal to 5 years.Please cut off 5 inches from the soft ruler, now it should be 14 inches.That is, there are only 14 years that you can really use to work.

The above calculations are to the point and are not exaggerating to some.This game tells people: only by being able to grasp the value of time can we grasp the value of life.

·The value of time

According to CNN, a British professor once derived a formula to calculate the value of 1 minute for the first time.

Ian Walker, a professor of economics at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, has solved this problem. His calculations are: On average, 1 minute is worth 10 pence (15 cents) for a British man and 8 cents for a British woman. Worth 12p ([-] cents).

The formula derived by Professor Ian Walker is: v={w[(100-1)/100]}/c, where v is the value per hour, w is the wage per hour, and c represents the local living expenses.

According to the theory of Professor Ian Walker, time is so precious that even if you brush your teeth for 3 minutes, you will lose 30p; What about the lost time fee in pounds.

It can be seen that this formula not only answers the question of "how much is time worth?", but also has great guiding significance for people's lives.For example, you can use this formula to calculate whether it is worthwhile for you to work overtime, save money by taking a taxi or bus, and so on.

The value of a person's time is often not evenly distributed, because things are prioritized, and often 1 minute at a critical moment has a very large value.

Lynn was the receptionist of a hotel in Switzerland. On a rainy morning, everything seemed extraordinarily quiet, and the phone calls were much less than usual.

Lynn re-bound several orders from the previous day into the book, and then replied to 2 faxes. It took Lynn less than 10 minutes in total. Finally, Lynn sat down and wondered if he could use this time to get points For breakfast, she left in a hurry when she went to work in the morning, and only packed 2 oranges in her handbag.She hesitated for a few minutes, and finally got up and left the reception room. Twenty minutes later, Lynn returned, and everything was as usual, the phone "lying" there quietly.

What Lynn didn't know was that a $70 business was left in the hands of others after the phone rang three times and no one answered in the 20 minutes she was gone. Three months later, the 3-day annual sales meeting of an international company in the United States was held in another hotel in Switzerland.That hotel was on par with Lynn's hotel in terms of facilities and word of mouth, and even inferior to Lynn's hotel in some places, but the half-month-scale grand annual sales meeting and guests from all over the world were different. Make that hotel great for a while and increase its popularity through the mutual communication of guests from all over the world.

On what basis did the guest choose that hotel?Was there a choice before making the decision?What choices did they make?The owner of the hotel where Lynn was staying couldn't figure out the reason. Afterwards, he found out after many investigations that the American international company had selected three hotels in Switzerland as candidates. People answered and were eliminated in the first round.This is simply because it took Lynn 3 minutes to get to breakfast.

Since then, because of the first pleasant cooperation, the annual meeting of the American international company was held in that hotel four times in a row, with a total of 4 million US dollars and an increase in popularity that cannot be reflected in value.

Being good at using time and maximizing the value of time is the wish and condition of every successful person.Those who succeed in the end are those who cherish time very much, are good at using time, and perform "full labor" in every minute and every second.Successful people try their best to realize the value of time, those who have not succeeded will constantly lament the value of time, and some people do not understand the value of time, so there are thousands of differences between people.

Battle procrastination: Recognizing time traps

In time management, people call those things that are not noticed but take up precious time as time traps.People often fall into it unknowingly, and time is like passing by, and it no longer belongs to them.

In life, time traps are very common, so common that you get used to them and fall into them without realizing the harm.You often suffer from a lack of time, which is actually "let go" by you with little regard for it.

So how do you unmask the time trap "disguise"? 1. I don't know how to adapt to everything. Some people never know how to adapt to work.Many people don't care about the importance, don't know the priority, and are busy all day long with reviewing, transferring and drawing circles.For this kind of situation, as long as a decisive approach is taken, the priorities are classified and dealt with, and the things that can be done or not should be handed over to others; Only by cutting through the mess quickly can we relieve the pressure and spend more time to do more important things.

Another time trap in the routine is meetings.Meetings are what most people think of when solving problems. This is an old problem.Meetings of higher-level departments must be attended to listen to instructions; meetings of departments at the same level are supposed to be present and to cooperate well; meetings of lower-level departments must be attended in person to show importance, drink water to soothe throat and express opinions, and work time is thus taken up.

It can be seen that once you fall into the trap of routine work, you will be entangled in trivial matters and unable to extricate yourself. Instead of actively arranging important tasks, you will be passively influenced by sporadic trivial matters, and eventually you will regard busyness as your goal and forget achieved their original goal.

2. Do everything yourself
There are a lot of hands-on things that don't work well in real life.In many families, young parents do not allow their babies to work, partly out of love, partly because they are worried, and are always willing to do all the housework on themselves. As a result, the adults are overworked and the children lack the ability to live independently.In the unit, the leader monopolizes power, manages everything, and is busy, so that more things, no matter how big or small, are concentrated in one body. The employees have nothing to do and have no right to deal with problems independently.Ways of doing things like this will inevitably take up a lot of time and delay more important things.

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