Do it and you can beat procrastination

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A week after the release of "Toy Story," Pixar held its first IPO event, and it was a huge success. Pixar overtook Netscape as the largest IPO of 1995.More importantly, this means that Pixar no longer needs to rely on Disney's funding to make its own movies.Suddenly, Disney's animation division was faltering and needed Pixar's help even more.Disney then realized this fact and bought Pixar for $74 billion, which made Jobs the largest shareholder of Disney, Pixar continued to be independent, and Disney's animation department was also saved.

Benjamin Franklin: 5 Ways to Overcome Procrastination

After reading the life of Benjamin Franklin (hereinafter referred to as Franklin), the founding father of the United States, people come to a conclusion: this man has no wasted day.By the time Franklin was 84, he had already worked as a writer, painter, politician, postmaster, inventor, musician, and diplomat.

There are some good work habits you can learn from Franklin to improve your productivity.Here are his 5 tips on overcoming laziness and wasting time.

1. Form an organization to share knowledge

When Franklin was 21, he was a hard-working Philadelphia writer and painter.To expand his network and learn more about his work, he created an organization that connects people who want to improve their writing and drawing and improve their relationships.Books were in great demand from this group, but books were expensive at the time.So Franklin opened a library, selling and lending to people in the organization.This period of experience made Franklin a well-known writer and painter in Philadelphia.

2. Seize the opportunity
“In order to be successful,” Franklin wrote, “opportunities should be seized quickly.” Surely you agree, but when opportunities come your way, you often miss them.It's not because you ignored the omens, but because the chances are not what you thought they were.You often think of opportunities as million-dollar lottery tickets or new job opportunities.But in fact it is not the case.

Every time someone invites you to a party or introduces you to a friend, maybe you don't want to, but it's an opportunity to meet someone new.

It's easier to take chances when you're young.

3. Time is the “product” of shortage

Franklin said: "Time wasted can never be regained." This sentence sounds like poetry, but it is really a motivating sentence to action.Franklin knows time is precious at work and in life.He never had the habit of procrastinating on tasks.Franklin mentioned this many times. He said: "You can procrastinate, but time won't." 4. Make a schedule Franklin invented the lightning rod, and it can be said that his schedule helped him realize his invention.Franklin divides the things to be done into "to do" and "done" every time, and then he will write down the advantages and disadvantages of these things to determine which ones to do.

5. Have the courage to face failure When Franklin started to invent things, you can guess that he often failed.Franklin said, "Don't be afraid of making mistakes. You will experience failure and be constantly exposed to it." Procrastinators are often overwhelmed by failure.They hope that they succeed the first time, and once they fail, they lack the courage to face failure, and they will become procrastinators in the face of things.Failure is not terrible, as long as you have the courage to face failure and make unremitting efforts, you will eventually succeed.

A letter from John Pierpont Morgan to his son: Effective use of time John Pierpont Morgan, the founder of the American Morgan family, wrote a letter home to his son, John Pierpont Morgan Jr.The younger Morgan wants to inherit the family business, and the older Morgan hopes that he will use his time effectively to cultivate entrepreneurial ability and spirit, so he taught his son persuasively and persuasively in many aspects such as life, work, life, conduct, management, and business.

Dear Little John: What I am writing to discuss with you today is the matter of time.I know that lately you have been spending a lot of time on your own personal issues that seem to be getting nowhere, and I feel sorry for the time you wasted.I believe that, in fact, you lack some kind of plan for your time, and your original intention is not to waste time.

Time is the bargaining chip that entrepreneurs rely on for success. To waste time is to waste life.Cherishing time should be like cherishing life, because life is accumulated by time, so I hope you start by cherishing time on the way to become an entrepreneur.

For a person or a company, it is very important to make good use of time. If you can't plan well 24 hours a day, it will be wasted for no reason, time will "run away" and you will get nothing arrive.

How to allocate time plays a decisive role in the success or failure of a person's career.Some people tend to think that it's okay to waste a few minutes here and procrastinate for a few hours. However, this is not the case.The difference is subtle over time, and it takes years for people to notice it, but sometimes it's stark, and I don't want you to think that way.

Time is the most precious "wealth" that you can hold in your hands. Don't forget that not cherishing time is equivalent to not cherishing life.Successful entrepreneurs have mastered a principle, that is, to change "free time" into "no free time", that is, to cherish every minute and second in work and life, never to be lazy, and to work diligently.You have to arrange your time carefully and reasonably, and don't waste 1 minute on boring things for no reason.

All savings are ultimately time savings.One of the greatest characteristics of time is that it is irreversible, irreversible, and impossible to store.It is a unique resource that never regenerates.

Time is merciless to everyone and everything, no matter how powerful you are, you can't keep it.Time can be wasted recklessly, but it can certainly be put to good use.Making good use of time is also a matter of efficiency.In other words, the utilization value of time in a unit of time is efficiency, and the limited time accumulates adult life bit by bit.

A person's life is actually very short, and there is not much time for real creation. Assuming that a person's life is planned at the age of 80, then there are about 70 hours.A person can work vigorously for only 40 years, which is equivalent to about 1.5 working days and 36 hours. After deducting the time for eating and sleeping, there are still about 20 hours of working time.You can reflect the effective value of life by maximizing your function in these limited time, and maximizing your work efficiency during this time is equal to prolonging your life span.Think about it, how much life do you have to waste?Obviously, if you want to become an excellent entrepreneur and inherit and develop our family business, you must know the truth that "efficiency is life".

We actually have a variety of ways to spend our "free" time. Some people use their "free" time to read books and absorb knowledge; some use their "free" time to make friends; some use their "free" time to create art; There are also people who use "free" time to think about problems... Here, I not only want you to cherish time, but the most important thing is to tell you how to cherish time.Specifically, the following aspects can be used to effectively use time and improve work efficiency:

First of all, you must be good at concentrating your time, and don't use the average method to allocate it.You should focus your limited time on the most important things, not everything, but tactfully and bravely reject unnecessary and secondary things.Whenever something happens, you should think at the beginning: "Is this thing worth doing?" You must not do everything you encounter, let alone just because I am not idle or lazy anyway. Peace of mind.

Second, we must be good at grasping time.Every opportunity may be a critical moment that causes things to turn around.Seizing the moment effectively can achieve the greatest success with the least cost, prompting the transformation of things and moving things forward.If the opportunity is not seized, the results already obtained will often be wasted, leading to the serious consequences of "one careless move, and the whole situation will be lost".Therefore, those who want to be successful must be good at judging the situation, capturing the opportunity, grasping the key, doing it just right, and winning the opportunity.

Again, be good at coordinating the two types of time.For a successful person, there are two kinds of time: one is time that can be controlled by oneself, which I call "free time"; Dominance is called "coping time".

Both of these times exist objectively and are necessary.Once there is no "free time", you are completely passive.If you don't manage your own time, you are not an effective leader.

However, it is also objectively impossible to have absolute control over your time.Without "coping time", everyone wants to become "free time", which in fact violates other people's time. This is because everyone's complete freedom will inevitably lead to the unfreedom of others.

Finally, you have to be good at using your spare time.Although the time can be concentrated, there will still be a lot of fragmented time. We should cherish and make full use of the fragmented time, large and small, and use the fragmented time to do fragmentary work, so as to maximize work efficiency.In addition, be good at using meeting time.We hold meetings to communicate information, discuss issues, organize work, coordinate opinions, and make decisions.If you make good use of meeting time, you can improve work efficiency and save everyone's time; if you don't use it well, you will reduce work efficiency and waste everyone's time.

your father john pierpont morgan
A letter from John Davidson Rockefeller to his son: use fragmented time to learn John Davidson Rockefeller (hereinafter referred to as Rockefeller) is the first billionaire in American business history.Rockefeller was born poor but ambitious and became the richest man in the world at the time.He created an unprecedented joint venture - the Trust, an organization that is extremely easy to gather wealth, making Standard Oil the world's largest oil conglomerate within two years, and Rockefeller himself has become a well-known "Oil King" at home and abroad.

Rockefeller Sr. wrote many family letters to his son Rockefeller Jr., and today, these private letters have become precious collections.Because the letters revealed too many business secrets and business wisdom of the Rockefeller family, it is definitely an incomparable textbook for cultivating great entrepreneurs. The value of these letters is just as Alan Greenspan said: "We are richer than the Rockefeller family." But all the wealth of the enemy country is even more precious."

The following letter is a letter from the old Rockefeller reminding his son not to waste his study time.

Dear Little John: Recently, your sister wrote to say that you and her have attended a management lecture at Ohio State University, and plan to continue your studies in your spare time.I'm so happy because you both realize the importance of studying.

How do you feel about the setting of this course?Generally speaking, lectures are time-sensitive and meaningful.Since it is a training for managers, I can learn many things that cannot be learned in school.

I have taken some detours in this regard.After I graduated from school that year, I lost the opportunity to study specifically. In addition, in order to make a living, I was very busy at work and dealt with a lot of numbers all day long.And I thought that what I had learned was almost the same, and what I needed was to make money.But I was fooled by myself. When I got involved in the oil industry, I found out how ignorant I was.I have to use my spare time to make up for my shortcomings and work hard to learn all aspects of knowledge.

Boy, given my life experience, I am really happy that you are willing to continue your studies.Your studious spirit is extremely valuable.Many of your friends, after graduating from school, think that what they have learned so far is enough to ensure that they will have enough to eat and live in peace in the future. In fact, they are completely wrong.I believe that education is invaluable, both in family life and in work and career.When people vent their frustrations and say it's hard to succeed, when people say life is hell or too boring, when people don't even get up in the morning, they ignore the fact that in order to be successful, you have to constantly Learning, this is the first principle of success.The more knowledge you accumulate, the greater your chances of success.

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