Do it and you can beat procrastination

Chapter 36 Attachment (3)
Generally speaking, people can only climb the "ladder of success" with continuous accumulation of experience.As a condition for promotion, experience is required in order to be promoted to a management position.Those who stand out in the company are those who have experience and actively formulate plans to improve themselves; they are those who, in addition to the daily working hours from 9 am to 5 pm, also want to learn modern technology or improve sales. Achievement innovators.In addition to normal working hours, there are 128 hours a week. If people can use part of the time, even two or three hours, to learn technology and professional knowledge, they will surely compete with those competitors who do not study hard. Drive a great distance.

Many of your co-workers spend most of their downtime entertaining, and you've come close to joining them.However, in my opinion, in addition to normal working hours, there are not many people who can use part of their time to learn some knowledge related to their work.Therefore, if you really develop a thorough and constructive study plan, you can easily leave most of your competitors behind.

John D. Rockefeller, at the University of Chicago, walked with his books.Children, every book, every person, and everything is a school, and the best school is this society. The experience and lessons are vivid and detailed "textbooks", which are highly targeted and practical. It is by no means comparable to those theories that are divorced from reality.

What makes me gratified is that you are self-motivated, eager to achieve a career, and determined to make up for the shortcomings caused by not studying much.You know, no matter who will help you, will increase your knowledge and experience.Even if you meet an oil worker, you should learn oil extraction technology from him with humility.

I hope you can understand that the only condition for rich knowledge is to learn knowledge through various channels.Those who are all-powerful in the business world not only learn new knowledge through various channels, but also broaden their minds in various studies, make their eyes sharper, and easily deal with the challenges that they encounter in life struggles. of various problems.Therefore, you must not only be good at seizing opportunities, but also be good at creating opportunities, actively use your free time to achieve lifelong learning, and make up for the lack of knowledge.

You have to work hard to execute the plan, if not necessarily for a lifetime, but it has to be for the long term.Although I have spent most of my life now, if I want to distance myself from my competitors and gain a firm foothold on this "ladder of success", I must continue to learn.Therefore, for you who are new to the business world, you should learn all kinds of knowledge and experience, otherwise you will not be able to survive in this highly competitive society.

I hope that your so-called study is not limited to listening to lectures, you should go out of the office every month, or even every 3 weeks, to go to the local public library or the library of the university to do your work.There, you can sit down at a large table, arrange the order of all the work you have to do, take the opportunity to check the details of the work project you are working on, and complete all the trivial chores.If your work project is large, divide it into several small parts to complete one by one, and the organized materials can be left to the staff to bind.At the same time, you can also use the time in the library to sort out your notebooks, post articles that should be posted, reply customers that should reply to customers, write thank-you letters when writing thank-you letters, and send them at once after writing, without delay.

Working in a library is quiet and undisturbed, and your productivity is usually 10 times that of working in an office, and the reality of getting a lot of work done quickly can boost your confidence, boost your courage, and have a superhuman ability to keep everything going. The feeling of being in control, but also encouraging you to strive to do your own daily work.

Only if you are good at learning, your future will be bright.Because the competition in the future is no longer a simple competition of knowledge and professional skills, but a competition of learning ability.Only with this competitive ability can you give full play to your talents and make great strides towards the supreme goal in the right direction.Therefore, you must keep in mind the wise saying "Live to be old, learn to be old".

Recently, my heart is getting worse and worse. You are very likely to become the heir of my company. You must study hard about company management.As a company leader, your personal growth should not lag behind the company's growth, and your management ability must be strengthened along with the company's development.Otherwise, you too will join the ranks of the stragglers like so many managers who have been fired, or who have not acted out of awakening.

I hope that when you listen to the lectures of managers, you will not only learn about general management theory by reading more books, but also include relevant personal issues in your plan to improve your self-cultivation.For example, studying people's psychological dynamics, as you probably know, will be of great benefit to you.It's a pity that I didn't know such an important thing until I was 50 years old.

John, you know that time is like running water, once it is gone, it cannot be left behind!In another 5 years, you will be 5 years older.By then have you gotten wiser with age, or just 5 years older?I hope you don't choose the latter, and actively learn from the lessons of many losers so as not to repeat the same mistakes.

John, study hard and accumulate knowledge while you are young!Otherwise, when you get older, you will feel that you have more than enough energy.

love your father john davidson rockefeller
Orison Madden: Act decisively

The following text is excerpted from the book "Lifetime Capital" by Orison Madden. "One of the bad habits that hinder success is procrastination, which should arouse people's sufficient vigilance.

People should strive to achieve this: the tasks that can be completed today must be completed today, and must not be delayed until tomorrow.

"Modern society is in a fast-moving orbit, so whatever you do should be decisive. No matter how complicated it is, you must judge it timely and accurately. Success will not belong to those who act hesitantly and look backward. Make It is true that many considerations are required before important decisions, but in a high-speed society, opportunities are often fleeting, and most of the time you do not have time to think carefully. Based on this situation, you should allow yourself to make wrong decisions , But never allow yourself to hesitate and miss the opportunity.

"In the book "Little Leaders", several hesitant people are depicted. 'There was a tree growing in front of a person's house, which blocked the view, so the person wanted to cut the tree down. But, this The idea that existed in him when he was a child has not been put into action until he became a gray-haired old man. One day, he walked to the thick tree with a walking stick and said to himself Said to himself, 'It's time to bring an axe.' Another was an artist. When he was a young man, he told his friends that he wanted to paint the most beautiful Madonna in the world. Then he gave up. He worked all the time and devoted himself to conceiving the Madonna every day. However, until the moment of his death, the painting was still in the stage of conception, without a single stroke. He wasted all his life in fantasy, and finally achieved nothing. 'In sharp contrast to this kind of people, they immediately put into action what they want to do. In the process of action, they are high-spirited and go forward courageously. For such people, success is like a bag. There is no shortcut to success The only way to succeed is to work hard.

"I have a friend who is basically a perfect person except he is hesitant to do things.

However, many people cannot have a sense of trust in him because of his flaw.He will leave a way out for himself in everything he does, and he never makes a firm decision on one thing.For example, every time he writes a letter, he has to wait until one second before it is mailed before he agrees to seal the envelope.Sometimes, just because he wanted to correct a few words, he opened the sealed letter again.Another time, he had already sent the letter, and suddenly felt that there was something inappropriate in the letter, so he hurriedly called the friend who received the letter and asked him not to open the envelope after receiving the letter, but to complete the letter again. Back all over the place.Seriousness in doing things is just his appearance, and his extreme lack of self-confidence is the reason for his series of actions.

"There is a lady who is widely respected for her talents. Unfortunately, she also has the vice of indecision. She will go to all the stores to buy a dress, look at all the styles, and turn them over and over again. However, she couldn't even determine her own preference and psychological price. Even after spending so much time, she still hesitated and couldn't make a decision, which only made the clerk hate her, and finally got nothing.

"This lady has very high requirements for her clothes. It can't be too thin or too thick; it can't be too warm or not warm; it's not enough to wear it in summer, but it can also be worn in winter; it can be worn in mountains, and it can also be worn by the seaside. You can wear it; you can wear it to church, you can wear it to the movies. How can one dress meet so many requirements at the same time? It’s not so much a legitimate request for her as a mental illness. Even if one day, clothes that can meet these requirements When it really appeared in front of her eyes, she would hesitate to buy or not to buy, but she still returned empty-handed. Those who have no independent opinions and only follow other people's instructions step by step are unlikely to be successful. Decisions will only make you lose your mind and do some useless work. And those young people who are creative and practical are always the most popular. They are independent in thinking, creative, love to study, and are good at management. They are in real life Being the first to bring the gospel to mankind has not only promoted the progress of human society, but also achieved his own reputation.

"The saddest thing about human beings is not that they have no fixed place to live and three meals a day, but that they are indecisive in everything. People who are indecisive in everything have to seek the opinions of others and can never make independent decisions. Like them The kind of person who doesn’t even trust himself, how can he win the trust of others? Many people spend their entire lives unable to realize their ideals. This is the reason. There are many such people in real life, and the serious ones are even unbelievable. They are extremely timid, and they don’t even have the courage to take responsibility and risk. No matter how small things they face, they dare not make decisions alone. Such people are extremely lacking in responsibility, and they lack basic judgment on their own future , have no self-confidence at all, so dare not be responsible for anything. This will eventually lead to their failure, in fact, this is the common reason for many people's failures.

"One of the important reasons why many people fail to succeed is lack of self-confidence. This phenomenon is very common among young people. They are hesitant to do anything, even if they plan very carefully, they dare not take action, and finally they can only watch the opportunity helplessly' Slip away'. Even those who have taken action are afraid to let go of it. They can't make up their minds about everything, and they always ask others for advice. As a result, they make themselves very tired but achieve nothing.

"If a person wants to make himself perfect, he must overcome the shortcoming of indecision. A person who is hesitant to do things is difficult to accurately analyze and judge things, so he will not have the courage and belief to stick to himself. Hesitant A person who is determined is like a boat that has lost its rudder, completely unable to find the direction of struggle. For such people, the other side of success is always far away and cannot be reached. Only by getting rid of the bad habit of indecision can people finally win Success. Every successful person has a straightforward and decisive style when working. You can’t do anything carelessly. You must first study things clearly and be sure of everything. At this time, you should start to do it immediately. This should be the case when we negotiate with others. Once the goal is achieved, we should end the negotiation immediately, and we must not spend an hour on something that only takes 15 minutes.

"Anyone who desires to succeed should start from this moment, refuse to procrastinate, and act resolutely.

"If a person is used to making quick decisions, yes, they sometimes find out after the fact that they were wrong and suffer a loss because of it. But the loss is far less than the benefit they get from being quick. Trying may not You can succeed, but you can't succeed if you don't try.

"Indecision is a major obstacle to success. Those who want to succeed, no matter what method they use, must remove this obstacle. Otherwise, it will block your 'road to success' and hinder your efforts. If you don't want to be wiped out by it one day, you have to kill it now before it expands to an uncontrollable level.

"However, in a very complicated situation, you must consider many factors and make a decision carefully. At the same time, you must be careful not to miss the opportunity. After making a decision, you must take action immediately, and do not hesitate Take your bad habits into action. Either don't do it, or do it well.

"If a person develops the good habit of being decisive, he can quickly make the right decision in the face of any complicated situation. But if a person is used to hesitating, he can't make up his mind no matter what he does. When he succeeds It is impossible for such a person to have a successful career when the opportunity comes and he always lets it 'slip away' in vain."

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