Create a chart every day

Working at McKinsey, a typical day may have something like this: at a.m., you start your day's work with a quick brainstorm, visit the customer at a.m., and go to the factory at a.m, then you have a fast meal with your boss. The next step may be to visit more customers, attend the team's one-day briefing, and then rush to the Wharton Business School to attend a job fair. In all these processes, the facts are easily intertwined, just like the ink of different colors on the same ink-absorbing paper. Even if you make a good record during the visit and take notes at the team meeting, the key points may still be missed.

In fact, in this situation, every person at work can meet every day. There are so many things, and there is a great deal of work. I often hear people complain to me: Every day is always busy and messy, sometimes tired and dizzy, but often forget some important things, I really do not know what to do?

To avoid this, McKinsey's experience is to create a table every day to help you. As long as you get into the habit, you will find that tables can speak on their own.

What do I do every day? You can sit for half an hour at the end of a day. First, ask yourself, "What are the three most important things I have done today? "Then remember them in one or two tables-nothing strange, not neat or important. If the fact is not easy to make a table, just write down the points. Place them in a location that is hard to lose-don't just put them into a file. Then I thought about tomorrow's work plan and recorded it in a table.

Sometimes, you can also write down what you think and understand. These things help deepen your thinking. You may or may not use it. In any case, once you condense it on paper, you will not forget it.

This is a really effective way of working. Creating a simple chart does not require much effort, but what is really precious is its content. By creating charts, you can find the nearest distance to success to reduce some ups and downs. You can reflect on your work in a timely manner, even promptly notice possible situations. This is both your preview of the future and your grasp of the present.

A chart is a tool used to transmit and express information. Do not treat it as a work of art. The more complex the chart is, the worse the information transfer effect will be. The information to be expressed in the chart must be clear at a glance. Therefore, if you want to express different information in the same chart, you 'd better re-draw a few images to clearly illustrate each problem.

Like creating a chart, you can take a few minutes every day to summarize and review the work and Chart Content of the day. This is the last and most important step in this efficient approach.

Creating a chart every day is very helpful for your work, but it is based on perseverance. It is unrealistic to expect that a chart will bring obvious benefits to your work. Stick to it for a month. Let's take a look at the power of the chart. It will give us a lot of unexpected gains.

First, the chart will make our goals clear at any time. Success always advances along the target. Goal formulation and execution are very important to a person's success. When setting goals, we need to follow a table, because goals are often not formulated at once, and sometimes we need to repeatedly think about and decide what to choose, even if you have spent a lot of time developing it, you still need to constantly modify, supplement, evaluate and verify it over time, improve your understanding, and change the situation.

Everyone has specific goals. For example, what are you going to do tomorrow, or what you want to do next week and next month. You 'd better write down the specific short-term goals that help you reach the medium and long-term goals so that they can be easily achieved.

You can try to list all the goals you can consider every 10 minutes in a week. In a week, you will have dozens or even hundreds of goals at hand. This will force you to write your own wishes. This is the best way to turn your goals into reality.

Charts make our goals touch and practical, so that we do not waste time and aimlessly dry.

Second, charts save us a lot of time. One obvious advantage of table creation is that you can prioritize things and determine whether or not something should be done. Prioritizing helps you determine that you have prioritized the most important tasks. Without a form, you lose a planning book for action.

At the same time, the table helps us save a lot of valuable time because we have determined the priority of things.

At work, we often hear the following statement: "Oh, my God! Time flies so fast "," My time is always not enough "," Time is so fast for me "," This is not urgent, I can leave it for tomorrow. "Sorry, I am a little late." Have you forgotten the time? Is that all right? "

In fact, you have no more time than others. The only difference is that successful people are not only good at making reasonable use of time, but also strive for time. Can you tell in detail what you do at work every minute or every hour? How much time is spent on meaningful and useful things? More importantly, how much time is wasted due to unreasonable work methods?

All I can tell you is that creating a chart every day is the only secret of McKinsey's time management.

Third, charts can also motivate us. You can create a chart every day to make your goals clearer. When your day's work ends, you can view the chart of the day and find out which work has not been completed, which jobs can be done better so that your enthusiasm can be fully realized.

Work requires passion and enthusiasm. Emerson said: "It is difficult to accomplish things without enthusiasm. "It is hard to imagine that a person without passion and enthusiasm can finish his work persistently and with high quality. Creating a chart every day can make us simple and passionate.