Time management-how to cope with external interference

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Humans are group animals. Except for Hollywood movies, there is probably no Lone hero in other places. In the primitive society, there are no lone heroes. If you are alone, do not play handsome games. Even survival is difficult. In modern society, there are no lone heroes. Even if you join the crowd, you cannot live without others. In fact, in nature, humans are very fragile animals. Without tools or team collaboration, humans can hardly beat any type of carnivals. Therefore, since ancient times, humans have been living together, hunting together, stealing food together, crying together, laughing together, queuing up to buy train tickets ......

Even in modern society, no matter how advanced science and technology are and how civilized they are, the most basic form of social organization has not changed. The relationship between people is a link between people,. Sometimes, we need help from others, and sometimes others need help. Similarly, when we need the boss to pay for us to support our family, the boss also needs us to help him make the business more prosperous. Therefore, we cannot live independently, whether in our life or at work. Although most people do not want to be disturbed by others when doing their own things, there is no way to do this, it is impossible not to be disturbed by others.

Even if there are complaints in our hearts, it is impossible for us to reject others' "interference", because once we close others' channels that "interfere" with you, we will also close your channels that "interfere" with others, however, each of us cannot ensure that we do not need to "interfere" with others. Therefore, convenience means convenience.

However, it is always easier to talk about time management. Since we are discussing time management, external interference, especially unpredictable external interference, is mutually challenging for our personal time management, therefore, we must find a reasonable solution to make time management persistent and become a habit. Otherwise, since I have arranged my own time, it will always be disrupted by external interference, so why should we spend time planning our own time.

In the face of external interference, I think the first is the most important mentality. If you have a good attitude, you can keep yourself in a hurry. In the face of thorny problems, you can have more ideas and solutions than friends with poor mentality. In this way, you can be more decisive and accurate in handling key problems. If the mentality is not very good, it is very likely that one change affects the overall control and grasp. The deviation in a day may be less obvious, but after a long time, the difference between people is apparent. Therefore, we must have the ability to respond in a calm manner like "killing people and killing Buddha". If we only want to kill people, will it be okay if Buddha comes?

How can we establish a good attitude? First, we must correctly view external interference. We can simplify "external interference" to "change". In fact, everything in the universe is changing at all times. Some people say that only one thing remains unchanged, that is, "change" itself. I think this is not enough. Another thing remains unchanged, that is, our expectation for "unchanged. We often pray in our hearts: "This is the case. Don't change it again !" However, it is always counterproductive. Since experience and lessons have been told countless times that nothing remains the same around us, why should we continue to expect nothing to do? If you start to tell yourself that a thing will always change, then when it actually changes, it is easy to be surprised because of psychological preparation. If you are not surprised, how can it be a mess?

No matter whether we perform time management on the first night or the morning of the day, we cannot expect that everything in the day will be done in a step-by-step manner based on our preconceived ideas, we cannot predict what will happen in the next second, just as I have been writing about it, but I cannot guarantee that the network will be disconnected when I want to submit it later. Since the world is constantly changing, why should we set a rigid schedule for ourselves? Therefore, when you view the schedule you have just arranged, you must first tell yourself: "This schedule will definitely change ." It is only when you have prepared your mind in advance that you will not be confused or frustrated when you encounter real interference or changes, because you know that there will be changes in advance, and the changes also happen as you have arranged. What are you afraid?

This is not to say that time management is not important, as long as the model is used to list a calendar. In my opinion, the focus of time management is not on time but on the importance of things. When planning your own time, you must consciously set aside some buffer time. If you leave work at half past four, you will arrange your work items around; when you go to bed at, you can arrange your work to be done at around. We do not recommend that you use the time to wait for a short period of time. Instead, it should be used as a buffer for changes. If you don't seem to waste a little time by setting your work item to, as long as a colleague asks you to help him, you have to work overtime at night; if you keep your tasks at in the evening, you may not have enough sleep the next day as long as there is something delayed in the middle. Of course, I know that it is easy to say that it is not easy to set aside some buffer time for myself in work arrangements. This requires the skills and environment to allow, however, I think the more important thing is that if you want to do this, you must first have sufficient confidence and confidence in your work efficiency and concentration, otherwise, it is easy to get out of control due to improper schedule. If you cannot set a buffer for yourself in the schedule, it doesn't matter. Consider the items planned but not important as the prepared buffer area. If you have not encountered any interference today, and everything goes smoothly, even the unimportant and urgent tasks have been completed, congratulations, but don't be happy too early. Such luck is not available every day. If your schedule is full but you still encounter important and urgent tasks, it doesn't matter. Cut down the most important and urgent tasks first. What? Time is not enough? It doesn't matter. Continue to cut down the least important and least urgent things, and so on. If it doesn't, it will downgrade or postpone the important but not urgent things. Time management does not require us to go to bed after we finish everything on the calendar every day, but as long as the most urgent and important thing is done, if something important but not urgent has made some progress, you can feel at ease. If it is urgent but not important, you can consider outsourcing for others, you may not be able to take a look at things that are not important or urgent.

In the face of external interference and changes, we need to change ourselves. In fact, there is no essential difference between running your own life and running a company. Successful entrepreneurs are all very sensitive to trends and changes, and even have amazing foresight capabilities. If a set of business models and standardized processes are developed at the beginning, and then implemented in a constant and step-by-step manner without any changes, it is absolutely impossible to create a successful or even great company.

There are many types of external interference, not all of which deserve us to change our schedules, and we do not have to regard all interference as more important than our own. Of course, we cannot refuse some things. For example, your boss suddenly needs to receive a customer and ask you to help him complete a document. This document may have nothing to do with you, however, the boss does not want the work progress to be affected due to temporary contact with the customer. He hopes that the file will be processed after the guest is sent away, something similar to this, we cannot refuse because of our schedule. On the contrary, we should accept it with an open mind. The eyes of the masses are bright and the eyes of the boss are not so vague, personal abilities and potentials can often be fully and effectively presented through these inconspicuous things. However, sometimes we have to learn to say no. For example, if I plan to write this article that I think is very important today, several colleagues will pull me to the bar to relax when I get off work, I will say, "No ...... Well, I have already made arrangements at night ."

Therefore, within the scope of principles, we should try our best to put our work and life in a relaxed manner, be too rigid and easily broken, be too flexible and easy to relax, therefore, it is not so easy to plan your own time. It is worth further exploration and practice.