Now do it now (2)

Failed to be a friend

Most people have inherent fear of failure. In fact, it is your best friend. Successful people also experienced many failures due to repeated attempts. The great baseball bat Babe Ruth kept a record of both the base and trigger outs. The most successful person is also facing the most painful failure. You don't have to be ashamed of failure. The only regret is that you never try again. Therefore, do not fear the process of moving forward. To determine whether something is feasible, sometimes the fastest way is to get started. You can constantly adjust yourself during the process. This is a process of preparation-fire-aiming, And it is surprising that it is more effective than the usual preparation-aim-opening process. The reason is that after you "fire", you have first-hand data to adjust your aiming. Many people fall into thinking and planning, and never start to work. Stuck in a certain step (for example, prepare-aim-Aim ......), You have lost too many good ideas.

I have made many crazy attempts in college that I think can save time. I keep reading and applying time management materials, but I also have an innovative approach. Most of my methods fail completely, but some work. I am willing to fail over and over again, so that, under a small opportunity, my occasional discoveries make me soar.

You must understand that failure is not the opposite of success. Failure is the mother of success. Once you succeed, no one remembers that you failed. Microsoft is not the first commercial venture between Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Who remembers the failure when they ran Traf-o-data? When Jin Kai Lee was a year-old light comedy actor, he was often put on the stage. The invention of the lightbulb was because Thomas Edison did not give up after 10000 failures. If you are entangled in failure, you will understand it as follows: this is also a success, or gain experience.

Overcome the fear of failure will make you happy. If you are excited to achieve a special goal, but you are afraid that you will not be able to achieve it successfully, let's start. Even if your attempt fails, you will learn valuable things and try again. If you see successful business people today, you need to see a series of painful failures before their career success, including me. In addition, I think these people agree with me that the initial failure experience will contribute to the subsequent success. For those who plan to start a business, my advice is to start a business as production or service, rather than worrying about success. They may fail. But you will learn more than just a fantasy.

Start now!

W. Clement Stone built an insurance empire worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He asked all employees to recite this sentence over and over again every day: "Now !" Once you think you're getting lazy and think of what you have to do, stop and say, "start now! Start now! Start now !" I often use this sentence as my screen saver. The drag-and-drop operation costs a lot, because you go back to work, greatly increasing the waste of time. Thinking and planning are important, but action is more important. Thinking and planning won't reward you, but you can only get the fruits of your work. When you hesitate, make bold actions, just as it cannot fail at all. Actually, it does.

It is absolutely necessary to develop a habit of decisive decision. I use the 60-Second Principle for every required decision, no matter how important it is. Once I have enough preparation to make a decision, I open a timer and only give myself 60 seconds to make a decisive decision. If you need it, I may even use a coin. When I was in college, I didn't have time to worry about my homework or when to finish it. I picked up one and started to do it. Now I need to decide which report to write, and I will pick a topic to start writing. I think this is why I never thought it was impossible. There is no way to start thinking about what to write. I didn't waste time writing things, just because I was too busy. This may also be the reason why I can easily write hundreds of original articles. Each article I write generates at least two points of view, so my list of points is growing. I cannot imagine that the content will be used up.

People often make decisions without delay, which is also of no benefit. It is usually determined that the delay will only lead to negative consequences. Therefore, even if you are confused, just bit your teeth and make up your mind. If it is a wrong decision, you will soon find out. Many people may spend more than 60 seconds deciding what to eat for lunch. If I couldn't decide what to eat, I would just grab an apple or a handful of bananas and start eating. Sometimes, before I decide what to eat, the fruit has filled my stomach. In this way, my brain understands that if I want to eat more fruit, I 'd better decide quickly. If you can speed up the decision, you will save the remaining time for implementing the plan.

Research shows that the best managers in the world have a strong resistance to hesitation. That is to say, they will make a bold decision in the face of preference or conflict. Many industrialists today have accelerated their decision-making because the opportunity may be missed when the preparation is sufficient. When you have no way to leave, you can only rely on your own experience and intuition. Make decisions as quickly as possible. If you cannot make a decision immediately, put it aside and take a moment to consider it. A lot of time should be spent on action, rather than deciding on itself. Being indecisive is a serious waste of time. It is best not to exceed 60 seconds. Make a firm and direct decision, from uncertainty to certainty, and then take action. When an error occurs, let the facts tell you, so that you will accumulate enough experience to make a correct and wise decision.

Give up relentlessly

Give up all things that waste time. They are all thrown into the garbage bins. Follow the "give up if you suspect" principle. Do not subscribe to useless magazines. If you haven't read the magazine two months ago, throwing it away may not be worth reading. Understand that anything that takes time to do is valuable. Before registering a new service or subscription, ask yourself how long it will take you? There is an opportunity cost to do everything. Ask yourself, "Is it worth my sacrifice ?"

When I went to college, I strictly checked everything I had to do. I once refused to join a professor's program on computer science research because that would waste a lot of time. It took about 10 to 20 hours for the study to work, so long that I would be stuck in a complicated job, but I could not learn anything I did not know. In addition, this study only accounts for 10% of my classroom scores. As a result, my previous performance was excellent. The only result of my absence from the Institute was that my semester score changed from A to -. I told the professor that it was fair and would accept -. I don't want to talk to him about any special conditions. So my score for that semester was a-, but since I made better use of those 10 to 20 hours, I gave myself a +.

Ask yourself this question: "If you want me to do a job that cannot acquire new knowledge like studying a subject, establishing a relationship, or engaging in a job, should I start again?" If your answer is "no," move away from those things. This is called meaningless thinking. I have learned that many people use the creed "starting from beginning to end in doing things" to limit themselves. They spent a lot of time crawling a ladder, but when they reached the top of the ladder, they found that the original ladder was wrong building, and all they had done was in vain. Remember that failure is your friend. Therefore, when you find that the previous decisions are no longer serving your current goals, please boldly and relentlessly abandon the previous decisions and then look for better ideas. People will not be proud to spend their whole life pursuing a goal of slack off their lives. This is another time to take care of the overall situation. You must constantly reevaluate your current situation before you can make the right decisions for future development. If you do not always examine your decisions today, all previous decisions are useless.

Determine and make up for the wasted time

Record an hour-long TV program, and then skip the advertisement in a fast forward manner within 45 minutes. In the same case, if you can solve the problem by phone for 10 minutes, do not spend half an hour sending a long email. Put the things you want to do together, and then immediately fix them.

In the summer between the second and third semesters during college, I found that an apartment along the street is a little closer to the project hall than our dormitory. So I moved out of my dormitory and moved into the apartment along the street, which saves me some walking or cycling time every day. In my original dormitory, there were three people in each room, but now I have a smaller, single-occupancy small apartment room. The new room is more efficient. For example, I can cook dinner while working, because there are only a few steps between my desk and the stove.

People eager to improve efficiency always start with overcoming the habit of wasting time, but I think that is wrong. It is slower to cultivate personal habits. First, we must clarify the purpose. If you do not have a clear purpose, but try to use efficient habits to crowd out ineffective habits, the result is only failure. Because you don't have a strong reason to support your time to do meaningful things, it's easy to stop doing things. You need an ambitious and attractive goal to motivate yourself. The reason you can squeeze 15 minutes from work time is because of your passion for making better use of the 15 minutes.

For example, if you have a job that you like, but the competition for this job is not fierce, you should pay attention to saving 15 minutes for every job, you save a total of hours or even hours every day. If you can use them to achieve your goal, you will take the initiative to make better use of the saved time. If you understand that a real life is in the order of "purpose, meaning, and belief", a low-level life is in the self-regulating State of "habits, practices, and actions.