It's important, but I don't want to start.

A friend asked me in the sub-answer asked me a lot of frontline managers will encounter problems:

Explain to the team members some tasks, found that she did not know the priorities, repeated emphasis on priority, she also always in those less important tasks to spin around, what reason?

In turn, as an executor, have you ever had an experience that " it's important to know something, but you don't want to start it right away ?"

I have had, often have.

For example, I think this year to improve financial knowledge and financial ability is particularly important, has been thinking to meet in Xi ' an Tao Cheng teacher, talk about how to improve their financial ability, but two months later, I have not action!

For example, I recently do webrtc a demo, I know the source code in the peerconnection example using the HTTP short connection as signaling channel inappropriate, in the future, it is sure to refactor, you can think of this change will cause the client, the server of a large number of code to rewrite, even the design must be torn down again , there is the idea of "put back, wait for the product to be considered," and the result is still not moving the relevant code, just constantly overlay code on the old architecture to achieve new functionality.

Reasons for not starting

To sum up, it is important to know that something is not ready to start immediately , the most important reason is two points:

• Get used to instant feedback. Important things are often complex, the completion of a long cycle, the arrival of feedback late, resulting in insufficient power, and those simple things, just a little bit of time and energy, you can immediately get feedback and stimulation, people have "Wow, good cool" or "Well, I finished so many things so soon" feeling.
• Fear, I don't know how the first step starts. Important things are often relatively difficult, and sometimes think of headaches, all kinds of state, 1:30 don't come out how to start, what to do first. So simply do not think, anyway, the delivery period is too early, push it backwards.

The solution

When I was in college, I liked to play games, "StarCraft", "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms", "Jin Yong Group Biography", "Paladin Biography", "Hero Invincible" ... Play for several years, big two o'clock, the final exam review process also ran to the computer room to play a while "StarCraft."

Why do you like playing games? Think carefully, the game has the following features:

• Easy to operate, can play, a little more difficult, with a guide page, a minute to see will, you can start to play
• There are many levels or levels, these levels or levels are divided into a series of steps, each step is not very difficult, only less time to complete
• Each task is completed with clear feedback and the results are easily measurable. or incentives, such as adding gold coins, adding XP, adding equipment, adding skills, upgrading; either explicit failure hints and inducing replay cues such as Fruit Ninja, failure will give you a significant red X with sound effects, and will give you a replay button.

The game's level and upgrade system design usually follows the following model:

This is very consistent with people's psychological expectations, is to let you continue to have stimulation, and constantly have incentives, reciprocating cycle, so you can't stop .

While we work, many times, the important task is this:

Do you feel so incompetent, so small? Feel like you're not going to make it?

If we take these important tasks, split into phased targets, and then give each small target a certain reward, is it easy? such as the completion of the development of the login page, reward yourself to play a fruit ninja, such as the completion of the framework of marketing planning copy, reward yourself to eat a piece of chocolate ... Is it easier to do something like this?

The revelation that the game gives us can eliminate the obstacles that we do not want to start important tasks. Therefore, in order to " difficult to start very slow feedback of the important task " into our beloved " Simple instant feedback Small task ", just do the following two points:

1. The decomposition of tasks, the formation of target steps, each small target has a clear, measurable results. To achieve a small goal of the cycle, half day or a day is appropriate, not more than 2 days, because too long feedback is slow, will not be willing to do.
2. Find motivation for each task and celebrate it when you're done.

Method of Target decomposition

Actually know how to do, specific to the actual really to do, or will encounter some problems.

Among these problems, the most common is: do not know how to split the target.

So, let's look at how to do target decomposition.

To do target decomposition, usually take a top-down strategy (that is, start with the end). For example, your goal is to achieve a passive income of $100,000 per year after 5 years, and the result of a top-down decomposition may be as follows (each branch can be further refined to the next action that can be performed immediately):

What is the key to the decomposition process?

The key is to ask yourself a question repeatedly: what is the possible way to achieve this goal, and what must be done .

Ask, repeat, progression, progression, and progression until you find the smallest set of "What must be done", which is the next step in your immediate action.

I'm going to write an article about target decomposition, 100,000 passive income this goal is the example of that article, please look forward to ...

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It's important, but I don't want to start.