Why are lucky people always lucky?
Doing the right thing is more important than doing it right.
If you have to choose:
A. I'll give you 6,543,800 yuan in one lump sum today.
B: I'll give you 1 yuan today, and I'll give you twice the money of the previous day every day for 30 consecutive days.
Which one would you choose?
I believe many people will choose A without hesitation, so they can only get 1 10,000 yuan. The person who chooses B can get more than 500 million on the 30th day! This is only a very simple choice, but the results of those who will choose and those who will not choose are quite different. If you choose the right one, you are a "lucky person"; If you choose the wrong one, you can only admit that you are "unlucky".
Life is made up of countless choices. Every time you make the right choice, you will take a step towards a successful life; Every time you make a wrong decision, you increase the risk of failure. Just like the process of rocket launch: after the rocket is launched, it needs to constantly adjust its running direction to get it into a predetermined precise orbit; Once there is a danger of deviating from the right track, it is necessary to make a judgment in time, choose the right direction and adjust the running track. Otherwise, once the rocket is out of orbit, it will lose control and cause immeasurable losses.
And if you learn to choose, wealth will take the initiative to knock on your door!
1. Before choosing, we must first understand what we really need. When a person focuses on real needs and says "no" to everything else, he can make a choice and get better results.
Chicken and pearls
One day, a chicken pecked around looking for food. It wants to find something to feed itself and its children. Suddenly, it found a pearl from a pile of abandoned leaves. It said regretfully, "if your master finds you, he will be happy to pick you up and treat you as a precious treasure, but I am looking for rice grains, not you." To me, you are nothing and worthless! All the pearls in the world are not as attractive to me as a grain of rice. "
A smart hound was looking for prey shot by its owner in the forest and came across a bag of gold. It ran up to sniff and said regretfully, "Alas, I thought I had found the prey shot down by my master!" " ! However, I believe my master will like it very much. Maybe he will give me a few bones every day when he is happy! "The hound thought so, picked up the bag and ran to the owner.
"You are great! I will use a piece of gold to match you with the best suit! " Said the master, stroking the hound.
The hound immediately pleaded, "no, if you don't mind, I'd like to enjoy a few bones at each meal."
The smiling owner readily agreed that hounds can eat bones every day.
When you hear yourself say "I have no choice at all", you'd better laugh it off, because you just don't notice the choices you have, you know.
No matter how hard it is, you can find an exit.
When the father first saw his newborn son in the hospital, his heart was broken-the little guy was only the size of a Coca-Cola jar, with deformed legs and no anus, lying in the observation room dying. To make matters worse, the doctor asserted that it was almost impossible for the child to live for 24 hours. After the sad father went back to prepare small clothes, coffins and cemeteries for his children, he returned to the hospital and found his son still alive. But the doctor went on to say that the child would not live for a week. However, the little guy struggled to live for a week, and another week ... the child survived tenaciously. His father took him home and named him John Curtis.
Little John is so young that everything around him looks like a monster. Timid, he is full of fear of anything bigger than him, especially the dog at home often bullies him. However, his family did not give him more care because of his fear. On the contrary, his father often said to him, "You must face all your fears and be brave!" " "
Time flies and little John goes to school. When he started to look forward to a new life in a wheelchair with a schoolbag bigger than his head on his back, he never thought that meeting himself was a nightmare.
There are many naughty students in the school, and that short John has almost become their doll. They overturned his wheelchair, broke its brakes, let him "fly" directly into the teacher's office from the school corridor, and even tied him to the ceiling fan in the classroom to rotate together. The worst time was when several students tied his hands with ropes, sealed his mouth with tape, threw him into the trash can, and then lit a fire outside the trash can; The smoke choked John. He was very scared and his thin body struggled hard until a teacher saved him. ...
Later, John went to high school. Once in a slide show class, John came out to go to the bathroom, but he felt terrible pain every step in the dark. When he came to the light, he found that his hands were covered with thumbtacks and his blood was flowing.
John was at last fed up. When he got home, he looked at himself in the mirror and thought about his pain and humiliation again and again. He burst into tears. He thought of death and suicide, but he still couldn't bear to love his parents. ...
1987 17-year-old John Curtis was amputated. Because those two deformed legs that have never come in handy are tilted up like tails, it is very inconvenient to move. John became half man, but he moved more freely.
After graduating from high school, John decided to find himself a job. At that time, his leg was amputated. Every morning, he climbed on the skateboard, knocked on the door of shop after shop and asked the owner if he would hire him. But when people opened the door, they didn't find John who was almost prone on the ground, so they closed the door again.
John finally got his first job in a grocery store after thousands of unsuccessful job hunting. Later, I worked as a salesman and a skilled worker, and screwed in an instrument company. He gets up at 4: 30 every morning to catch the train to the town, then climbs the skateboard and runs from the station to the factory thousands of meters away. Although life is hard, John can stand on his own feet and live bravely and happily. John is of Greek descent. He is always full of competition and fighting spirit, and has a natural sportsmanship. /kloc-When he was 0/2 years old, John began to play wheelchair football. Because of the long-term use of his hands, his arm has amazing strength. That's when his fate actually changed. 1994, John Curtis became the champion of the Australian Disabled Tennis Championship; In 2000, John won a scholarship from Australian sports institutions and ranked second in the national healthy weightlifting competition. He responded to all the ridicule and insults with his grades.
An accidental public speech brought John a brand-new life.
At a luncheon, John was invited to give a short speech on his experience. "I must present the bravest side to the audience!" John told himself. After the speech, his experience and current situation brought tears to the audience and won warm applause. A girl ran to the stage and told John with tears that she was very unfortunate and was about to commit suicide. She still has a gun on her. After listening to his speech, she wanted to live a good life. At this time, John suddenly found it clear that it is really important to go to the podium and tell his fears and sorrows, his struggles and struggles, and enlighten others. He tried his best to do what he wanted to do, driving, exercising, swimming, giving lectures all over the world, and living a life similar to that of a healthy person.
John Curtis famously said: Don't say impossible to yourself. It is because of this belief that he can drive a modified car around the world, go diving, boldly pursue his love and win happiness and respect.
3. Collect as much information as possible. The more information you have, the more opportunities you can choose.
The choice lies in accumulation.
Once, Henry Ford invited three regional sales managers to dinner, and soon appointed one of them as the national sales manager.
The manager later asked Ford why he chose him. Ford replied, "all three of you have excellent sales performance, but you are the only one who has tasted salty food before putting salt in your meal." What I need is a manager who can collect information before making a decision. "
4. Don't make a hasty decision. When you think about a decision, ask yourself, "Have I really thought about it?" It's best to put this decision on hold, get some sleep and take it out the next day.
The fox and the goat
A fox slipped and fell into a well. No matter how hard it struggled, it still couldn't climb up and had to stay there. A goat is very thirsty. He came to the well, saw the fox in the well and asked him if the well water was good. The fox felt that the opportunity had come, and his heart exulted. He immediately calmed down and praised the well water, saying it was the first spring in the world, sweet and refreshing, and advised the goat to come down and drink with him quickly.
The goat who just wanted to drink water believed it and jumped without thinking. After drinking, he had to consult with the fox about the way to the well.
The fox was ready and said slyly, "I have an idea." You put your front foot on the wall of the well and then put up the horn. I will jump into the well from your back and pull you up again, and we will all be saved. "
The goat agreed to his proposal, and the fox stepped on its hind foot and jumped on its back. Then jump hard from the corner and jump out of the wellhead. After the fox went up, he was ready to escape alone. The goat accused the fox of breaking his promise. The fox turned to the goat and said, "Hey, friend, if your mind is as perfect as your beard, you won't jump blindly before you see the exit clearly."
Face up to the reality, the sooner you see the truth, the faster you can make a better decision. Self-deception will only miss the opportunity.
Throw away unnecessary stubbornness
There are two poor woodcutters who live by collecting firewood up the mountain. One day, they found two big bags of cotton in the mountains. They were ecstatic. Cotton is light and expensive. Now each of them is carrying a bag of cotton and hurried home.
Walking, one of the woodcutters was sharp-eyed and saw a big bundle of cloth thrown on the mountain road, so he discussed with his companions, dropped the cotton and carried it home. Companions have different views, thinking that he has walked a long way with cotton on his back, leaving cotton here is a waste of previous hard work and insists on not changing cloth. The woodcutter who found the cloth tried his best to carry it away. After another walk, the woodcutter with cloth on his back saw several altars of gold scattered on the ground not far away, thinking that he was really rich, he quickly picked gold with a firewood pole. His companion is still unwilling to leave cotton and suspects that gold is not real. The woodcutter who found the gold had to pick two jars of gold himself and hurried home with his cotton-carrying partner.
Unexpectedly, just as they reached the foot of the mountain, it began to rain and they were caught in the clearing. More unfortunately, the cotton on the woodcutter's back was so full of rain that he couldn't carry it, so he had to leave the cotton he had worked so hard to give up and go home empty-handed with his gold mining companions.
At every critical moment in life, use your wisdom carefully and make the right choice. At the same time, don't forget to examine the angle of choice in time and adjust it in time. We should learn to study problems comprehensively from different angles and let go of unnecessary stubbornness. Make the right choice calmly with an open mind. Every right choice will lead you to the smooth road to success.
6. Trust your intuition. Our feelings can often predict the future results and guide us to make the right choice.
look ahead
19 10, at the age of 28, he watched an air show and became interested in airplanes. Through careful observation of the aircraft structure, he was convinced that the aircraft at that time could be transformed into an economical and applicable means of transportation. At that time, the plane was only in the enlightenment period, and flying was only an expensive consumption for entertainment and sports by a few people. At that time, the scientific community sneered at the so-called "developing aviation". At the age of 28, he is just a timber merchant who dropped out of Yale University.
Ten years after he started making airplanes, he felt that delivering mail for the US Postal Service would be a profitable business. He decided to participate in the bidding of "Chicago-San Francisco Post Road". He kept the transportation price as low as possible, and many experts thought that his company would fail. Even the postal authorities doubted whether he would survive and asked him to pay a deposit before signing the contract. However, people ignore a simple and obvious "loophole"-the lighter the plane itself, the more goods it carries. This is the fundamental way to gain benefits. He tried to reduce the weight of the plane. As expected, his mail delivery business began to make a profit. Soon, he developed from sending mail to carrying passengers.
After World War I, the aviation industry was in an unprecedented recession. His company stopped production. He turned to making furniture to make a living, and still raised funds to support several major engineers of the aircraft company to continue his ongoing research and development plan. Many people think that he is too fanatical and unrealistic, and he firmly believes that the aviation industry will eventually have a bright future. He said, "I can see the future ..."
That's how he went his own way. Today, the aircraft manufacturing company founded by this self-righteous person has become one of the largest commercial aircraft manufacturing companies in the world. He is william Boeing, the founder of the world-famous Boeing Aircraft Manufacturing Company.
7. The most terrible enemy is that there is no firm belief. Believe that you deserve better and take action to achieve it. You are lucky. Remember that "believing in what you deserve" is more meaningful than "feeling what you deserve".
We must defeat Lewis.
The world was shocked when the famous American long jumper Mike Pavilu once again set a new world long jump record for 23 years. When I was a sophomore, Pawu Ailu's best score at that time was 7.47 meters, far below the world record set by Bi Meng.
After years of struggle and tempering, Pawu Ailu lost to carl lewis, the 65th long jump champion, by only 1cm in the national championship.
Later, in the men's long jump competition of track and field in Tokyo National Arena, Lewis and Pauailu competed again. In the fourth jump, Lewis first beat the previous world record 1 cm with a score of 8.9 1 m, and Lewis seemed convinced that he was a shoo-in.
But just a moment later, Lewis's face suddenly changed. Because Pau Ailu tried to jump 8.95 meters for the first time. This achievement has set a new world record, which has been maintained for 23 years.
At this time, Pau Ailu was filled with the joy of success. Breathing heavily, he expressed his joy at breaking the myth of Lewis: "Everyone says that Lewis is invincible. It is impossible to set a new world record. But I insisted on using' I will definitely beat Lewis and break the record' to hint at myself until today's success. "
Everyone will be greatly influenced by hints in life, maybe he doesn't realize it. Hint is very powerful, and its influence is powerful whether it is good or bad. So you need to act according to your own wishes and choose a good way to suggest yourself.
Usually, strong self-suggestion is a powerful weapon for one's success. On this basis, work hard and don't stop until you reach your goal.