As the old saying goes, it is better to set long-term goals than to set long-term goals, which means that those who set long-term goals pay attention to immediate interests and those who set long-term goals pay attention to future interests. But in this uncertain era, do you dare to set a ten-year goal and then fight according to the plan? The speed of knowledge change is far beyond our expectation. Long-term ambition has long been a dream in our hearts, and constant determination is the magic weapon to live the present. Make a short-term three-year general direction, grasp the small goals that can be achieved every year, don't waste time and work hard every day, and start every second with a correct attitude in order to be worthy of yourself.
A few days ago, some friends in the reading club made an annual plan of 20 17, and found several misunderstandings when helping them draw the plan into a mind map: First, the goal customization is too general, such as an elegant, happy and healthy life, which will lead to the uncertainty and delay of the goal without specific details. After all, there is no mandatory mechanism for self-monitoring; Second, the plan is too detailed, and a lot of trivial plans seem to need everything. However, putting the content in the monthly and daily schedule is actually difficult to achieve 24-hour uninterrupted.
Fortunately, I learned the planning methods and skills on 20 16. In the continuous application and practice, I have several convenient tools and some insights to share with you.
Why do many people make a lot of plans at the beginning of the year, but by the end of the year, they find nothing in retrospect? A big reason is that it deviated from the original intention. What was the original intention? It refers to the initial wishes and intentions, and it is the initial demand in our inner subconscious. So, don't make a plan in a hurry, ask yourself three questions first:
What I want most: this is the demand for my inner values. For example, what is the purpose of wanting to take the civil service exam? Is it for the iron rice bowl or for future promotion? Different needs correspond to different values, and we can find our own values through specific events, such as a sense of accomplishment, security, prestige and status, and economic returns. The purpose of demanding yourself is to keep everything from deviating from your heart.
What do you want to be: this is a description of the beautiful vision of 20 17. Vision is the expected prospect and desire, and it is the foreseeable future. For enterprises, vision is the core belief and future prospect, while for individuals, vision is the original intention and desire. Think about your achievements after one year and give yourself an expectation.
Summary: This is the self-positioning of 20 17. 20 16 has passed, which word can you use to sum up your year? Some people summed it up as hectic, fulfilling, rewarding and troublesome. Positioning in advance can let us know our state during the accelerated running and remind ourselves not to go astray anytime and anywhere.
Clear your mind and start setting strategic goals. But don't rush to set a goal, first find your own keywords and find the right direction, in order to have a clear goal.
Step 1: Find your own keywords.
Zhuangzi said, "My life is limited, and so is my knowledge." In a narrow sense, career is a career category, in a broad sense, it actually includes the whole life. Career * * * has four dimensions: height, width, temperature and depth, and each dimension has three different emphases, so career * * * has 12 keywords, which is also the direction of life development. Only by digging the direction you want to find, defining your own keywords, accurately positioning your goals and using different strategies can the plan really land.
Step 2: Draw your career in 32 degrees.
In the vertical and horizontal coordinate system, the full score of each dimension is 8 points, and the scores of the past year and the next year are given according to your own practice. Through the comparison of different dimensions, we can find our own efforts.
Clearing our hearts allows us to recognize ourselves, find keywords to help us locate our direction, and the dream list helps to clear our minds.
At the beginning of the year, I always felt that it was a long time. When making a plan, you can't finish a page, and the result is always that you can't do it by the end of the year. How to make a reasonable and achievable dream list?
Step 1: Make a list of all the things you want to do in a year.
Step 2: Make logical classification. Such as buying a car, buying a house, getting married, being an executive, making a lot of money, traveling and so on. , basically belongs to the daily work, study, life and entertainment after logical classification, and subdivides the classified items.
Step 3: Subtract the dream list.
After listing, you will find that although the content is classified, it is still a lot. You must learn to subtract the list and learn the principle of "from the beginning to the end, things come first". Each category cannot exceed three events, and each subdivision cannot exceed three items. Everything starts from the original intention, and all the goals are keyword-oriented. We will give a certain score to each keyword dimension and allocate time and energy according to the score.
For example, the original intention of 20 17 is to improve yourself and become a slash youth. The key words are learning 7, health 5, relationship 5 and hobby 6. Then, when adding or subtracting the list, you can keep your planned study (research, reading and writing) and hobbies (dancing and guitar) throughout the year, and reduce fitness (running and losing weight) and relationships (shopping and traveling) appropriately.
If you really can't delete it, try the following flower of life, which can also help you realize whether the goal setting is reasonable.
I have to say that flower of life is a very useful and practical tool. Its main feature is to concentrate the important things we have to do in a month and allocate them to every day in a month through different classifications, and allocate time and projects reasonably at the beginning of the month. Flower of life is divided into eight parts: career development, financial situation, health management, entertainment, self-realization, personal growth, family and friends. These contents basically cover all the contents of our daily work and life.
Make a flower at the beginning of each month and re-examine it at the end of each month. Fill in no more than five items for each item, and fill in your one-month plan. Then put it in the calendar and see how much time can be achieved. Suddenly you will find that you can't finish so many plans in one month. So, at this time, is it possible to do some subtraction properly?
However, if the water is full, it will overflow. Similarly, flower of life should not fill in the blanks too much. He should learn to leave a blank for himself, that is, maneuvering time. This arrangement is civil and military, and it can be relaxed and unrestrained.
After flower of life was finished, he began to manage every day. At this time, you need to use the simplest tools-three things. We only customize three things for ourselves every day. The first thing is the most difficult and particularly annoying. The alias "frog" is the root of our procrastination, anxiety and trouble. When we were the first to swallow the frog, all the difficulties that followed seemed to be solved. Do you believe me?
Of course, the distribution of the three is also regular and cannot be arbitrary. For example, if I don't have any dreams and just eat, sleep and eat peas every day, we can decide the enforceability of things according to the principle of starting from the end point and thinking of results, that is, which results of doing this thing are what you want most.
Take eating as an example. For people with irregular lives, people who make meal plans must want to make the new year healthier. His plan can be "three meals a day on time", and every meal should be red, yellow and green. Do you want Chinese food or western food for every meal? For people who want to lose weight, her result must be to be thin and healthy, so as to make plans with good quality and quantity. Then her plan can be "eat a few grams of fruit for breakfast, a few grams of beef for lunch and a few grams of vegetable salad for dinner".
So, three seemingly simple things are actually the daily decomposition of your annual big goals. Your persistence and hard work every day are laying the foundation for achieving your goals.
Modern people always say that their time is fragmented, and systematic things can never be solved, but they don't know how to use debris. Actually, time can't be managed. What we need to manage is how to allocate our energy reasonably, integrate and fragment our time reasonably.
Debris integration
When we are writing a report, we may be interrupted by a phone call, by a colleague who suddenly visits, by checking emails and materials, and our interrupted energy will return to normal within 10 minutes. So how can we systematize one thing?
List of wrecks. Among the things that need to be done today, it can be done in a fragmented time, logically classified, such as the time to commute by bus, you can listen to books with various apps, you can put emails or phone calls that need to be answered at the same time, and you can conceive the project plan while waiting for an appointment and record it; This classification of things can reduce the switching cost between our things, and the switching cost of 15 minutes needs 1 hour to make up for it. So it's not that we don't work hard at ordinary times, but that we switch too frequently and can't invest normally.
Integration-division
Although we have classified, the unexpected things are still undefended, so they may be disturbed again. So how to complete the system work in various fragmentation times?
Automatic fragmentation. The fragmentation of system work is divided into two aspects: thinking and execution. First, it's a good idea to use fragmented time to think about it, such as talking about the project with colleagues or listening to experts' opinions. Use trivial content to form the overall concept of the problem in your mind, and form the habit of taking notes at will, so that when you systematize the content, your mind will become complete because of various fragments.
Young people are eager for the dream list in their hearts. Therefore, under various pressures, people always say that they don't have enough time, or they are overdrawn and don't pay attention to things. In fact, it is not a physical overdraft, nor is it a time overdraft. It's just that we don't have the energy to manage ourselves reasonably.
Do you know your energy status in a day? Do you know when your body is tired or excited? We often try our best to do one thing until we are exhausted. This linear consumption is actually not helpful to our work, because people's energy state in a day is rhythmic. For example, for most people, it is suitable for us to plan three things in the morning, because we are full of energy after a night's sleep and can finish the planned work. It is suitable for creative work in the morning, communication in the afternoon and study in the evening.
If you arrange your study and work according to the rhythm suitable for your energy, let your brain and physical fitness adjust in a pendulum way, master the rhythm and take the initiative to rest, you will have more efficient work results.
From this point of view, our 20 17 plan has been refined to how to take every step gracefully and rhythmically. What's your excuse for completing this plan?
I wish you a bumper harvest on 20 17!