The experimenter divided the college students with similar grades into three groups: the first group did not do event management; The second group only plans within one month; The third group made a daily plan.
The final result is that students who plan every day have shorter and shorter study time. Because they are too tired, they spend a lot of time planning every day. The most important thing is that you can't work according to the plan at all, and something will always happen. After these things happen, you feel guilty that you can't achieve that plan, which leads to self-blame, which leads to a decline in self-esteem and then worse and worse.
Therefore, it is concluded that the more detailed the time management method, the lower the efficiency. Which is the most effective? Not the one without a plan, but the one that has been planned for a month.
I think some views on Mr. Fan Deng's case are one-sided, ignoring the "third choice" besides the monthly plan and the daily plan.
Just like the first batch of unplanned people in Fan Deng, such people have no goals and enjoy a comfortable life. Most people have goals, but the goals are vague; I can feel the goal moving in the distance, but I don't know what the standard is to achieve it, and I can't find the right way to achieve it.
I have a female colleague who told me years ago that she wanted to lose weight. But after a few months, it is still the same; Weight loss has a goal, but the goal is too vague to measure.
Losing weight can only be regarded as an action, not an effective goal. Why do you say that? Because what kind of result is successful weight loss, reducing 5 kg by 10 kg is successful weight loss; Before implementing the standards, the objectives must be quantifiable and measurable.
For example, your goal is to form the habit of reading. Reading a book a year and reading a line every day is not a habit of reading, is it?
Set the goal of reading 50 books a year, add numerical values to the goal, and decompose the goal into an executable level. Reading 50 books a year means reading 1 book every week and reading about 40 pages every day.
Being able to break down goals into task levels and finish them regularly and quantitatively, reading habits can certainly be developed.
The purpose of quantifying goals is to make yourself clear about what you need to do to achieve them.
Quantifying goals also plays an important role, that is, it can improve the action power.
Big goals are easy to be daunting. If you can't reach your goal for a long time, you will feel depressed and give up easily. Quantify the big goal and break it down into small goals, and you can clearly see what to do next.
For example, your goal this year is to earn 200,000 yuan, 65,438+6,000 yuan a month, 4,000 yuan a week and 57 1 a day. So you can clearly understand what to do every day to ensure that you earn 57 1 yuan.
Achieve the small goal of 57 1 yuan per day and earn 1.6 million yuan per month. Realizing a small step is more likely to produce a sense of accomplishment and a lasting sense of accomplishment, and it can stimulate the motivation to persist.
The goal set at the beginning of the month is often near the end of the month, and it is found that it is not half finished, because people will have a sense of time delay and think that there is still a lot of time at the end of the month. If something is delayed today, it's not too late to do it tomorrow.
It is an excuse that there is still time, which leads us to get used to procrastination; In order to achieve the goal, we must adhere to the principle of "everything is done in advance" to ensure that the goal can be achieved smoothly.
In the decomposition rules of target management, weekly plan is the "third choice", which decomposes the target in weeks to ensure the progress of the target, and at the same time, it can make overall allocation according to the completion of tasks in days and weeks.
If we have something unfinished today and there is not enough time tomorrow, we can only finish the task of the day, then we can arrange the unfinished task for the weekend.
The important task of the weekly plan is to balance the seven-day plan and ensure that the task can be completed this week.
Zeng Guofan also mentioned one of his habits in his diary. If he doesn't finish the goal of reading 20 pages that day, he will make up the plan he didn't finish yesterday, no matter how busy he is tomorrow.
In actual work and life, it often happens that one's own plan is disrupted by unexpected events every day, and it is difficult to finish the task quantitatively on time. However, there is no need to be negative. Adjust the plan appropriately, choose a day with more time in the hometown this week, make up for the missed tasks, and make sure that the tasks this week can still be completed in quantity.
It is most appropriate to adjust the target progress by taking "week" as the time unit, because the time span is short and it can be faster in time. The monthly planning time span is too long, which will make people feel no sense of urgency and easily lead to delay.
The advantage of using structured classification is to improve the efficiency of solving problems. Why do you say that?
Take a car accident as an example. If the engine can't start, first of all, consider several plates that may cause the failure. First, there is something wrong with the fuel system board, second, there is something wrong with the electromechanical system, and third, there is something wrong with the circuit system. Each system can identify which parts are easily damaged.
If you break down a big problem into small problems, then show the problems in the order from easy to difficult, check them one by one, and you will soon find the fault point.
You see, a failure problem without a clue can be simplified by classifying and refining the problem, thus improving the efficiency of solving the problem.
Achieving goals is also a process of solving problems. How to achieve the goal is a common problem. To solve this problem, quality and quantity must work together. It is only a matter of time before the number of small problems keeps piling up.
The problem is that we need to break down the big problem of how to achieve the goal into small problems and show them in a structured and visual way, so as to solve the problem fundamentally.
Therefore, we should not only break down the annual goal into months, but also break down the monthly goal into "weekly plan" and "daily task", which should not only turn the goal into action, but also refine the time warp for achieving the goal.