"Busy" and "bored" are the two words that people in the workplace say the most. Apart from some objective reasons, there is also a very important subjective reason that most people always drag their feet at work.
Bacon once said: "Good ideas, although appreciated by God, are just wishful thinking if they are not put into action."
We should take action on a good idea in time. Although it may not bring satisfaction, there is no satisfactory result without taking action.
The reporter interviewed a successful person: "What is the main reason for your success? How do you deal with setbacks? "
He replied: "Never delay, act immediately!"
The reporter asked again: "How do you face setbacks? He replied: "Never delay, act immediately! "
The reporter continued to ask, "Can you tell me the secret of your success?"
He still replied: "Never delay, act immediately!"
The phrase "act immediately without delay" is the most magical automatic starter. At any moment, when I am like a ship with a compass, I have a clear direction. In the vast sea, a ship without direction can only follow a ship with direction.
Elbert hubbard, the author of Spontaneity, once said that if you don't want anything from your job, you can only drift aimlessly on the long career road. Only when the goal beckons ahead will there be motivation to move forward.
In the real workplace, there are many professionals who have no work goals. They flaunt hard work and diligent study in their work, but they never have a clear goal, let alone career planning.
They just work mechanically and never reach the highest efficiency. To be fair, their personal development will take more detours. Because the premise of moving from ordinary to excellent is to determine a clear work goal.
Born Tracy, a world-class efficiency improvement master, said that the most important prerequisite for success is to know what you really want. The first factor of success is to formulate a set of clear, specific and measurable goals and plans. He also said that success is the realization of the goal.
Napoleon Hill also believes that all success must first set a clear goal. When the pursuit of a goal becomes a kind of persistence, you will find that all actions will lead you to this goal.
Goals are the power of progress, and ambitious goals can stimulate people's potential to the maximum extent. People who have made achievements in their careers at all times and all over the world have set their goals in life first, and then pursued them unswervingly. The success of former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is the best proof.
Disraeli was originally an unsuccessful writer, but none of his published works left a deep impression on people. Later, he set foot in politics and decided to become the British Prime Minister. He overcame many obstacles and was elected as a member of parliament, chairman of the House of Commons and chief justice of the High Court until 1868 achieved his goal of becoming the British Prime Minister. Regarding his success, disraeli mentioned in a short speech: "The secret of success lies in sticking to the goal."
Clear goals and persistence are the secrets of all successful people. The significance of sticking to the goal is not only to persevere and work hard in the face of all kinds of setbacks and difficulties, but also to make dreams come true step by step. More importantly, being in adversity can generate great enthusiasm for progress and maximize potential.
Without goals, there is no direction of action and motivation to do business; What kind of goals, what kind of results will appear; You can't talk about good results without high goals. Goals determine results.
Therefore, if you want to succeed in your career, you must first set your work goals and life goals.
Then, aim at our target, just like shooting, keep trying to shoot, and one day we will hit the bull's eye.
Habit 2: Make and Complete a Plan Hugo said, "Some people book a day's work every morning and then do it according to it. They are people who use their time effectively; And those who usually have no plans and make up their minds to make a living when they have something, only the word' chaos'. " Life must have a plan to help you succeed, which everyone should start doing now.
If we want to go to a place now, we must have a road map to this place, which can help us calculate the arrival time. If we can plan every activity as carefully as when we travel or get married, we will do it perfectly.
Sometimes internal and external factors have changed, which may not be 100% as planned, but at least it provides a framework, direction and priorities for doing things.
Planning is not a kind of bondage and control to individuals. What must or should not be done is not determined by the plan. The process of making a plan is a process of self-improvement. Therefore, we must stick to the plan and firmly believe that it will come true.
Having a plan doesn't mean having no plan. Everyone hopes to make a plan successfully. If we follow the plan, we will get the desired result. The significance of making a plan is to pave the way for a successful goal.
Throughout the ages, all successful things and successful people have been completed through careful planning. People who act rashly without planning in advance, even if they make profits occasionally, can hardly win all the time. If you have a plan but don't carry it out, it's just an armchair strategist or a word game.
After defining the purpose and task of the work, whether it can be realized depends on whether it can be organized reasonably.
This requires us to make a practical plan and then implement it accordingly. We should make a work plan for the day every morning. Just five minutes of thinking can make our day's work very efficient.
Looking back on his career, Watson said: "My assistant has a very good habit, which is the main reason why I have never replaced him. He has an inseparable work diary. Every morning, he will read the work plan written the day before. At the end of the day, he will summarize the work of this day and make plans for the next day. "
This is a good habit, and it is also a habit that every professional should learn.
Indeed, people who have no plans for their work are not only clueless and inefficient, but also often bring inconvenience to people around them. Novices, in particular, are unfamiliar with the situation and lack experience. Without planned guidance, they are likely to take more detours in their work.
Therefore, you must make a practical plan before you start work. When making a plan, you need to consider the following points:
(1) Make full preparations before you start work, and don't worry after you start.
(2) If you have several things to do at the same time, you must arrange the order. Estimate how long it will take to complete the work in progress. It is necessary to estimate how many things can be completed today and arrange the work schedule for the next day.
(3) Develop the habit of timely reporting, which can not only let the boss know the situation, but also leave a good image of being efficient, practical and reliable for the boss, which will certainly be very beneficial to the future development.
In a word, whether to make a practical plan before starting work is the key factor to judge whether a person is efficient or not. The experience of many successful people tells us that making a plan carefully will not only constrain us, but also make our work more organized and efficient. Of course, like many other important things, carrying out this plan is not an easy task. If we can be self-disciplined, self-motivated, and achieve the plan, then we will become an effective professional.
Habit 3: Do one thing at a time. All successful people have one thing in common, that is, they pay great attention to doing one thing. Concentration and concentrated breakthrough are the main reasons for their fruitful work.
China's proverb wisdom has long told us this truth: those who want to catch with both hands can catch nothing; He who chases two rabbits at the same time can't catch up with either.
If you want to sit in two chairs at the same time, you may fall from the middle of the chair; If you want to put your feet on two boats, you may fall off the boat and fall into the water.
Peter Drucker, a famous American management master, once pointed out: "I have never met a manager who can handle more than two tasks at the same time and still maintain high efficiency."
Born-Tracy has a famous assertion: "People who only do one thing at a time are much better than those who set foot in multiple fields at the same time." Franklin attributed his achievements in life to the practice of the creed "spare no effort to do one thing within a certain period of time"
Edison believed that the first element of efficient work was concentration. He said: "the ability to apply your physical and mental energy to the same problem for a long time without getting bored is concentration."
For most people, there are many things to do every day, and I only do one thing. If a person spends his time and energy on one direction and one goal, he will succeed. "
People's time, energy and ability are limited. This determines that we can't do many things in a specific time, and we can't do everything well at the same time.
Therefore, doing one thing at a time is an indispensable habit for a professional to succeed. Only by doing everything wholeheartedly can we do it well.
Habit 4: Priority. Dr. Steven Covey, praised as "the mentor of human potential" by Time magazine, once said: "The important task of human beings is to put the main affairs in the main position." In his book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, he pointed out that highly effective people should develop the habit of "putting things first".
"The first priority is the creation of essence, the organization and practice of dreams (your goals, visions and values are the priorities). Minor things don't have to be put in the first place, and important things can't be put in the second place. No matter how urgent, individuals and organizations come for important things, and the key point is to put important things first. "
The world-renowned Harvard Business School recruits 750 two-year graduate students, 30 four-year doctoral students and 2,000 on-the-job managers for study and training every year. In teaching, they often tell students a very effective way to do things-the 80: 20 rule.
That is, the rule of 28. The law of 28 is the fundamental law of the universe. Our body is 80% water and 20% other substances; In an organization, 20% people are excellent and 80% people are mediocre; 80% benefits of enterprise products come from 20% products.
According to the 28 Law, if any work is sorted by value, then 80% of the total value often comes from 20%- projects.
To put it simply, if all the work that must be done is divided into ten items according to importance, then as long as the two most important items are done well, the remaining eight items will naturally be completed smoothly. Therefore, if you want to handle things well, you should put the unimportant 80% work back on track and concentrate your time and energy on the most valuable 20% work, which will bring you unexpected gains.
Every employee should learn to use this way of thinking and working, focus on important things and solve important problems first. For some side details, you can boldly give up. You know, scientific choices can help you do things better. If you don't know your priorities, you will have no plan, and you may miss a good opportunity. Why do many people work hard, but the results are different? One of the important reasons is that some people lack the ability to understand the priorities and do things without a clue.
It is a good habit to put what you think is the most important thing first. Otherwise, we will be wasted energy and time by unimportant things. For people with high performance, always do the most important thing first. This is their best work habit!
In real life, there are all kinds of things that we can't cope with every day. But remember: No matter how many things there are, always do the most important thing well. Stick to it, and before you know it, we are close to achieving great things.
People often prioritize things according to their urgency, not their importance. This is passive, and high-performance people usually don't work like this. "Prioritize and set priorities" is the essence of time management.
Habit 5: It is a good habit for excellent professionals to learn to listen to criticism, be good at listening to correct criticism, correct their mistakes in time and straighten their own direction. In life, we often meet people with different views from ourselves. We think that our excellent performance or proud report is degraded by them, and the ideas we try to come up with are accused of being divorced from reality, while what we think is done well has become the focus of criticism from others. Faced with these criticisms, most people will be hot-headed, argue angrily, and even fight back with very vicious words, which will make things worse. There are also some people who don't have their own opinions. As soon as they heard the criticism from others, they immediately overturned all their previous efforts, thus taking a detour on the road to success. This is a great loss.
In fact, no matter what we do, there will always be people who object to our performance. Paying too much attention to other people's criticism will only increase your own pressure; It is even more unwise to deny yourself just because of criticism.
As an excellent professional, you should be good at finding your own shortcomings and motivation for progress from criticism.
Criticism usually falls into two categories: valuable evaluation and unreasonable censure. In any case, face criticism calmly, find valuable and instructive elements from it, and then learn to improve, and you will get unexpected things.
No one can guarantee that what he did was 100% correct. Even Einstein admitted that his conclusions were sometimes wrong. So, don't be arrogant, think that only you are great and don't listen to other people's advice.
Habit 6: Simplify complex problems Jack Welch has a famous saying: "Management efficiency comes from simplicity." Simple management has become the mode pursued by many enterprises. Similarly, work efficiency comes from simplicity. Efficient people never complicate simple problems, but simplify complex ones. Simplifying complex problems is one of the good habits of efficient work and the highest art of dealing with problems. To do this, we must first break the routine.
At a dinner table, seven or eight friends were worried about how to open the cork, and even lost their spirits. Each of them took turns tossing, and the cork didn't come out, but sank into the bottle for half a centimeter.
Some people think it should be picked with a knife; Some people immediately objected that the cork was soft and difficult to succeed.
Some people suggest that you try screwing a screwdriver into a cork and opening a bottle like drinking dry red; The idea was opposed again, because the cork would fall into the bottle with a little downward force. Others stand up and think that the best way is to insert a cork with an awl near the bottleneck and then pull it out with an awl. Everyone agrees, but unfortunately we can't find the awl at the moment.
At this time, a silent "silly boy" picked up the bottle of wine and poked the cork with his finger, and the cork fell into the bottle. Everyone was about to scold him, but he picked up the bottle and said, "Look, everyone, can't this wine be poured?"
It's as simple as opening a cork on a bottle. This method is the most effective for the goal of how to finish the wine in the bottle. When people put the solution to the problem on the tool, it complicates the problem. If we focus on the ultimate goal from another angle, the problem will become very simple and be solved faster.
NASA invited bids from all over the world to make a high-tech pen for the space shuttle. The requirements are very strict: you can't use any ink, you can't continue to use it, and you can use it in any state-upside down, sideways and upside down. After the news is released, it is expected that inventive geniuses all over the world will use their brains to come up with good ideas and ideas. Maybe there will be some novel and lovely high-tech products. But after a while, a telegram came from Germany. There were only six words on the telegram: "How about trying a pencil?"
Many things, including those very simple things, are difficult to do because people often confine their thinking to established procedures or think too complicated. I always want to solve problems in complicated ways, which leads to helplessness. If we can break the routine, deal with simplicity with simplicity, and deal with complexity with simplicity, problems will often be solved.
Habit 7: Make full use of your spare time. Efficient people are good at using their spare time organically, so as to maximize their work efficiency. For example, when you are in the car or waiting for someone, you can simply study, think or plan your next move. Make full use of spare time, there may be no obvious feeling in the short term, but over time, there will be amazing results.
The so-called piecemeal time refers to the spare time that does not constitute continuous time or when one transaction is related to another. Such time is often ignored by people who are not careful. Although the piecemeal time is short, if it is accumulated over time, the sum will be considerable. Anyone who has made achievements in his career is almost always a person who can make effective use of his spare time.
Darwin, a great biologist, is a model of making effective use of his spare time. He once said, "I never think that half an hour is insignificant." The experience of Nobel Prize winner Lehman is more specific. He said:
"Don't waste, waste or throw away the rest of the day. Even if it is only five or six minutes, if it is used, it can still achieve great results. " Mr. Lu Xun once said: I just used other people's tea time to read and write, so I finished so many works. Dividing time into whole blocks and using time carefully is one of the secrets of many celebrities' brilliant achievements at all times and in all countries.
We often pay attention to the whole time, but we don't make full use of the fragmentary time. In fact, this is a great waste of life. The results of expert experiments show that if a person spends 30 minutes studying a professional problem every day, he can become an expert with a say in this field five years later. He can at least talk to masters and authorities.
The people who are really interested in success are those who make good use of their time. Many times, time doesn't appear in chunks, they are hidden in the invisible, just like ordinary water drops, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, and fall into the long river of years silently. If we ignore them, they will disappear, just like tiny sesame seeds falling into a crack in the stone, it is difficult to pick them up again, and a lot of time in a day is wasted. However, as long as we catch their whereabouts, cherish them and make use of them, they can become rivers, lakes and seas.
Time rarely appears in blocks, but things often need to be handled centrally. It is difficult for people to make and implement a plan in a short time. Even if our schedule is tight, we will inevitably have free time to wait for buses, planes and other things. "Free time" is not terrible. What is terrible and sad is the emergence of "blank time". Make effective use of these spare time! Just like saving money, it will accumulate bit by bit and eventually create wealth.
Take the initiative to meet the challenge of work. It is a challenge to engage in difficult and innovative work in the workplace. An excellent professional has the courage to face this challenge! Taking the initiative to meet challenges at work is a very enterprising work spirit, which also reflects the courage to meet challenges.
Challenges can make us. If we lose the courage to accept challenges and bear pressure, we will lose everything.
There is a famous saying in the west: "A person's thoughts determine his fate." Not daring to challenge difficult work is a denial of one's potential and can only turn one's unlimited creativity into limited achievements.
The courage to challenge the "impossible" job is the key to great success. A cautious person who lacks the spirit of challenge, even with enviable talent and ability, can hardly achieve anything; Only those brave soldiers who are enterprising and dare to challenge the "impossible" work can create impressive achievements. Cole's success is enough to illustrate this point.
Cole used to be a clerk in a newspaper. When he first joined the newspaper as an advertising salesman, he was full of confidence in himself. He even asked the manager not to get paid, but only to get a commission according to the advertising fee. The manager granted his request.
After starting work, he made a list and prepared to visit some special and important customers. Other salespeople think it is impossible to win these customers. Before visiting these clients, Cole shut himself in his room, stood in front of the mirror, read the clients on the list for ten times, and then said to himself:
"Before this month, you have to buy advertising space from me."
After that, he visited customers with firm confidence. On the first day, with his own efforts and wisdom, he negotiated a deal with three of the twenty "impossible" customers; In the rest of the first month, he negotiated two more deals; By the end of the first month, only one of twenty customers didn't buy his advertisement.
Despite the unexpected achievements, Cole persevered and won the last customer. In the following month, Cole did not explore new customers. Every morning, as soon as the shop of the customer who refused to buy his advertisement opened, he went in to persuade the businessman to advertise. Every time, the businessman replied, "No!" Every time Cole pretended not to hear, he continued to visit.
On the last day of that month, the businessman who said "no" to Cole for several days in a row softened his tone:
"You wasted a month to let me buy your advertisement. What I want to know now is, why did you do this almost impossible thing? "
Cole said, "I didn't waste time. I am at school, and you are my teacher. I have been exercising my persistence in adversity. " The businessman nodded, and then Cole said, "I also want to admit to you that I am at school and you are my teacher. You taught me to take the initiative to accept the challenge. For me, this is more valuable than money. In order to express my gratitude to you, I want to buy an advertising space as my tuition. "
Challenges are common at work. In this competitive era, challenges are everywhere. For all professionals, God gives opportunities fairly, but opportunities lurk in challenges. Professionals who do not feel the challenge will not get greater opportunities for development.
Some people may say, "It's not that I can't feel it, but that my job is really not challenging." It can be concluded that people who often say such things will not be praised by the leaders for a long time, and even the leaders are considering whether to continue to hire him.
Most people who don't realize the challenges in their work lack enough enthusiasm and enthusiasm. They never ask themselves to do their best to make their work more perfect. They think that everything will be fine as long as they finish the tasks assigned by their superiors. They lack the consciousness of taking the initiative to accept the challenge because they don't take their work seriously. Therefore, even if a challenge is presented to them one day, they will not take the initiative to accept it, but refuse it. As a result, the chances of success were also rejected by them.
Only by taking the initiative to meet the challenge can we grasp the chance of success, otherwise we will miss it.
Taking the initiative to meet the challenge is a positive and enterprising work spirit, which also reflects our serious character in taking our work seriously. In the process of meeting the challenge, our ability can be fully reflected and developed, our will can be fully exercised, and our work experience will be well accumulated. In this way, we have the conditions for success, and success is just around the corner.
In short, if a person does not have the spirit and courage to take the initiative to meet challenges, there will be no hope of success, and his personal value will not be fully reflected and promoted. The development and progress of an organization needs employees with such courage. In this competitive society of survival of the fittest, we need lions who dare to challenge "impossible" jobs, not sheep who can only do simple jobs well.
Pursuing the height of truth can't be satisfied with mediocre work performance. Only by constantly surpassing ourselves and constantly chasing Mercury halfway can we continuously improve and eventually become a truly outstanding professional and reach a real personal height.
Many people are dissatisfied with their work and don't take it seriously. But instead of trying to change the status quo, they silently endure the distress brought by work day after day and year after year. When they feel depressed or tired, they will say, "Alas! What can we do? This is life! What else can I do? " The implication is that as long as you can earn money to support your family, boring work can be tolerated.
In fact, they lack a deep understanding of the meaning of work. We don't need to compromise our dreams. An excellent professional should take the pursuit of Excellence as the standard of life and turn his work into his ideal realm.
For most professionals, the natural ending can only be mediocrity. Why do we always choose mediocrity when we can choose better? If it is impossible to make another day beyond one year, why not use these 365 days? Why can we only do what others are doing? Why can't we transcend mediocrity? If an athlete goes with the flow, he will never win the championship. Athletes who want to take home the gold medal must surpass the existing record. The famous thinker and orator Emerson once said:
"Don't always say that others expect more from you than you expect from yourself. If someone finds mistakes in what you do, then you are not perfect, and you don't need to find reasons. Admit that this is not your best performance, and never stand up and defend yourself. Why do we choose mediocrity when we can choose Excellence? "
In fact, "the pursuit of outstanding work performance" is not limited to the pursuit of work performance, it is also a standard of life, it is a psychological state and ideological existence. In the process of pursuing Excellence, we can give full play to our best talents and apply them to the cause we are striving for, creating high-performance work and high-quality life.
When we intend to constantly enhance our own strength and improve ourselves, we must first break through the limitations of self-setting. Self-limitation is the biggest obstacle in life. If we break through it, we will create incredible miracles in our work. Only by constantly breaking through the limitations of self-setting and constantly putting forward higher requirements for ourselves can we get out of the mediocre life mode, take our work seriously, attach importance to it, and then stimulate our work potential. The following flea story may inspire us.
Flea is a very common animal in our life, and it has strong jumping ability. Statistics show that the average jumping height of fleas is about 40 times of their body height. Fleas can be called the "high jump champion" in the animal kingdom.
Put a flea in a glass, and we will find that the flea will jump out immediately and repeat it several times, and the result is still the same.
Next, add a glass cover to the cup, and bang, the flea will hit the glass cover heavily. Then, the flea will feel confused, but it won't stop, because the flea's lifestyle is "jumping". After being hit again and again, the flea began to get smarter. It began to adjust its jumping height according to the height of the lid.
After a while, you will find that fleas will never hit the lid again, but jump freely under the lid.
An hour later, when you gently remove the cover, the flea doesn't know that the cover has been removed, but continues to jump at the original height; After a few hours, you will find this flea jumping at its original height. A day later, I found that poor flea was still jumping around in this glass-it couldn't jump out.
Can a flea really not jump out of this cup? Absolutely not. The problem is that after several collisions, it has acquiesced in its mind that the height of this cup is insurmountable, and it has set its own limit.
Limited pursuit leads to limited life. Everyone always has a "lid" in his heart. If we don't open it, we will never reach our true height like fleas in the story.
In short, never set limits on your potential, but be brave enough to surpass yourself and pursue Excellence.
If we want to be an excellent professional.