Two people who have just entered the university door, one has been determined to go to graduate school, the exam to continue to study, and the other just wants to mix until graduation to find a job to support themselves, they will have a great difference in the time and quality of study.
The reason for these differences lies in the different plans for life. When you determine your future and direction, you know what you need to do now and where you should go next.
Whose youth has an opinion, who will not be confused in the second half of his life.
Zhang Tao can be said to be a rich man, his ancestors are engaged in the catering industry, and his father has several three-star hotel chains in the city. When Zhang Tao had not yet graduated from college, his father entrusted a porridge house to him to take care of. Zhang Tao studied hotel management, and his father hoped to exercise by letting him manage the porridge house, so that one day he could safely entrust the family business to him.
Zhang Tao is very sensible, well aware of his father's good intentions, every day the first to arrive at the porridge house, the last to leave, diligent and dedicated and responsible. Although the business of the porridge house is not hot, the passenger flow is still passable.
The word 'cold', drinking a bowl of porridge, ordering a plate of cold vegetables, can't make much money, and it may not be warm. It is better to change the table and dishes to the hot pot series, and there is no need to stir-fry, and the taste will not be particularly affected. This will make the business better and better. ”
Zhang Tao's blood boiled when he heard it, and he immediately asked his father to borrow 200,000 yuan for decoration and transformation. However, the business of hot pot city is doing, but the customers are not as many as they imagined.
Therefore, a friend suggested: "Why not change it to a cafeteria!" You seem to be eating! Young people do not like to be constrained, and like the atmosphere of buffet, it is better to change the restaurant to a restaurant that can self-serve shabu to give customers more taste choices. The décor is a little more modern and stylish, and such a restaurant is sure to be popular. ”
Zhang Tao borrowed more than 100,000 yuan from the bank to renovate the restaurant. However, the restaurant business is still tepid, and some friends suggest that he change it to a Japanese food restaurant, saying that there is no restaurant in the city that does authentic Japanese food, and if he opens it, it will definitely be hot. But everything was ready, and the Business of the Japanese Food Store was still deserted.
In a year, the restaurant was rebuilt three times, but the rate of return was getting lower and lower, and Zhang Tao was in debt. At the end of the year, the unsustainable Japanese food store finally closed. Zhang Tao returned home dejected, knelt down in front of his father and pleaded for guidance: "Dad, what do you say I did wrong?" Do you blame those people for their blind ideas? ”
After listening to Zhang Tao's story, my father said in a serious tone: "You are the head of a store, dare to ask you, when your friends give you ideas, why can't you have some of your own opinions and ideas?" You're now a failure in your business, and you're telling me that it was a friend's bad idea that hurt you! ”
The original porridge house, which was still relatively stable in operation, was only caused by zhang Tao's lack of his own opinion and blindly listening to the advice of others, resulting in heavy debt.
In the Internet age, there is a lot of information, and if you blindly follow the trend, it is likely to lead to it
A complete failure. Without our own goals and directions, without our own opinions, success will always pass us by.
Therefore, if you want to be not confused in the second half of your life, you need to have an opinion.
As a teenager, George participated in the "Goal of a Lifetime" activity organized by the school. At that time, the organizers sent a form to each of the participating children, hoping that the participants could refine their goals as much as possible.
Many children simply write one or two lofty ideals, such as "becoming a doctor" and "being a philanthropist", and some children's goals are "good grades on the next test" and "writing neatly", etc., only George has filled in more than 100 goals very carefully. These goals include: reading all of Shakespeare's works at the age of fourteen, trying to ride an elephant or a wild horse before the age of sixteen, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro at the age of eighteen, taking off and landing smoothly on a flying machine alone at the age of twenty... Write a travelogue before the age of forty, etc.
Seeing george's so many goals, many children and parents laughed and said, "You are using your life to achieve your goals." ”
Unexpectedly, George really worked hard according to these goals. At the age of fourteen, George accomplished his first goal—to read all of Shakespeare's writings. When he was sixteen years old, he went on a wild expedition with his father, and when he encountered wild elephants and wild horses, he tried several times, fell heavily to the ground several times, and finally succeeded in riding elephants and wild horses. By the age of eighteen, George was already the youngest member of the Los Angeles Mountaineering Club. While climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, he was unfortunately attacked by avalanches and beasts of prey, and almost lost his life. By the time George was sixty years old, he had successfully accomplished more than eighty of his hundred goals.
Perhaps the story of George's struggle for his childhood goals seems to some to be a miracle. But in fact, George just did his youth assertiveness, did not get confused in the second half, and always worked hard for the goal.