Obviously, i put a lot of energy into studying or working every day, but there is no improvement in my personal academic performance or work performance. Are there any such people around you? Have you ever been poked yourself? On Weibo, the discussion on the topic of "lazy diligence" was once heatedly discussed.
Spending a lot of time and energy on a certain task, but far from the expected feedback, has to reconsider setting goals from the beginning, and whether the plan is really measured according to the real level and execution of the individual. We are often prone to set a longer-term goal, in the process of implementation began to procrastinate, thinking and execution of slack, let us and the goal more and more distant.
To change procrastination, you first need to know where you spend your time each day and whether your habits are efficient.
In the new book "Life Notes Without Delay" by well-known handbook blogger Rachel Wilkerson Miller, it is a special interpretation of the notation method that helps individuals grasp life. She mentioned that when you have a lot of to-dos, making a list of monthly plans is a good time management method.
Compared with the annual plan and the daily plan, the monthly plan is the establishment point that splits the annual large goal into small goals. The monthly plan sounds simple, that is, for each month's goal arrangement, we can design each month in the form of a very simple monthly calendar + people list, or we can randomly increase or decrease the page according to each month's activity. A monthly plan can include things you need to do in the month, etc., or tasks that are completed on a specific date, such as meeting a partner on a certain day of the month and goals and other content for the month.
Based on the regular monthly plan layout, we can also do an advanced upgrade, that is, the monthly habit management table. What is a Habit Management Table? Habit management tables can help you design layouts that look novel, and it's also a great way to show progress toward your personal goals. You can take a note of the things you plan to try further, and the things you plan to do progressively less. Let's take a look at how to design your monthly plan layout.
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Horizontal management
Horizontal horizontal management makes effective use of space and grids, and can also manage multiple habits at once.
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Vertical management
If you want to see all your habits on one page, but don't want to turn the book sideways, then you can adopt this vertical layout.
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Manage multiple habits on one page
In addition to putting all your habits into one table, you can also design an administrative table for each habit. This design is easier for you to navigate, and it also helps you separate what you want to do more from what you want to do less. As long as you do something on a certain day, you can color that date in the management table, or make an "X". If there are days that you don't want or don't need to manage, you can black out those days in advance.
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Mini Monthly Habit Management Table
If you don't have many habits of management, then you can design a mini management table directly in the monthly calendar.
With a monthly plan, it's time to talk about monthly summaries. A good review will help you to continuously adjust your plan and find the most efficient mode for you.
How to write a monthly summary? Here are a few questions you can start with:
What have I learned this month?
What have I accomplished this month?
What surprised me this month?
Which day of the month is the best?
Who has played an important role in my life this month?
What was the worst day?
What do I regret doing?
What did I start doing? What do I stop doing?
What do I want to achieve next month?
When you start to review this month, you can also appropriately add your personal feelings, which is to step up again on the basis of the monthly habit management table and make a monthly comprehensive management table. In this table, you can see everything in one page, i.e. you can see the connection between what you have done (or not done) and your emotions.
First, set aside a space to record your physiological feelings, including headaches, nausea, sleep status, and appetite. Second, you can also record your habits and behaviors here, both good and bad. For example, alcohol intake, sleep time, time spent watching TV, caffeine intake, medication intake, exercise duration, etc. Finally, you can also record your mood: anger, frustration, sensitivity, sadness, focus, distraction, and happiness. Doing so helps you discover what might affect your mood.
You have to admit that your feelings are real. When recording your mood in this monthly integrated management form, you can simply color it or type "√" in the box. You can also rate your emotions, with 1 point meaning a little bit of that feeling and 5 points means the feeling is very strong. Or you can use some abbreviation symbol to mean "on another page I'll explain my feelings in more detail." You can then record your feelings in detail in the journal section or on a separate page.
Franz Kafka once said, "We have become wiser precisely because we have been able to look back on our former situation." It is for this reason that we must recognize the courage to persevere in pure ignorance. "Diligence is an essential element of success, but if you can make an efficient transformation effect with diligent action, you need to develop a plan that fits your learning or work rhythm, and constantly improve your strategy through review, in order to help you achieve your goals and organize your life."
This article is compiled from "Life Notes Without Delay"
CITIC Publishing Group
2021.5
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