We can't decide what kind of cards we get in life, but we can decide how to play that deck of cards well.
Life is blank, blind, busy——
First, busy, should not be busy, low efficiency every day;
The second is blindness, doing a lot of useless, feeling worthless;
The third is dazed, not knowing what to do, feeling meaningless.
Efficiency, value, meaning, these are the three levels of time management.
How to improve efficiency, choose value, and find meaning is the core of time management.
Improving efficiency is the first layer, and doing a good job is more effective.
Choosing value is the second layer, doing a good job with half the effort.
Finding meaning is the third level and will gain a new life.
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significance
Although meaning is at the highest level, it is the basic starting point for time management.
Time Management First Question – Why Time Management?
A person who knows what he is living for can endure any kind of life. - Nietzsche
If you think that everything is meaningless and life is worthless, of course you don't need time management.
The meaning of life is the starting point and foothold of everything. So the most important part of our time management journey is to explore the meaning of life with you.
Save time and waste it the way you like
Don't tell me Just do it, I don't even want to take the first step
If you want to manage your time, we can move on.
Time Management Question 2 – What is time?
An unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates
"Time is money, efficiency is life", which means that time you do what you use him, he is what he is.
For businessmen, time is money;
For soldiers, time is victory;
For doctors, time is life...
You go to exercise, time is health;
You go to learn, time is knowledge;
You go to make money, time is wealth...
What you do with your time, time is what it is. Only you can give meaning and value to your own time.
Where your time flows, life will go.
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What to do
Mediocre people care about how to spend time, and talented people try to use it to the best of their ability. —— Schopenhauer
Time we can't control, we can only manage ourselves.
Time is only fair to everyone, only 24 hours a day. And there are only two words that everyone can do – distribution.
What you do with time, time is what you are, you are what you are.
As the proverb goes, "You are what you eat," how you allocate your time determines what kind of life you live.
The core starting point of distribution is that you must have goals and priorities.
What you want to achieve, you put your time into something. What you think is meaningful and valuable, you will willingly exchange your precious time for it.
Essentially, time management is equal to goal management.
Therefore, all the goals pursued by human beings can be boiled down to the basic dimension of how to use time, and the ability to manage time is a basic core ability.
To achieve your goals, time management can be condensed into three words – goal, priority, and planning.
The goal is the direction – running in the wrong direction, running worse and worse. With goals, life is not at a loss. Efforts without goals or unclear goals are the greatest waste, and the time to reach the goal is added.
The best way to waste time is to run wild in the wrong direction
What capabilities and resources are needed to achieve the goals?
Priority is choice — priority first, effectiveness first. With priority, blindness can be avoided. Efforts that are not focused or prioritized are the biggest waste, and the time to improve efficiency is added.
Do something with maximum efficiency that is simply not worth doing
Discover your passion and spend your life chasing your passion
Planning is the path – starting with the end and monitoring in real time. With a plan, you can say goodbye to busyness. Efforts without planning or haphazard planning are the greatest waste, and the time on the right path adds value.
Carefully prepared to hold back the big move, the leader is not satisfied with how to break
Time management is all about doing things – life has a purpose, doing things has a priority, and actions have a plan. There are choices, there are trade-offs, there are steps, say goodbye to the dazed, blind, busy life, and be the master of time.
Take from above, get from it, take from it, take it from below, take it from below, and get nothing. - Confucius
Seeing that the goal is to take the top of it, it is a strategic decisive victory, and it is a half-effort.
Choosing the right priority is to take it, to implement the strategy, and to do more with less.
To make a good plan is to take the following, to formulate tactics, and to do half the work.
If there is no goal, no priority, no plan, half the work.
This one is a phased summary.
Before a lot of content, values and methodology talked about a little more, the specific method involved less. Because each person's characteristics and circumstances are very different, many methods are just a matter of fact, effective for some people, and ineffective for some.
Although strategic thinking is abstract and complex, if you think it through, all problems may be solved, and life will be substantially improved.
The idea determines the way out, the positioning determines the status, and the pattern determines the ending.
With new ideas, the way of playing is completely different, and there will be completely different results.
For example, the teacher came up with an arithmetic problem: How much does 1 add to 100?
If you're just squirming, then you don't have any concept of time management at all and are exhausted.
If you are like Gauss, you know the skill, it is the first layer of time management, in the process of improving efficiency.
If you are like Jack Ma, who knows how to make trade-offs, it is the second layer of time management, in the choice of value.
If you, like Newton, created the law of universal gravitation because of the landing of an apple, or like Wang Yangming, you can know things and know the truth of life from ordinary behavior, then you will get a new life, which is the highest level of time management.
Take time management as an important underlying thinking, become a core algorithm of your own life, and you do anything to do what you want.
Be able to achieve goals that others cannot achieve, gain insight into values that others cannot see, and improve efficiency that others cannot improve.
Alphago beat humans with algorithms, and I surpassed myself with new algorithms
Even if you only accumulate a number now, as long as you have the underlying thinking of time management, you can learn how to reflect, and then learn techniques and methods, and then summarize the lessons learned, refine the algorithm of life, examine the past with a new perspective, live in the present, look at the future, all the lessons, setbacks, and feelings are indispensable to the growth of life, and you will become a better self.
Ordinary people pay attention to efficiency, excellent people pay attention to value selection, and real masters pay attention to meaning.
Lei Jun said: "Don't use tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness." Don't get tired of running for your life and fill a blank life with blind busyness.
For time management, the strategic level is still the focus of our attention and thinking, but the tactical level will be more involved in the future.
"North Mountain's Life Algorithm"