Too perfect a plan is often difficult to complete.
Editor ’s note: This article comes from the WeChat public account “Prospect Job Search” author: Aberdeen ago.
Qian Zai said ✎
This year ’s May Day is over, which means 1/3 has passed in 2020, do you still remember your new year plan that says “promotion and salary increase”?
Look back, where is your new year plan Anymore?
Many people may have this experience, and they are full of enthusiasm at the beginning of the year All kinds of flags are set up, and they are all killed in the middle of the way, either they can’t persevere, or they don’t want to start at all.
In short, year after year, year after year Slap.
Take this opportunity today and chat with your friends Talk about how to keep the new year plan completed.
The following, enjoy!
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Why the more perfect plan the harder it is to execute successfully?
Many times, when we make plans, we often fall into a “perfect vision” state.
In particular, there is always an overly perfect expectation of the results, but sometimes it is precisely this perfection that hinders the execution of the plan.
In short, it ’s too beautiful to think, and poor to do.
I remember that every year I set myself various perfect flags:
Fitness 5 times a week
Read 1 book every month
Go to a city every year to see
Although it is basically not completed in many cases, I still enjoy it and go back and forth, because in my opinion:
The creation of a perfect plan itself creates a sense of accomplishment.
This sense of accomplishment, or satisfaction, can be achieved without even achieving the goal. Even completing the plan alone can create an illusion of achieving the goal.
So it’s easy to finish the plan, to be content and continue to live the previous life, and I didn’t even execute it.
Once the execution starts, it will be disturbed by various details.
The more perfect the plan, when some nodes fail to follow the plan for some reason, the plan becomes no longer perfect. The frustration will even make people give up to continue to carry out the follow-up plan.
Remember that Gao Xiaosong said a paragraph before:
When I was going to read a book one night, I ended up looking at it and wanted to listen to a piece of music. As a result, I put the book down to find a song for a long time, and then delayed reading the book.
Because people who like to make plans, especially detailed plans, generally tend to be more perfectionist, and a little accident-either from themselves or from other plan participants-can easily lead to frustration and even lead to a complete collapse of the plan .
A lot of times, some perfect plans are often ruined by small details, such as:
When I was reading, I was distracted for a while, and I ended up playing with my phone all night
When I was preparing for a workout, I was pulled over by my friend and had a drink
Have you said that you plan to learn technology this year, but you donate your time to Douyin
Many times, when making plans, you should try to avoid too detailed and perfect plans, leaving room for correction and improving flexibility, because if you are not careful, the plan is easily affected by other trivial matters.
Projects with a large time span can be managed with a progress bar.
Comparing with plan and reality, the reason can be marked in advance and delayed, so that it is clear that a certain degree of anxiety can be avoided. Although there may be a delay, it may be completed in advance.
whileNot looking at the perfect plan at the beginning of the year, looking at the large unfinished blanks, and feeling anxious and unwilling at the same time.
Sometimes, not being able to accept imperfections in the plan is the biggest failure in the plan.
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Obsessive to too ambitious goals It ’s better to do every little thing first
When Luo Zhenyu talked about plans and goals in Luo Ji Thinking, he put forward a concept of “target degradation”:
refers to the act of forgetting the big goal and only completing the small goal.
The goal is not difficult, it will make people move towards the vision very slowly, or even stagnate. And goal degradation goes a step further and will make you run counter to your vision.
In the 18th century, people sailing on the sea encountered difficulties because they could not accurately locate in the sea, and many people lost their lives. Therefore, it is necessary to locate with the help of a clock that walks accurately, and there must be a longitude meter on the clock .
Harrison, the British watchmaker, started to design such a watch. It took Harrison five years to make the first navigation clock, which has been able to complete the positioning requirements.
But Harrison felt it was too big, so he started to change his size and used it for four years. When the second version came out, he felt not beautiful enough. Next, it took another 19 years to complete the third version.
Harrison ’s true vision is to make people safer while sailing.
As a result, Harrison has forgotten the vision and pursues the perfection of the product. The perfection of the product is actually a small goal. It needs to give way to the vision at any time.
Luo Zhenyu concluded:
The ability to split a big target into a small one is the source of efficiency, which is already very difficult in itself, but the ability to raise the head from the small target at any time and stare at the big target is even more difficult.
Consistent with the specific goals of the status quo and difficulty, it is a step by step to achieve the big vision. The road to heaven also needs to start from underneath. And the vision, like our compass, ensures that we do n’t deviate from the true direction.
And the reason why many people fail to achieve their goals is often not to pursue details too much, or to look at big goals without carefulness.
For example, “I want to be successful” is not specific enough, so it is difficult to implement; and “writing ten 10w + articles in one year” is very specific and measurable.
Similarly, compared to “I want to lose weight”, “10 pounds thin in half a year” would be a better goal.
Once the goal is specific and quantifiable, it will not be carried out blindly and in a panic.
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Depreciation planThe important person I never know what I have lost for this
In this fast-paced era of advocating shortness and fastness, many people often overlook the importance of planning and take tomorrow ’s money to fulfill today ’s dreams until youth runs out.
Bill Gates once said:
“People always overestimate what they can achieve in one year, but underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.”
Those who devalue the importance of the plan never know what they have lost.
A good plan is not a rein to limit your thinking, but a star in your life, so you do n’t lose your way when you are stuck and do n’t forget your goals when you are tired.
So, how can you truly complete and achieve your life plans and goals?
Best-selling author Zhang Mengmeng mentioned in the book “Handbook of Life Efficiency” that he found his life goals through the “Seven Personal Characters Method”:
1. First think of a name, this person is the person you dream of becoming.
How to judge?
That is, if you become him, the life satisfaction index will reach 100 points. For example, your favorite writer, master of a certain field.
2. In addition to writing down the name of this person, you need to write the names of 6 other people in the same way.
If you ca n’t immediately think of 7 names, then develop a simple classification search model. For example, like me, I want to be a workplace writer. After going to the name “Zhang Meng” through Baidu, some other related field experts and successful people will also be associated.
3. Summarize and summarize the hard skills of these 7 people.
What is hard skills? Hard skills are your killer skills, enough to despise the ability of the person sitting at your desk next door.
Each character has 3 hard skills listed, for a total of 21. For example, “Zhang Meng” has published a book with “Energy Management”.
Come out the same 21 items of hard skills and arrange them in the order of more or less. Take the first three items. These three items are the core skills you want to practice.
4. Self-matching, distinguishing relevance
Now you have 3 hard skills to build, you ca n’t finish them at the same time, you need to analyze yourself to see how these 3 hard skills are related to the work you are doing now Start planning closely.
5. Determine the hard skills you want to practice this year, start with simple
We need to arrange the three hard skills in a sequence, and think about what needs to be learned first and what to learn later.
For example, I passed the seven personal laws to realize my lifeAs a goal, the three abilities that I urgently need to improve this year are time management, career planning and workplace writing.
Be sure to note that all the premises of the plan must have clear goals and objectives, not just write down the actions. Without deep-seated life goals to support, planning is easy to abort.
For example: completing 100 books is just an action.
If you can think clearly, reading is for input, inputting various aspects of knowledge, in order to improve the writing level faster, and let yourself be the person you dream to be, the meaning will be different and the action will not be blind.
Through the people we want to be, we have extracted three abilities that need to be cultivated in 2020. Now we will quantify the improvement of three abilities. After quantification, it must be decomposed according to the annual plan → monthly plan → weekly plan → daily plan.
For example, like me, the quantitative indicators for myself to improve writing ability in 2020 are:
Complete some stage of growth in the workplace.
I will first understand what are the small goals for growth in workplace operations? What conditions are required? Based on these conditions, specific tasks for each month, week, and day were formulated.
At the end:
In fact, the most important thing about the New Year ’s plan is not to achieve 100% of the goal, but to ensure that you are moving forward every day and have new progress.
In the words of Luo Fat, people are not reliable, so if you have finished reading this article, it is better to forward it and share it with your friends, and post a flag that has not been forgotten, instead of reading it Put it in your favorites and don’t care about it anymore.
Encourage you.
When Luo Zhenyu talked about plans and goals in Luo Ji Thinking, he put forward a concept of “target degradation”:
refers to the act of forgetting the big goal and only completing the small goal.
The goal is not difficult, it will make people move towards the vision very slowly, or even stagnate. And goal degradation goes a step further and will make you run counter to your vision.
In the 18th century, people sailing on the sea encountered difficulties because they could not accurately locate in the sea, and many people lost their lives. Therefore, it is necessary to locate with the help of a clock that walks accurately, and there must be a longitude meter on the clock .
Harrison, the British watchmaker, started to design such a watch. It took Harrison five years to make the first navigation clock, which has been able to complete the positioning requirements.
But Harrison felt it was too big, so he started to change his size and used it for four years. When the second version came out, he felt not beautiful enough. Next, it took another 19 years to complete the third version.
Harrison ’s true vision is to make people safer while sailing.
As a result, Harrison has forgotten the vision and pursues the perfection of the product. The perfection of the product is actually a small goal. It needs to give way to the vision at any time.
Luo Zhenyu concluded:
The ability to split a big target into a small one is the source of efficiency, which is already very difficult in itself, but the ability to raise the head from the small target at any time and stare at the big target is even more difficult.
Consistent with the specific goals of the status quo and difficulty, it is a step by step to achieve the big vision. The road to heaven also needs to start from underneath. And the vision, like our compass, ensures that we do n’t deviate from the true direction.
And the reason why many people fail to achieve their goals is often not to pursue details too much, or to look at big goals without carefulness.
For example, “I want to be successful” is not specific enough, so it is difficult to implement; and “writing ten 10w + articles in one year” is very specific and measurable.
Similarly, compared to “I want to lose weight”, “10 pounds thin in half a year” would be a better goal.
Once the goal is specific and quantifiable, it will not be carried out blindly and in a panic.
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