Chapter 36 develop good work habits

What makes us dizzy is not the heavy workload, but that we don't know how much work we have and what to do first. The first good work habit: Clear away all the paper on your desk, leaving only relevant to the problem you are working on.The famous poet Pope once wrote such a sentence: "Order is the first law of the kingdom of heaven." Paying attention to order should also be the first law of doing business.But is it so in reality?The desks of ordinary businessmen are full of documents that may not be looked at for weeks.The publisher of a New Orleans newspaper once told me that his secretary helped him clear a desk and found a typewriter that had not been used for two years.

Just seeing a desk full of unanswered letters, reports, memos, etc., is enough to make a person upset and tense.What's worse is that it often makes you think that "there are 1 million things to do, but no time to do them", which will not only make you feel nervous and tired from worrying, but also make you suffer from high blood pressure, heart disease and other diseases due to worrying. Stomach ulcers. The second good working habit: arrange things according to their importance.Henry Duhart, who founded a labor service company throughout the United States, said that no matter how high his salary was, it was impossible to find a person with both abilities.These two abilities are: first, being able to think; second, being able to arrange the order of doing things according to their importance.Through my long-term experience, I know that it is impossible for a person to always decide the order of doing things according to the importance of things.But I also know that doing things according to plan is definitely much better than doing things according to interest.The third good work habit: When you encounter a problem that must be decided on the spot, solve it on the spot without hesitation.The fourth good working habit: learn how to organize, hierarchically manage and supervise.