Chapter 11 3.d Production time budget

Next, I'm going to assume that you've already developed your first good habit: keeping a daily journal of how much you spend.If you have already formed this habit, the second good habit is almost natural and reasonable.This good habit is: make your time budget every day. It pays off to spend 15 to 30 minutes carefully crafting your time budget for the day before starting the day's activities, as that other "cliché" goes - sharpening a knife as much as chopping wood. The most straightforward way is to make a list of the things you need to do today.For the convenience of expression, we will refer to the things in these lists as "tasks" in the future.for example:

1. Recite words. In addition, I have to review the two lists memorized yesterday and last Friday according to the plan. 2. It is agreed that we will watch a movie with so and so in the evening. 3. Go to the library, and at the same time check the information on the Internet to find out the necessary information in order to complete a certain article. 4. I will play football with my classmates in the afternoon. 5. ... Of course, when you list these tasks, you don't necessarily have to write them down. Your mind has already automatically started to estimate how much time it will take to complete each task.Soon, the first problem you encounter is that there are too many tasks to complete.So you just have to choose.In fact, life is choice 6.

A simple way to solve this problem is to assign a weight value to each task in the list - for example, you can use 1 - 5 points for marking.But be careful not to use a scale of 1 - 10 as some books suggest, because most of the time it is difficult for us to judge the importance of what we are trying to do with that precision.In fact, I think a precision of 1 - 3 is good enough for most people, because a score of 1 - 3 basically represents: 1. Not important 2. General 3. important Of course, according to your preferences, you can also use 1, 0, -1 to mark.There are many ways to do the same thing, and choosing your own preferred method is often the best strategy.As we often hear, children are their own good.

Even, I suggest that at the beginning, just label each task very simply as "important" and "not important".In this way, labeling will become easier, you only need to add a symbol of emphasis before important tasks-such as an asterisk.Some people like the asterisk (*) in the word "米", and I personally like the five-pointed star (☆) that can be drawn with one stroke. Of course, there is another more concise way to circle the task, or draw it before that task. a circle (○). When you try to mark the weight of what you are going to do, you will find that it is actually not that easy, even if you only use the simplest method to mark-only mark "important" and "unimportant". ".Because you have to distinguish between "really important" and "appearing important", and "really unimportant" and "appearing unimportant".

Task important unimportant real √ x appear x √ You need to revisit those tasks that have been marked as "important".Because there must be some of them that simply "appear important."And you also need to re-examine those tasks that you think are "unimportant", because there are always some of them that are actually "unimportant".So, you have to modify some weight labels.Don't be afraid to revise.Believe me, in the process of completing any task (you are now making "time budget" is also a task), modification is an indispensable content.If you are revising, it means you are making progress.The reason why many people achieve nothing in their lives is because they are fragile perfectionists who naively hope that they can survive perfectly in this imperfect world-so they are doomed to end in failure. (The words I write now are destined to be revised many times in the end...)

To judge whether a task is "really important", there is actually only one criterion: whether the completion of this task is really beneficial to the achievement of your goals.However, as a normal person with all kinds of organs intact and full of emotions and six desires, it is difficult to fully focus on this most critical and fundamental decision-making criterion without struggling a bit. For example, everyone likes to do interesting things, and they often don't care whether it is useful or not.But the problem is, interesting things are not necessarily useful! things to do

Useful (good for achieving goals) Useless (doesn't contribute to the achievement of the goal) interesting √ x boring √ x If you shake your head and force yourself to be rational, you will know that you should not do useless things, even if they are very interesting; and you should do useful things, even if they are very boring.But, please face yourself seriously, have you always used reason to guide your behavior in the past? Often, when you look at your own life, you may painfully find that you often do things that are actually useless just because they are very interesting.For example, I set a goal in March - to take the TOEFL test in June.But at the end of May, you realized that in the past two months, the most you did was playing cards or clubbing with friends.For another example, you decide in the morning to recite 200 words during the day, but when you recite the 20th word, a friend calls and says he wants to treat you to dinner, and then you go, drink too much, and go straight to bed—even Even the most important habit has been given up-logging your time spending.

There is no need to learn from anyone, everyone has more or less, clearly or vaguely, their own goals-no matter what the so-called "ideal" or "wishful thinking".Then you start judging with reference to your own even "unrealistic" goals as a standard-judging the true attributes of each task.Then choose "really important" or "appear unimportant" Believe me, forming any habit, even a small one, is a struggle.However, the seemingly painful struggle will eventually become a lot of fun at some point in the future.