Good evening my friend, this is my 50th time chatting with you in my 2nd year.
I got up early this morning to read a book to catch up on my homework. I have classes next Saturday and I only read the third chapter this morning. Although I was catching up on my homework, I didn’t rush into it. This morning I saw that “first things first”, I followed the author’s weekly schedule in the book, and made my own weekly schedule.
has some insights and can share them.
This chapter mainly talks about putting first things first. To sum up, it means that we must be able to distinguish the important things in our lives, and then make plans to complete them.
Note that the things mentioned here are important things, not urgent things.
Our lives are often filled with urgent but unimportant things, so that we easily feel exhausted but do nothing.
Whether this is important varies from person to person. For example, I may think that blind dates are very unimportant and dealing with blind dates is not important, but I have to spend time and energy to do these things, so that every time I reply to the blind date's messages, or I have to meet my blind date today, which is a waste for me.
The author's weekly schedule is based on his own ⌈mission statement⌋. In my current understanding, ⌈mission statement⌋ refers to the goals set by the author in all aspects of what kind of person he wants to be, and the weekly schedule You need to sort out the relationship between the things you have to do every week and the achievement of your mission statement. If these things are conducive to the achievement of your mission statement, they are important things. Otherwise, they are not important and may not be needed. Make or cancel these arrangements.
Among daily things, we need to select the most important one to mark. We should focus on spending time and energy to complete this thing that day.
Following this plan will help you sort out your own affairs, put first things first, and you can clearly see where your time has gone. I think this will be very helpful for reviewing the wasted time. .
It’s like after I keep accounts, I can clearly know where all my money has gone. Then when I spend money the next month, I will be wary of the particularly high expenditure items of the previous month and encourage myself to be less unscrupulous. Spend money.
Similarly, if I can clearly see what things I have completed every day, how many of these things are important and how many are unimportant, then in the following days, I will be more aware of things that waste time. Stay alert.
But I haven’t written a mission statement yet, so now I just sort out the things to do in the weekly schedule, and then mark the most important ones.
didn’t write a mission statement. Initially, it was because I felt that there was a huge gap between the person I wanted to be and who I am now, as if there was an insurmountable gap between them. But when I was writing this thought today, I thought again, could it be that I was afraid of difficulties, so I made some excuses, or that I didn’t really desire to be the person I expected?
It is more likely that I will be afraid of difficulties, so I plan to take the time to think about it and complete my mission statement, because only with a clear goal and starting with the end in mind can I plan the path to achieve the goal, and then detail it. Make things that you can do step by step so that you can realize your wishes.
Now that we have to learn to put first things first, we have to change things like catching up on homework. It is not good to keep procrastinating things that you know are important, and make them important and urgent. It seems that reading the book " The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People " should be arranged into the weekly schedule. There should be a reading task every day and it should be completed before next Friday.
Come on!
