My friends, when it comes to managing time, I believe that everyone is often depressed and depressed: when you are working hard and race against time, you can achieve nothing in your career and get the freedom you want; Obviously, I made a nearly perfect plan for the beginning of the year, but it eventually turned into a year-end joke; Obviously, I have studied a lot of time management methods carefully, but I still can't manage my time well ... If you have such depression and depression, then this Five Kinds of Time can help you.
The author of this book, Wendy Wang, graduated from Communication University of China in 21. I graduated from China Renmin University with a master's degree in 27. He was the anchor of CCTV News on the Hour. In 28, he started his business and founded a brand of positive life culture "early". He has published seven books, such as "Early", "Live your life according to your own wishes" and "Time can see". In 218, we will upgrade "early" to a positive life college, and strive to create a positive life. ?
The five kinds of time are: survival time, money-making time, good-looking time, fun time and flow time. The author believes that all the time of a person, no matter how it is divided, is only five categories.
the first time is survival time, and the core word is overstepping. Survival time is the time a person spends to survive. Including the basic category of eating and sleeping time, the life and study time arranged by parents and teachers when growing up, and the time that has to be spent in order to gain a foothold in work after adulthood.
The second time is money-making time, and the core word is snowballing. When it comes to making money, many people may think of work first. After all, everyone has to work before they get paid. But in fact, you have done the corresponding work and got a certain reward. This kind of working time is actually the time to survive, not the time to make money.
so what is the time to make money? Only work is done on the core competitiveness of a product in unit time until the core value of the product is pushed far beyond the average level. This time is the time to make money.
The products mentioned here also include you as a worker. So for you, the real time to make money is actually the time for you to continuously strengthen your core competitiveness.
the third kind of time is good-looking time, and the core word is bodyism. The definition of good-looking time is: set aside a specific time to do something that makes you look good.
There are two kinds of beauty: vitality and long-term beauty, while focusing on long-term beauty.
To achieve a good look of long-termism, we should be a real corporalist and create our own radiant list: work and rest-don't stay up if it is unnecessary; Diet-eat breakfast unconditionally, drink plenty of water, and don't overeat; Attitude-strengthen exercise and maintain a beautiful posture; Articles-make clothes excellent and simple; Positive life-ignoring negative information and pursuing flow time.
the fourth time is fun time, and the core word is curiosity. Fun time is the time when we actively choose to invest and use it for fun. Because we choose this period of time on our own initiative, we have full freedom to choose the length and frequency of this period of time, so fun time means that we can arrange a period of time on our own initiative, not for time, health, the meaning of life or anything else, but simply for ourselves.
In order to avoid this kind of aimless happiness from entering the misunderstanding that it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to spend a long time brushing mobile phones and playing games, we should keep in mind that the action guide for choosing fun time is to make an experience list and create a list. Go to places you haven't been to, see scenery you haven't seen, and eat delicious food you haven't eaten ... Put these into the experience list, and start your fun time with your heart under the condition of meeting the time and travel expenses.
creating a list is to plan the corresponding goals, quantify the goals, explore step by step, and pursue the density and depth of the experience. For example, after running a marathon, getting a diving certificate, writing a book or practicing a vest line, etc., you will find that what you get is not just a marathon or a paper certificate ...
The important function of fun time is to satisfy people's curiosity, and the experience list and innovation list can keep your curiosity satisfied.
The fifth time is flow time, and the core word is complete devotion. Flow time is the time we choose to pay for the flow experience.
to understand what flow experience is, we must first understand what flow is.
mihaly csikszentmihalyi, the first person in the world to use the concept of flow and study it, defined it as: flow is a state in which a person is fully engaged in a challenging and difficult activity.
yes, flow is a state. Professor Mihaly believes that entering the flow state should be such an experience: knowing that the destination is faced with the work that can be completed, putting into action in time, concentrating on this matter, freely controlling the action in the process, and receiving feedback in time. You can not only enter the state of ecstasy, but also experience the flow, so that your self-awareness becomes strong and you can feel the change of time.
compared with the first four kinds of time, flow time seems to be somewhat abstract, because it is the most important ultimate time category planning among the five kinds of time.
the reason is: devoting yourself is the harvest. It's not that the result is unimportant, but that the process you put in is the process of flow, and you pursue happiness, so you can accept any result with a calm mind. ?
I believe what you want to know most now is how to make the five times in your life work to the maximum efficiency. The answer is: folding time.
To find out what folding time is, let's take a look at an example:
A housewife, a student on vacation, a food blogger and a chef also sign up for an advanced French cooking class.
Because of the family division of labor, the housewife has to cook, and because the cooking standard needs to be improved, she comes to study. Therefore, for the housewife, the learning process is her "survival time".
The students in the holiday are unlocking their life skills list, and there is also a recipe meal unchecked on the list, so she comes to study, and her learning process is "fun time".
Food bloggers have videos to update every week. Making good-looking cooking videos is her core competitiveness. She plans to record the whole process with videos while studying. For her, the learning process is a typical "money-making time".
As for chefs, this learning process is likely to switch between "survival time", "fun time", "earning time" and "flow time". -the chef wants to go beyond the "survival time", so he comes to learn advanced French cooking; After learning, I found that French food was interesting and I was quite talented, and the learning process became "fun time"; In the second half of his study, he decided to switch to cooking, so he went out early and returned late, studied hard and entered the "time to make money"; So that I concentrate on my study, immerse myself in it and get a flow experience, so the learning process has become a chef's "flow time".
In this example, five people with different identities attend the same cooking class. Although they learn the same content at the same time, people with different identities switch the same learning process to different time categories. The chef was folded by him at the same time because of the variety of switching times. His practice is called folding time.
the folding time is not a time juxtaposed with the first five kinds of time, but a behavior of overlapping the first five kinds of time.
Ronaldo, the world's top athlete with a sculptural figure, is a model of folding time. In order to ensure that the fat level is lower than 1%, C Ronaldo goes to the gym to train specific muscle development in addition to the devil's training arrangement of "practicing five times a week", and keeps 8 hours of sleep every day, and plans three meals a day in strict accordance with the recipe.
C Ronaldo realized the five folds of survival time+fun time+good-looking time+money-making time+flow time, which maximized the possibility of life. And five fold is the peak of time utilization.
Of course, ordinary people can't catch up with C Ronaldo's five folds, but the study found that the most effective folds must have money-making time and flow time.
The folding of different kinds of time determines the appearance of your time planning, while the priority of five kinds of time determines your appearance.
For example, if the flow time is high and the beauty time is low, you are a sloppy but happy person; While the flow time is low and the time for making money is high, you are a rich man in pain ...
The essence of folding time is to manage yourself and use time, and the premise of managing yourself and using time is to identify time. How to tell the kind of time?
the guide to action is awareness. We must first be aware of our current state, so that we can judge and distinguish what time we are in, whether our current state is our active or passive choice, and what actions we should take to control our behavior.
specifically, at any time, at any place and under any circumstances, we should ask ourselves, "What am I doing? Why did I choose to do it? Did I take the initiative to choose this matter? "
after you are aware, you should take the initiative to control your behavior. Being able to control your behavior is the real management of yourself. It is also the real use of time, because you are managing your own infinite vitality and using your own time. If you can manage your infinite vitality, you can manage your own destiny and draw your own destiny map. ?