In life, people often wonder why others are getting better and better, but they are not getting better each year.
In fact, all the bright life behind, by a good habit and create.
As Bacon said: "Habit is a tenacious and great power, he can dominate life."
Harvard University has also recommended a number of good habits to lead a happier life, ranging from a scientific routine to a growth plan to improving your abilities.
Today, I'm going to add a few more things and elaborate on them, and I hope you can force yourself to develop these 10 habits that will help you live a better life.
One
Getting up early is the key to control your life
Morning, since ancient times, has been considered the "golden time" of the day.
At this time, the Yang between heaven and earth began to flow, is the best time for all things to mobilize the Yang.
If we get up at this stage, we will be fresh and energetic for the rest of the day.
American author Hal Elrod also talks about the benefits of getting up early in his book, The Early Miracle.
Waking up early not only clears your head, improves your daily productivity and focus, but also builds your mind and the courage to overcome adversity, he says.
"He who controls the morning controls life."
In this age of "staying up late", many people who can't get up in the morning are simply going to bed late.
If we can be brave enough to get up early, it will inevitably lead to early sleepiness because of the way our body clock works.
By doing this over and over again, we can force ourselves to go to bed earlier by getting up early, creating a regular sleep cycle that keeps us healthy.
Two
Create a to-do list
Many people have this affliction:
After a busy day from morning till night, you end up with something that you didn't get done, something that you forgot to do, and you end up in a quagmire of doubt about your abilities.
In fact, this is not a problem of ability, but we do things aimlessly and without priorities, so that we do things in favor of one or the other, which makes it inefficient and difficult to achieve results.
The Book of Rites · The Doctrine of the Mean has a saying: "All things are predetermined; unpredetermined are doomed."
It means that to do anything, you can succeed if you have some preparation in advance, and you will fail if you have no preparation.
Aimless efforts make people feel like headless flies, lacking a sense of direction and spinning around in circles regardless of how much effort it takes.
When we make a clear list of priorities and do them one by one, with the completion of one thing, we will have more and more motivation to do things and become more and more efficient.
Life, too, will follow the plan in order to gradually clear.
Three
Use of fragment time
I read a question online: "Is it possible that everyone has different hours?"
One of them answered:
"All of us have the same time, and all of us have different times. The same thing is, time passes at the same speed; The difference is that each person has different amounts of money because of the different use of their time."
Time is never biased, it gives anyone a day is 24 hours.
But the same time, each person's destiny is different however.
The reason is that someone is making full use of all available time.
"There is no such thing as a genius. I'm just doing my work while everyone else is having coffee."
At first glance, I thought that Mr. Lu Xun only emphasized efforts. On second thoughts, I found that his deeper meaning was to teach people to make use of fragmented time.
Wake up in the morning and listen to an article for five minutes. On the way to work, take a break to learn a few words; Before you go to bed, watch some in-depth videos...
The superposition of such a number of fragments will eventually cause qualitative changes that will make a huge difference in our capabilities.
Four
Clean Your Room Regularly
Home is of incomparable importance to everyone.
It is the dwelling place of the body and the sustenance of the soul. We spend most of our time at home except when it is necessary to go out for work or social activities.
There is always a muddle to it, a dusty room and a messy sofa.
There was a study done at Harvard Business School.
Studies have found that people with high levels of happiness tend to have neat and tidy homes; People who are having a bad day usually have messy and dirty rooms.
In other words, the house is a reflection of our life, and it affects our magnetic field.
If the home is too dirty, too messy, will lead us to live in a negative energy environment every day, it will imperceptibly to our mental burden, let the mood gradually become worse.
Wipe the dust clean regularly; Get rid of useless junk; Get everything in order...
Only in this way will our mind and mood be free from the control of negative energy, and life will gradually become more and more pleasant.
Five
Record your spending details
In daily life, people often send out "do not know where the money spent" sigh with emotion.
Hard earned money, in the end did not save much, and even beyond income, debt.
"How much savings do post-90s people have now?" asked a question on Zhihu.
Debt accounted for more than half of all the answers.
What is more unexpected is that a designer working in a design institute, with a high salary, was also saddled with debts of more than 100,000 yuan.
Tracing back to the source, the cause is mostly aimless consumption.
Have heard such a sentence:
"Every amount of money we spend should be noted down. We are responsible for our own money and more importantly, our own life."
When we start keeping track of our purchases and understand the details of our spending, we can optimize our spending habits by keeping track of them, which can help us develop the mindset of "spending money on the most important things".
Keeping accounts can awaken our consciousness of saving money, accumulate savings, and make our lives more secure because of savings.
Six
Set a buffer period for important decisions
I read a classic story.
There is a person got an adored purple sand pot, even sleep also want to put the teapot on the head of a bed.
One night, as he rolled over, he accidentally knocked the lid off the pot.
Thinking that the lid must have broken, he angrily picked up the teapot and threw it through the window.
The next day after getting up, the lid of the kettle just fell on the cotton shoes intact.
With vexation and regret, he stamped the lid to pieces.
As a result, when I went out, I looked up and saw that the teapot was hanging on a pine branch outside the window without breaking.
You know, important things are bound to affect our emotions, and if we make decisions right away, mistakes are inevitable.
Look before you leap.
Before you make an important decision, it is a good idea to set aside a buffer period and allow yourself to calm down for a while. You may even want to sleep on it and think about it later.
That way, even though we get our decisions right a lot more often, we don't have to feel the regret of making a mistake.
Seven
Hold on to "Three Minutes"
In our life, there is a phenomenon that happens frequently.
In order to reduce weight, say to eat less, more movement, but delay again and again, do not see from beginning to end.
Swear to bed early, then lie in bed scrolling through your phone and watching videos, only to put it off, not wanting to close your eyes.
Bill Gates once said:
"A lot of people like to procrastinate. They don't do what they're doing, they don't do it. That's the biggest vice."
I think so.
Procrastination is not a refusal; it is the beginning of a lack of willpower, which in essence is avoidance.
The most important thing you need to do to overcome procrastination is to force yourself to start. No matter how hard it is, get yourself to do it for three minutes.
Once we get started, we get into that state, and we go from three minutes to thirteen minutes, twenty-three minutes... Until it's done.
In the long run, our lives will be separated from others by countless three-minute insistencies.
Eight
Review and summarize before bed
The second round, originally from ancient Weiqi, means that after the end of the game, the two players would sort out the match again to reflect on the problems and summarize the rules. It is considered to be the most effective way to improve the strength of the players.
Life is like chess, chess game is so, so is life, only keep repeating to go further.
Zeng Guofan, an ancient Chinese man, is known as the "master of rewriting" in history. Most of the more than 20 million letters and diaries he left to later generations are the rewriting of what he had done.
Because of this, he has become from the upright circle inside, by repeatedly defeated to repeatedly defeated the enemy.
As Liu Chuanzhi, founder of Lenovo, once said:
"Reviewing has been one of the most useful tools I've had over the years to manage and grow myself."
In life, no matter in life or work, it is hard to avoid negligence and mistakes.
Only review, in order to allow their rapid accumulation of experience, to avoid making mistakes again.
That's why some people grow so fast. Review and summarize before bed
The second round, originally from ancient Weiqi, means that after the end of the game, the two players would sort out the match again to reflect on the problems and summarize the rules. It is considered to be the most effective way to improve the strength of the players.
Life is like chess, chess game is so, so is life, only keep repeating to go further.
Zeng Guofan is a famous "master of rewriting" in history. In his more than 20 million letters and diaries, most of them are the rewriting of what he did.
Because of this, he has become from the upright circle inside, by repeatedly defeated to repeatedly defeated the enemy.
As Liu Chuanzhi, founder of Lenovo, once said:
"Reviewing has been one of the most useful tools I've had over the years to manage and grow myself."
In life, no matter in life or work, it is hard to avoid negligence and mistakes.
Only review, in order to allow their rapid accumulation of experience, to avoid making mistakes again.
That's why some people grow so fast.
Nine
Learn "useless" knowledge
Heard such a story.
Two employees in a factory, both of whom are equally hard-working and perform equally well.
The difference is that an employee only deepens his own production skills and does not consider anything else; The other insisted on learning some "useless" management knowledge while strengthening her professional skills.
A year later, the former was promoted to senior mechanic, and the latter became his supervisor.
There is no doubt that professional knowledge can increase our depth in the field and make us more authoritative.
But if you focus only on your major and lock yourself in a narrow circle of knowledge, you are setting an upper limit on your life.
The seemingly "useless" knowledge can broaden our scope and add more possibilities to our life. It is the fundamental thing that opens up the gap between people.
Ten
All things reserved alternatives
In this world, always having a backup plan can help people get out of trouble, or even turn the tide and turn the tide.
About 150 years ago, John Pemberton wanted to create a "patent medicine" to relieve pain.
However, an economic crisis left him unable to afford the cost of raw materials.
As a result, he abandoned the project he was halfway through and launched a pre-prepared Plan B.
He has reinvented his original recipe for a cheap blend of water, sugar and caffeine, which he says will help soothe your mood.
The drink was the original cola, and it is still popular around the world.
Sometimes backup plans seem useless and can take up some of our time and energy.
But when a crisis does hit, it can make us less flustered and embarrassed and emboldened to fight back, rather than being forced to suffer the consequences.
Only by keeping a "back hand" in everything can we go far.
Conclusion
The Roman poet Ovid once said, "Nothing is so powerful as habit."
Habits, seemingly small, but determine a person's fate.
The moment we crave change, everything becomes extraordinary.