Freelancers cover a variety of occupations, so they are not included in all kinds of statistics in China. I happened to read in Zhihu that as of June 20 17, there were about 4 million cultural freelancers. According to this data, the team of freelancers is still very strong.
"The more self-discipline, the more freedom, the more self-discipline, the luckier" is often mentioned by modern people.
Two days ago, I was recommended by my friend to read Narun Li's book Rebirth in One Year: How to Start a Personal Career from 0 to 1. The book tells the story of teacher Narun Li's growing experience and her successful entrepreneurial experience after leaving the system.
Narun Li, formerly known as Chalina, returned to her hometown after graduating from Tongji University on 20 12 and became a member of the system. Later, he resigned and started a business, served as the founder of girlfriends power and personal career incubation coach, and participated in guiding and incubating a number of female personal professional brands.
As a successful freelancer, she must have her own system, which is the efficiency system, so what is the efficiency system? This book combs from three aspects: time, ability and emotion:
In terms of time, we can create more value per unit time.
Everyone knows that Japanese people are under great pressure at work. They have to work overtime for two or three hours almost every day. Because of the pressure of work and life, the Japanese suicide rate ranks ninth in the world. Americans can get off work on time at five o'clock in the afternoon, and overtime hours are spent eating with their families and accompanying them. Is it because Americans have simple tasks? In fact, the work efficiency of Americans is not low. According to statistics, the labor productivity of Americans is 1.6 times that of Japanese. Eight hours of work creates more value than eight hours. So Americans create more value per unit time.
As far as ability is concerned, a person is a company.
Cultivate your own ability, build personal IP, improve your product thinking, marketing thinking and operation thinking, make yourself a product owner, marketer and operator, and master the necessary core competence of the company. Luo Zhenyu put forward the survival of U disk at the 20 17 New Year's Eve party, "bring your own information, don't install the system, plug in at any time, and cooperate freely." Let's gradually accumulate our own value, break away from the original traditional organization and find a more suitable organizational system.
Emotionally, I have the ability to adjust my mood quickly, minimize internal friction and focus on my goals.
I saw a sentence today-I am my own psychiatrist.
Cultivate the ability to control emotions, explore their emotions in the right way, adjust their emotions, understand and relax their emotions, maintain an optimistic attitude, and constantly carry out self-motivation and self-improvement.
Freelance is not as free as we thought. Only by doing a good job in time management, efficiency management, financial management, physical health management and psychological and emotional management can we truly control this freedom.
How to control this freedom? Look at our brains.
Psychological research shows that we have three sets of brain systems responsible for cognition and decision-making, namely, reflective brain, thinking brain and storage brain.
The reflex brain is unique to us humans and is used for conditioned reflex. Based on the behavior of primitive people, primitive people will react quickly when they are in danger, either fighting or running away. Time is limited, tools are limited, and it is too late to think about it. Therefore, it is called the first response of the brain. Because of its fast reaction speed, it is an indispensable "brain equipment" for primitive people to survive. However, in modern society, this primitive reaction has hindered our work and life, and hindered getting along with colleagues and leaders. Without thinking, simple and rude behavior must be an obstacle to the survival of the workplace, and it is even more unscrupulous for family and friends. Anyway, he is not an outsider and often hurts the hearts of relatives and friends. When we are hungry and greedy, we eat whatever we want, which will not only lead to obesity, but also do harm to our health. Therefore, if you want to manage yourself better, you must use your own thinking brain.
The thinking brain is responsible for abstract thinking, logical analysis and decision making. Thinking brain consumes a lot of energy when working, especially glucose consumes more than any organ, so some offices will prepare some afternoon tea for employees, such as desserts, dessert drinks, coffee and other supplementary energy. In addition to consuming a lot of energy, the thinking brain also has a feature of concentration. The process of thinking can only focus on one thing, unless you are quite familiar with it, you can no longer mobilize your thinking, but use skilled program memory and leave some brain power, such as listening to music while driving, so there will be no safety problems.
Therefore, thinking about the brain is equivalent to paying attention to the brain.
The reflex brain can react quickly, and the thinking brain can think abstractly and receive information, so the rest of the information needs our third brain, the storage brain.
The memory brain is responsible for information integration, information extraction and memory extraction. Unlike reflex brain and thinking brain, storage brain works when awake, usually when sleeping. We often hear that insomnia causes memory loss here.
The popular meditation practice in recent years can help to improve sleep disorders, change brain structure and enhance creativity to some extent. Therefore, after thinking about the brain for a long time, we might as well do a meditation to help us switch from thinking about the working state of the brain to storing the brain.
Understand the three brain mechanisms, in order to better serve us, there are four methods that can be used.
1. preset automatic program
1. Find a fixed position for the object in combination with parting, so that only the reflex brain is used when looking for the object, saving the thinking process and time of the brain.
2. Clothing storage method, only 3-5 clothes are needed in a season, and the whole set is well matched. Every time you buy a dress, you will give up one accordingly, saving space and time and using your time for more creative career. Zuckerberg and Jobs always have T-shirts and jeans in their closets. It is to pay too much attention to the collocation of clothes when going out, saving some time and energy.
3. Set a fixed recipe from Monday to Sunday, save time and stop worrying about what to eat.
Second, the double brain operation method
1. On the way to and from work, listen to e-books or audio lessons, and let the reflective brain and the reflective brain work together to do two things at a time, so as to get twice the result with half the effort.
2. Listen to audio or think while doing housework or exercise, so that housework is no longer boring. Let sports add different colors.
3. When you queue up for shopping, you can reply to messages, shop on Taobao, and make family calls, so that you will no longer be upset when you queue up.
4. Listen to logical thinking for 60 seconds when brushing your teeth and master the knowledge of debris.
3. Hunting method: fire fully and focus on prey.
1. The miracle of the morning, use the morning time to form the habit of writing, because even if we set not to be disturbed in the morning, we will not miss important things.
2. Morning is the most awake time of the day, and it is effective to do the most important things and the things that need the most attention.
3. Pick the most difficult task of the day to finish in the morning, and the rest of the time is surprisingly easy to work, but also full of confidence and pleasure.
Four. Take a break and rest smarter.
1. In the long run, if the reflective brain and the thinking brain keep working and switching, our storage brain will be useless, which is not conducive to improving personal efficiency, let alone better development.
Why not sing a song, do some push-ups and run at a fixed time every day when your brain has a short rest?
What Haruki Murakami has done most and best in his life is writing and running. Dopamine produced after exercise is very effective for creation and inspiration.
2. Five-minute threading method, reducing consumption is increasing efficiency.
When unexpected events disturb our work process, we should make a judgment immediately. If it can be solved within five minutes, it should be switched immediately. This not only reduces the trouble of stacking things, but also clears the future time pipeline and improves efficiency, killing two birds with one stone.
Three brain mechanisms and four application methods add a lot of color to our effectiveness. "Those who know, a wisp of lotus root leads an elephant, and those who follow blindly, a thousand iron bars beat flies." Tell us that successful people use smart strength! Efforts are not blindly lowering the head to pull the cart, but always looking up at the road, so that you can see the road to go in the future more clearly. Scientific and intelligent brain users are the standard for excellent freelancers.