"Do you cherish life? Then please cherish time, because life is accumulated by time. "
"Don't forget, time is money. For example, a person's salary is 1 shillings a day, but he plays or sleeps in bed for half a day. He thinks he only spends 36 pence on playing. Wrong! He has lost the five shillings he should have got ... Don't forget, as far as the essence of money is concerned, it must be able to increase in value. Money can become more money, and its next generation will have many descendants. "
"once a person kills a sow that can give birth, it is equivalent to destroying all its offspring, even its children and grandchildren. If anyone destroys five shillings of money, it is equivalent to destroying all the value it can produce. In other words, it may have destroyed a golden mountain. "
This passage is a classic quote by Benjamin Franklin, a famous thinker. It simply and directly tells people that if you want to succeed, you must realize the value of time.
Napoleon Hill once said that it is very important to make good use of time. If you can't plan it carefully, 24 hours a day will be wasted for no reason, and people will disappear and get nothing.
We can draw experience from what we have done, and how to allocate time plays a decisive role in success and failure. People often think that it doesn't matter if you waste a few cents here and spend a few hours there. However, they are very useful.
This difference is very subtle for time, and it will take many years for people to notice it. Sometimes, however, this difference is obvious, and Bell is a typical example.
At first, when Bell invented the telephone, a man named Gray was also working on it. The two of them made a breakthrough almost at the same time. Unexpectedly, Grebil Bell arrived at the patent office two hours late. Of course, neither of them knew each other, but Bell was a great success because of these two hours.
Time is the most precious wealth you can hold in your hand. Please arrange your time seriously and reasonably. Don't waste a minute on boring things for no reason. Don't forget that not cherishing time means not cherishing life.
efficiency is one of the biggest characteristics of life
time, which is irretrievable. Irreversible and impossible to store. It is a unique resource that will never be regenerated. Therefore, Napoleon Hill said, "All savings are ultimately time savings."
Time is merciless and overbearing to everyone and everything. Time can be consumed unscrupulously, and of course it will be put to good use. Making good use of time is also a question of efficiency. In other words, the utilization value of time in unit time is efficiency. Limited time accumulates adult life bit by bit. Suppose you plan a person's life at the age of 8, then there are about 7 thousand hours. During this period, people can work vigorously for only 4 years, which is equivalent to about 15, working days and 36, hours. After deducting the time spent eating and sleeping during the day, they can still have about 2, hours of working time. We can show the effective value of life by maximizing our role in these limited time. Maximizing work efficiency during this period is equivalent to prolonging your life. Obviously, "efficiency is life" is also affirmative.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducted a survey of 3, managers, and it was found that all managers with excellent performance can make very reasonable use of their time and minimize their time consumption. Drucker, the author of The Effective Manager, said: "The time to know you is something that everyone can do as long as they are willing to do. This is the only effective way for everyone to succeed." According to the research of relevant experts and the practical experience of many leaders, we can control time and improve work efficiency from the following aspects:
1. Never allocate time evenly. You should concentrate your limited time on dealing with the most important things. You can't do everything. You should be smart and brave enough to refuse unnecessary and minor things.
When something happens, you should ask at the beginning, "Is it worth doing?" Never do everything, let alone feel at ease because I am not idle or lazy anyway.
2. Be good at timing. Every opportunity may be a critical moment that causes things to turn. Grasping the opportunity effectively can lead to the overall situation, achieve the greatest success with the least cost, promote the change of things and push things forward.
If you don't seize the opportunity, you will often lose the results you have already got, leading to the serious consequence of "one careless move, the whole situation will lose". Therefore, successful people must be good at sizing up the situation, grasping the opportunity, grasping the "joints", achieving the right "temperature" and winning opportunities.
3. Be good at coordinating two kinds of time. For a successful person, there are two kinds of time: one is the time that can be controlled by oneself, which we call "free time", and the other is the time that belongs to the reaction to other people's other things and is not controlled by oneself, which is called "coping time". These two kinds of time are objective and necessary. Once there is no "free time", you are completely passive and coping, and you can't control your time by yourself, so you are not an effective leader.
However, it is objectively impossible to control your time absolutely. Without "coping time", everyone wants to become "free time", which in fact infringes on others' time, because everyone's complete freedom will inevitably lead to others' non-freedom.
4. Make good use of your spare time. Time can't be concentrated, and there are often many odds and ends. We should cherish and make full use of scattered time, large and small, and use scattered time to do piecemeal work, so as to maximize work efficiency.
5. Be good at using meeting time. We held a meeting to communicate information. Discuss problems, arrange work, coordinate opinions and make decisions. Making good use of meeting time can improve work efficiency and save everyone's time; If it is not used well, it will reduce work efficiency and waste everyone's time.
crossing the time tunnel
with the development of social productive forces, the rapid development of science and technology and the continuous innovation of production tools, modern society has undergone fundamental changes.
the value of time is reflected in it, just like nuclear fission reaction, which grows exponentially.
One hour of yarn spun by a modern spinning machine is equivalent to one year's work of an ancient spinning wheel; The tractor plows the land in one day, which is enough for a few months. We can fly from the eastern hemisphere to the western hemisphere in a few hours by supersonic plane, while it takes a person half a life to walk around.
The development of modern science and technology has greatly shortened the distance between time and space, making the value of time more and more prominent.
Do you have the feeling that if you are ill in hospital for only a few months, you may be surprised to think that you are in another city when you come out again?
the value that can be created in one hour now is many times higher than that in ancient times.
The value created by capitalism in the past 1 years is equivalent to the sum of social values created in the past; The value created in just a few decades after the war is several times that created in the past 1 years. The changes in today's society in three years are equal to those in the early 3 years of the 2th century. The change of 3 years before Newton is equal to the change of 3 years in the Stone Age.
The concept of time is more strongly imprinted in the minds of modern people than at any time. If you don't go out for three months, you will consider yourself an old man, who has fallen behind the society for decades.
The value-added effect of time has caused a series of chain reactions in modern society.
Modern enterprises pay attention to the collection and arrangement of information, so as to keep their youth and vitality. Once they lag behind their peers in time, even for a minute, they may face the doom of bankruptcy.
high speed and high efficiency make successful businessmen and enterprises. Businessmen are stingy with time in order to protect their own interests. They are all veterans of the race against time.
nowadays, society is changing rapidly. For this reason, the Japan External Trade Organization has spared no expense to capture the ever-changing information. They set up investigation points in 182 places all over the world to collect and process all kinds of information from different regions, and respond and evaluate them in time, and publish special business journal of information to guide the investment and development of enterprises.
now let's understand the definition of information. Generally speaking, information is all human knowledge enjoyed by society, as well as all kinds of news and intelligence obtained by analyzing the objective world. Information runs through politics, economy, military affairs, science, education, culture, art and social life.
The pace of modern society is fast and tense, and information changes with the development of science and technology. We have entered the information age unconsciously.
At present, an average of 14, innovative papers and 8 to 1, patents are produced every day. On average, 1,5 new books are published every day in the world, and about 55, books are published every year.
The United States produces about 175 billion pages of literature every year, while the former Soviet Union produces 6 billion pages. According to the statistics of UNESCO, the growth rate of scientific knowledge rose from 9.5% in the 196s to 1.66% in the 197s and 12.65% in the 198s.
the interval of knowledge innovation is getting shorter and shorter. In the past, every 1 to 15 years, now it is 3 to 5 years.
With the rapid development of modern life, the speed and means of information dissemination are constantly being renovated. If each of us wants to be based on such a society, we must cherish time, make good use of time, and plan time in order to win thousands of miles.