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The first time I was brought to work at Starbucks was two years ago.
At that time, several departments of the company went to Shanghai for exhibition and writing.
Stay in the hotel room is very stuffy, the network is very poor, manuscript collection, editing, push can not be effectively completed.
Each department lives on different floors, and it is not convenient to hold meetings.
At 4: 00 p. M., half of the daily plan was not finished.
Colleagues said that due to the objective environment, the application to postpone the update of the website.
Boss L made a decision: must be finished today, Xiao C, you check the nearest cafe, let's go to work there.
A party of five people with five laptops went to Starbucks.
I do not know whether it is the stimulation of environmental change, the pick-me-up of coffee, or the pressure of paying out of my own pocket, by 7: 00 p. M., we will complete and push the eight articles of the day, the fastest updated and richest website in the peer media. For the next few days, we all worked in a cafe.
I have to admire my boss L more.
L is a very punctual and regular person who arrives at the office before 08:30 every day.
We just arrived at the company, and he has completed the daily work plan of the department and prepared the contents of the meeting.
After 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he basically finished all the work.
Will ask about the progress of our work, check leaks and fill gaps, and deal with problems.
In that week in Shanghai, even if the objective environment deteriorated, it did not affect him to achieve his goal.
He still gets up early to work, making plans and contingency plans.
On the last day, the department had no work assignment.
When I had breakfast, I met Mr. Lmel still working with his notebook, next to the dishes after dinner.
Why don't you take a break if you don't have a job?
L said: I'm used to getting up early and writing plans.
Fortunately, you have taken us to the cafe these days, otherwise the work will be difficult to finish.
L smiled and said that my mentality needs to be corrected: if there is no coffee shop, we should also find a way to accomplish the task. We should not only lament the changes in the objective environment, but also develop the habit of planning and coping. No, take your time.
It turns out that it is a habit to get up early and write a plan, but it is a habit to find ways to achieve goals and deal with tasks.
Mr. L has persisted in this habit for five years as usual. The persistence of this benign habit is called self-discipline.
No wonder there are no surprises in his plan and execution, only a change of form of response.
With the accumulation of this habit for five years, we are finally unable to catch up with not only our wages several times higher, but also our ability to do so.
02
In an interview with a newspaper, the novelist Yan Geling was asked about the reasons for the high yield of her works.
She confessed that she kept writing for two hours a day.
Even if you travel, you can write.
Because traveling with a computer, she often needs to find a place to sit down and write. When friends discuss where the next scenic spot is going, she cares about whether the next place is far away. Can you get there in time? Will it affect today's writing?
While taking the bus, others were watching the scenery and she was writing.
This affects the mood of fellow friends.
Her friend asked her: will she die if she doesn't write?
She said with a wry smile: if you don't write, you will die.
Yan Geling feels that writing is a desire from the heart. If you don't write, it's like missing a meal or a sleep in a day.
Since then, fewer friends have asked her to travel, and those who dare to ask her to travel must be accustomed to her, who also has the desire to write.
In addition to writing for two hours a day without a break, she also keeps the habit of long-distance running.
Although she is over 50, she still has a slim figure, a beautiful face and a strong creativity.
This almost self-demanding self-discipline allowed her to publish a novel in almost three or four months, and she was surprised by the output.
Fearing that she would be questioned about the quality of the content because she finished it too soon, she had to put pressure on the finished novel and give it to the publisher a few months later.
The output of her works is proportional to the quality, and a large number of her works have been adapted into film and television works and put on the screen by famous directors.
Even before many of the works were finished, a famous filmmaker bought the copyright.
Since the publication of her debut novel Seven Warriors and one Zero in 1979, she has so far produced 22 novels and 24 short and medium-sized novels (most of which are her personal re-creation rather than translation). There are countless other plays and essays.
She has won numerous honors: best Experimental novel Award of Columbia Academy of Arts, Hong Kong Asia Weekly novel Award, Taiwan Hong Xingfu Literature Award, Asia Pacific International Film Festival Best Screenplay Award
The light at the top of these pyramids accumulates from a writer's persistence in writing two hours a day, and comes from the strong self-discipline of not writing.
03
There is another writer Haruki Murakami who loves long-distance running.
He is as famous for his self-discipline as his best-selling works.
It is his habit to run 10 kilometers a day not only in Tokyo, but also in Haruki Murakami to run anywhere in the world, just like eating and sleeping.
The formation of this good habit stems from his dissatisfaction with the current state of life-no tall figure, no strong physique, no good appearance, and poverty to get rid of.
He believes that only through running can you feel the change of the world. The courage of running is not given by others, but one day you will run along the road and then stick to it.
When he chose to be a novelist, he was not persuaded, but out of love.
After becoming famous, he said: seriously think about it, if everything is too perfect, then life will not be as comfortable and comfortable as it is now.
He said in "what am I talking about when I talk about running": no matter what people all over the world say, I think my feelings are right. No matter what others think, I will never disrupt my own rhythm.
This is the best interpretation of self-discipline.
It is also the reason why his works always sell well. The protagonists in his works are always stubbornly looking for something, saying goodbye to something, losing something, but those stubborn teenagers never care about the eyes of the outside world and never stop exploring.
This stubborn charm not only brought him a good income, let him out of the poor triangle cheese, but also brought him readers all over the world.
04
When I went to run a marathon in Q City, I met a girl.
At the dinner table, she showed me a picture of her half a year ago, dressed in a black tracksuit and glasses, and her 120 jin body made her smile so thick that she couldn't tell whether she was innocent at the age of 20 or broad at the age of 30.
Wearing a white lace blouse and black jeans, the girl is tall, straight and beautiful, so it is difficult to connect her with the person in the picture.
At first, she said, I was so tired that I wanted to die, but luckily I stuck to it. After half a month, I got used to it. She runs 10 kilometers after work every day and loses 20 jin in half a year. She also likes marathons because of running.
Was it difficult at first?
It's hard!
But when this habit becomes a muscle memory, you can't help running as soon as you get off work, and you can't get used to it once you don't run, so it's not that difficult.
When everything becomes as easy as eating every day and getting up to drink a glass of water, everything becomes simple.
What are the benefits of this self-discipline?
The girl said that she used to struggle for a long time after work, not knowing whether to go shopping or reading, or where to eat.
Now the habit of running after work fills that gap and reduces her entanglement and decision-making fatigue.
What is more surprising is that she ran two and a half horses in half a year, met many like-minded friends, and changed her state of mind. in the past, she felt that life was like this, but now she thinks she deserves better and has the ability to pursue it.
This positive self-suggestion reduces the fatigue of her work and gives her more enthusiasm and sense of purpose in life.
Before saying goodbye, the girl shared with me her goal for this year: to practice a waistcoat line in four months and take a set of photos as a birthday present.
Well, yes, girls' sense of purpose is getting more and more specific, and their execution is getting better and better.
The self-discipline of running after work every day gives her one more choice than before.
This choice pulled her out of the trivial life of which restaurant to go and where to go shopping, and opened the gap with those who were still struggling.
In fact, the leeway of this choice, the belief that it can reach a beautiful place, and this sense of control over life all begin with self-discipline. Many people know that few people do it.
So if you are still holding on silently, and if you are still trying to achieve, please don't give up. The road to success is not crowded, you just work hard, the rest of the time it will eliminate those who stop, this is the most fair.
One day, your accumulation will become beyond the reach of others.
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