Knock down your first domino

When I was a child, my grandmother had a mahjong at home, so I folded it up and played it like this (I saw a cartoon with stones arranged like this, and then I knocked down one and all the stones).

I thought it was fun and amazing. Pressing a card will make all the cards behind it fall.

I didn't know it was called domino effect until a few years ago.

The problems in life are just like these brands. Young people always want to solve all problems at once, but they are always scarred every time. For example, my body is not strong enough, and then I desperately want to run every day, and my writing is not good, and then I am eager to write every day, and then my English is not good, and I am eager to learn English every day. .................

I always want to solve all the problems at once, but I haven't solved any of them (believe me, you are not alone).

Today, I read a book called "The most important thing is only one thing", which mentioned the domino effect. The book says find out the most important thing, then do it first, and then everything will be solved.

This book mentions several big pits.

Kenyi: Everything is important.

We often have the illusion that everything is important, and then in the long run, it will lead to confusion of priorities (amazing, true), and then it is easy to do those unimportant things naturally.

I have a tick list APP on my mobile phone. I list everything as the most important and urgent first. As a result, I didn't finish my work. I did A and found that B was the most important thing, and then I didn't have time to do the most important thing, which naturally affected the next day. So I changed this list countless times. I just found out now that almost every day there are 1 important and urgent things or none. More things are important but not urgent and neither important nor urgent.

Kengji: Dealing with many things at the same time.

Our attention is like a focus, and we can only focus on one thing. We can do several things at the same time, but we can't concentrate on several things at the same time. Just like listening to songs when you are running, this is no problem. But if you want to write and draw at the same time, there may be problems.

Taihang 3: It's tiring to keep the habit.

It is not tiring to keep a habit, but it takes time to form it. Just like you learn to ride a bike, it feels difficult at first, but once you learn it, riding a bike becomes easy and becomes something that the subconscious can handle.

So, how can we knock down the first domino?

First find the most important habit that can be completely changed, that is, the first card of the domino, find it, and then knock it down.

Last night, two comrades in the writing group I joined shared their most important habit: going to bed early and getting up early.

Even if this habit is a tipping point, it is also a single breakthrough. We are all eager to change, even to change quickly. The starting point of that change may be-going to bed early and getting up early.

As Archimedes said: Give me a fulcrum and I can pry up the earth. This fulcrum may be early to bed and early to rise.

I have the following reasons.

The plan of the day lies in the morning (if you don't go to bed early and get up early, you may have no energy this morning)

Prolonged your life (more than others 1-2 hours a day, how terrible it will be in the long run)

You can find more reasons to support this view (and make your skin better)

Note: This is going to bed early and getting up early, not getting up early. It is no use just getting up early. The reason for getting up early is to go to bed early (when is it early? Before 22 o'clock, 23 o'clock is the time for liver detoxification, get up before 6 o'clock in the morning).

It may not take 2 1 day or 66 days to form a habit, but it may take months or even a year. But even if you developed a good habit in 1 year, you can at least develop 10 habits in the past 10 year. However, we didn't get anything in this decade, so we gave up because we were too eager for success. This time from a point, from the most important thing, from the very beginning.

The book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People says that successful people often have the same seven habits. These seven habits are: initiative, starting from the end, giving priority, win-win thinking, knowing yourself, comprehensive effect and constant renewal.

Eight habits in eight years have surpassed most people. Let's start from the beginning. Start with going to bed early and getting up early. It's hard to grow up anyway. Let's do something right.

PS: Tips, punch in the card with software every day, and monitor yourself with the power of your circle of friends. But the purpose is not to punch in, but to live a better day.