If you don't start planning for my 2024, I'm afraid that this goal is not great enough, the key is whether it can be sustained!If a person can do one thing well all the time and stick to it for the rest of his life, it is already a great achievement.
2023 has passed!
In the past year, I have set two small goals, and today I would like to share my thoughts and experiences in this regard.
My first goal was to keep writing.
This goal has been accomplished, and I feel good about myself.
Because I think very clearly, writing is a process of input to thinking and then output, through this process, you can make a small update of your knowledge every day, and over time, your cognition will grow.
Writing every day allows you to put yourself in an external stressful environment and take stress tests, so as to exercise your mentality and enhance your self-confidence.
In addition, I have created a free writing community.
I can post my "growth diary" to the community and attract all kinds of friends to discuss it together, so as to trigger more inspiration for myself.
In the process of running the community, several friends have also raised questions about my writing:
What you wrote gave me a lot to think about?I want to ask how you found out about these things?How do you keep thinking and documenting?
My answer is: pay more attention to the places that touch you in your daily work and life, such as what interactions with colleagues, bosses, friends, and family members, what information you have obtained, what results you have, and even what frictions have arisen.
Record your thoughts, actions and decisions in the process, and the key is to write it out if you don't pursue how good it is at the beginning.
Arrange a special time for yourself to write, such as morning, noon, and evening, have a special time and space to write, and when you write too much, it becomes a habit, just like eating and drinking.
Most importantly, be sure to review and review what has been written:
Every once in a while, turning over what I have written before, rethinking it, rewriting it, and looking back to see if my current cognition has improved compared to before, this is a kind of progress.
My second goal is to give public lectures once a quarter
This goal has also been well accomplished, and in 2023 I have given a total of five public talks, and each time the results have improved over the previous one.
The key thing is that with this goal in mind, I learned how to practice deliberately.
For example, before I give a speech, I prepare the manuscript carefully and word by word according to the pre-planned topic of the speech.
And use AI software to convert the written transcript into a voice file, then listen to a paragraph, memorize a paragraph, and follow along with the speech until the whole manuscript is familiar to the chest.
During this process, I would take pictures of myself with my phone. The purpose of this is to see your own manners and expressions clearly, and to warn yourself which actions you can't do and what you can't have.
In addition, two days before the speech, I will go to the speech site to familiarize myself with the environment and let myself imagine the scene of the speech, so that even if something abnormal happens, I will not panic.
This kind of deliberate practice makes me believe that as long as you keep thinking about it with a clear goal, you will definitely be able to make rapid progress.
In fact, doing things is not about how many goals you set, but whether you can accomplish them.
Even if you only insist on doing one thing a year, it is a skill.
And the problem for most people is that what was planned at the beginning of the year is almost halfway through the year.
My requirements for myself are also very simple, don't be afraid of whether this goal is not great enough, the key is whether it can be continued!
So, my goals for the new year are still the following:
Insist on creation, insist on essential thinking, and go through the entire creative process from conception, material collection, processing, and output "with heart", so as to form your own unique viewpoint and maintain the "originality" of creation.
And I'm thinking that if a person can do one thing well all the time and stick to it for the rest of his life, that's already a great achievement.