Chapter 13 5. Not doing it now means never doing it

There are two young people, Xiao Li and Xiao Liu, who are full of dreams and creativity.They joined a group company at the same time and worked in different branches. This is a company that attaches great importance to creativity. The chairman of the company always emphasizes on various occasions that the creativity of employees is the company's greatest wealth.The two young people can enter such a company, they are really like ducks in water, and they should be able to make great achievements and create extraordinary achievements. However, a year later, when the work was summarized, the two received different treatment.Xiao Liu was highly praised and rewarded for his outstanding performance, but Xiao Li was criticized for his mediocre performance.

In fact, Xiao Li left a better impression on everyone when he first joined the company.Because his brain is more active than Xiao Liu, his thinking is quicker, and his knowledge is more extensive, but why does he not do as well as Xiao Liu in the end? The leader of the personnel department, after researching and analyzing the two employees, found that: In the past year, both of them wanted to contribute their creativity to the company, and they worked very hard.The only difference between the two is that when Xiao Liu has a good idea, he immediately takes action. Even if the conditions to realize this idea are not met or there will be difficulties, he will do it without hesitation.As for Xiao Li, although he has many ideas in his mind, he always stays at the stage of conception, or when he combines with reality, he immediately gives up and changes to another idea when the conditions are not met.As a result, although there are many good ideas, none of them are put into practice.

After analyzing this point, the leader of the personnel department had a good talk with Xiao Li and said: Xiao Li, once you have a good idea, you should put it into practice as soon as possible.If you don't do it now, it means never do it! Many people don't succeed simply because they keep procrastinating at the beginning, lingering too long at the door. There are several reasons for this, the main ones being: (1) Eyes are high but hands are low, or fantasizing about eating into a fat man. (2) Consummation sickness makes trouble, even if there is a little imperfection, just deny it yourself.

(3) I always think that there is enough time, so it doesn't matter if it is slower.As a result, I procrastinated and procrastinated, and finally dragged my dream to yellow. How to act immediately? (1) The early bird gets the worm Life is short, you have to do it now.Start earlier, start earlier, and move towards success earlier. When Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, found a "Bi Lun" written by his predecessors under his father's pillow at the age of twelve, he secretly read it. Father said: Don't be impatient, I will teach you when you grow up.

But Wang Xizhi replied: You can't wait for learning, just like walking, you can only move forward if you keep walking.When I grow up, it will be too late to teach.Under the dominion of this spirit, Wang Xizhi persisted in studying and practicing hard for a long time, and his calligraphy art finally reached the state of proficiency, and was revered as a calligraphy sage by later generations. The enlightenment given to us by excellent talents is: do it first and then talk!As the saying goes: the early bird gets the worm.There will be greater development after starting as soon as possible!

(2) Just do it almost, don't delay at the starting point The distance from ○ to 1 is often greater than the distance from 1 to 1000.To do anything, the most important thing is to have the courage to start. Yoshida Tadao, chairman of YKK, has a seventy-cent philosophy in his outlook on life.He believes that 100% doctrine can no longer realize its potential. If 70% is used as the starting point, the achievement should be more than 100%. In this regard, he elaborated in a speech: As long as you can succeed, it doesn't matter if you fail.Proceeding with caution may not be a mistake, but at best it will be 50% effective at best.If you do everything with only 70% certainty, then the effect of all things will be combined, and the achievement will be more than 50%.

Emerson said it well: To go to a certain place, there may be twenty roads, one of which is a shortcut, but let's step on one of them immediately! (3) Hesitating for too long will lead to paralysis of action Some people are not ignorant of the importance of action, but they are reluctant to act for a long time. As a result, they feel guilty and paralyzed their will. It turns out that people are not so much inaction because of fear as they are that fear is caused by inaction. So, what to do?You might as well learn from the experience of training students at West Point Military Academy and put yourself out first!

In the swimming life-saving training at West Point, there was an action that the students were most afraid of: wearing a military uniform, carrying a backpack and a rifle, jumping into the swimming pool from a tower nearly ten meters high, and then untied the backpack, took off the leather shoes and jacket in the water , tie these things to a makeshift floating board. Although the students have practiced every movement repeatedly in advance, when it comes time to jump down, most of the students still hesitate and stop when they reach the end of the springboard.Of course, shrinking back is never allowed, otherwise you will be ordered to drop out of school.So, despite the hesitation, students end up taking the plunge.

Many students have reflected that the excitement of successfully jumping out of that step is indescribable.Students learn to put aside the illusion that they can control everything through thought and experience the confidence that comes from action. (4) Believe that doing it immediately will produce miracles Many things are more difficult because of our hesitation and vacillation.Things are not as difficult as we imagined, as long as we do it right away, unexpected miracles may occur. Stone, the founder of American Mixed Insurance Company, felt that the sentence that had the greatest impact on his life came from a behavior habit that his mother forced him to follow, do it immediately!From the time of selling newspapers, he has always followed the principle of doing it immediately. Later, through insurance sales, he trained a group of very good insurance teams and became a millionaire.

One day, he heard the news that the Pennsylvania Casualty Insurance Company, which was once a thriving business, had gone out of business because of the crisis caused by the Great Depression.The company was owned by the Baltimore Business Credit Company, and they decided to sell the insurance company for $1.6 million. Stone came up with the idea of ​​getting the insurance company at no cost to himself.This idea was so wonderful, so wonderful that he couldn't believe it, so wonderful that he was even ready to give up.However, as soon as the idea of ​​giving up appeared, he immediately said to himself: Do it now!

So he immediately led his own lawyer to negotiate with the Baltimore Commercial Credit Company. Here's the terrific conversation: I want to buy your insurance company? Yes, 1.6 million yuan.Do you have so much money? No, but I can borrow from you. What?The other party could hardly believe his ears. Shi Dong further said: Isn't your commercial credit company lending money to others?I am sure to run the insurance company well, but I have to borrow money from you to run it. This is really a seemingly absurd idea: the commercial credit company sells its own company, not only does not get money, but also has to lend money to the buyer to operate.The only reason for the buyer to borrow money is that he has a group of excellent insurance salesmen who will be able to run the insurance company well. After investigation, the commercial credit company was very confident in Stone's management ability, so a miracle happened: Stone had his own insurance company without spending a penny.After that, he managed the company very well and became one of the most famous insurance companies in the United States. As long as you have a good idea, even if it seems absurd, you should immediately put it into practice.Maybe a miracle is waiting in front of you! Let us remember the famous words of Forbes, the founder of "Forbes" magazine: Do the right thing, do it well, and do it now!