Chapter 18 10. Break down the pressure of the problem

A friend of mine was promoted to deputy general manager in less than two months as a department manager.The company he works for is a growing company that is developing very fast.The business he is in charge of is extremely complicated.After three months, he lost a lot of kilograms and was hospitalized once due to overwork. He worked overtime every day, but the work pressure did not decrease, but increased.He was in so much pain that he asked me for help: I just can't do it.As soon as I go to work every day, my head is filled with all kinds of information and ideas, which cannot be sorted out.When I got home, I couldn't sleep again, and I was still in a mess.If it goes on like this, I'm going to go crazy.He even thought: Otherwise, just resign.

This friend's question has been encountered by many people in the workplace, especially for those who have just taken up the leadership of a new position, the feeling is more obvious. My friend is a very dedicated person who regards his career as a mission.However, if he continues like this, he must collapse.So, I gave him a few suggestions, which may be helpful to you too. (1) Love one at a time This is the philosophy of Mother Teresa, the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Tereza was originally a European, but later, because she wanted to treat poverty with love, she resolutely came to poor and backward India.She rescued more than 42,000 abandoned people, many of whom were leprosy patients that many people dare not touch.This number is an astronomical figure in the eyes of many people.

Trisha said of loving one at a time when talking about how this miracle can be made: I never felt that this large group of people was a burden to me.I look at someone and love one at a time because I can only feed one person at a time, only one, one, one and that's it, I start with keeping one. If I hadn't taken in the first person, I wouldn't have taken in more than 42,000 people. This whole job is just a drop in the ocean.But if I don't drop this drop into the sea, the sea will lose a drop of water. It's the same with you, and it's the same with your family, as long as you are willing to start bit by bit.

What seemed impossible to others, Tereza achieved.Simply because she has learned to break problems and stress down and do it one love at a time! Many people surrender to difficult problems simply because of fear of stress.One of the important ways to overcome difficulties and pressure is to be good at turning big problems into small ones; breaking down big pressures into small ones. (2) Have a good heart The heart of the seat is the concept of Zen Buddhism, and the seat is for enlightenment.To realize it, you must have a good heart of sageness and the heart of rejecting all ties.Here's my suggestion for my friend's inability to concentrate and think.

At the beginning stage, the most common mistake in thinking is that distracting thoughts are flying around, making it difficult to calm down the mind.But in order to enter the state of mind, the mind must first sink. Piloting is one of the most focused modern professions.They all said: It is the most necessary and difficult thing to maintain mental concentration during take-off and landing.To concentrate, you have to quiet your mind first.Once the mind has settled down, half of the high concentration has been achieved. In the classical Chinese art of war, there is such a rule: the principle of calmness is victory, even when using soldiers, how can ordinary thinking not be calm?

In order for the mind to sink, it is necessary to: (1) As soon as you start to think (supreme seat), cut off any connection other than thinking, and only consider things related to the subject. The heart of the seated person is the heart of severing all karma, to restrain the urge to be pulled away by the temptation or pressure of various chores. (2) Restrain the idea of ​​wanting to get rid of it as soon as you feel difficult.When there is something wrong with it, when you want to get up and walk away or want to do other things, force yourself to sit down and focus on your own problems.

(3) Strengthen thinking concentration with a sense of importance and urgency.Imagine if you had to make a big decision in three minutes that would determine your future fate to a large extent.Even if you are sloppy, isn't it time to concentrate as much as possible?Not much, just three minutes, you have to grasp this crucial three minutes. (4) Learn to relax.Experiments have proved that too much tension can also cause inattention.Therefore, you might as well hint to yourself that if you just think about the problem, you won't kill your head, and you won't have any other losses!And when thinking is too tight, you might as well let it go, take a breath, and start again (but be careful not to wait too long).

(3) Dealing with problems in stages Staged, in fact, is to quantify and solve problems step by step in the process. A person certainly cannot eat a camel at a time, but if he eats a little a day, it will be wiped out in a short time. For quite a period of time, scientists believed that the rocket would definitely not reach the moon.Because after calculation, a space rocket needs to weigh at least one million tons to reach the moon.It is impossible for a rocket of this weight to go to the sky.But later, someone proposed the concept of a staged rocket, that is, the rocket is divided into several stages. When the rocket of the first stage sends other rockets out of the atmosphere, it will fall off by itself and reduce the weight. Other rockets can easily approach the moon.The impossible became possible thanks to the staged process.

(4) Hierarchy The problem cannot be limited to a certain level, but it can be easily solved by dividing it into different levels. In 1872, the king of waltz John.Strauss came to America.The relevant local groups immediately visited and asked him to conduct a concert in Boston, and Strauss agreed.But when talking about the performance plan, he was taken aback by the amazing scale of the concert. It turned out that the Americans wanted to create the best in the world: a concert with 20,000 people participating in the performance directed by Strauss.And it is not easy for a conductor to direct a band of hundreds of people at a time, let alone 20,000 people?

Strauss thought about it and agreed.On the day of the performance, the concert hall was full of audience.Strauss commanded very well, 20,000 instruments played beautiful music, and the audience was mesmerized. It turned out that Strauss served as the commander-in-chief, and there were 100 assistant conductors under him.With a wave of the chief conductor's baton, the assistant conductor immediately followed up with the corresponding command, 20,000 musical instruments played together, and the harmony of the chorus sounded. Therefore, it can be seen that division is a kind of great wisdom: it can not only help us relieve psychological pressure, but also help us solve difficult problems smoothly.