
Abstract: In this article Ro will take you to continue to discuss "time management", we will know the two enemies of "time management" and a solution.

The concept of "time management", in a nutshell, uses strategies and techniques to help people get work done and achieve goals.
In this article, Ro will take you to continue to discuss "time management", we will know the two enemies of "time management" and a solution.

## The Enemy of Time Management: Procrastination

Procrastination stems from a very powerful physical law: inertia
(Objects tend to stay put, people do the same / keep moving objects moving, repel resistance, beneficiary)  
Procrastination hurts only myself, because no one really cares how my life goes, except myself.
Strategy

1.  Put a piece of paper or index card in your pocket;
2.  Break down large projects into manageable pieces;
3.  Teach your mind (consciousness) to recognize the first signs of laziness or procrastination;
4.  Insist on taking notes in a certain way

## The Enemy of Procrastination: The Perseverance

Resilience is a skill that can be developed. People who develop strong mental strength are more likely to follow a schedule/plan; make the right choices; maintain good focus; and thus beat procrastination.
How to cultivate perseverance?

1. You are not your mind: You can listen to your mind at a higher level, therefore, you can control those negative thoughts in your mind like laziness, procrastination.
2. Like anything else, thought is a tangible object that can be controlled: absorption/expulsion;
3. Your brain can only process one dominant thought at a time, learn to divert your thoughts - turn your thoughts into powerful positive images or thoughts, try to focus on the positive thoughts, and the negative thoughts will be replaced.

## The enemy of time management: clutter

Clutter causes emotional stress; leads to inaction; reduces productivity

Ro is here to recommend a book "Just Do It: The Art of Stress-Free Work". Written by David Allen, one of America's foremost thinkers in time management and productivity.
The book states: "The short-term memory portion of your consciousness—the one that holds all the incomplete, pending, and disorganized 'stuff'—functions like the memory of a personal computer. The capacity of the memory is limited, there's only so much 'stuff' you can store there and still keep running efficiently. Most people's memory is overloaded. They're always distracted, their attention is always Inability to concentrate due to internal mental overload."

## "Heart Like Water"

1. Make your work area more attractive and equipped with everything you need for your work. You should allow yourself to enjoy being in your work area. Everything you want and need should be within easy reach and at your fingertips.
2. Create a file system. Having all the material on a particular topic in one place (within a folder) is a huge step towards better time management and organization.
3. Make a choice for each job: 1) take action now; 2) leave it out or give it up; 3) include it in a checklist for further action later.
4. Check your storage and productivity systems weekly: See if your systems are working properly? Are you still feeling overwhelmed by having to remember too many things? and adjust as needed.
5. Review your long-term goals at least once a month. Are you always making the right choices and moving yourself step by step towards your long-term goals? Or are you stagnant? Make sure you are going in the right direction.

## A solution

Know the plan --> Make a task list

### Recognize the importance of planning

1. Every hour of planning is worth five hours of execution
2. Take at least ten minutes of planning every day: time can be arranged in the morning; night owls can be arranged the night before
   What do I want to accomplish today?
   How much time do I have to do these things?
   Can I do some work that is not important to me and do it at other times?
   Is there a logical order between the work I need to get done?
3. Learn to do things in batches: As you plan each day's work, you can group things together at the same time or in the same place or in the same way.
   "Take time to think, but when the time to act comes, stop thinking and start attacking" Napoleon

### Make a to-do list

A to-do list is a physical product that reflects all your planning and preparation.
David Allen, "One way to develop a peaceful mind is to build a system of information gathering and processing"  
A to-do list is like a system through which you can manage almost everything you need along the way in one place.

Here Ro would like to recommend another book "The Power of Time: A Mature Mechanism That Allows You to Get More Done" by Brian Tracy.
The book points out: "Every effective execution starts with a daily to-do list. It is by far the most powerful tool for increasing productivity I have discovered. When you create a daily to-do list, you start writing about yourself. Every task you want to complete over the course of the day. The rule is: the first day you start using the task list, your productivity will increase by 25%. This means that in every eight hours of work You'll get an extra two hours of work during the day... By using a to-do list, you can get out of the clutter and get organized faster than with other time management tools."

### 3 reasons to make a to-do list

1. Understand how you use your time, think about what to do and what not to do, and have a clear time frame
2. The worry caused by the tasks floating in the mind can be avoided and the same can be guaranteed to be completed
3. Improve your creativity: This process can actually be seen as creating a mini-fiction with you as the protagonist, so that you can play freely, and then sublime your creativity, because you will never know when you are making the list, you What interesting ideas or ideas will pop up.


Time cannot be managed, why are the elites still mentioning Time Management Part II


Looking back on the previous article, Ro introduced the concept of "time management" to you. To understand it, we need to (1) learn to know ourselves; (2) set long-term/short-term goals; (3) reflect on ourselves all the time. And the suggestion at the end of the article mentions "improving reading speed".

"How to do ten lines at a glance?", "How to increase the number of reading words to 4000+ in one minute?", "How to read quickly?" Many methods emphasize cramming reading, which often ignores the understanding of the reading content. How to avoid such a situation and learn to truly master reading skills may try to break through from the following six points:

## 1. Clarify the concept of time

Share a data: normal people read articles in their native language of ordinary difficulty, usually 400-700 words/minute. Before you decide to increase your reading speed, use a stopwatch to get an idea of ​​how much you can read in one minute. After clarifying the concept of time, you can consciously take a test every time you read to compare whether your level has improved before and after.

## 2. Preview first and then predict

When reading materials, you should have an understanding of the overall content: for an article, you can get a general understanding of the main content of the article by quickly browsing the abstract/summary section and the first and last sentences of each paragraph; for a literature, you can also understand the essence of the literature by looking for book reviews. . This process has the meaning of "reading well, not seeking too much understanding". The advantages of preview are that one can understand how the author structures the text and prepare for the subsequent development of reading strategies; the other is to reflect on whether the material is worth reading.

## 3. Develop a reading strategy

Everything is about strategy. Developing a reading strategy that works for you can not only improve your efficiency, but also deepen your understanding.
Clear goals: what do you want to learn from reading and what questions
Identify the material: Identify the author's goals based on the "preview" to determine whether it is consistent with your goals, or whether you only need to focus on the relevant parts
Prescribe the right medicine: Decide how to read according to the genre. For example, reading novels is much easier than scientific literature.

## 4. Be a dedicated person

Strong concentration can ensure the efficiency of reading. Try to reduce the influence of external factors: noise, interruptions from others, cell phone messages, and reduce the adverse external influence as much as possible. At the same time, concentration can avoid repeated reading, and the content of the article can be smoothed after one pass. In the long run, this reduces unnecessary waste of time and improves the effective utilization of time.

## 5. Avoid reading word by word

To introduce a concept - Peripheral Vision (peripheral vision) is the most sensitive area of ​​human dynamic vision. Most people's peripheral vision can reach 4 cm, which means that we should take advantage of this: focus on "text blocks", not "text individuals". At the same time, this can also effectively avoid the phenomenon of silent reading (silent reading - consumes more time and affects understanding) due to word-by-word reading. In the same way, reading every paragraph of the article seems to be a legacy of traditional education. In the era of information explosion, selective reading is wise, not only saves time, but also makes more sense to use the saved time to sort out the structure of the article and solve personal questions.

## 6. Learn to stick to the summary

After reading the material, summarize it in time. This summary can be a good way to avoid going back and repeat reading, and let you know the general idea of ​​what you are reading. Thinking back to the questions posed before the reading, did this reading make sense? What else can be improved?

Practice makes perfect. (Practice makes perfect) Really mastering the skills to improve reading speed takes practice. Therefore, everyone must have enough patience when practicing, see their own progress, and always encourage themselves to maintain enough expectations.


Time Management: How to Improve Reading Speed While Guaranteed to Comprehend


Summary: Five minutes will take you to watch the New Year's Eve speech of "Friends of Time".

## Background story

The "Friends of Time" New Year's Eve speech was held at 20:30 on December 31, 2018 in Shenzhen.
The founder Luo Zhenyu (hereinafter referred to as: Luo) is determined to hold 20 games, which is the fourth and the seventeenth from the bottom.
The whole speech lasted four hours, and Luo Lian asked five key questions, which hit people's hearts.

Now, with Ro, I will show you the wonderful content of the New Year's Eve speech of "Friends of Time" in five minutes.

## Opener

(Picture) A trend that affects a trend, a change that brings about a change. -- "Friends of Time" Luo Zhenyu
Luo points out this year's theme: Microtrends
(picture)

## The main points

1. The word trend is too macro, and it is a bit out of reach for ordinary people.
   When it comes to trends, we think of artificial intelligence, blockchain, etc. These are all major trends, and ordinary people cannot grasp its direction.

2. New term: Small trends are things that happen to most of you and me.
   The impact of small trends is like a domino effect, where small initial changes accumulate to produce large trends. If the big trend is a tsunami, the small trend is like a slightly bigger wave. If you can find it, you can enjoy the progress of the times by standing on it. For example, the birth of the Internet has allowed many traditional stores to open stores on the Internet. Many small stores that grasp this trend have become large-scale stores. In addition, many stores use artificial intelligence and big data to complete the business transformation from purchasing to self-brand, and find greater possibilities.

3. It is not easy to catch the small trend, but the small trend is not the only one.
   It is like a car that enters and leaves the station quickly. Each bus stops for a short time. It is not easy to grasp various small trends. Many people feel that they will no longer have the opportunity if they do not grasp a small trend. In fact, there is no last bus for small trends, and there will always be opportunities. What we have to do is to be ready at any time and hurry up to enrich ourselves.

## Speech Essence

(Picture) "Five Questions to Heart" (5 Questions to Catch Small Trends)

1. Can you see the facts?

Understanding abstract problems is the capacity of human evolution. We all know that to understand a person's ability, we must observe through his performance. but
These abstract data do not all reflect the facts: For example, if a person works in a world-class large company and is surrounded by elites, even if his performance looks average, does this mean his ability is poor?

Therefore, if you want to see the facts, you must cultivate the ability of multiple thinking and learn to restore the problem. For example, to choose a good green tea, we should not just be fooled by the gorgeous pictures on the packaging, but to actually taste it. It's not enough to just taste it, but to really understand what kind of green tea is good. Learning to experience is another important way to tell the truth.

2. Can you perceive non-consensus?

Definition of non-consensus: Doing something different from others. If others don't have a consensus on your behavior understanding, and the market doesn't have a consensus on your innovation, these non-consensus will bring pressure, but that's what makes you a leader.
(Picture) it's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and to find no one there. -- franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt: It's a terrible thing to look back and have no one behind you with all your heart set on leading people forward.
It is precisely because you walk on a path that no one has traveled that someone will follow you later, and you will become a leader.
Non-consensus does not need to be a new consensus. Non-consensus may originate from old consensus and evolve from its development. Just like old things are packaged in new ones, it makes people feel different. For example, many remakes of films may not be accepted by the public at first, but later they are gradually liked by the public because of new forms of expression or different values. Therefore, in the face of the newly born industry, we should not blindly resist, but reflect on whether we sometimes think too shallowly.

3. Do you have enough time?
   Lack of time is a headache for many people. And Luo's point of view is: the problem of time is not not enough, but too long. As anti-cancer drugs continue to be invented, cancer is becoming a new chronic disease, which is still fatal, but it will be more and more later. And once people live longer, the way they look at problems will change qualitatively. The speech mentioned that once people become long-lived, they will face five challenges: (picture)
1. Days after retirement;
1. How to get along with the next generation;
1. How to redefine marriage? Marriage is no longer the first thing a person does when he is an adult, but something he will only think about after taking care of his life;
1. How will the occupation change? A job ten years from now will certainly not be defined by the present. And as humans live longer, jobs change faster. However, because of the longer time, we have more opportunities to learn more skills and develop more interests;
1. How to deal with setbacks? Society generally believes that youth is the capital of mistakes. And as lifespan increases, the number that defines youth becomes larger. The ancients could fail once and end, and we have more chances to fail again.
   (Picture) Luo: All things that can travel through time should be adhered to. All will be filtered by time, and the chapter will be flipped.

1. Where does your strength come from?
   Luo proposed: With the continuous development of artificial intelligence, the real emotions between people will become more precious. He proposed a key word: credit flywheel. The credit generated by people will have more and more power.

1. Does time want to be your friend?
   (Picture) Time Black Hole - Time Amplifier
   You want to be friends with time, but does time want to be friends with you? Many people want to do a lot of things, but the problem is that there will be a steady stream of time black holes around them. Once sucked in, it will be gone for a few hours, such as Douyin, Weibo. Behind these programs are algorithms written by thousands of people. It understands psychology better than you and understands what you are attracted to. But in turn, we can take advantage of that and use them to recommend content you should actually watch. For example, if you want to learn knowledge in a new field, you must restrain yourself from watching those entertaining and fun content. Once you can persevere, you can use algorithms to learn a lot of knowledge that you don’t know. The time black hole for others becomes your time amplifier.
   Believe in long-termism: long-term persistence can amplify a tiny signal. Long-termism can turn the ordinary in the eyes of others into a miracle in the eyes of others.

(Picture) Achievement = Core Algorithm x Lots of repetitive actions²
The core algorithm can be interpreted as survivability: natural advantage, problem-solving ability.
The key to this formula is a lot of repetition. Because it's a squared effect, it means you have to keep doing it and do it for a long time to achieve long-term compounding. In this way, time can truly be your friend.

## Concluding remarks

(Picture) Nietzsche: What doesn't kill me makes me stronger
(Picture) Luo: If I can't catch up, I will prepare and wait for it in the future.
Summary: Everyone has a chance, let's be ready at all times.


A trend that affects a trend, a change that brings about a change


Abstract: Why do foreign colleagues still work full of blood at noon? The point is they didn't take a nap!

A question has always puzzled Ro: when working abroad, Ro found that many colleagues around him can still work energetically even at noon, and they do not take naps. Every time the boss arranges a meeting near noon, Ro will be a little apprehensive: he is worried that he will not be able to perform in the best state, or that he will miss the key points due to lack of energy during the communication process. The point is, after every lunch, Ro is extremely sleepy, is this the so-called "meal sleepiness"?

In order to solve the problem, Ro began to investigate: foreign colleagues rarely have the habit of eating Chinese food or other Asian food at noon. Their lunch basically looks like this:

The restaurants they frequent are:
Sweet green. Freshii. Honeygrow. Cava Grill. True Food Kitchen From the design style of these stores, you can feel that they are advocating the concept of green and healthy eating.

From the perspective of how lunch affects energy, the difference between Chinese and Western lunches lies in the ratio of carbohydrates. Chinese meals generally contain rice and white noodles, resulting in a higher carbohydrate ratio than Western-style lunches. Scientists have found that if the carbohydrate content in the diet is high, it will rapidly increase blood sugar, which will lead to the secretion of a large amount of insulin in the body. Insulin brings a special amino acid, tryptophan, into the brain, where tryptophan is then converted into serotonin. Serotonin relaxes people and leads to sleepiness. There is also a view that blood viscosity increases, blood circulation slows down, and oxygen supply to the brain decreases, resulting in drowsiness.

The problem is, the average westerner's work lunch also has a lot of bread, pasta, chips, etc., not exactly vegetable salad. These foods are also high in carbohydrates and some are high in fat. Ro agrees with the view that "no matter if you eat too much Chinese and Western food, you will be sleepy".

Eat less and move more, say goodbye to "food fatigue"

Some people sleep less and feel better because of genetics. Here comes the point, aside from the genetic relationship, how should office workers eat lunch scientifically so that they can devote themselves to the next work energetically?

1. Appropriately reduce the intake of starchy staple foods, eat together with whole grains, potatoes, beans, and vegetables, and avoid sweets.

2. Eat smaller meals more often, and add protein-rich foods (yogurt, nuts, etc.) between meals to reduce your meal intake. This will both control appetite and prevent drowsiness (protein-rich foods help keep you awake after meals).

3. Appropriate exercise after meals: walking, or moderate-intensity exercise. Research shows: 1. As long as the human body sits for more than two hours, it will affect blood circulation and blood sugar control; 2. People with strong muscle strength are not easy to get sleepy. After active exercise, postprandial drowsiness can be significantly improved.

All in all, Ro strongly recommends that everyone take advantage of the Lunch Break period. Eat a healthy diet, get some exercise, and energize into your afternoon work.


Why do they still work full of blood at noon?


Abstract: This is the last part of the "Time Management" trilogy. Ro will explain two core concepts: PRIORITIZING and STREAMING.

(Word count: 1987 / Suggested reading length: 4’30”)

The "Time Management" trilogy will soon see its final installment. In this article, Ro will recognize and master two core concepts with you:

PRIORITIZING
&
Improve efficiency (STREAMING)

PRIORITIZING

Stephen Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" states: "Success isn't an accident, it's about consistently doing the things that are most likely to bring you the results you want."
"Successful people increase their odds of achieving the goals they want to achieve by developing positive lifestyles and habits, or by creating behavioral patterns that help produce good results."

Covey argues that too many people prioritize based on responses—doing the things that are imminent—as opposed to prioritizing them based on initiative—doing the things that matter.
Covey makes his point with quadrants: When making a to-do list, assign each task to one of the following four quadrants:

1. Important but urgent; 2) Urgent but not important; 3) Important but not urgent; 4) Neither urgent nor important

Here, please take five seconds to think carefully about a question: When these four types of things appear in front of you at the same time, in what order will you complete the work in the different quadrants?

The answer given by Covey is:

Quadrant 1) - Quadrant 3) - Quadrant 2) - Quadrant 4)

His explanation of the answer:

1. To make a to-do list, we always need to strike a balance between urgent items and important items, and when possible, put the important before the urgent;
2. Successful time management is about being proactive rather than reactive, habitually reacting in the morning: dealing with emails, voice messages, and questions that pop up overnight. Instead, we should become proactive. Address the action steps that move us forward and bring us closer to our ideals and goals.

Speaking of which, Ro recommends the book How to Manage Your Time and Your Life, author Alan Larkin recommends:
"At the beginning of each day, you think about the items you need to complete and grade each item on an A, B, C. Then, when the day begins, you first go through the A-level items, then the B-level items. A-level items, then C-level items. Sometimes, you may not be able to take B-level and C-level items into consideration, and A-level items are closer to your goals.”
In addition, the book emphasizes: "You must determine the priorities to be done. Please try to avoid the following two practices: low effectiveness, most of the tasks to be done are C items; tasks are done in order from the first item down, and no attention is paid to them. important project."

Ro insisted on following the method in the book (see the picture below), and practiced making his own To-do-list (task plan). The fact is that this method does help you complete more important tasks. Sometimes, C-level projects are often not necessary at the end, and thus save a lot of time.

STREAMING

The concept of STREAMING is easy to understand: by doing less work to get more done, the best way to accomplish a goal is to focus on that goal until it's done. And, only then, do you start moving toward your next goal.

Leo Babauta said in The Power of Less: "There has never been a time like today when we are faced with so much information and tasks, with mountains of emails and materials to read. , the need to deal with the pressures of life's incredible demands. I'm a firm believer in simplicity... Achieve more by doing less, not more, because what I do Reduction can be boiled down to two steps: 1, identify points; 2, exclude others. All energy and attention is focused on one challenge, one goal at a time, rather than trying to accomplish everything”

"Sometimes, when we want to do too much, we may accomplish less than we usually do." "The Power of Less"

"productive" vs "busy"

Tim Ferries on The Four Hour Work Week: "Too many people confuse the difference between having a lot of work to do and doing things that bring you closer to your goals (effects) ."

Please recognize the difference between busyness and efficiency: busy people may maintain their busyness at the expense of effectiveness. Clarifying your goals is all about being productive and getting closer to your goals.

80% of your achievements come from 20% of your actions. Twenty-eight rule

The crux of the matter: How to know exactly which of your actions and efforts are the critical 20% that lead to your massive success.

How to apply: Identify your goal --> In order to reach your goal, list five things you are doing --> Which of the five things is most likely to help you reach your goal --> Invest the most energy and attention

Learn to focus and remove distractions

For distractions: 1, stay away from the internet; 2, turn off your phone; 3, turn off all email alerts; 4, unplug the TV; 5, move all electronics (and video games) out of the work area.

For distractors: 1. If possible, keep the door closed while working; 2. If not possible and there are other people around: 1) Wear a baseball cap with the visor pulled down to appear unfriendly; 2) Avoid making eye contact with people passing by; 3) Wear headphones (even if nothing is playing); 4) Keep a box of tissues close to you and crumple a few of them to show you have a cold; 5) Any other "personal means" that you find effective.

The "Time Management" trilogy has come to an end, but Ro's exploration of scientific "time management" will continue. Hope everyone in the LunchBreak community can manage their time well and enjoy the fun of using time scientifically!


Time cannot be managed, why are the elites still mentioning Time Management Part III


Do you always feel that you don't have enough time at work? Or is it difficult to use your time efficiently? Sometimes, I doubt myself again: I have so many tasks, but I don’t know how to deal with them? The elites in the workplace will tell you: you need to learn "time management".

However, David Allen, founder of GTD (Get Things Done), pointed out that "time management" will mislead people to "manage" their "time", and time is constantly generated and passed, which cannot be managed. In fact, "time management" requires people to ensure that their activities are completed within a certain period of time, so as to realize the rational use of "time", a continuous resource.

## One principle

Going back to the concept of "time management", in a nutshell, using strategies and techniques to help people get work done and achieve goals.

## Three sentences

1. Know yourself. - Socrates
   Before making changes, we need to clearly feel the existence of time and know how we use it in order to prescribe the right medicine. Think of time as an intangible asset, create a sense of urgency due to the loss of assets, and discover which assets can be better utilized. This stage is also a process of deeply understanding yourself and laying the foundation for making a time plan that suits you in the future.

2. The real joy of life is to commit to a goal that you think is great. - Bernard Shaw
   When dealing with life, we must have a sense of mission, and a sense of mission means setting goals in life. Perhaps, we are still in the stage of uncertain life goals. However, we need to be clear: goals as short as one year (short term), goals as long as three to five years (long term). Through this process, we will form a road map in our minds to achieve our goals (without discussing whether it is correct), know what we need to do, increase our self-confidence, and at the same time, we will eliminate some unrealistic or irrelevant goals.

3. The starting point of gong is self-analysis, and the secret of success is self-reflection. —— Chen Anzhi
   Work is not fair everywhere. We need to reflect at all times to adjust the direction of our pursuit of goals, find a psychological balance, and recognize that what to do is conducive to achieving our goals.

## Five suggestions

1. Learn to judge quickly
   Think back to whether you spend a lot of time making judgments, and the results are still unsatisfactory. In fact, quick judgment allows us to spend our time where we need it most. People have to trust their intuition, often the first choice is correct. In many cases, the outcome of things does not matter what judgment you make, but how you act after the judgment.

2. Take advantage of free time
   There is a lot of time at work that we inadvertently pass by, such as chatting with colleagues, browsing irrelevant web pages, staring at the phone screen in a daze. Not in favor of keeping the brain working all the time, but often more time wasted than we think. Might as well, you can summarize what free time you have in a week, and then think about what you can accomplish in these time periods to help you achieve your long-term/short-term goals. For example, an article that helps you improve your productivity is both relaxing and rewarding.

3. Start with the hard things
   In "time management", we can't shy away from the important: from the beginning of dealing with simple things, although there is accumulation in "quantity", we cannot guarantee that we will have enough energy to deal with difficult things later. Therefore, doing the hardest things when you have the most energy is not only easier to handle, but also gives you a greater sense of accomplishment.

3) Improve memory (expand wisdom; balance food and drink intake; maintain physical activity; increase antioxidant intake; learn memory skills; create related phrases or rhymes; get enough sleep; concentrate; convert important facts into a form that will help you remember; don't take memory skills too seriously)


Time cannot be managed, why are the elites still mentioning Time Management Part I


What Ro shares with you is "Rich Habits (Rich Habits)" by Thomas Corley. The book is very short, just over a hundred pages. Its formation process comes from Corley's interviews with many successful people. In many interviews, he found clear differences in the behavior/attitudes of this group. In response to the differences, he developed a program to help people redesign themselves. This program is designed to help them tap into greater success.

The story of how the project was born is what this book begins with, and with each story, Corley tries to instill in the reader the habits of these successful people that are the essence of this book. Below, Ro shares the seven habits described in the book:

1. Read, read, read a lot!

2. Learn to manage wealth and insist on saving 10% of the monthly salary.

3. Insist on regular exercise every week and always pay attention to your health.

4. Set daily goals, remember that all successful people are Goal-oriented (around a clear goal).

5. Deal with people who have the same goals, build a positive social circle, and stay away from people, things, and things that will consume you.

6. Learn [Work-life Balance] (work-life balance), work, entertainment and family are all important for maintaining physical and mental health.

7. Learn to control your thoughts and emotions.

Ro thinks the habits mentioned in the book are basic and easy to understand, and the key is whether you have the determination to do them. In fact, there are many books on how to obtain wealth. The uniqueness of this book is that it is easy to understand, and there are no obscure concepts in the process of reading. The stories told will help you to integrate and deepen the understanding and practical application of habits. Finally, end this article with a slogan from the book:

"Adopt a Do It Now mindset"


Rich Habits: Five Habits of Successful People


2019, Happy New Year! Ro found that many people in the circle of friends summed up the past 2018 and set up the New Year Flag. Ro also took advantage of the heat to sort out the nine things that affected him the most in the past year. These nine things are an explanation for 2018 and an expectation for 2019:

## 1. Record your thoughts at any time

Technology has given us more tools to record our thoughts at any time. If you don't consciously record, you'll forget quickly; if you've been consciously just simply remembering ideas, this will always occupy the brain's resources. Therefore, you need to develop the habit of recording your thoughts at any time. After a long period of accumulation, you will find that this is a precious treasure. Hardly, you will find in it that an idea can become a reality.

## 2. Improve your language skills

I believe everyone knows the benefits of "learning another language and opening a new world". What Ro proposes here is that, neurologically, learning a new language allows your brain to generate more neural connections. Ro's personal experience is that last year, I studied Spanish intensively for a trip to Mexico. During that time, my mind's thoughts/reactions were very fast, and the way of thinking about problems also changed.

## 3. Build a personal website/public account/blog

Create a space, write some text regularly, and organize your thoughts. The advantages of this are: create opportunities for more people to hear your voice; if it is about new skills, you can re-understand the way you learn new skills, and slowly expand into new areas of exploration . After all, the world is more welcoming of diverse talents.

## 4. Study your Role-model

Do you realize that you just knew your Role-model in the past, but never deeply researched everything about him/her/? The Role-model here may be someone who is already very successful in a related field, or someone you simply admire, or someone you want to live the same life in the future. Ro thinks that we can study this person thoroughly, not to imitate, but in the process of in-depth research, learn/master some principles/methods to achieve success, and add some weights on the way to success .

## 5. Maintain a weekly exercise habit

The benefits of exercising three to four times a week are: mentally relieve stress; improve your sleep quality; increase self-discipline, focus, creativity; better achieve [Work-life balance] (work-life balance).

## 6. Organize your personal balance sheet

The balance sheet is the result of subtracting the savings/assets you have now and your credit card (the fees you need to pay). In the process of financial management, you may lose motivation and realize that there are many things you can't buy. Of course, this also leads to the result of rational consumption; on the other hand, through your personal balance sheet, you will have a new perspective on your labor efforts. understanding, generating new impetus.

## 7. Appreciate someone you used to be a little bit out of

Try to appreciate someone you used to be a little bit out of: a loved one, a celebrity or even your co-worker. He/she may be your age, but for some reason, he/she is more successful than you in life. In fact, psychologically speaking, part of your rejection suggests that you are trying to be that kind of person. In fact, the process of blind rejection often takes you away from the direction that originally made you successful/happy. Instead, appreciation can open your heart and pull you back in the right direction.

## 8. Do something scary

Overcome the timidity in your heart and do something you think you are afraid of. For example, at work, take the initiative to put forward your ideas about the project to the supervisor; at regular meetings, put forward your suggestions on the work process; give a public speech; in life, take the initiative to open up to the person you like, but have been afraid to express. . In this way, slowly overcome the fear in your heart and eliminate the discomfort, you will find that "very afraid" will become "not afraid" or even "like it".

## 9. Tell your parents, I love you

Even your parents, or people close to you, will be somewhat alienated from you. Take the opportunity, summon up your courage, and say to them, I love you, which can bring your relationship closer.

The above is Ro’s summary, and it will also be the nine things to do as soon as possible in 2019. Just like LunchBreak's slogan: "We are a group of interesting people who pursue [Work-life balance]", Ro believes that these nine things will make us constantly break out of our comfort zone and do what we like, Interesting and challenging work, to meet more people who are passionate about work and life, and to cherish everything you have!


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