Self-management: From knowing to doing, adhere to the five practices, and continue to improve through reflection and review

Author: Guo Chaogang

The biggest difference between people lies in their different cognitions. The fundamental way to improve cognition is to manage yourself well. Anyone who is able to achieve a career has long-term goals, a clear self-positioning, persistence in learning and self-discipline, and continuous self-learning and self-improvement.

Anyone who is successful in learning and meritorious in doing things can successfully manage an organization or a department and is a strong self-manager. Self-confidence leads to self-discipline, self-discipline leads to self-improvement, and self-improvement leads to freedom.

Excellent self-manager with strong achievement motivation. Start with determination, study diligently, reflect on your mistakes, correct your mistakes, and do better. Managing yourself is a kind of survival capital and ability. There is ambition in your heart, skills in your hands, and a path at your feet.

Self-management, also known as self-control, refers to the strategy of using personal inner strength to change behavior based on self-diagnosis and clear self-understanding. It is commonly used to reduce the occurrence of bad behaviors and increase the occurrence of good behaviors. .

Self-management is an individual’s management of himself, and comprehensive management of his own goals, thoughts, psychology and behavior. Self-organization, self-management, self-discipline, self-motivation, self-discipline and self-improvement; being able to manage one's own affairs is a process that ultimately achieves one's ideal goals.

Have you ever had the habit of self-diagnosis? Some people say that I have always felt good about myself and there is nothing wrong with me. Why self-diagnosis is necessary.

Self-diagnosis is a kind of self-examination, recognizing one's own shortcomings. Defects can be checked and filled. Better develop your own advantages and give full play to your longboard effect. Diagnosis is like looking in the mirror, enabling self-reflection and continuous self-improvement through learning projects and action practices.

I believe that most people are ordinary and busy, and often accompanied by anxiety. Through self-diagnosis, we can know what is the gap between our ideals and reality? What distance exists? Have the Flags established in the past come true?

Don’t think about thousands of ways at night and continue walking the same path when you wake up in the morning. Through self-diagnosis, we can realize the reality of “busyness, blindness, and confusion”. Because you are too busy and have no time to study, you have no time to study and fall into confusion, and you enter the ideal blind spot because of confusion.

For those who have ideals and continue to act, what wakes them up in the morning is their dreams. Strive endlessly every day, give full play to your strengths, strengthen your superior capabilities, be good at using resources, learn and act in the process of achieving your goals, and continue to improve.

Guo Chaogang pointed out: Anyone who has achieved some success is self-disciplined. An outstanding person who is self-improvement is good at self-management and continues to do the five practices.

The reason why organizations become stronger and stronger is because they have long-term, medium-term and short-term goals. The ability and time you devote to the organization can output your work performance and achievements. A person without goals is like a ship sailing on the sea without a destination. Life without goals is like living in the dark night without light.

Goal, this is the direction that self-improvement and success must have and is based on self-needs. The goal system includes: long-term goals, such as ideals and visions; mid-term goals, such as career upgrades and financial freedom; short-term goals, such as developing a new customer, completing a new project, etc.

Goals are the most guiding, and the difference between people lies in their cognition. Because the goals are different, the achievements achieved are different, all due to the different self-discipline effects in achieving the goals.

You are not afraid of failure and setbacks in life, but the biggest regret is that you have not worked hard to achieve your goals. A person who does not have clear long, medium and short-term goals is actually a person without a plan and lacks sunshine and hope in his life. Therefore, when he looks back on the past, he may often feel a little regret and regret.

Clear your goals, make a five-year plan for yourself, make decisions before taking action, and work hard to realize your dreams. The study and work you did five years ago will, to a large extent, determine your career achievements today; similarly, your study progress and work performance today will also determine how you will live five years from now.

Goals are the beacon of progress, guiding people to strive endlessly and never give up until they reach their goals. The reason why people can be successful in their studies and have a brilliant career must have a long-term goal and be good at time management in order to achieve this goal.

Your current social class, different achievements, and different wealth are all due to your different cognition, different time commitment, and insufficient accumulation in life. When personal abilities cannot satisfy your own ideals and desires, what you need is to continue to invest in yourself and invest time in exchange for future changes in social space.

Time is fair to everyone. The object of time management seems to be time itself, but in essence it is the people who use time. Because one's own goals are different, the time invested in achieving the goals is also different, which will produce unique benefits.

Managing your own time is to manage yourself the same way you manage your life. What is pursued is to improve the progress of achieving goals with a relatively small investment of time, and to improve cost benefits and efficiency per unit time.

The essence of work is trade-offs and trade-offs, which is the allocation and control of time by oneself. Strengthen self-discipline, invest enough time to achieve goals, be good at using the four-quadrant method of time management, distinguish personal matters according to importance and urgency, and adopt different strategies for matters in different areas.

2.1 Do urgent and important things immediately.

2.2 Do important and non-urgent things in a planned manner. Most efficient time managers act in an orderly manner out of this quadrant. Otherwise, it will enter an urgent and important interval again.

2.3 Properly authorizing him to do urgent and unimportant things can liberate himself and save time.

2.4 Do things that are not important or urgent last.

Time management is the allocation of time for various matters. We need to grasp the key 20% and concentrate on executing it 80% of the time. Only in this way can we achieve greater results and make more contributions.

Clear goals, allocate time reasonably, and choose appropriate methods to implement according to the importance and urgency of the matter. Learn and improve through action, and improve yourself through reflection.

Various action methods emerge in endlessly, and I have always admired the PDCA method. PDCA was originally a scientific and standardized process improvement method in the quality management system. Later, it was widely used in various matters in all walks of life, bringing everyone systematic and comprehensive process analysis and execution.

PDCA as a methodology for self-management. Focusing on the realization of goals, this process method is divided into four basic stages: P plan, D implementation, C inspection, and A processing.

3.1 Planning stage: Start with the end in mind, starting from goal setting, identifying problems through self-diagnosis and analysis, and then conducting comprehensive internal and external cause analysis to clarify feasible goals; plans based on goals with various action plan options.

3.2 Implementation phase: Based on the goals, select implementation plans to continuously promote execution. Learn and communicate well during the process, make timely self-adjustments, and use your abilities and perseverance to ensure that goals are effectively achieved.

3.3 Inspection stage: Whenever a phased goal is completed, self-inspection and reflection must be carried out to self-examine the completion of the task and the gap with the established goal. Develop regular reviews and evaluations, including goal achievement, time utilization efficiency, personal learning and growth, utilization and effectiveness of various resources, existing problems and gaps, etc.

3.4 Processing stage: This is a stage of summarizing experience and continuous improvement. Based on the above planning, implementation and inspection, we will comprehensively review and summarize the problems, revise the goals of the next stage in a timely manner, and then enter the next goal again, repeating the cycle and continuously improving.

Excellent self-managers must have strong positive energy and a positive attitude. Self-managers should manage their mentality well. The so-called sunshine mentality should be cultivated from eight aspects.

Be a good person before doing things. If people do the right thing, they will do the right thing. The key to being a human being lies in the cultivation of mentality.

An excellent self-manager, he never makes excuses when doing things, can seriously report opinions and suggestions from all parties, and can quickly implement when the direction is correct.

What you say must be done, and what you do must bear fruit. Once a commitment is made, it will be carried out against all odds and ensure that the designated tasks are completed within the specified time. A positive and optimistic person who is confident in doing things, helps others while doing his job well, has the courage to contribute in a team, and embodies a heart of great love at all times.

Self-managers can clearly recognize their own shortcomings, can think critically, can actively self-study and self-improve methods, move towards goals, and creatively complete tasks based on teamwork. .

Think independently, take the initiative to learn and make progress, you must first have the ability, and then you will have the strength. Excellent people will develop the habit of lifelong learning, be good at using their strengths in a team, integrate everyone's strength, strengthen internal and external communication, comprehensively use the power of the network, and seek support from external think tank experts to creatively achieve goals and realize their own goals. value.

When three people walk together, there must be a teacher from me; choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. Exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses in the team, integrate the power of talents, and re-plan work matters through reading sharing meetings, action learning, weekly review and improvement. Self-management means allocating reasonable time to one's own work matters, making plans, executing them, monitoring progress, Check the effect.

Guo Chaogang summarized: An excellent self-manager must first set goals, be good at planning time, skillfully use the PDCA method, have a good mentality, be good at introspection and review, and continue to improve by summarizing experience.

The author of this article: Guo Chaogang, founder of Qizhe, visiting professor of China Management Institute, and senior human resources manager.