Learn from an efficient boss how to "clear your brain"

A few years ago, I went to their company to talk about things. Have dinner and chat with teacher Li at noon. He said he had a habit. Walking at night is also a time for him to relax and think more actively.

If he thinks of something related to the company while walking, he will immediately call the relevant docking person and arrange the task. Then, he stopped thinking about it and kept it in his heart.

He said, in this way, I can keep my head clear. You don't have to remember too many trivial things that you don't want to do.

That's what inspired me at that time.

Mr. Li didn't read much, started from scratch and made a career. At the same time, I have also represented several well-known brands. I am nearly 50 years old and my mind is very active. Communicating with him is often enlightening. There are many things to do, but he is efficient in this way every day.

After listening to Mr. Li's statement, I analyzed it. In fact, the key to my initial mind is not whether I have written things down or distributed them, but whether I am good at "emptying" things in my mind one by one.

I need to deal with more chores, some things are to be done by myself, some things can be entrusted to others, all kinds of things, all kinds of things of different nature and different time periods come one after another! Let a lot of things pile up in your head, and it will be chaotic.

Although I write things down with a notebook or some methods, and some things are handed over to the relevant executors, I have not formed a habit. I still think about it from time to time before it really ends.

This is human nature. First, I don't know how it is going. Second, I'm afraid I'll forget.

Therefore, if you have several things to deal with in a day, you must be doing one of them, and it is inevitable that two or three other things will always come to mind.

Our minds are not suitable for recording too many things. No matter how good your memory is, can you look after books and computers?

The human brain is more used for thinking than memory, and it is more biased towards the performance of CPU than the performance of hard disk.

Once you remember a lot of things, you will be upset and feel full, but you don't know where to start!

Will seriously affect the mood, the so-called "am utterly confused."

If we are doing something, we have to be distracted to think about other work we will do later or tomorrow, or we have to worry about how we have told us how to finish it, and this feeling is also very tired.

So what's the result?

First, the efficiency is low. Yao Ming looks very busy. Yao Ming has been sitting in front of the computer, but it seems that things are not moving too fast.

Second, my mind is always in a mess and my mood is in an anxious state.

How to reduce the feeling of mess? -Forget all these things.

After that exchange, I often deliberately let myself form a habit at work:

After remembering things or assigning things, you choose to temporarily "forget" and clean them out of your mind. Don't think about it yet Focus on what you are dealing with, or use it to think.

What are my personal habits?

First of all, make records and estimate the time required to complete each item.

Notepad can be used. Now there are many apps on the mobile phone, which makes it very convenient for us to record all kinds of fleeting thoughts or things we want to do at any time.

When recording, it is best to use the four-quadrant classification, that is, according to the two dimensions of importance and urgency, the work is divided into four quadrants:

1, important and urgent

2. Important but not urgent

3. It's not important but urgent

It is neither important nor urgent.

Well, at this point, let's "forget" what we have written down and the specific things that haven't been dealt with, and don't think too much.

Second, give priority to things that need to be executed by others, and then deal with things that need to be executed by yourself.

Solve the problem quickly. What you should do, what others should do.

Most of our work actually falls into two categories.

1, need to do it yourself. Even the boss, he can't give everything to others. There are many important things that he needs to deal with personally.

2, you can send it to others. Not everyone of us is the boss like Miss Li. There are many people who can help us share the task.

However, even ordinary employees have a lot of work to coordinate with other colleagues. Or need to be sent to a third party to do it.

For those that need to be handled by myself and those that need to be handled by others, if both are in front of me at the same time, I will generally give priority to the part to be allocated. Then do what you need to do. Instead of burying your head in doing your own thing before talking about it. Because in this case, things on both sides can basically start at the same time.

I forgot about the task for the time being. Focus on what you are doing.

Third, take a notebook and follow up the task.

What's more terrible than what I'm full of is that I completely forgot about it! Forgot! Yes!

Cleaning up our brains doesn't mean that we should forget it completely. Be sure to do it according to the record of the to-do list and the time of that thing.

Perfect and organized notes are the strong backing to ensure that we can "empty" our brains in time!

Therefore, we should follow up the completion of various things according to the progress of notepad.

After such sorting, emptying the brain and taking perfect notes, the human brain is like a well-organized computer.

We didn't call it until it was our turn to do it. You don't have to think about it in your head until it's your turn.

Through long-term practice, I feel that this will enable me to concentrate on a certain job for a period of time and not forget things easily. If the day goes on like this, work and life will be more enjoyable!

Say goodbye to the miserable state of being stuffed with things and start by learning to empty your brain.