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I have a classmate in a writing class. We chatted a few months ago and I asked her why she didn’t update her articles. She replied that she originally thought she liked writing, so she signed up for the class, but the result was: She wrote that she discovered that she was only interested in making money...

But just yesterday, she invited me to a family education sharing group she created, and then privately messaged me and said that she finally discovered her true interest. As for family education and marriage and emotions, she wants to practice deliberately through her own learning and sharing, and continue to output paid courses that are most important to develop her own knowledge.

She said that she had been working hard to make money for the past few months, but she had been working so hard that in the end she realized that she had not made any money at all! It’s true that “you can’t make money by chasing money. You have to find a way to make money chase people.” So she decided to make a breakthrough in the field that she was most interested in. When the time comes, she will become a marriage and family psychological counselor. Making money is a matter of course!

I am so happy that she has found her true interest.

In today’s era, there is no shortage of people with action. But being busy every day results in inaction. What's the problem?

As Ma Huateng said, too many people are quick at action but poor at thinking. There is no shortage of actors in this era. We lack calm reflection on our own rapid running. In fact, people will become very blind when they get busy. This is human nature. Bai Yansong analyzed the two words "busy" and "blind". He said that "busy" means the heart is dead, and "blind" means the eyes are dead. I think it's very appropriate.

So how do you discover your own intrinsic value?

To find intrinsic value, start with true interests

For example, parents must have the experience of enrolling their children in interest classes. In fact, this process is a process of helping children find their own self-worth. So what should we do as minors?

First of all: slow down and calm down.

Observe yourself, see yourself, talk to your inner self, and discover what you like to do the most? This is what many people do by meditating. Spend more time looking for things and people you like. You can even retreat, refuse to socialize, let yourself go, and talk more with your inner self.

It took me five years to discover that my favorite thing was writing. I have been in business with my partner for the past five years, raising two children along the way. As my classmate said, at that time I also made money for the sake of making money. However, although I made some money, I lost myself.

Since my pregnancy last year, apart from eating and sleeping, I have been listening to lectures, reading books, and reading official documents every day. During the second trimester of my pregnancy, I was even depressed and felt that life was meaningless. I read " My sister said that I feel like a fifty-year-old person when reading Buddhist books such as "The Four Trainings". Later I asked myself what do I really like to do?

I thought about opening an early childhood education class and a book bar + coffee shop. At that time, the dance studio I opened was not closed yet. Just like that, from July to October, before my great-nephew’s anniversary, I suddenly came up with the idea of ??writing! My eldest nephew, who is nine years younger than me and the child of my eldest sister, committed suicide due to depression. It was the first anniversary of his departure.

It can be said that I took him from childhood to adulthood, and I also watched him get sick and die with my own eyes. That kind of inner sorrow and regret never left me, until that day when I fell into deep sadness again, I decided to write an article in memory of him. So I wrote several articles on the subject of a diary.

Although the structure of the article is not decent, it does achieve an effect of self-healing. Later, I signed up for a new media writing class and started writing after Sanbao was born this year. I want my writing ability to grow with my children. It is planned to take 5-10 years to bear fruit.

Although I made money in the past five years, my heart was unhappy and confused. It took me a year of writing this year to reach a monthly income of 10,000 yuan in the last month, but my happiness is comparable to making a million yuan in business.

Secondly, don’t be anxious, don’t be anxious.

In fact, many times we know what we like and where we can maximize our inner value and be happy. Why don't we get started?

Because we are in a hurry, what should we do if we are afraid that the results will not be available in a short time? For example, if you really want to be a freelancer but don’t dare to resign, you are stuck between reality and ideals, all the time!

In fact, the first step is to discover what you want to do most, and then you should take action. Act at all costs instead of waiting. Another year wasted waiting and waiting. You can refer to the hero of "The Moon and Sixpence".

What is lost is the mulberry tree, and what is gained is the east corner. Gains come from losses, and gains come from losses. We all know it, but we just can’t do it. what to do? Push yourself. Set up a flag in public places

or tell a small group of relatives and friends about your goals. For example, at the beginning of the year, I called my sisters, my dad, and my good friends that I was going to start writing, and I would stop chatting with them on WeChat. I want to focus on writing for five to ten years. I want to publish a book!

In this way, when you are lazy, you will continue to struggle because you are afraid of being slapped in the face.

Last point: Time is the best compound interest. Everything is hard at the beginning, then hard in the middle, and even harder at the end! ! ! We are starting to take off one frog every day! Don't leave yourself a way out, a way to turn back. I want it, I must do it, I can go slow, I can’t stop, I can be late, I can’t be timid! !

Yes. Give yourself a pep talk. Make friends with the same goals who can encourage you and form a team with them. For example, when it comes to writing, you team up with people who write.

Continue to do it, review it, be diligent, and meditate. Waiting for it to bear fruit. One thing to add, don't tighten it too tight. You must enjoy it properly, you must! ! If you can't persist, you have to go back to the first point and ask yourself, is this path the one you want? If you make a wrong choice, choose again. Don’t foolishly stick to so-called valuable things that don’t make you happy.

When doing something you like, persistence is not a problem at all. If you don't like it, no matter how much you give, your days will feel like years.

This also applies to love marriage.

In short, major matters in life cannot be compromised, but must be paid attention to.

In early 2018, I gave birth to three children and became pregnant with another.

On the day my third daughter was born, I wrote this line in the memo on my phone: I fell in love with writing and got pregnant with its child - I want to write a book! That day is March 1st.

March to April

As early as one month before giving birth, I signed up for Editor Liu’s basic writing course on the Youshu platform. The class starts on February 26th.

With the completion of the 29-day writing class, I completed the first month of confinement (according to the local custom of my mother-in-law’s family, confinement lasts for two months). In this one-month course, I only handed in an after-school pen practice assignment once, but I was fortunate enough to be dragged by the class committee to a junior book-opening camp where there were books.

The first article I started writing was a book preview. The book list is "How to Read a Book". That day is April 1st.

I spent a week reading and writing the manuscript, and revised it twice before finalizing it. That day was April 10th.

In the next half month, I successfully passed the reading manuscript of my first ***, and I still remember the joy I felt after learning the news. That day was April 25th.

May to June

During the confinement period from March to April, there was a dedicated person to take care of my daily diet and housework. But starting from May, I can only take care of the family together with my spouse.

Since I have just returned to the daily routine of raising a baby and running a household, and I have an additional baby feeding, I am starting to feel a little overwhelmed. In addition, during those two months, my wife had to take exams and was on a business trip, so in May as a transitional month, I only wrote one reading manuscript.

The original goal of completing three *** reading manuscripts in the advanced sprint camp in May can only be postponed until June. Fortunately, I got the recommendation from the junior camp instructor on June 30th.

July

On July 1, I entered the advanced growth camp and began to take the listening test.

The day I got the test questions was July 5th, and the first draft I submitted was July 10th.

There were no specific revision comments in the advanced camp. The instructor’s approval I received only had three words and a question mark. I spent half a month thinking about these "three words of opinion", overturning the original manuscript, rewriting it, and revising and polishing it repeatedly.

On July 25th, I submitted my manuscript again. Compared to the first time I was rejected instantly, this time it was faster! I passed the listening test and became qualified to write listening manuscripts, but I didn't start writing.

The reason is that before that, the block practice writing course I signed up for started on July 23, and I have since entered a new world that I have too much to take care of - the block practice content platform writing.

August to September

The first blockchain content platform I participated in writing was CoinCar. During the same period, I also participated in the internal beta essay collection activity of the Zanwo platform. Since I was new to blockchain, my brain couldn’t keep up with the processing of information in the first month, and I also lost a lot of hair.

So I decided to do one less thing: quit my job as a writing camp teaching assistant. Start focusing on daily updates on the blockchain content platform.

On August 23, I entered Youxiang and became the second batch of internal beta authors on the platform. Until the end of September, I completed two consecutive months of daily updates of thousand-character articles. At the same time, 7 essays were accepted by the Zanwo platform, and I also got the internal beta author qualification of the Zanwo platform as I wished.

October to November

Slowly, I became familiar with writing on various blockchain content platforms. I started writing audiobook manuscripts again, and completed two books in one month. A new block training content platform has been added, which is primas!

In less than two months, more than 50 articles were published on the primas platform*** and more than 4,000 platform coins were obtained.

December

After being so busy, the end of the year will soon come. This year is my first year of writing, so I have always wanted to do a review at the beginning of December, to look back on my progress in reading and writing over the past year, so as to make plans for next year and look forward to the future!

Just take advantage of the essay collection activity of "If you don't start a business, you must invest" to sort it out. Thank you big tree! ! !

This month I took on another challenging new job, and at the same time I got a quota for the new author program of an Internet platform. These two tasks will become my main breakthrough points in the past month or two. If I can meet expectations, I will continue in 2019.

2018～2019

Looking back on the past, I have read 200 books and written a total of 160,000 words in 2018. The reading speed has increased from 6 to 10 hours to read a book (100,000 words) to 1 to 4 hours to read a book. The writing speed increased from 4 hours/thousand-word draft to 2 hours/thousand-word draft.

The manuscript fee has been increased from 450 yuan/8000 words to 2000 yuan/8000 words. The goal of “generating over RMB 10,000 per month through writing” at the beginning of the year was finally achieved in the last month of 2018!

Thanks for my perseverance: from the early days of writing when I was scratching my head and forgetting to sleep and eat, to breaking through the writing bottleneck period of "a lot of hair falling out and being unable to sleep at night", I finally reached the point where I can easily write thousands of times a day. Writing above words is daily.

Looking to the future, the reading goal for 2019 is 500 books, and the writing goal is 2,000 words per day. Maintain the current profit from writing and achieve the goal of annual income of 100,000 yuan from writing next year!

I really like the idea of ??the circle "If you don't start a business, you must invest". If you don't start a business, you must invest! I actually have five years of entrepreneurial experience. The reason why I signed up for a writing class this year was because I accidentally heard it while I was studying business.

If our life is an investment of our time, then investing time in writing is an excellent investment! Writing can not only sort out your thoughts and express yourself in a more organized way, but it can also heal yourself.

In 2018, I fell in love with writing, and planted the seeds in my heart of "wanting to publish a short book" (by small, I mean short and concise. Similar to "The Little Prince", and Or a memorable little book like The Outsider).

If it is fast, it may take three to five years, if it is slow, it may take ten or eight years before I can achieve my wish. But no matter how long it takes, I will keep writing. Use my whole life to write life!

While studying hard, don’t forget to live a good life - multi-pronged approach, going hand in hand, is also a good way to create surprises in life. Grow 1 every day. With compound interest, it will grow by 3,800 per year. You win.