Hello everyone, this is Helen Huang @ Organizing, based in Beijing, China. In order to better learn and practice the YiXiaoNeng Time Management System, after finished publishing 100 Chinese articles, I decided to continue writing and publishing a daily English article in another 100 days based on the "YeWuBin Time Management 100 Episodes" audio program. Today is the 146th day.
Today's topic is: Only 3% of People Do This
Why people need to dream?
Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, which is the world's largest retailer, was once just an English teacher in China. Just think, if Jack did not have a dream, if he used his own reality to decide his own future, then Alibaba would never have been formed, and he'd still just be an English teacher.
The dream is important. Without the dream, you cannot achieve a life of purpose and willful action.
When I talk about dreams, you may think I am talking about something that you will never use in your life. You may think that what I tell you is common and meaningless. You may think that I am feeding you chicken soup.
I don't think I am feeding you meaningless chicken soup. Successful people don't think so. Researchers who studied successful people don't think so either. This is real and necessary for you to achieve your dreams.
Harvard University followed a group of people for 25 years and came up with some valuable conclusions:
27% of people have no goals;
60% of people have ambiguous goals that are in their minds but not clearly thought out.
10% of the people have clear but short-term goals;
3% of the people have clear and long-term goals.
In addition, they found that:
27% of people complain about society, complaining that their origins and their life are not good;
60% of people live in the lower-middle class of society, those who work repetitious and boring jobs or who are unemployed.
10% of the people live in the upper-middle class;
3% of people become social elites.
Therefore, the conclusion of this study proves that: Having a lifelong clear dream is a very, very important thing! If you do not have a clear and long-term goal, then you should have a clear short-term goal, and create a one-year dream board very well. Kazuo Inamori, the founder of phone maker Kyocera, said: "Even if we cannot see far ahead, we can always create a goal for one year."
In the previous lesson, I gave you a detailed breakdown of my life dream board. I have built the dream board over several years. Each year, I will review and assess the dream board, making any changes that reflect changes in the strength and direction of my goals.
For example, do you remember my dream of traveling to 100 countries around the world?
I travel often. I have found that traveling increases my knowledge and broadens my mind. I have met people around the world that have figured out how to transform their lives, enhance and transform themselves to live a better life, and to help others. While on these travels, I record these insights and good ideas and then apply them to my work and life when I come back.
Therefore, I pay great attention to what I see and who I meet in my travels. This is the reason why I want to travel so often and why I set up a long-term goal for myself: To travel around the world to 100 countries. So far, I have organized 5 trips to travel around the world.
During my summer vacation in 2016, I traveled to several countries with my son, to the four corners of Europe over the course of a month. I gained a lot of experience, knowledge and memories because my goals were clear and long-term.
This idea of clear and long-term goals has benefited me elsewhere too. I have set a long-term goal of great importance to me: To become a time management master. Yixiaoneng, the time management course I have created, has helped thousands of people achieve independence from time in their lives. I have a dream of helping others feel the great result of mastering time, just like it has done for me. This has driven me to create this long-term goal.
But it wasn't always like this. When I first started learning time management, I did not have such a long-term goal. When I began to learn about time management and practiced it, the results provided me with a level of happiness I had never before experienced. I became an expert in this field and helped many of my friends. These good results made me more and more determined, and more and more willing to do more. I therefore expanded my goals until they became long term goals.
I would advise you that if you have a lot of experience in a particular area, you can begin to choose the part of your life that you want to perpetuate and continue the most, that you like the most, that interest you to develop it into your long-term goals.
Even if you still cannot determine which long-term goals that you want to work towards for your whole life, you can still analyze your short-term goals and expand on them. This is why short term goals are so important. It is only through short term goals that you can make long term goals.
Listen to my last lesson again about the dream board and then begin to make a dream board for yourself. Use the SuDoku diagram and divide your areas of concern into eight parts, and then fill them in one by one.
So what kind of life is worth having? The first key word is: balance. The second key word is: long term! Balance and long-term. Long-term Meaningful life is from short term goals to long term goals
I hope that you can realize the value of your life through the practice of setting appropriate goals and then working diligently but smartly to achieve them through lessons. It's the essence. Today, Jack Ma is no longer just an English teacher. And one of the very important reasons for this is he created and still has long-term goals.
I encourage each of you to go and find a piece of white paper. Right now, and draw your dreams and goals. Do it now. Do not hesitate. Do it right this minute. You can even do it right here on Ximalaya in the comments section. Again, do not hesitate. Do it now.
Whether your dreams can be achieved or not, writing them down is half the battle.
Thank you being with me together today. Have a wonderful day!
