Build momentum: implement your plans in a more effective way

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To plan for profit is to listen to the situation, which is to support the situation outside.

——”Sun Tzu’s Art of War”·Ji Chapter


Plan, plan

A person’s life is about constant planning.

Long-term, short-term, detailed, rough, living, after death, large and small, there are simply countless.

Plans come quickly. Maybe an unknown thought suddenly arises in the middle of the night, making your heart racing and keeping you awake at night. In an instant, you can plan for next week, next year, or even a few years later, or even the rest of your life. But plans go away quickly. Even when you wake up in the morning and the alarm clock wakes you up, the plan will slip into sleep and never come back.

As far as the planned life span is concerned, there are only a few who “die prematurely” and even fewer who “die well”, but “accidental death” accounts for half of the population.

Many times, when you make a comprehensive plan with confidence, the rules and regulations are clearly marked, and the rows and columns are clearly marked, and you have implemented it steadily for a long time, some parts of the plan may even become a habit. Suddenly one day you feel that it is unnecessary to do this and that it is of little significance to achieve the goal, so you unconsciously change certain behaviors little by little at first. After the change, the efficiency has indeed improved. It seems that this is getting closer to the goal. This is the real fucking plan. However, history repeats itself. After a while, the novelty brought by the change gradually disappears, and the changed plan becomes a dispensable thing again. So you start to get tired of it, and you start to doubt the plan itself. It’s useless in itself. You may not have given up yet, but as soon as you entertain the idea, the end of your plan has already begun.

Jack Ma: The plan died as usual from web

How can a plan be perfect? Why do plans never execute perfectly?

perfect plan

A perfect plan is first broad and not bogged down in detail.

The more detailed the plan, the more accurate it is to a few minutes, a few pages, and a few books, the more susceptible it is to external influences. If it is affected, it will not be completed. If it is not completed, there will be a sense of frustration. If there is a sense of frustration, the effectiveness of the plan will be affected by the impact of the plan. Confidence will be hit. The more such blows, the faster the failure of the plan will come. Just like shooting marbles, it is definitely easier to hit a marble into a small hole than to hit another marble. It is easier to shoot an arrow at a target ring than to shoot a willow leaf. The broader the plan, the easier it is to implement.

Shot by sion

Running water does not rot, door hinges do not become beetles, only a plan that changes can lead to survival, and failure to change means a dead end.

There are no clouds that cannot move, no dogs that cannot run, and no environment that remains unchanged. If the plan cannot change and make choices (sublation) as the environment changes, it will inevitably be divorced from the actual situation and will have no sense of freshness. For a few days in August this year, I had a whim and wanted to try what it would be like to live the same life every day. So for three days in a row, I got up on time, ate the same breakfast on time, and went to the library on time…trying to make every moment count. They all went the same way, and as a result, except for noticing that a fat man in a sweatshirt would be fishing on the bridge at seven o’clock, and a group of old ladies starting square dancing at eight-thirty in the evening, I didn’t notice that anything on any day was repeated.

Repetition is impossible. According to theoretical physicist Michio Kaku’s discussion of parallel universes, whether you walk with your left foot or your right foot first will split into two parallel universes, not to mention there are so many thoughts in your head, one day 886400 wonderful things, thousands of different universes are created every second, coupled with the 7000,000,000 people on the earth, billions of creatures, unpredictable vortices and clouds, the probability of the same thing every day is equal to 0.

These two are just two sides of a thousand kinds of perfect plans. In addition to these perfect plans, they also have various characteristics: prioritization, excellence, giving and receiving, eliminating interference and other characteristics. I won’t say more, in short, only through continuous practice, understanding, practice, and understanding can you understand the general appearance of the perfect plan.

Now that we know what a perfect plan is, how do we implement it?

There are thousands of answers, I will explain them in one step.

Build momentum

“Sun Tzu’s Bijiao, The Art of War,” is a strange book that has been translated by foreigners as The Art of War . It has a total of thirteen chapters. Among them, “The Fifth Chapter of the Potential” gives the key to realizing the perfect plan—— Build momentum .

The speed of the rushing water is the force that causes the rocks to drift away; the speed of the birds of prey is the knot that destroys the rocks. Therefore, those who are good at fighting will have dangerous situations and shortcomings.

What Sun Tzu calls momentum, if you take off the shell of war, I think it refers to a situation that allows things to continue, such as turning a boulder on a mountain of thousands of feet, breaking a weak water on a dam of thousands of miles. With momentum, even if the front is Even if there are obstacles, things can continue to move forward according to the momentum of the situation without stagnation.

Qiantang River Tide in 2021 by Jiang Han

We can also understand it in terms of gravitational potential energy in physics:

Ep=mghE_p=mgh E p = m g h

In the formula, mm m is mass, gg g is the gravitational acceleration on the earth’s surface, usually taken as 9.8N/kg9.8 N/kg 9.8 N / kg , hh h is the height of the object from the reference plane.

It can be seen that there are three points that determine the potential:

  1. Quality is an internal factor. If you are strong, you can create stronger momentum with a little effort. If you are weak, you need to rely on other variables to make up for it.
  2. Gravity acceleration is an unchangeable external factor, that is, weather and location, which are determined by the outside world. You cannot control it, and you can only find ways to use it.
  3. Height is a variable factor, and its value can be increased through subjective and active efforts. This is the key to building momentum.

“To plan for profit and to listen is to use the momentum to support it.” After formulating the plan, we can use various methods to build momentum to ensure the smooth execution of the plan.

Let’s try to give a few examples here:

  • Time potential: the time point at which the specified time is completed;
  • Psychological potential: Take the initiative to suggest yourself, and provide positive incentives to promote the completion of the plan;
  • Inertial potential: Repeating something over and over again makes it a habit, and it will be carried out unconsciously when the time comes.

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