The Promise to Yourself
While you are stretching on your job, things are falling through the cracks in your personal life. The biggest excuse? “No time.”
For example: You want to read one good book a month, but a few months pass by and you have not completed a single book. The reason? Project deadlines, go-live, travel, etc.
当你致力于我们工作的时候,有些事情正通过这些缝隙在我们个人生活中成为泡影。而最大的藉口就是没时间。比如你准备花一个月时间读一本好书,而一个月之后你可能只读了这本书的很小的一个章节。
I want to argue that the real reason is different. I believe that the biggest reason why you slip on your personal projects is that you don‘t really care about the promises you make to yourself. I have seen people making such promises, breaking them and justifying with statements like “You know what, nobody in my position could have made it work. With so many things that were happening in the project, I didn’t even have time to think about reading.”
这种情况原因很多,而真正最大的原因是我们并没有真正关注我们给自己的承诺。
Well, if you want to find an excuse, I can guarantee you that you can find one and if you think hard, you can find a few.
Unfortunately, life won‘t reward people with the best excuses. Results are what matters.
如果要找藉口的话可能有很多,但不幸的是生活关注的是结果,而并不会给最佳的藉口设置任何的奖励。
Knowing that a promise to yourself may not always work, why not start making promises to others and requesting their help to hold you accountable?
The Important Question
I have always believed in the importance of asking the right questions more than looking for the right answers. Every time, we have a task at hand, the most important question is “How can I get this done?” and we scramble to find the answers.
能够问一个正确的问题往往比找寻一个正确的答案更为重要。每时每刻,我们手上都可能有一个任务,而我们经常任务的最重要的问题就是如何把任务完成。
I think the question is wrong. The right question should be “What is the right configuration of all my resources to execute this task in the most optimal fashion?”
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