Take advantage of the world's sleeping gap to improve and surpass yourself -- get up early

It's winter , It's time for animals to sleep in again , If you get up early, there are so many benefits , Are you still sleeping ？

How cool it is to get up early ？

——“ earn ” flared up ！

Studies have shown that , The human body secretes a kind of control “ sleep ” and “ awake ” Brain material , It's called serotonin . When the sun rises, the human body will gradually secrete serotonin , At that time, you will feel full of vitality and strength , His mind is also very clear ; In the afternoon, serotonin began to decrease , Deep sleep late at night , Serotonin completely stops secreting . So grasp the morning , Especially in the morning , It's the key to making the whole day energetic and efficient . 

what's more , Getting up early means that you will be more than others 2 Hours of completely discretionary time .

2 How many things can you do in an hour ？

When you use this every day 2 Hours to read 1 This book 、 Or finish running 10 km 、 Or finish a course 、 Or update a thinking diary , You will be surprised to find that others' day has just begun .

So here comes the question , How to plan the morning time ？

 01

Think deeply

Deep thinking has become a luxury . On the one hand, the brain is essentially resistant to thinking , Using your brain to think will consume a lot of calories , Human beings have formed the instinct of rejecting high consumption in the process of evolution ; On the other hand , Under the bombardment of fragmented information , We have no external environment for deep thinking , Whether it's a light and funny clip presented in a short video , Still more and more popular “ Book Dismantling 、 Interpreting movies 、 Interpretation of hot events ” Content , Are constantly squeezing our space for independent in-depth thinking .

All creators and platforms try to use the most direct way “ captive ” Our brains , Stimulated by countless fresh and refreshing points that constantly hit , The brain continues to produce pleasure , Thinking nerves are constantly paralyzed .

in the course of time , We gradually lose the ability to think deeply . Because of this , Deep thinking has become a scarce ability , Who has this ability , Who is easier to take the initiative in life .

After continuous learning , I also formed my own deep thinking method ： Write down the theme of thinking in youdaoyun's notes , It can be the in-depth analysis of recent hot events , It can also be an observed social phenomenon , Then continue to dig deep “ Why? ”, And record the thinking process . After a period of training , We can find that looking at problems is no longer a superficial phenomenon , But we can see the deeper essence .

In the morning , It is undoubtedly the best time to be awake and undisturbed . 

 02

Review the information aggregation Library

Ebbinghaus forgetting curve shows that ： Forgetting begins immediately after learning , And the process of forgetting is not uniform , At first, forgetting is fast , It's going to slow down .

We take notes every day , Also collect all kinds of information , If you don't insist on sorting out, planning and reviewing in time , These valuable information will gradually fade away as more and more huge amounts of information flow into the mind .

Mind mapping is an open and flexible way to sort out notes , Its advantage is unlimited content , It can help us think and remember more methodically , Both divergent thinking and ideas , And can clearly focus on the central theme .

For example, when reading the topic before , Read a lot of related books , Also made a lot of reading notes , But the notes are scattered 、 Unsystematic , Use mind mapping to summarize all notes 、 summary 、 After refactoring , Have a deeper systematic understanding of this topic .

 03

Write a morning diary

I've always been asked , What benefits does keeping a diary bring to me . 

First of all , Establish a sense of today's ceremony . We never remember those mediocre 、 Those weekends when I brush my cell phone in bed and lie down all day , I won't remember day after day 、 An ordinary day without any novelty . To establish a sense of ritual is to make that day no longer ordinary .

second , Growth visualization . Time has been quietly shaping us , But not without trace , Diaries are the best proof of growth . With daily records , You can clearly know what you have done in the past , The past will give people a sense of reality ： We have really worked hard

At the executive level , It must be easier to keep a diary in the morning than at night 、 The content will also be more rational and profound . It's easy to have more trivia in the evening , After dealing with these things, it's time to go to bed again ; And after a night of sleep , The brain will be more awake , It is not easy to be coerced by emotions , Can be more objective and rational .

 04

Make today “ Game rewards ” plan

Life is a big game , How to make your game interesting 、 Can continue to operate ？ You need to rely on it “ Positive feedback ” This game mechanism .

When setting to-do tasks with Youdao cloud notes , I will integrate the reward mechanism , For example, take a rest after completing a to-do task 5 minute ; Finish all the to-do tasks in the morning on time and eat a chocolate 、 Listen to a Jay Chou song 、 Or take a walk downstairs ...

And at the end of each day , I'll summarize all the to-do tasks I completed today , Give yourself a comprehensive score , If completed 80% The above tasks , There will be additional rewards ; If lower 60%, There will also be a small punishment .

Design the task as a game , That is, efficiency can be guaranteed , It can be very interesting , This method is recommended to try .

 05

Scientifically plan today's tasks

Last , leave 15 Minutes to plan all the things you need to do in a day , This can help us finish the work purposefully and efficiently . When planning, I will visualize my daily tasks , And three will be used “ frog ” The laws of 、 Two minute principle 、 Four quadrant method and other time management methods help to improve the efficiency of completion .

Three “ frog ”： Means every day （ Zhou 、 month 、 year ） The three most important things .

Two minute principle ： It means anything that takes less than two minutes , Then do it right away , Or delegate it to others within two minutes , Otherwise, postpone this matter , Archive or discard .

Four quadrant time management ： Divide the things to be done according to the different degrees of importance and urgency , It can be divided into four quadrants ： Important and urgent 、 Important but not urgent 、 Not important but urgent 、 Not important and not urgent .

If you have your own recording habits , You can also save the template you created in Youdao cloud notes custom template library , And each new template will automatically bring the date of the creation day , classified 、 Archiving and searching are very convenient .

（“ Frog task management template ”、“ Four quadrant management method template ” Can be found on Youdao cloud note template library , There are other high-quality and practical member templates waiting for you to experience ！）

Toma · Coons is 《 The structure of scientific revolution 》 wrote ：“ What a person sees depends on what he sees , It also depends on what his previous visual conceptual experience taught him to see .”

Excellence is only appearance and result , The difference in thinking mode is the root of the gap .

I often hear people complain , Work is busy , I have no time to learn and improve . therefore , They often allow themselves to stop making progress 、 No longer grow , In repeated anxiety, he was eliminated and replaced by new people one after another .

But instead of constantly lamenting that the newcomers in the workplace are really “ The waves behind push the waves ahead ”、“ The starting salary 40w”, take 35 Middle aged crisis anxiety is on the lips , How about starting now , Start early , Use Youdao cloud notes to sort out the current situation , Clarify the future development direction , And walk firmly .

Don't miss every newly rising sun , Take advantage of the world's sleeping space to improve yourself 、 Self transcendence , Instead of making up for yesterday's debt .