Book | Reading Part @July 10, 2017 |
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Stephen R. Covey | Habit 2:Begin With the End in Mind, P102-118 |
Summary:
首先,让我们先来设想这样一个场景:
若我们有机会得以出现在我们死后的葬礼上,当我们审视着棺材里的自己,会作何感想呢?我们会希望我们的亲朋好友同事们在我们的葬礼上如何评价我们呢?
“以终为始”(Begin with the End in Mind)
我们在盖棺定论时所希望获得的评论,才是我们内心深处真正想要追求的目标。以终为始(to begin with the end),需要我们对自己内心深处最终想要获得的目标了然于心,并时刻记着,一路走来一路审视,方能在前往目标的道路不迷失,不走岔。简单的说,你想“得瓜”,就只能“种瓜”,而不能“种豆”。
To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.
“以终为始”的两个原则:
“以终为始”的第一个原则基础是,凡事都要想好再做(All Things are Created Twice)。也就是说,我们做任何事情都需要先在头脑里构思好,即进行思想层面的第一次创造(Mental / First Creation),然后再付诸行动,也就是进行现实生活中的第二次创造(Physical / Second Creation)。好比建房子,需要先有详尽可行的设计图,才能按部施工完成。
凡事先想好再做,这是个客观原则无需置疑,但“谁想”则是个主观问题,值得深思。如果我们不能积极主动的为自己的人生规划蓝图,那我们就只能被动地过着别人为我们规划安排好的生活,成为“别人家的孩子”,实现着“别人的”目标。
前面习惯一提到的“积极主动”,就是希望我们能够运用人类独有的天赋,即自我意识(self-awareness)、想象力(imagination)、良知(conscience)和独立意志(independent will)来审视我们目前的生活状态,积极主动的构思属于我们自己的蓝图,过我们自己的生活。
“以终为始”的第二个原则是区分领导和管理的不同。领导(Leadership)属于第一次创造,即我们前面提及的思想层面的构思;管理(Management)则是第二次创造,也就是付诸行动的具体行为。用管理大师彼得·德鲁克和领导学大师华伦·贝尼斯的话来说就是,“管理是正确地做事;领导是做正确地事。”
In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
如果缺乏有效的领导,即便是再高效的管理,也是徒劳无功的。在我们的实际工作和生活中,经常会不自主的落入管理的误区却不自知,比如公司的领导者常会陷入帮下属解决问题的管理事务中,却忽略了真正应该考虑的企业目标和愿景。甚至我们的个人生活中,也常会忽略领导的作用,我们迫不及待地忙着管理我们的生活,努力提高效率,设立目标,完成任务,可是我们却忽略了我们内心的真正价值。
“以终为始”的方法之一:改写人生剧本,成为自己的第一创造者(Re-scripting: Becoming Your Own First Creator)
鉴于人类成长的自然规律(Maturity Continuum),从婴儿期的依赖到成人后的独立,这期间我们不能自主的“演绎”着许多来自父母、学校甚至社会的剧本。我们无法第一时间编写自己的成长剧本,但是当我们有能力自我意识(self-awareness)到这点时,我们就可以运用我们的想象力(imagination)和良知(conscience)改编自己的人生剧本,尝试思维转换,“以终为始”,改掉我们认为无效的消极的错误的不完整的思维定式,培养真正有效地积极地正确的习惯和思维模式,从而实现我们内心的真正价值。
I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past. I can become my own first creator.
“以终为始”的方法之二:写出你的人生观(Personal Mission Statement)
“以终为始”最有效的方法是撰写我们的个人使命宣言,即我们的人生观。在我们的正确价值和原则底线上,我们希望自己成为什么样的人(品格),以及我们希望成就什么样的人生(贡献和成就),也就是人生观里所包含的人生目的,人生态度和人生价值。
人生观因人而异,社会也是变幻莫千的,但只要我们信守自己的人生观,不触动底线和原则,就能以不变应万变。
People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
* Words and Expressions: *#
As you walk inside the building, you notice the flowers, the soft organ music.
organ, n, 1) (also pipe organ) a large musical instrument used especially in churches, with keys like a piano and large pipes that air passes through to produce the sound;2) an electronic musical instrument that produces music similar to a pipe organ, but that does not have pipes. 风琴,管风琴.
e.g. mouth organ 口琴
He records that he was almost loath to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self.
loath, adj, not wanting or willing to do something. 勉强的,不情愿的 [more loath, most loath]; be loath to do something
e.g. I am absolutely loath to let others even my parents control my own life.
He was biding his time.
bide, vi, (old use) to wait or stay somewhere, often for a long time. [syn: abide] 等待,停留
bide one’s time: to wait until the right moment to do something. 等候最佳时刻
e.g. He is biding his time during the negotiation.
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