leaf

As it is, the Tathāgata comes from nowhere and goes nowhere, hence the name Tathāgata.
🍃 All sentient beings inherently possess the Tathāgata's true nature, existing independently of any time and space, free from all delusions, which is the pure nature of the Tathāgata.
The "Diamond Sutra" begins with a life question: "How to subdue the mind?"
🍃 That is, how can we tame the chaotic thoughts in our minds and achieve tranquility of body and mind?
When we encounter troubles in life, we often blame the environment, and few understand the need to reflect on their inner selves. In fact, the mind is the root of all troubles.
🍃 "All is created by the mind." The mindset you have will reflect the world around you.

The Life OKR System is an efficient life management system designed to help individuals manage all aspects of life from a macro to a micro perspective. This system is likened to a "second brain," integrating life vision, goals, and key results (OKR) into a comprehensive system through reasonable logical design.

OKR (Objectives and Key Results) is an effective method for setting and achieving goals. It emphasizes clear goal setting and measurable key results to ensure transparency and traceability of progress. On a personal level, OKR can be applied to various aspects such as career development, family life, health, travel, and learning.

The specific application of the Life OKR System includes the following steps:

Define life mission: First, clarify your personal life mission and long-term vision. This can be achieved by setting long-term goals.

Formulate OKR: Based on your life mission, set specific objectives and key results. For example, if the goal is to improve financial health, the key results could include saving a certain amount each month or reducing unnecessary expenses.

Task breakdown: Decompose OKR into daily to-do tasks and link relevant notes and time management tools. This ensures that each key result has a concrete action plan.

Progress tracking: Use tools like Notion for progress tracking and report generation. These tools can help automatically or manually generate personal OKR completion reports and financial health reports.

Regular review: Regularly review and adjust OKR to ensure the sustainability and feasibility of goals. This can be achieved through weekly team OKR checks and monthly reviews.

Simply recording time, notes, and finances is a fragmented behavior that can lead to an excessive focus on details while losing sight of the big picture, turning oneself into a busy strategic slacker.
Time management, bookkeeping, note-taking, learning, writing, reading, and communication are not the ultimate goals; they are merely auxiliary methods to achieve personal long-term objectives. If these activities do not contribute to long-term goals, there is no need to waste time on them.
Although I have done a lot of recording of time and financial expenditures, it is still difficult for me to assess how these expenditures impact the achievement of long-term goals. This dilemma can be viewed as the Goldbach conjecture of personal time management:

I know that half of my time is wasted, but I just don't know which half.
To solve this problem, we need to simplify the complexity of the issue, which is actually equivalent to the following two questions:

1. What did I do today?

2. How do these activities help my long-term goals?
After some time of contemplation, I have developed a simple model to address this issue. Let us first model the problem.

Consider a person as a Machine, which has inputs and outputs. Initially, this Machine only possesses a time dimension, gradually it acquires a skill dimension while accumulating a financial dimension. If we view time, skills, and money as its input side, then its output side consists of money, skills, and influence dimensions. Money and skills circulate between input and output, generally in a positive manner. Our money and skills will improve with the cycle of input and output, while influence is essentially a variant of knowledge. We influence others through knowledge, establish authority and credibility through knowledge, and ultimately develop a personal brand.

This process resembles a game of leveling up. Once these abstract dimensions are grounded, they transform into a time management system (goals, tasks, and time), a financial management system (bookkeeping, investment, and insurance), and a knowledge system (writing, notes, and personal branding).

Imagine this scenario: by setting personal OKRs, breaking down each Key Result into individual TODO Tasks, tracking the time expenditure of these Tasks with time management tools, tracking the financial expenditure of these Tasks with financial management, and tracking the notes of these Tasks with knowledge management, we can know the time and financial expenditure of each Objective, as well as the output notes produced by this Objective, and ultimately the degree of influence generated. By continuously optimizing the input and output sides, we can form an efficient learning ability and better adapt to external changes.

How to optimize? It requires recording data from various dimensions of input and output. By controlling the realization of high-level goals through recording underlying dimension data. From the perspective of time and financial cost-effectiveness, evaluate each executed task. If a task better promotes the realization of the OKR goal, then the investment in that task is valuable.
Ideally, everyone should have their own dashboard for each dimension of input and output, allowing them to see the value of what they do every day from a macro perspective. We can quantify the input-output ratio of each task to optimize our processing flow.

System Design
After modeling the problem, my current business requirements are:

1. A global Tag system. This Tag system can set annual OKR goals from personal vision, and then perform fine-grained Task breakdown for OKR's Key Results.
2. Task time expenditure tracking. It can count the total time spent on related Tasks for a specific Key Result of an OKR goal.
3. Task financial expenditure tracking. It can count the total financial cost of related Tasks for a specific Key Result of an OKR goal.
4. Task-related note association. It can associate relevant Task notes with a specific Key Result of an OKR goal.
5. Dashboard raw data generation. It can automatically or manually generate personal OKR completion performance reports and financial health reports.

The following diagram illustrates the process flow from personal vision to OKR, then from OKR to daily to-do tasks, tracking the related time, finances, and notes of the tasks.

The Life OKR System consists of 5 major modules:

Long-termism: Includes self-definition, life vision, and milestones;
Life OKR: Includes fields, objectives, and key results in 3 data tables;
Grounded actions: Includes projects, tasks, to-dos, habits, etc., in 5 data tables;
Periodic review: Includes weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual data tables;
Knowledge base: Includes data collection, document recording, library, courses.

Life lacks a sense of "goal."

What does a sense of goal mean? It can be explained in two points:

First, you must have a goal, which can be long-term or short-term. The goal must be something you want to accomplish, not something others tell you "should be done."

Second, in daily life, you must be very clear about which of your actions correspond to which of your goals, or whether they do not correspond to your goals at all, but are just "meaningless trivialities."

OKR Goal Management Method

OKR includes multiple characteristics such as objectives, key results, time, responsible persons, and hierarchy. In the process of formulating OKR, it is also a thinking process, where employees need to clarify why and how to do each task.

When writing OKR, keep in mind some best practices:#

Objectives should be inspiring or ambitious.
Always set a timeline for your objectives.
Ideally, each individual, team, or department should have three to five objectives.
Key results should have measurable outcomes.
Each objective should have about three to five key results.

Why to do it needs to clarify which organizational goal the current objective serves, i.e., "O"; the how to do it question answers what actions need to be taken to achieve the current objective and what results need to be reached, i.e., "KR."

OKR inherits the mission, vision, and strategy of the organization, inspiring projects and tasks.

Its essence still follows the 5W2H thinking framework.

The 5W2H analysis method, also known as the "Seven Whys" analysis method, was originally created by the U.S. Army Ordnance Repair Department during World War II. It is easy to understand, use, and is enlightening. It is a law, a principle, a process, and a tool widely used in enterprise management and daily work and study.

Through continuous application and summarization, a mature "5W+2H" model has gradually formed, where H refers to How (how to do it and budget).

In "Poor Charlie's Almanack," there is a passage about the Five Whys principle: The CEO of Braun Company requires that all communications must adhere to the "Five Whys" principle—You must explain who did what for what reason when and where. If you write a letter in Braun Company or instruct someone to do something without telling them the reason, you may be fired. In fact, if you make this mistake twice, you will be fired.

You may ask, is this really that important? Well, it relates to principles of psychology. If you can combine a pile of patterned knowledge to answer one why after another, you can think better; similarly, if you always tell people the reasons when you tell them things, they will understand what you say more deeply, value what you say more, and be more inclined to follow what you say. Even if they do not understand your reasoning, they will be more inclined to listen to you.

If we can use the Five Whys principle for learning and work, it will provide a very simple and practical method to make learning and work easier and faster. When encountering problems, there will also be tools for analysis and thinking. So how do we use this Five Whys principle? Let’s look at a few examples to familiarize ourselves with this thinking pattern.

1. Use in learning
   For example, recently we learned about the redundancy backup thinking model, using the Five Whys principle would follow this routine process:

What—What is redundancy backup? Where did it originate? What is the redundancy backup thinking model?
Why—Why learn redundancy backup thinking? Why understand and use redundancy backup thinking? Why is redundancy backup thinking so important for our life and work?

When—When do we need to use redundancy backup thinking? When can we use it?

Where—Besides engineering principles, where else can we find cases of redundancy backup? After understanding redundancy backup, where can we apply this thinking?

Who—Who needs to understand and use redundancy backup thinking? Who will benefit more? Who has typical cases of redundancy backup thinking?

How—After learning and understanding redundancy backup, how can we use redundancy backup thinking to help improve the quality of our life and work?

2. Use in analyzing entrepreneurial projects
   What—What is the core of this project? What key problem does it solve?

Why—Why do this project? Why should we do this project?

When—When is the best time to do this project? When will the core users of this project use our product or service?

Where—Where will we conduct the research and development and market promotion of this project? Where will customers use our product or service?

Who—Who are our key customers? Who are our key personnel? Who is responsible for leading and promoting the project?

How—How to define the key nodes of the project? How to achieve it?

3. Use in corporate activities
   For example, if the boss suddenly asks you to accompany them on a business trip to Shanghai, you can use the "5W2H" framework on the phone to confirm all key elements at once, so nothing is missed and you do not seem clueless.

Why do you need to go? (Why)
What is the task of the business trip and what will you mainly do? (What)
What time will you arrive and what time will you finish? (When)
Where is the specific address, and where will you stay? (Where)
Who will go with you, and who will you meet? (Who)
What transportation will you take to Shanghai? (How)
What is the budget available? (How Much)

Using 5W2H can quickly clarify task elements in temporary corporate matters, leaving a good impression of "meticulous thinking"!

The SMART principle is the basic principle of goal setting because it reminds employees that each goal should be:
S—Specific, clear
M—Measurable, quantifiable
A—Attainable, achievable
R—Relevant, related
T—Temporal, time-bound

1. Write your dreams in a notebook and carry it with you, and your dreams will come true.
2. Only handwritten words can feel their meaning and importance.
3. A notebook that can be flipped through at any time is better than a digital notebook.
4. Treat the notebook as your expanded memory, which will speed up your brain's operation.
5. The size of the notebook should be standard Bible size.
   Dream List and Dream Pyramid
   Dream List: 1. Describe in a more specific way; 2. Utilize visual effects such as photos or drawings.
   Dream Pyramid: Divide these dreams into six categories: "Health," "Cultivation & Knowledge," "Mind & Spirit," "Society & Work," "Personal & Family," "Economic & Material & Money." The so-called "Dream Life Pyramid" divides these six types of dreams into three levels: "Foundation Stage," "Realization Stage," and "Result Stage."

The Dream Notebook is a place to implement "① write it down," "② believe strongly," and "③ maintain motivation continuously."
When you start using the "Dream Notebook," collecting and pasting all information related to your dreams in the notebook will become a habit. Any simple desire that makes you feel "this is indeed a dream" can be treated as information to concretely realize your dream and should be collected.
Action Notebook
In the Action Notebook, arrange the tasks to be done in a schedule.
The core part of this so-called "Action Notebook" is the "Medium and Long-Term Plan Schedule" and "Short-Term Plan Schedule."
Additionally, in the Action Notebook, there is a section that will be introduced later, "Admonitions, Quotes, Action Guidelines." In this section, you can write down things that you think will have a significant impact on your future actions. If there are sentences that align with the planned schedule, writing them down will be even more effective.
However, even good sentences, if pasted together without logical order, will be difficult to review later. Therefore, I recommend organizing and arranging them by degree and project.
The Action Notebook also includes an "Execution Checklist." This so-called Execution Checklist lists "when and what to do." All tasks in the Execution Checklist should first confirm the order of execution.
When you are about to give up on your dreams, let the notebook remind you!
Thinking Notebook
In this project, you can include things like "MTG (meeting) execution checklist" for meetings with others or folders organized by person or event, or other materials like phone numbers, sticky notes, spare loose-leaf paper, etc.

Of course, some places will differ from the average person. That is the "Thinking Confirmation Checklist." The "Thinking Confirmation Checklist" is to organize and integrate your considerations in the notebook.

Work Techniques and Learning Techniques#

1. Goal dataization: Strengthen communication with difficult bosses → Make them laugh once a day. Collect three topics each week that can improve the boss's mood. Have a meal together once a week.
2. Treat "What is the focus?" as a catchphrase.
3. Problems that cannot be solved will not happen to you.
4. Lifelong learning.
5. Do not take immediate action on anything; first, think about the most efficient method before proceeding.
6. Actively seek opportunities to connect with influential people.
7. People have no aggression towards those who behave appropriately.
8. Those who cannot be grateful are merely calculating their interests.
   Information Collection and Organization
9. Record everything.
10. Read newspapers before "looking" and then "reading."
11. When collecting information, clarify the goals, highlight key points with a red pen, and regularly compare collected information.
12. Write insights in the blank spaces of books for easier memory.

The "Mandala Nine-Grid Thinking Method" reminds us that a happy life goal is balanced in body and mind and should include eight major areas: health, work, finance, family, society, personality, learning, and leisure.

Think about questions like "What do I want to have?" "What do I want to become?" "What must I do to achieve this goal?" The order of thinking is to "first depict the ideal future state," then reverse infer "what actions should be taken to meet the standards," rather than "waiting to see where what you are currently doing will take you."

Life goals can be diverse; it is advisable to use images to stimulate imagination. Kumagai said that when he sees a favorite imported car on the street, he takes a photo with it; if he wants to become an "international businessman," he finds a photo of a Japanese person shaking hands with a foreigner and sticks these images in his notebook or saves them on his phone to enhance the reality of his dreams.

When you frequently look at photos, you will gradually learn to judge what the important goals are. For example, if you originally had a picture of a luxury car but later think that buying a house is more important, you can replace it with a picture of a house.

In addition to categorizing life dreams, you should also prioritize the execution order.
He divides dreams into six categories: "Health," "Cultivation & Knowledge," "Mind & Spirit," "Society & Work," "Personal & Family," "Economic & Material & Money," arranged into a dream pyramid. Health, cultivation, and spirit belong to the foundational stage, while work and family belong to the realization stage. If one is healthy, well-cultivated, and spiritually fulfilled, work and family will naturally be fulfilled, ultimately leading to financial satisfaction.

Determine Task Goals#

First, employees should know the purpose and character of their work. Many newcomers in the workplace often say they do not understand the problems they encounter, which is due to unclear task goals at their current stage, resulting in feedback that appears muddled and disorganized, constituting an ineffective work feedback form. Therefore, it is essential to determine the current task goals to understand whether the work done meets the character goals and accurately assess whether the work is completed.

Test Through Practice#

Practice is the only standard for testing truth! Regardless of what goals and plans you set, if you do not engage in extensive practical attempts, the feedback you can provide will only be based on your imagined problems. At this point, no matter how your leader tries to help you solve problems, you will find it impractical because you cannot judge whether it is indeed the case. Therefore, it is crucial to engage in extensive practical attempts and provide substantial feedback to help your work.

Goal Feedback Form

The three major financial statements of enterprises are the profit and loss statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement:#

Profit and Loss Statement: It reflects the performance of the enterprise's income, expenditure, and profit.
Balance Sheet: It reflects the end-of-period status of the enterprise's assets, liabilities, and capital.
Cash Flow Statement: It reflects the flow of cash in and out of the enterprise, divided into operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities.
Of course, enterprise statements are relatively complex; our personal and family financial statements can be simplified. For example, we only need to focus on income/expenditure and assets/liabilities, while bookkeeping can help us understand whether our personal and family cash flow is healthy.

In the CASHFLOW game, cash flow is crucial. Cash flow = Total income - Total expenditure = (Salary income + Non-salary income) - Total expenditure = (Non-salary income - Total expenditure) + Salary income. The goal of the entire game is to make non-salary income greater than total expenditure. For high-income professions like programmers, achieving financial freedom can be particularly challenging because salary income is not very stable, while total expenditure is stable and high. This is the trap of high income; you must reduce your liabilities to achieve financial freedom more easily. Therefore, try to increase the non-salary income in your total income (interest + dividends + real estate + business cash flow) and reduce high-interest liabilities in your total liabilities (credit card debt, bank loans, etc.). To prevent bankruptcy, you should have at least 3-6 months of total expenditure in cash for emergencies.

Standard & Poor's Family Asset Allocation Chart

The first account is the daily expense account, which generally accounts for 10% of family assets, covering 3-6 months of living expenses. This is usually kept in a regular savings bank card. This account ensures short-term family expenses; daily life, clothing, beauty, travel, etc., should be paid from this account.

The second account is the leverage account, which generally accounts for 20% of family assets, specifically for unexpected large expenses. This account mainly consists of accident and critical illness insurance, as only insurance can leverage small amounts for large payouts, not occupying too much money in normal times, but providing a large sum when needed.

The third account is the investment income account, which generally accounts for 30% of family assets, creating income for the family. It uses risky investments to generate high returns, including stocks, funds, real estate, and businesses.

The fourth account is the long-term income account, which generally accounts for 40% of family assets, ensuring pensions, children's education funds, and money left for children. This account must guarantee that the principal cannot incur any losses and must resist the erosion of inflation, so the returns may not be high, but they are stable over the long term, such as bonds, trusts, dividend insurance for pensions, and children's education funds.

Personal/Family Financial Annual Summary
With bookkeeping, you can analyze your financial status over the year in your personal annual summary. For example, in my annual summary, I always do the following financial summary:

Balance Sheet#

Profit and Loss Statement#

Cash Flow Statement#

Financial Three Statements

Standard & Poor's Family Asset Allocation Chart, the most reasonable and stable family asset allocation method#

Where to go and how to get there is planning.

Step by step, use map thinking to complete your life planning. There are three steps in total:

Decide on a destination: Where do I want to go?
Locate yourself: Where am I?
Draw the route: How do I get there?
To illustrate with a diagram, it would look like this:

How do the necessary elements in various aspects of life operate together? There is no need to consider the present; just imagine the ideal state and think in order of importance:

Health
Family
Interpersonal relationships
Finance
Career/Work
Others, such as knowledge, religion, etc.

Ideal Life Example

Step 2: Where am I?
Now, turn the lens back to yourself in the studio. What is the current situation of health, family, interpersonal relationships, finance, and career/work? How far is it from the ideal? Write the ideal/current situation side by side to easily see the gap.

Reality & Ideal Example

Planning Life Route
Now, we need to break down the reality and ideal into three short, medium, and long-term executable goals and draw the route on the map.

When setting execution goals, you must adhere to these three most important principles:

You can achieve it.
You are passionate about it.
You are willing to do it.
The third step can be quite brain-intensive, and you may discover many contradictions while drawing the map:

Suppose your ideal health is a fit physique with defined lines, but you absolutely hate going to the gym and find shared equipment unhygienic. The goal cannot be to "develop the habit of going to the gym" because you simply cannot stick to it! If going to the gym is a dead end for you, you need to take a detour and switch to yoga, bodyweight training, boxing, etc.;

You may also encounter contradictions between ideals and execution goals, indicating that your ideals are unrealistic. For example, if your ideal is to possess millions in assets, but you do not want to build a career or work, do not want to form a family or network, and cannot think of any willing, executable goals. If this is the case, you must return to the first step and revise your ideal life.

When planning execution goals, once you find execution difficulties or lack of interest, adjust the ideals from the first and second steps; if you insist that the ideal must be realized, be mentally prepared that this path will not be easy.

As for how long short, medium, and long-term are, everyone has different ideas about the duration. The time length can be planned according to personal needs, but it is best for the short term to be half a year or a year.

Through brainstorming execution goals and repeatedly revising ideals, you will deeply explore yourself. Perhaps the ideal life is still a bit vague, but that’s okay; the first imagination is always like this.

Life Route Planning Example
In the end, your life route planning may look like this:

Strategy is who to go with, tactics are how to do things better.#

Back to the three things: vision, values, mission.#

Operating Life#

"The Designer of Life" is a strategy puzzle game produced by Spectrum Company in 1994, known in English as The Designer of Life.

Players must choose their parents, who will influence the protagonist's basic conditions at birth, including appearance, abilities, etc. The achievements of the parents in their work will also affect the impressions of relevant figures in that professional field towards the protagonist. Therefore, it is best to first envision the career field you want to challenge, then select parents with higher relevant ability values to create a protagonist more suited to that professional field.

The protagonist's attributes are the average values of the parents' attributes, and the friendship level of each NPC towards the protagonist is 50%. If the parents are friends, the initial friendship level is 78% (starting with an assistant doll). Since the assistant doll is very important in the game, it is best not to choose parents without friends, and friends should not be repeated. Thus, at the beginning of the game, there are four parent friends each providing an assistant doll.

For suggestions on selecting parents for various professions, please refer to Career Strategy.

1. Politics has the highest ultimate resource, but the required education, conditions, and milestones are high, making it a "suffer first, enjoy later" type of profession.
2. Baseball is one of the few professions that do not require a degree and is also the fastest way to accumulate cash in the early stages.
3. Although directors have the fewest milestones, the cash portion of the final conditions takes a long time to achieve.
4. Acting is the only profession without age or educational restrictions, but the final conditions take a long time to achieve.
5. The military requires the fewest types of abilities but has the most milestones, taking a long time to reach the final milestone.
6. Academia is the hardest industry to make money in, with the highest educational requirements and very low cost-effectiveness.

If you want to achieve goals primarily based on cash and happiness, choosing baseball is the fastest. If not, politics is the most stable option. Of course, aiming for other professions also has its different joys.

After completing the birth settings, you need to set your ideal life goals. The game defines life achievement indicators as happiness, reputation, wealth, and knowledge. Players must set an ideal value for these four indicators, which will be the scores the protagonist strives to achieve over decades. If they achieve their predetermined life goals before retiring at sixty, the player's name will be placed on the leaderboard.

Among all values, happiness is the easiest to obtain. Especially giving a ring to a wife can increase happiness by 50%, quickly boosting it significantly. Next is money, which can be easily managed through fixed deposits. The hardest are knowledge and reputation; the former must be accumulated through various skills and experiences, while the latter can only be developed slowly through land. Therefore, if you want to easily achieve your goals, you can lower the target values for knowledge and reputation while raising those for happiness and money.

(a) Data

Age: The protagonist's age. Some professions have age restrictions.
Appearance: High attractiveness is advantageous for working in the entertainment industry. Some women only like handsome men. If you do not want to enter the entertainment industry or pursue women who value appearance, this value is actually not important.
Height and weight: These will change as age increases; going to the gym can also improve these values. A good physique is advantageous for actors.
Physical strength: The upper limit is health value * 100. Physical strength decreases during overtime work; if physical strength remains low for a long time, it will affect health value, so try not to overwork the protagonist during the game.
Education: Can be directly upgraded in the achievement network or through remedial classes in the community. Many professions have certain educational requirements, so it is best to upgrade directly in the achievement network for faster results.
Profession: The current profession of the protagonist, which can be changed at the job introduction office in the community.

(b) Abilities

Learning: Affects the speed of learning Chinese, English, mathematics, and educational skills. This part will influence learning speed before high school graduation; after entering university or the workforce, unless in academia or some special industries, it will not have much impact.
Creation: Very important for cultivating professional skills for trade company developers and behind-the-scenes personnel in the entertainment industry.
Expression: Acting, education, politics, and business all require high expressiveness.
Leadership: Necessary for any management level and is also an important ability for politicians and directors.
Affinity: Extremely important for educators, politicians, or any managers.
Adaptability: Affects the efficiency of learning acting, business, and sports skills.
Health: Affects the upper limit of physical strength and is also an important condition for training sports skills. It decreases by one each year after age 30.
Willpower: Particularly important for baseball players or soldiers.

In the game, success in life is measured by four major indicators: happiness, money, reputation, and knowledge. At the beginning of the game, you must set the proportions of these four indicators, with the original setting being 25% each. You can adjust them according to your definition of success, and then take different actions in the game to achieve your life goals.

To have a successful life, you must fully utilize the following in the game (and in real life):

1. Time allocation and management.

2. Networking management.

3. Timely and appropriately using leverage in networking and finances.

4. Finding a suitable partner based on your set life goals.

5. What is the Personal Business Model Canvas?
   The Personal Business Model Canvas is a variant of the Business Model Canvas, adapted from a tool originally used for designing business models for enterprises to a framework suitable for personal career development and self-management. The Business Model Canvas was first proposed by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur in their book "Business Model Generation," while the Personal Business Model Canvas applies this concept at the individual level.

2. The Nine Blocks of the Personal Business Model Canvas
   Operating life and running a company are similar. Successful companies and individuals always know who their users are, what kind of value they need, and how they create unique value for them, just like managing a company.

The components of the Personal Business Model Canvas typically correspond to the nine building blocks of the Business Model Canvas. To answer the above questions, you might ask yourself the following nine questions:

1. Core Resources: Who am I? What resources do I have?

Tangible resources: Including your skills, knowledge, qualifications, etc.

Intangible resources: Personal brand, network, reputation, etc.

2. Key Activities: What do I need to do?

Core activities: List the key activities you need to perform to realize your value proposition, such as learning improvement, project collaboration, resource integration, etc.

Partners: Describe who you may need to collaborate with to support your business development.

3. Customer Segments: For whom can I create value and help?

Target customers: Describe your target customer segments, such as newcomers in the workplace, freelancers, entrepreneurs, etc.

Needs and pain points: List the main needs and pain points of these customers, such as improving professional skills, seeking collaboration opportunities, obtaining entrepreneurial guidance, etc.

4. Value Proposition: How do I create value and help others?

Unique selling point: Explain what unique value you can provide to customers, such as professional skills, rich experience, networking resources, etc.

Solutions: Describe how you meet customer needs and solve their pain points.

5. Channels: How to promote myself or my products?

Promotion channels: List how you will promote yourself, such as social media, online platforms, offline events, etc.

6. Customer Relationships: How to interact with customers?

Describe how you maintain contact with customers, such as regular communication, building communities, providing after-sales service, etc.

7. Key Partners: Who can help me?

Collaborative relationships: How to provide help and support?

Partnerships: How to provide help and support?

Transactional relationships: How to provide help and support?

8. Cost Structure: What do I need to pay?

Fixed costs: Such as training fees, platform usage fees, etc.

Variable costs: Expenses incurred based on project or business needs, such as investments in collaborative projects, marketing expenses, etc.

9. Revenue Streams: What can I gain?

Revenue channels: Describe your sources of income, such as providing consulting services, participating in project collaborations, selling products, etc.

Pricing strategy: Set reasonable prices based on your value proposition and market demand.

3. Use Cases for the Personal Business Model Canvas

The use cases for the Personal Business Model Canvas include but are not limited to:

1. Career planning. Individuals can use the business canvas to plan their career paths, identify target positions, required skills, and potential obstacles.

2. Self-introduction. In job interviews or social situations, the Personal Business Model Canvas can help clearly convey personal value and capabilities.

3. Personal brand building. By clarifying personal positioning and channels, individuals can more strategically shape and disseminate their personal brand.

4. Career transition. When individuals consider changing careers, they can use this tool to assess the fit and required resources in the new field.

5. Continuous learning. Identify educational and training opportunities needed for personal growth and plan learning paths.

6. Networking expansion. Identify key partners and relevant groups, and develop strategies to expand and deepen professional networks.

7. Performance evaluation. During annual summaries or performance reviews, the Personal Business Model Canvas can serve as a tool for reflection and setting future goals.

The Personal Business Model Canvas is a flexible tool that can be customized and adjusted according to individual specific needs and goals.

Buying a House#

The house price is not the actual total payment.

Generally speaking, in addition to the 30% down payment that should be paid, there are also nearly 3% in taxes and agency fees. The remaining 70% loan will incur interest close to the loan amount during the repayment process over the next 30 years. This means that the actual payment amount is close to 173% of the total house price. The first payment is close to 33%.

For example, for a house priced at 2 million, the first payment is close to 720,000, and the total actual payment over 30 years is close to 3.4 million.

The most important thing is to solve the down payment (including tax fees of about 1.2% and agency fees of about 1.5%) of 33% (it is best to prepare 40% for safety). As for other conditions like cash flow, they are generally easy to handle, and try not to let the monthly payment exceed 70% of one person's salary; exceeding this will greatly affect future life.

Parking spaces are generally calculated separately, fluctuating around 100,000, and property fees fluctuate around 3,000 per year.

Renovation#

Renovation costs vary by region; generally, in smaller places (county towns), it can be done for around 100,000. Each level up (city, provincial capital, first-tier) increases renovation costs by about 25%.

As for furniture and appliances, try to choose solid wood. Low formaldehyde levels effectively reduce the probability of cancer and birth defects. Solid wood furniture is not cheap, averaging around 3,000 per piece. Generally, a bedroom's furniture and appliances cost around 8,000, a living room around 12,000, and a dining room around 5,000, with prices fluctuating based on personal choices.

This solid wood furniture store has decent quality and service, with better after-sales support. 【Store 1】 (A little tip: contact customer service + the first time you give a bad review can earn you two free gifts)

How do ordinary people renovate their houses? (A non-comprehensive guide to renovation)

Renovation soft decoration summary (how to buy furniture and appliances for renovation)

How to reduce formaldehyde in renovation?

Payment is generally in four stages: 30% (paid before construction starts), 30% (after major projects are completed or started), 30%, and 10% (generally six months after completion). In some areas, this may vary slightly due to local conditions.

Overall, hard decoration costs range from 100,000 to 250,000 + soft decoration costs from 50,000 to 150,000, generally around 200,000.

Wedding#

The bride price varies by region, generally between 20,000 to 200,000.

Three gold items: as appropriate (generally 15,000 to 50,000).

Wedding banquet: If it is in a county town or village, it generally costs 700 to 1,200 per table; in urban areas, it is basically 2,000 to 5,000 per table (luxurious ones can reach 10,000). If it is a hotel, confirm in advance whether there are service fees (15% for star-rated hotels; overtime fees, entrance fees);

Wedding photos: Generally range from 5,000 to 20,000.

Wedding dress: 2,000 to 30,000 (generally includes the bride's wedding dress, exit dress, ceremony dress, reception dress, wedding shoes, three outfits, versatile, flat, high heels, groom's suit, bridesmaid and groomsman outfits, and parents' outfits, with small gifts prepared as well).

Wedding dress: 3,000 to 10,000.

Wedding items: Four-piece set (1,000 to 2,000) + others.

Wedding car: Generally priced by vehicle/time/kilometer/brand; in smaller places, it is generally 300 to 500 for half a day; in urban areas, it can be 1,000 to 10,000; some places require fewer cars, while others generally require 6 to 9 cars, and parking fees must also be paid.

Photography: 100 to 500.

Videography: 100 to 500.

Hosting: 100 to 500.

Makeup: 300 to 800.

Performance Team: As appropriate.#

Red envelopes: One for each bridesmaid and groomsman, 100 to 500; others like children, helpers, drivers, etc., each get 20 to 100.

Excluding the bride price, the rough estimate is around 110,000 (three gold items 10,000 to 15,000, other jewelry 5,000, banquet 30,000 to 50,000, red envelopes 4,000, wedding planning 5,000 to 20,000, red envelopes for both parents 20,000, and suits and dresses 10,000 to 20,000).

Car#

Generally speaking, the tax on a new car is about 4% to 10%, and the down payment varies; most start at 30%, with interest-free for 3 years.

In other words, to buy a 100,000 car, you need to prepare at least 40,000; car insurance generally includes mandatory insurance + vehicle tax, totaling around 1,300; commercial insurance varies based on circumstances, generally decreasing if no claims are made. Generally, it starts at about 5% to 2% in the end.

On the road, the cost per kilometer is about 0.8 yuan (it increases during traffic jams); the toll for a 1,000-kilometer long-distance highway is around 500.

In reality, the final price = 115% of the car price, with the first payment being at least around 45% of the car cost (tax + insurance is about 15%).

The above is just the expenditure data for county towns; switching to cities would roughly double it, and switching to first- and second-tier cities should increase the data by 3 to 4 times. Based on an 8% excess inflation rate, data doubles every 13 years, allowing you to estimate the one-time large expenditures you will incur around age 30.

There are also periodic expenditures that cannot be estimated.

Emotions#

Unsuccessful relationships hinder development.

Thinking back, it is quite sad. In junior high and high school, I liked a pair of mutual best friends, and it was quite dramatic that we both agreed, but I couldn't get over it in my heart, so I remained entangled and eventually ended up breaking up with one due to cold violence, while the other ended things with me because my grades were not as good as theirs. If I had never seen them again, it would have been fine, but I happened to encounter them again in high school and noticed they were getting close to other boys. Disheartened, my grades plummeted from the top 30 to the bottom 30, and in the mock exam before the May college entrance examination, I scored 300 points. God knows how I managed to sleep through the Chinese and math exams in the last month, except for the last math question, which I habitually skipped, and I scored nearly 200 points on questions I didn't attempt, ending up with 530. (As a result, I didn't want to repeat a year.) If these things hadn't happened, I might have been aiming for Zhongshan and working hard, perhaps a bit more arrogantly, I could have aimed for a safety net.

In this vast world, there are too few people who match and share similar thoughts. When you encounter them, you cannot let go clearly. With regrets, you realize that a thousand years is too long; you should seize the day and not wait until blind dates to experience the vast world again, which is such a painful realization.

Here, I recommend Stephen Chow's "A Chinese Odyssey," "The King of Comedy," and Stephen Chow's romantic experiences.

1. Define your personal goals
   Before embarking on the journey together, each partner must take some time to determine their personal goals and wishes. This step is crucial as it allows individuals to reflect on what they truly want in life. By understanding each other's personal goals, you can begin to explore how your respective paths can harmoniously intersect.

2. Open and regular communication
   Communication is the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. This becomes even more important when planning a future together. Regularly discuss your dreams, fears, and concerns with your partner. Openly express your expectations and wishes for the future. Remember, communication is a two-way street, so actively listen to your partner's thoughts and feelings.

3. Identify shared values and priorities
   While each person in a relationship may have unique goals and values, it is essential to identify the commonalities that form the foundation of your relationship. Discuss what matters most to both of you and prioritize these values when planning your future together.

4. Set both short-term and long-term goals
   Setting goals is a component of planning a future together. Start by establishing short-term goals that can be achieved within one or two years, such as exploring new career opportunities or saving for a vacation. At the same time, discuss long-term goals, such as buying a house, starting a family, or pursuing higher education. Keep in mind that these goals may change over time, so regularly revisit and adjust them as you grow together.

5. Financial planning and budgeting
   Finances are often a source of stress in relationships. It is crucial to openly discuss your financial situation (including income, debt, and spending habits). Create a joint budget that reflects your shared goals. Consider consulting a financial advisor who can help you determine the best strategies for saving, investing, and planning for the future together.

6. Embrace flexibility and compromise
   Every couple will inevitably face challenges and unexpected obstacles on the path to a shared future. Embracing flexibility and being willing to compromise will enable you to navigate these difficulties more effectively.

7. Build a supportive network
   When planning for the future together, it is essential to establish a support network of family and friends. Surrounding yourselves with people who believe in your relationship and support your goals will create a nurturing environment for you to thrive.

8. Consider relationship milestones
   As you plan for the future together, pay attention to important relationship milestones, such as anniversaries, engagements, and weddings. Celebrating these milestones can strengthen your commitment to each other and create cherished memories.

9. Continuously advocate for growth
   Growth and personal development are vital aspects of any meaningful relationship. Encourage each other's personal growth and support your partner's aspirations. Create an environment where both of you feel empowered to learn, grow, and pursue your dreams.

10. Seek professional guidance
    Sometimes, external guidance can provide valuable insights and perspectives to help you plan for the future together. Consider seeking couples counseling or relationship coaching to strengthen your connection and address any challenges. Seeking external guidance is not a sign of weakness but a proactive step toward building a healthy and thriving relationship.

11. Adapt and reassess
    Remember, planning for the future together is an ongoing process. Over time, your goals and circumstances may change. It is essential to regularly evaluate your progress, reassess your goals, and adjust your plans accordingly.

Choosing a School#

Vision and heritage determine turning points.

Due to being in a rural area and long-term left-behind status, coupled with schools focusing solely on rote learning and exam drills, there was little emphasis on future development, leading to a complete lack of understanding of the significance of middle school, high school, and university, or even what to do after graduating from middle school, whether there was still high school, resulting in a loss of direction in learning.

Refer to China's university ladder, C9, 985, 211.

Choosing a Career
This is a turning point.

So how do you manage yourself?#

It is not complicated; just think of yourself as a company. A company has many departments, each with its responsibilities. Managing yourself like a company requires you to mentally break yourself down into multiple "departments" that cooperate with each other.

A novice without any experience only has an "operations department" and no "sales department"—they only bury their heads in taking on work and doing it without packaging the value generated by their hard work into products for multiple sales.

In contrast, those skilled at managing themselves have at least the following five "departments."

Sales Department: To sell products and convert them into money. From this perspective, you need to think clearly about a key question: How to find and package your skills into products for sale?

Brand Department: To build a personal brand and enhance personal influence. Influence means making your IP and image valuable, which can be monetary or emotional value, as long as it benefits customers. When more people recognize and like you, selling products becomes easier, and you can attract higher-quality customers.

Operations Department: To stimulate your inner motivation and continuously empower yourself. By setting short-term and long-term goals, you can drive yourself forward. All dreams require practical actions to be realized; strong execution is key to success, and there should be no laziness.

R&D Department: Focused on continuous learning and growth, broadening your moat through improving professional skills and diverse thinking. Core competitiveness is not innate but comes from continuous and lifelong learning. Mastering a new skill can become an important weapon in fierce competition.

Strategy Department: To grasp the right direction and make decisions. Achievements in life are the accumulation of a series of favorable choices. Sometimes, it must be admitted that making the right choice is more important than hard work. However, we do not have the ability to foresee the future; the only thing we can do is continuously strengthen ourselves to ensure that if we make an unfavorable choice, we can quickly recover with minimal cost.

Sources of Conflict#

Effective communication includes three key steps: trust, communication, and consensus, which I summarize as the "Golden Triangle" principle:

【Communication Window】 Solves the trust issue in communication (Step 1)
【Information Funnel】 Solves the information decay issue in communication (Step 2)
【Consensus Pyramid】 Solves the dispute resolution issue in communication (Step 3)

Emotional Feedback Chart#

Trust Tool - Communication Window
Effective communication requires trust. If your communication partner does not trust you, then what you say will have no effect on them, becoming a case of "in one ear and out the other." How to improve your trustworthiness with others takes time and skill.

The Communication Window, originally known as the Johari Window, is also called the "Self-Awareness Discovery and Feedback Model." It divides the familiarity of both parties with the content into four quadrants based on the dimensions of "what one knows about oneself" and "what others know about oneself," namely: the Open Quadrant, Hidden Quadrant, Blind Spot Quadrant, and Potential Quadrant.

These four quadrants encompass most situations in daily communication. Familiarizing oneself with the relationships between each area is particularly useful for better understanding communication. More importantly, we can use it to build trust and respect in others' minds, making our words more effective.

1. Open Quadrant: Information that both you and others know
   In this quadrant, communication is easiest to reach consensus. For example, in the 2018 year-end speech by Luo Pan, he emphasized that "Gained" should be the best knowledge service provider. If you have also taken courses on "Gained" and found the content excellent, it will easily resonate with you. Afterward, when he mentions that he invited various experts to refine the courses and produce the highest quality content service, you are more likely to believe that the subsequent evidence is true, as it is based on a consensus range discussed by both parties, meaning the larger the Open Quadrant, the better the communication effect.

For instance, if we conduct a trust ranking, you will find that the closer the relationship, the higher the trust level, which essentially reflects the gradual expansion of the Open Quadrant.

2. Hidden Quadrant: Information that you know but others do not
   This quadrant plays an important role in enhancing trust and requires positive expression to avoid misunderstandings. We can categorize the contents of this quadrant based on "difficulty of disclosure" from easy to difficult into three layers.

The first layer: Hard to say, afraid to say
Sometimes we hesitate to speak, considering others' feelings and the impact on ourselves after speaking. For example, in product development, when the code is halfway done, the operations team discovers a significant design error in the requirements but finds it hard to bring it up, fearing that if they do, the product and development will have to start over. In the end, they hold back their words, and when it goes live, they face a barrage of user complaints and still have to redo it.

Similarly, if the boss makes a decision and assigns it for execution, but internally, one has objections, they may nod in agreement due to pressure at the time, but in the actual execution process, it may significantly underperform, leading to poor results.

The second layer: Forgot to say
"Forgot to say" is often caused by different understandings of the same matter. Each person's growth experiences and professional backgrounds are different, and many things that one considers self-evident may not be known to others. For instance, the last person to leave the office each day needs to turn off their computer, all doors and windows, and ceiling lights. The HR department may consider this common sense, while newly graduated employees may not know this and repeatedly make mistakes.

We all have this cognitive bias, and the best way to break it is through repeated communication, allowing the other party to paraphrase and describe what you said to see if they understood it clearly, especially when there is a significant information background difference between both parties.

The third layer: Secrets that cannot be said
Everyone has some dark and deep secrets, which are people's inner safety zones. Crossing this boundary can cause harm, and I will not provide examples here, as everyone has their own scale of respect for others' privacy, which is in line with human nature.

3. Blind Spot Quadrant: Information that others know but you do not
   This quadrant is the most dangerous and represents our self-awareness "fishbowl," where outsiders can see clearly while insiders are oblivious.

What is even more frightening is that we all have a self-protective mentality. When others give us negative feedback, we tend to be defensive and attack back, which means that even if those around us see our problems, they often remain silent like the townsfolk in "The Emperor's New Clothes." For example, if someone feels that a colleague's operational strategy ability is lacking, but out of face-saving, they still praise her methods in meetings, this erroneous feedback will only push the work further away from the target value. Therefore, to open the Blind Spot Quadrant, we need more genuine feedback from others.

4. Potential Quadrant: New areas that both parties are unaware of
   This quadrant has a significant potential impact on the development of other areas. Only by keeping oneself in an open state and continuously exchanging information with the outside world can one grow. There are two key points: the first is to be "proactive," actively seeking to understand oneself through various channels and actively telling others what one can do. The second is to maintain a "beginner's mindset," allowing oneself to be a novice.

From the above four quadrants, it is not difficult to see that the essence of gaining trust lies in expanding the Open Quadrant (from: Fan Deng's replicable leadership). Below are two methods:

Transform the Hidden Quadrant into the Open Quadrant, known as self-disclosure, actively revealing your stories and thoughts to others, allowing them to understand you better;
Transform the Blind Spot Quadrant into the Open Quadrant, known as seeking feedback, asking others to point out your blind spots, including both your unseen strengths and weaknesses, as well as your unconscious behaviors.
Take the example of a "summary meeting":

After completing a project, there will be a summary meeting where the project leader conducts self-criticism, and others can add supplementary criticisms and positive affirmations. The specific process is that each person first analyzes what they believe went wrong in the project and proposes solutions, completing self-reflection. Other team members can continue to add if they believe the person has other shortcomings, and finally, the remaining peers affirm and positively encourage what the person did well.

The underlying mechanism of this approach:

The benefit of this method is that every team member can "self-disclose" while receiving immediate feedback, which can be both negative and positive. Negative feedback can help eliminate the Blind Spot Quadrant and identify issues that one usually overlooks, while positive feedback can strengthen confidence and enhance trust among teammates, creating a more harmonious team atmosphere.

(PS: Why not conduct public self-affirmation? Because generally, saying good things about oneself lacks credibility, so it is usually best to avoid this.)

Anti-aging Tool - Information Funnel
We must acknowledge that all communication in work involves information decay, and as organizational levels increase and the number of people expands, communication efficiency will decrease. This is a hard flaw in team management, which follows the funnel model, becoming increasingly distorted.

1. First Layer Funnel [Unclear Communication]
   If a person has 100% of something in their mind, when they express it in front of others, only 80% remains. The key reason may be that we did not fully understand the content when relaying it, so we can take the following measures:

Extract the key content to express and write an outline to see if there is any ambiguity and check for any missing key points;
When expressing, try to use simple language without excessive jargon to avoid making it hard for the other party to understand;
Communicate repeatedly, emphasizing important points. Do not assume that once something is said, everyone knows it. You can use collective meetings, individual chats, email notifications, WeChat reminders, etc. In short, you need to communicate until people remember what you said when they see you coming. Important matters should be repeated three, five, or even ten times.
Special information must be communicated in written documents and emails to indicate seriousness and legal effect;
2. Second Layer Funnel [Not Listening]
Once the remaining 80% is output, due to differences in cultural levels, knowledge backgrounds, etc., only 60% of the remaining information may survive in the other person's mind. The following measures can be taken:

Choose an appropriate communication environment, including the location and time of the conversation. It is best for both you and the person you are talking to to be free from distractions during this time, and also pay attention to the current emotional state of the listener. The effectiveness of conversations often does not meet initial expectations when the listener is feeling down;
Rephrase after you finish describing, allowing the other party to paraphrase your description in their understanding to verify if there are any misunderstandings, eliminating the phenomenon of pretending to understand;
Pay attention to the expression style; communication is an emotional intelligence task. Although it is speaking, different expression styles can lead to different outcomes. You need to pay attention to your tone, intonation, and speed, control your emotions, and also observe the emotional changes of others during communication. Every change reflects in subtle facial expressions, and guiding the other party to express their true thoughts in a timely manner is crucial to achieving the communication goal.
3. Third Layer Funnel [Disputes]
After grasping all the understandable 60% of the information, there may still be some content that is not recognized or disputed by the other party, so what can actually be implemented may only be 40% left. At this point, we need to ask the other party again if they have different thoughts and opinions, allowing them to express fully and jointly negotiate how to handle the disputed issues.

At this time, we need to use our third tool—the Consensus Pyramid.

Dispute Tool - Consensus Pyramid
In our communication, after mutual trust and full expression, there are often still many differences. We cannot unify everyone's thoughts, but we can unify everyone's goals. The "Consensus Pyramid" is such an existence. You will find that disputes often arise from different observational angles and positions regarding the same matter, leading to subsequent disagreements.

The Consensus Pyramid theory is well summarized for daily effective communication.

Effective communication includes three key aspects: trust, communication, and consensus. The consensus part corresponds to the Consensus Pyramid theory, which consists of five levels, with the bottom two levels belonging to ineffective communication, and the top three levels entering the realm of effective communication seeking consensus.

1. Ineffective Communication: Personal Attacks
   This situation generally has two forms: the first is not describing facts but directly using emotionally charged words for personal attacks; the second is describing facts but subjectively inferring the other party's thoughts, placing oneself on a moral high ground to attack the other party.

2. Ineffective Communication: Intuitive Opposition
   This situation also has two forms: the first is to collect various biased evidence to justify oneself; the second is to refute the other party's viewpoint by taking their statements out of context.

3. Seeking Consensus: Rational Rebuttal
   This level truly enters the realm of effective discussion. Rational rebuttal means fully understanding the other party's viewpoint and providing arguments with points and evidence to conduct a "closed-loop rebuttal." This specifically includes two steps: first, opposing the other party's viewpoint and presenting one's own viewpoint; second, supporting one's viewpoint with rigorous reasoning and argumentation.

4. Seeking Consensus: Proposing Constructive Suggestions
   Proposing constructive suggestions means not only presenting one's viewpoint but also considering the other party's perspective to help them identify thinking gaps. The goal is not to defeat or outsmart the other party but to provide constructive suggestions.

5. Seeking Consensus
   This level requires everyone to possess a higher level of abstraction and summarization ability, raising the perspective to a higher level and encompassing all reasonable ideas acknowledged by both parties. For example, Einstein's theory of relativity and Newton's classical mechanics once seemed contradictory, but through dialectical thinking, people recognized that there is no right or wrong between them; they are essentially just different models of physics under high-speed and low-speed conditions.

**An enterprise is an organization that invests human resources, capital, technology, and other resources to produce products and provide good services, obtaining income and earning profits from the market.

A workplace person invests time, skills, experience, and creativity in the workplace, achieving work results and providing management services to receive salary income and returns from the enterprise.

Adopt the same thinking approach as enterprises face economic issues, using these economic concepts and principles to interpret your workplace and understand and respond to all problems encountered in the workplace. The premise of all this is that you must have the awareness to manage yourself, rather than merely being used and consumed as a tool.

Chapter 1: Start with a Career Plan#

1.1 Prepare a Self-Awareness Sheet

What, self-awareness sheet = multiple-choice questions + open-ended questions

How, self-knowledge + others' knowledge

Multiple-choice questions—MBTI, PDP, DISC, Enneagram tests, etc.

Open-ended questions—see below

1). What is your ideal life state, unrelated to your career?
2). What profession do you most want to pursue, regardless of income? As long as life is not affected, you would do it with great enthusiasm, even if unpaid.
3). What is your ideal life state most likely to align with which profession? Consider all factors, including income, time, and relevance to work.
4). If the answers to questions 2 and 3 differ, how would you choose?
5). If you cannot achieve the ideal state, what is the most satisfactory state you can accept?
6). Under the state in question 5, what is the ratio between your life and work? Essentially, are you someone who realizes self-worth through work to meet life needs, or are you someone who prioritizes life needs, treating work merely as work?

7). To achieve the state in question 1, what is the maximum sacrifice you can accept? For example, the bottom line regarding dignity and morality. If it is the state in question 5, how would your bottom line and sacrifice standards change?

8). In your actual work, what are the most contrary actions to your personality, self-esteem, and moral standards?

9). In your actual work, when do you feel the happiest? Does happiness come from a sense of achievement, being needed by others, the results after hardship, satisfaction from returns, or other reasons?

10). What is the biggest failure or setback you have experienced in life (including during your studies)? Besides objective factors, have you considered your own issues?
11). Based on the answer to question 10, have you made any changes?

12). In the development obstacles you encounter in your actual work, what proportion comes from external factors and what proportion comes from internal factors?

13). If you improve those internal factors, how much will the external factors change? Not at all, possibly some, or will change significantly, which one?

14). Are you currently in a state of improvement? If not, is it due to not finding methods, lack of perseverance, or insufficient motivation (for example, if external factors account for a high proportion, even if you improve yourself, it won't change much)?

15). Finally, based on your feelings, ask yourself: Are you on the career path you want? The speed and level are not important; is the direction of the path what you desire? The options are: I don't know, I'm not sure, I know it's not but don't know how to adjust, I know it is but I'm still not satisfied.

1.2 Career Planning: Formulate Your 5-Year Career Plan Like a Business Strategy#

Strategic Positioning: Environment, Resources, and Expectations
Strategic Path: Vision, Development Direction, and Plans
Strategic Action: Organization, Capability Enhancement, and Self-Management Transformation

1. Environment

1. Nature of the enterprise

2. Enterprise environment

3. Employment environment

2. Expectations and Goals

3. Resources and Capabilities#

4. Vision: The Most Essential Original Intention#

5. Execution: Planning and Persistence#

6. Development Direction: Vertical, Horizontal, Cross-Border

7. Organization: Time and Knowledge Module Adjustments Needed#

8. Capability Enhancement: "Practice" + "Review"#

9. Self-Management Transformation: Mindset#

1.3 The Significance of the Nine Elements in "Winter"

Environment