砍柴的故事

A very meaningful story that worth sharing. In Asian countries, work hard is perceived to be more important than work quality and efficiency. This is also cause that many white collars are hesitate to leave the office on time even there is nothing urgent to be rushed for that day.

In long run, the workforce of the Asian countries exhausted. But achievement wise, we are still far behind advanced country like US and Europe. One of my ex-colleage of Sweden told me that most of them started their work at around 7:00am and got back home at 3:30 to 4:00pm. During lunch hour, they don't pick up the phone. Most of them make their own dinner with their spouse. Even there is any so called very urgent matters, they will only look into it the next day. And yet, they are leading the industry in term of technology as well as market share.

Why? This is all about focus in quality, respect time and work life balance

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有一個年輕人到山上工作,每天到森林面去砍木材,他非常努力的工作, 別人在休息的時候,他依然還是非常努力的在砍材,非得到天黑,否則絕不罷休,他希望有朝一日能夠成功,趁著年輕多拼一些;可是來了半個多月,他竟然沒有一次能夠贏過那些老前輩,明明他們在休息,為什麼還會輸他們呢？

年輕人百思不解,以為自己不夠努力,下定決心明天要更賣力才行; 結果隔天的成績反而比前幾天還差; 這個時候, 有一個老前輩就叫這個年輕人過去泡茶, 年輕人心想: 成績那麼爛! 那來的時間休息啊？ 便大聲回答: 謝謝! 我沒有時間! 老前輩笑著搖頭說: 傻小子! 一直在砍材都不磨刀, 成績不好遲早要放棄的, 真是精力過剩。

原來,老前輩利用泡茶、聊天、休息的時候,也一邊在磨刀,難怪他們很快的就能夠把樹砍倒;老前輩拍拍年輕人的肩膀說道:年輕人要努力!但是別忘了要記得省力千萬可別用蠻力!哈……老前輩閃著他剛磨好發亮的斧頭!

你呢？別忘記!你要的是效率, 不是有事情做就好。提昇你的技巧、能力,你才會有時間做你應該做的事情。不然就是去唱「沒時間」吧!

學習解壓的方法很重要,提供幾個舒緩壓力的要訣:

1.深呼吸
當自己覺得有壓力時,先做幾個深呼吸,讓自己稍微平靜一下。

2.暫時離開
有時短暫的離開壓力情境,事情反而更容易處理。

3.笑一笑
不管目前如何,都讓自己笑一笑,不管是假笑、苦笑都好,讓自己看看微笑的自己。

4.動一動
讓自己活動一下,身心是一體的,讓身體藉由運動放鬆,心理也會有同樣的效果。如果能讓自己養成運動的習慣,自己的身體健康及抗壓指數,都會有大幅提升喔!

5.一次一件事
有壓力,常常是自己同時面對很多事情,而正困擾其中的時候。此時,讓自己一次只想一件事,一次只處理一件事。

6.整理一下再出發
讓自己整理一下再出發。有時事情無法處理,常常是因為自己慌了,讓自己靜一靜, 想一想究竟發生什麼事,過程中有哪些方法會是有幫助的。