A couple of years ago, around this time
at the end of the year I came across on the Internet here on such a table.
Probably, you also saw it – the calendar of life.
Ninety lines, fifty-two columns.
Each square is one week of our life.
Jokers on the Internet have added this calendar a few more facts.
That’s when Newton made his great discoveries.
That’s when Einstein published the theory of relativity.
And what did you do?
What are you doing at this age?
I’m certainly not a genius, not Mozart and not Newton.
I do not write any masterpieces.
But it became interesting to me, and what is in my life
and what grades I can put on the lived stage.
And if our life is something that we can remember,
what’s left in our head,
[if] a friend meets me and asks how things are, –
What can I tell him? This is my life.
And what could I remember? These are some red boxes?
Events that I could clearly reproduce in my head and say:
“Yes, that’s what I remember for a lifetime”?
And what was the rest?
And then at the end of December I felt a little scared.
Where does it all go?
And I decided that next year I will live it so,
so that every week there will be an event that I can remember for the rest of my life.
Since then, my life has turned into some kind of laboratory,
in which I became both the main laboratory assistant,
and the main guinea pig.
All that could be heard, learn about efficiency, about performance,
how to do more, feel more, remember more,
I began to apply to myself.
What have I learned in these two years?
In these two years, you can do a lot.
For example, I mastered a blind ten-fingerprint in Russian and in English.
I learned several memory techniques and now I can remember the dispute
a series of twenty-thirty numbers.
I learned it myself, without tutors, without courses
English before free reading.
I wrote two books in 365 days, one of them had already accepted the publishing house,
in March next year it comes out.
I hated running, but in September of this year I ran the Moscow marathon.
This was the first time in my life, but with it I still managed to run
on skis 300 kilometers and still swim 100 kilometers.
And all in just one year.
I learned the speed reading and started reading one book a week.
Comments on books and reviews I publish on my blog every week on Thursday.
I blog daily, every day I publish a new record.
But a blog is not the only one:
dozens of articles, some of which were published in Forbes,
dozens of speeches at conferences, including this one.
I photographed a hundred-plus dawns, taught myself to get up at four in the morning.
And at the same time on my calendar constantly painted over some boxes.
Every week I knew that I was enjoying life not alone,
and together with his family. How can this be done?
In fact, if I’m such a bummer for my personal life and at the same time a workaholic,
who worked for 11-12 hours a day, was able to do it all in parallel,
I’m sure that you too can do this if you master the rules of a simple game.
We all know it well – the principle of Tetris.
How does everything begin in Tetris?
In Tetris, everything starts with what you know well,
which figure will be next.
You perfectly understand what the next step will be.
And in life, too, everything must be made predictable.
On the planning written a huge number of books,
written a huge number of articles, so I will not repeat myself.
Instead of life plans, I had a personal constitution –
a document in which I decided for myself that it is important for me why I live,
what principles I follow, what values are important to me,
what roles do I play.
This document is the basis for all other principles.
From other steps we will return, and I will remember,
That the constitution inspired or helped me
take the next step or master the following principle.
But the constitution by the constitution is far,
what you once need to do is far, and what to do now?
The reflections of that year ended with lists of one hundred cases for life
and lists of 100 cases for the next year.
This is a photograph of a list of 100 cases, as it already looks on December this year.
It is clear that I did not everything. It is clear that I did something partially.
But one hundred things that pleased me, which inspired me, are fulfilled.
Where can I find a desire to do all this? Where to find the energy to do all this?
In this we are helped by the second principle of Tetris – diversity.
In Tetris many different figures: squares, sticks, geese, brands, boots.
And all of them should be somehow adjusted to each other,
that there would be no emptiness left.
But how much more interesting would Tetris be if we played
any one figure: a square or a rod.
How long would the motivation remain to play such a boring game?
Probably not.
But when I pondered, I realized that I was playing my one game,
in my only business, I play one role as an entrepreneur.
And so, although I can effectively do everything cool, cool,
I have all these cubes stacked in each other, but
boring, uninteresting.
So I began to add other roles.
I began to remember that I’m not only an entrepreneur,
I am also a citizen, I am also a father, I am also a husband, I am also a son.
And as soon as these roles began to increase, it became much more interesting to live,
began to show interest in how this all fit to each other.
But where to get the energy to make it all happen,
so that you have the strength?
Here, too, the principle of diversity operates and my personal principle of the four energies,
which I learned from other books.
All the things that I do, sign for two large groups.
One group is what I do for my values,
what I said in my constitution, what I wrote.
And another group of cases is what I do not for my values,
for other people’s values.
And these are the things that I do for myself, they charge me with energy.
Those cases that correspond to my values,
I am fueled by the desire to live.
Those things that I do past my values,
they burn me, they consume my energy.
I know perfectly well that when I return from work, I’m all crazy about another
or some other unplanned events,
with the desire to fall flat, I understand perfectly,
that if I now walk up to the 13th floor,
if I now do some exercises, if we cook together with the family dinner,
if we play in some sort of board game,
if I solve chess problems, or if I sit
and I will sum up the results of today or make plans for tomorrow,
I will have as much energy as I have not had since the morning.
Try it. It’s easy really.
It is diverse and interesting.
There is one more thing where you can get energy.
Plan things that interest you.
Last year I learned to get up at four in the morning,
the earliest is fifteen to four.
Only every morning with the addition of a day get up two minutes earlier,
in order to meet and photograph the dawn.
A collection of 120 dawns over the past year, a collection of 110 dawns for this year.
You fly out of bed like a cork, because you wait, what a surprise
I have prepared the sky for you this day. The question of how to get up was not at all.
Although once I called myself a reinforced concrete owl.
I worked until 2 am and slept until 10-11 am.
But, as it turns out, the sun is charging.
Okay, let it all be energy, time, desire …
When I list everything that I managed to finish,
people start to hate me quietly.
One of my good acquaintances told me: “We first formed
a circle of your fans. ABOUT! Andryukha did it!
ABOUT! Andryukha did it! ABOUT! He has one more run!
Then we began to hate you quietly, we had five minutes of hate.
Where does he get it for this time? Why does he succeed? “
In fact, the principle of speed Tetris becomes clear,
when you realize that everything around is empty.
The previous speaker spoke beautifully about the universe, which, in fact,
is an emptiness in which there is some limited amount of matter.
But even this matter is also a void. Who told you there?
If we take and press all the electrons to the nucleus of the atom,
from us there will be some cubic millimeter or a small grain of sand.
We are emptiness, and our time is also void.
In our day, which looks like some kind of dense brick,
in fact, a huge number of holes – this is not a brick, but a foam rubber sponge,
which is just waiting to be filled with something.
And when you have a list of cases when you have a constitution,
when you have an understanding of what you like, on what paths you are going,
you understand what to be ready for.
In order to use the time when you go from point A to point B,
when you are driving, when you are being driven, when you are driving,
when you expect, while the computer is loading, the program will boil the teapot,
the person will answer, your turn will suit, the dish in the cafe will bring, –
what are we doing at this time?
We wait.
Although you can have a tablet with books at hand,
Have an audiobook in your smartphone to listen to it,
have a list of applications in the smartphone to perform exercises in English,
You can take two steps back from the plate to sit down ten times.
You can get your phone not to call your customer
or to sort out some problem with employees or with colleagues,
but to call your parents or a child and say that you love him.
When you combine the list of your affairs with the calendar, you get
this is the matrix of a dense month.
You can perfectly see what you are paying attention to,
but what falls out of your field of vision,
what habits you are forming, and what habits you are losing.
When I filled up such a matrix for a year, this year I had
also a matrix of a dense year, when I began to gain business quantitatively,
when I need to do some amount of work.
And you recharge yourself,
you explain yourself to yourself and see that there is time.
I continue to work for 10, for 11 hours. And all this is done in parallel.
But to remake a lot of things, like some robot, does not make any sense at all.
It does not make sense if it does not have a result.
The result does not make sense if it does not bring satisfaction.
“Why do everything, if you are not happy?” I asked myself.
The answer to this is given for the second year already
line 2016-2017, filled completely.
Although last year, even setting himself up to
perform such inspiring things, I missed four, eight weeks,
eight weeks, when I sat on Sunday and understood,
that I have nothing to remember from last week,
two months, crossed out of life, discarded, which I could not remember.
This year I did it. These are not just painted squares.
I continue this calendar with this list.
I write down what it was that dealt me up.
And when I reread at the end of the year, review it,
I understand that I had something to rejoice,
that I did with my family together what I wanted.
My wife, when she watched the pictures, said: “Listen, everything is Olya, Olya, Olya.
All Olya and Olya, somehow I have a lot. “
Naturally, you are many, because I noticed,
that often you write down the things you did with your family,
those [things] that you wanted to remember.
Therefore, I wish you in these upcoming holidays,
in these 10 days, when we will rest, sit down and think about what we are doing,
what hundred cases you want to do for your life,
what hundred cases you want to do in 2017,
that you will be charged with the desire to live
and have time to live your life full.
Thank you.
(Applause)
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