2015 Summary and 2016 Plan

An article written in iteye 3 years ago [link http://liugang-ok.iteye.com/blog/1969907 ] still resonated with everyone, and now it is the closing year of the second three years, When you look back on your past self, how is it different from your present self?

The following two paragraphs are taken from an article 3 years ago, and it still seems right now:

The method is very simple: "It is to concentrate on a skill, be meticulous, keep improving, and pursue the perfection and exquisiteness of the skill. A small workshop is also very refined; even a brand inherited from a family pursues refinement and personalization." In this society, no matter what we do, what we are most afraid of is the word "serious". Do one thing in a down-to-earth manner, and over time, there will be some achievements, but few people can persist.

Invest in something you like, don't always think about rewards, don't always think about promotion, don't always think about the future, don't always think about getting ahead, don't always think about winning the approval, praise and respect of others. When you can really persevere and maintain a good attitude, then confusion may be like youth will gradually drift away!


This article was written 3 years ago. It was just three years after graduation. In a blink of an eye, it has been 16 years. The second three years are coming. What am I doing?
Before we start, a few questions to review?
1) 5 years after graduation to decide your life?
Dong Mingzhu's husband died of illness when his son was 2 years old, and he started selling at the bottom of Gree at the age of 36. Liu Chuanzhi founded Lenovo at the age of 40. Ren Zhengfei was 44 years old when he founded Huawei. In many cases, it is a false proposition to decide for a lifetime after 5 years of graduation, and the meaning of his existence is to let the teenagers accumulate themselves desperately in the first 5 years, hoping that they can jump to the dragon gate or improve their quality after 5 years. And 5 years, as a watershed, is a milestone, but obviously cannot determine a person's life. The value of answering this question is, are you ready for the next 5 years?

2) 3 years ago, what do you think you will be doing in 3 years?
3 years ago, I thought I might be doing product, sales, startup, or pre-sales. The truth is, it's time to make a product. During this period, I also participated in entrepreneurship with an entrepreneurial mentality, and during this process, I experienced sales and pre-sales work. Contrary to what was previously predicted. Therefore, sometimes planning ahead, or planning yourself in advance, will actually have an unimaginable guiding effect in a subtle way. So the question is, after 3 years, I have also reached the age of 30, where will I be?

3) 15 years have passed, what have you done this year?
Confused, this topic was a problem that I and my peers had to face 3 years ago. Now I see this topic, and I find that I don’t feel confused anymore. I don’t know if the period of confusion has passed, or maybe I am not so free anymore.
In life, sometimes you have to stop and think, think about where you came from and where are you going? Appropriately look at the road you have traveled before, it is not a new one, let alone living in the past, but better facing the future. I think the best way to not get lost is to get busy and have something to do. Those who are confused are mostly aimless, unfulfilled, and even a little boring. In the past year, I originally felt that I had lived a fulfilling life, but after looking back on the 12 years, I realized that there were not many things I could say in my 15 years. When I was 12 years old, I took the driver's license test, took the department score test, and went to Nanjing to play... And what was my 15 years like? Looking back, I found that this year, it seems to be missing something, such as the lack of continuous summary, continuous planning, and continuous thinking steps. Now, it is a pause to summarize the past year, and it is also for the next year, three years, 5 years of combing, and finally answer the question of where do I come from and where do I go?

Every time I write a text or a summary, I always try to extract some dry goods. Be responsible for yourself and a reference for others. For me, sharing is a virtue and an improvement.
Writing a summary is nothing more than two topics, the past and the future. The present is short-lived, and the purpose of writing is to plan for the future.

(1) It
was not easy to write about this topic in the past, because it was impossible to write about the ongoing work and life, and try not to write about other people’s affairs, so it can only be limited to oneself, and it will not affect the current work situation:
The last job was from November 2014 to November 2015, which is exactly one year. From a personal point of view, I will review and find out my shortcomings. This is actually more meaningful and valuable than working hard all the time.
In my mind, I recalled the scene before the Spring Festival last year. I went to Changping with my boss to deliver the goods. It was already early in the morning when I got home. I was going to go home the next day.
From WeChat, I found the summary written on January 3 last year, which would be quite fulfilling, such as calling friends and relatives, sending WeChat and text messages, etc. I also participated in the New Year's Day party held by Hunan people in Beijing. And the expectation for the new year is that one is to learn a good knowledge of drinks, the other is to improve the operation ability of e-commerce products, and the third is to improve the ability to lead a team.
And this year's New Year's Day, three days off, did not go anywhere, and did not call or send text messages to relatives and friends. Just looking up the dictionary, I was concentrating on naming my brother's child. In the first four years of graduation, almost all important festivals, including the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Day, Spring Festival, and even National Day, would call or text friends and relatives, but now I don't seem to have this awareness, I don't know if I think it's unnecessary. I am more calm, and I don't care so much about trying to maintain everyone in the address book who feels that they need to be contacted. I don't know if I'm getting old or mature.

The purpose of the summary is to improve. According to the summary of last year's Spring Festival and New Year's Day. It can be concluded that the situation at that time is: one is busy, the other is busy, the third is busy, one is busy with work, the second is busy learning what you don’t understand, and the third is busy with team management. It is precisely because of this busy year that I found myself working for 5 years without stopping to write something to review. It can be seen that this kind of busyness is flawed and insufficient, and it is a lack of the process of stopping to think and review.
One year has passed. Looking back on the goals set at that time, including participating in the study of wine and e-commerce, including participating in training and circles, including organizing a related entrepreneurial team, everyone will engage in some online and offline activities, learn from each other and make progress. And all of this has been defeated by busyness. From the summary of the day before returning home for the Spring Festival, it can be seen that it is not an exaggeration to describe the three busynesses, and whether this busyness is efficient and worth reflecting on?
What if I had to relive 2015 again? This was originally a false proposition, because the rebirth of life is a false proposition, and the value of discussing it is that I think it is very useful for the 16 years to come. Letting 16 years not repeat the mistakes of 15 years is the meaning of if.
For me, it was only 2 jobs in total, five and a half years, one job for four and a half years, and one job for one year. And every time the leader and boss leave the job, they try their best to retain it, which is the greatest affirmation of their work. In the last job, the reason for leaving in the end was due to economic considerations and development space considerations. In fact, the resignation of all personnel is nothing more than these two situations, and these two situations can actually be attributed to one point, that is, the factor of leaving is greater than the factor of staying, and the development and current situation of the company cannot meet their expectations. Choosing to leave is both accidental and inevitable.
The fundamental reason for the final departure is that he is not optimistic about the development of the company. And why the development of the company is not optimistic, in fact, many times it has a direct relationship with the leadership. I think it is the team leader's problem that the performance of a group is not going up. If a department fails to develop, it is the problem of the person in charge of the department. The failure of a company to develop is the problem of the company owner. The boss has the right to decide the company strategy, direction, salary, personnel and market. If a boss can set a suitable strategic direction, find suitable team members, and have sufficient financial support, then the company has hope. If the boss has 3 years of vision, the company can do business for 3 years, and if he has 10 years of vision, the company can do business for 10 years. If the boss has the ability to control 30 people, the company can achieve 30 people, and if the boss has the ability to control 3,000 people, the company can achieve 3,000 people. If the boss can reasonably allocate 10 million funds, he can achieve 10 million yuan, and if he can allocate 1 billion funds, he can achieve a scale of 1 billion yuan. Department heads, team leaders, probably more so.
If I were to relive 15 years, what do I think I need to improve?
I still remember when I first joined the company, I made a weekly, monthly and yearly plan. Mainly based on the analysis of past data, and then come up with monthly and yearly goals. Including cost, operational promotion, product planning and team management. In the end, these carefully written plans that took a few days did not come in handy until I left and did not implement these plans.
After I left, for some reason, the company reached the target sales amount verbally before consulting.
So for a company, if the boss lacks the vision to take precautions and looks at problems from a short-term perspective, then the company will be in emergency every day, dealing with urgent matters every day, which may be urgent and important, or may be urgent and unimportant. thing. And there is not enough time to deal with important and non-urgent matters. For individuals, urgency is busyness. The result of being busy every day is that there is no time to think and summarize, and there is no time to learn the business knowledge and basic knowledge of the industry. The final result is that we have been standing still, and there is no qualitative breakthrough in vision, pattern, and knowledge, so it is basically predictable. 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, that is, this level.
If I had to redo my last job, how would I be different?
First of all , I will give myself a time point, such as a year, what scale I want to achieve, not too detailed, just a sales amount, a quantitative goal.
Having a goal is a kind of pressure on oneself and a manifestation of entrepreneurial mentality. If you don't have self-motivation, you won't set goals for yourself, and you'll just get by. Whether this kind of goal is valuable is not whether it is feasible, not whether it is correct, but whether it can be recognized by the boss, and continue to pay attention to the goal, every week, every month, every quarter to assess the goal and check. If the boss does not agree with your goals, then let the boss set the goals. If the boss neither agrees with your point of view nor proposes his own goals, then you must guide the boss to set goals and tell him that the country has 5 years Planning, 1-year economic growth plan, how can companies not have it? The most difficult thing is that the goal must resonate, otherwise it will be a cake on the wall, beautiful, but not practical.
Looking back on the work of the past year, in terms of goals, in fact, no one has the above awareness, and they are only after the fact. Many times, what is said is verbal, and nothing institutionalized. Anything, if there is no paper content, is random, after all, good memory is not as bad as bad writing. And the boss's ideas that come up at any time are always strange, and you can never be perfect, that is to say, you are always doing some urgent important or unimportant things.
And this kind of temporary informal communication of goals or tasks, the biggest problem is that the boss doesn't necessarily remember to do or not do it, because many of them are instant. The executor's original work rhythm has been disrupted, and if he does not do it, he is worried that the boss will say that he is not active, which is a contradiction in itself. And this creates a vicious circle where the executor will think that the boss is picking on faults, or that the executor is dealing with these urgent things every day, and the end result is always standing still. And the boss will think that the executors have not been active and proactive enough, there are many loopholes, and many problems that should be thought of are never thought of. The executor originally planned according to his own ideas, but he was always entangled by urgent matters. Originally, his own plan had thought of the problems raised by the boss, but after being discovered by the boss in advance, he needed to deal with it immediately. The plan was disrupted again. In the process of looking back and sorting out my thoughts, I was stumped by the company's various meetings, temporary entertainment, personnel recruitment, etc., and I was always in an inefficient busyness.
Time has passed, and there has been no progress. The two sides have fallen into an embarrassing situation. The relationship between the two sides will turn around at a certain point. The final result is to part ways. This node can be regarded as a flashpoint, but this It's just an external factor, because the nature has already determined this relationship, there is already an element of distrust or non-cooperation, and sooner or later it will leave. And if the relationship is resolved, in fact, both parties are not wrong, then as a person who came here with an entrepreneurial mentality, I cannot ask the boss, so I can only consider it from my own perspective. If it is resolved, then go back to the second below. The question is: do you want to be good enough?
Second , make yourself good enough, at least in the field you are responsible for, to be able to persuade your boss, persuade through data, and persuade through your own professional ability and knowledge.
This is the key to being good and not complaining all the time. The reason why the boss invites you is because he has shortcomings, and he has shortcomings. He needs to help him and avoid weaknesses. If you are good enough, you can win the boss's approval and respect. This identification is very critical, and it is related to your foothold and status. If you only have the ability, but the work attitude is average, and you don't do things with an entrepreneurial mentality, then you can't be a core team member. On the other hand, if you only have a working attitude, but your ability is average, and you can't do many things well, then you will not be able to stand for a long time, and one day you will be replaced, or you will keep standing still, and you will not be recognized by the company.
The word excellent is a vague concept. What is excellent is unknown. Well, what we call excellent is relative to the circle, or the group you are in. If you can make everyone agree with your views, ideas, and abilities in the group, then you are excellent in this group. If you don't agree with your point of view, then you are not good enough. It can be seen from the retention at the time of resignation that his attitude is good. Therefore, the company did not really become big enough in the end. From my personal point of view, there is only one factor, that is, I am not good enough. I don't remember whether it was in "How to Read a Book" or "Eat the Frog: Refuse to be busy and save time for the most important things", saying that if you know something that cannot be expressed in words, Then you just haven't really mastered it yet. In the same way, if you don't have enough knowledge in your professional field, you won't be able to express it well enough to convince your boss. The root of the problem is that you're only half a bucket of water, and you haven't really been able to convince your boss to do what you want. And you're just dealing with the urgent, unimportant or important things every day, so the end result is that you're always busy, but it just looks busy, and it doesn't have much real value because you're not progressing, you're not Promotion, did not improve the company's sales, did not enhance the cohesion of the team.
If I were to redo my last job, how would I make myself good enough? First of all, I have to commute to get off work regularly, and I can work overtime appropriately, but I have to set aside time for myself to learn, improve, and improve myself. Including analysis of data, understanding of business, analysis of industry, mastery of competitors, prediction of the future, mastery of problems, etc., all of which need to be learned, understood and studied. It is said that the gap between people is really widened beyond eight hours. I agree with this sentence. Therefore, sometimes overtime must be in moderation, otherwise it will be too much. Secondly, I will make a study plan and strictly implement it. Learning, like work, is self-motivated for adults. The study plan beyond the eight hours is especially important. For myself, the more time I have, the less I know how to cherish it. I still remember that I worked more than 12 hours a day during the summer vacation, and I had no weekends off, so I vowed to tell myself that in the future, I must make full use of the weekends and study hard. However, the actual study time during weekends is not as much as usual. In addition, I will regularly review myself, weekly, monthly, quarterly summary. See if you have made progress during this time, and see if you really have mastered the knowledge content of the study plan. Find problems regularly, make improvements in time, and correct the direction in time if you deviate from the course.
And can you just sit back and relax by just making yourself good enough, can you lead the team to achieve goals together, and increase the company's sales? The answer is no, why? Because of Murphy's Law.
Finally , prepare yourself mentally and think about the worst-case scenario. According to Murphy's Law, if there is a chance that things will go bad, no matter how small the chance, it will always happen. There is a saying in China that everything is foreshadowed, if not foreshadowed, it will fail. So, be prepared for the worst and have the best mentality. Don't be too optimistic at the beginning, have an estimate of things, what the bad situation is, the bad situation is to leave, and the worst thing is to leave unpleasantly. If you can make this prediction, and you can accept it, then act and work hard with the best mentality. Let go of your hands and feet to play to your strengths and do what you think is right.
And if I let myself do this all over again, I will choose to make myself better, more professional, and take time to learn and improve. Use suitable methods to express your views and ideas, and be fully prepared. You can answer everything from data, to industry, to business, to competing products, etc., and you can fully grasp it. When arguing, then you will not be passive and will not be questioned. The two sides are in an equal relationship, with good communication and good cooperation. If your professional direction and ability can be recognized, then you can achieve such an effect. If your ability and level are not recognized, then the only way All you do is make yourself better. And take this plan as an important and non-urgent matter of the year.

Written here, after a bit of calculation, there are already 5 or 6k words. The thinking has gradually become clear, but only half of it has been written, only the past has been written. The next step is to write about the future, which is the real value of writing these words yourself.

(2) Future
In the above text, answering that if you ask yourself to do your last job again, it is actually an inspiration for your current job, a guidance and suggestion for the future, which is very valuable. In fact, no matter what kind of job it is, no matter what team it is, you will always encounter the above problems, and you always need to solve these problems in order to reflect your own value and improve yourself. The first is to understand your goals and current situation, the second is to make yourself good enough, and the third is to plan for the worst and have the best mentality. The theoretical knowledge has been released above. It seems very reasonable, and it feels like a chicken blood. In fact, these are real feelings. If you don't calm down and summarize and reflect, these will affect the present and the future. The failure experience with a certain reference is wasted. Next, I will make a plan for the next 1 year, 3 years and 5 years based on the experience that was not successful in the past and the three questions raised at the beginning of the article. The 1-year plan is more reliable, and the 3-year plan is acceptable. A 5-year plan is a prediction.

Three questions at the beginning of the article:
1) What have you done in the past year or so?
As I write this, I find myself doing very little for 15 years. In the past, there were studies every year, such as PMP, department points, project management division, etc. Whether it is work-related or life-related, there will be plans and rhythms. And will actively participate in some social activities, fellow villagers, entrepreneurial gatherings and so on. And 15 years, basically in a busy state of work, there is a feeling of desperate Saburo. Only then did I find out that the number of regular phone calls with my family members was less; only then did I find that there were fewer relatives and friends I often contacted; only then did I find that there were fewer opportunities to go out on weekends; such a summary. And now, let me write what I have done for 15 years, but I can't start. This was not the case before. Of course, the biggest receipt can only come from work. I briefly reviewed it, and I have done a lot of things and work in the company, product planning, operation, recruitment, customer communication, team management, etc. All of these are involved, including express packaging, chatting with customers, and after-sales complaints in the early stage. Almost all of them have been done. He can be regarded as a person with entrepreneurial experience, and in fact, he has fulfilled his promise to devote 200% to his work. In addition, because the people you contact are different from the previous work, you will learn more things from dealing with different people, including being a person, doing things and their good habits, working methods and skills, or learning about their own advantages that they do not have. . In fact, many times, the most effective and quick way to make yourself excellent is to surround yourself with excellent people. If you are with Jack Ma and Yu Minhong every day and you are motivated, you can also be on holiday during the holidays. Stand alone and improve greatly.
And what are your plans for the coming year?
2016 is a very critical year. 5 years of graduation have become history, and 2016 is also the first year of the next 5 years and the final year of the second three years. It can be said to be a year that connects the previous and the next. So what are your goals for this year?
1) Exercise every day. Push-ups, running, walk a few more steps in circles home, and often take steps and less escalators. [Persistence]
2) Participate in the training of product managers, one is to improve your thinking and pattern, the other is to meet more like-minded friends, and the third is to enrich yourself and talk more when you brag or write summaries in the future, haha. [Starting point college, to be implemented after the year]
3) Still doing my job with an entrepreneurial mentality. Do not do soft things, do not speak hard words at work. 【Attitude】
4) Bring your parents and family to Beijing to play. [First Dragon Boat Festival, optional National Day]
5) Exam system analyst. [Exam in late May, registration is expected to start in March]
6) Find a relationship that suits you. Seriously fall in love. [Just follow the fate]
7) Travel abroad once. [Thinking independently, putting aside work, life and pressure]
8) Participate in more activities, parties or salons, products, entrepreneurship, fellows, geeks, etc. Going out and broadening yourself can also make more like-minded friends. [Pattern]
9) Adhere to independent thinking and reading. [Vision]
10) Adhere to unscripted speech for 10 minutes every day. [Eloquence]

There are nine goals in total, of which the 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 7th are one-time completion or staged tasks. It is not difficult to complete.
1st, 3rd, 6th, 9th, 10th need to be adhered to every day. The difficulty will be relatively large, and you need to review and check yourself regularly to see if you have done it properly or if there are any deficiencies. Do not deviate from the track and sailing, otherwise correct it in time. It is not easy to push myself to complete these things. I have been writing since college. For almost 10 years, I have been writing summaries and plans. In fact, I have not found any big difference between myself and my peers. The difference is that I wrote it myself and others didn't. In the end, I didn't make myself better. In fact, one of the main reasons was that I didn't implement it, and the reason I didn't implement it was that I didn't give myself enough motivation, or I didn't have enough self-control. Now, tell yourself that hard work is The only way to achieve your goals. Tell yourself that there are only 3 ways to succeed, the first is persistence, the second is persistence, and the third is when you feel like giving up, look back at the first two.

In addition to these goals, I still need to change myself in 2016. One is that sometimes the pattern of doing things is too small, and it is easy to fall into detailed discussions and disputes, forgetting what is my ultimate goal? Such problems can only be gradually corrected through daily reflection, and it is difficult to correct them in one step. Persistence and reflection are the only methods. The other is to participate in more activities and work with outstanding talents, and the pattern and thinking of people will become more open.

2) 3 years ago, what do you think you will be doing in 3 years?
Three years ago, I predicted or thought that I would start a business or create a product, and I did it. Then in 3 years, it will be 2019. At that time, he may have been married, and he may have had children. Maybe the current company is listed. Maybe he is still in the company, maybe not in the company. Maybe start a business full-time with a friend. Maybe crowdfunding with a few friends, raising hundreds of thousands, opening a coffee shop or something, and taking care of it in my spare time. Maybe go to a company and become a product director. Also, within 3 years, is it possible for me to have the strength to travel abroad? Also, the car that I dream of, I don't know if there is a chance to realize it.
After three years, the ideal state is probably to work hard, to be able to go public, and to have some shares. In fact, this is an uncontrollable state, let alone me, even the boss can't say that it will be listed on the market. What I can control is to improve my product innovation ability, product thinking ability, team management and communication ability, so that I can attack towards the goal of product director. To accomplish this goal, I don’t think it’s difficult. If you can complete all the 16-year tasks, and then participate in some CTO salons, participate in some industry events and gatherings, and have one or two excellent product operation experience, the number of users is sufficient. For a big product, I think it's not far from the product director. Of course, the fastest and most efficient way is to go to a large Internet company as an assistant to the product director, and within half a year, you will be able to train yourself.

3) 5 years after graduation to decide your life?
5 years later, lol, if I were still there. Just 2021. If I was still in Beijing at that time, I might go to the Winter Olympics and join in the fun. There may be a world war, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the people of the world are now living in dire straits.
In my own words, it's almost 35. The child may be in kindergarten. Maybe in Beijing, maybe in Changsha. My parents were all grown up by then. At some point, I think it will be difficult for the current company to go public if it cannot be listed. If it's not listed, maybe I'm not here. If listed, it may or may not be there anymore.
The best case scenario is that now the company goes public and then has a little bit of a small stake. Then if you can cash out, do what you like, find some like-minded friends, those who can complement each other, and start a business. Success or failure is acceptable.
I think 35 years old is actually not too old, Dong Mingzhu started from scratch at 36 years old. Liu Chuanzhi founded Lenovo at the age of 40. Ren Zhengfei founded Ren Zhengfei at the age of 44. Of course, Ma Huateng was 27 years old when he founded Tencent five years after graduation. Robin Li founded Baidu at the age of 31. Jack Ma was 35 when Alibaba was founded, and 31 when he founded China Yellow Pages.
If I say that after 5 years, my expectation is to find a group of like-minded friends to start a business, and everyone will complement each other's advantages. In other words, relying on one's own ability and experience, to be a product director in an entrepreneurial company is also to participate with an entrepreneurial mentality. At which time, the goal of that car must be achieved.

This summary, started on the 3rd, is now on the 8th, nearly 10,000 words, and has been written for 6 days, with an average of less than 2,000 words a day. Except for No. 3, which was written during the day, the others were written in the morning. The general idea is still relatively clear. Reviewing the work experience of the past year, as well as the situation and problems in the work, if you let yourself do it all over again, you will first set a goal that can be reached; then make yourself better and achieve the goal; at the same time do the worst Intend to hold the best mentality. And formulated 1-year, 3-year, 5-year plans and goals.

Looking back at the summary written three years ago, the method to achieve the goal written in it:
The method is very simple: "It is to concentrate on a skill, be meticulous, strive for perfection, and pursue the perfection and exquisiteness of skills. Even a small workshop, it is very good. Sophistication; even if it is a brand inherited from a family, it pursues refinement and personalization." In this society, no matter what we do, what we are most afraid of is the word "serious". Things, given time, will definitely have some achievements, but very few people can stick to it all the time.
Invest in something you like, don't always think about rewards, don't always think about promotion, don't always think about the future, don't always think about getting ahead, don't always think about winning the approval, praise and respect of others. When you can really persevere and maintain a good attitude, then confusion may be like youth will gradually drift away!
In fact, these two paragraphs are very correct, but he can only bring a temporary passion, and within three days, he will forget it. If I write this article and then I don’t care about anything, I think when I look back on 16 years next year, I may still find that I haven’t done these things, because the operability is not strong.
So, in order to carry out the plan, guide myself for 16 years, and live up to the 10,000 words I wrote, I will:
1) Write "Review of the 16-year plan" on the 1st of each month on the desktop calendar. Monthly summary.
2) Write down the 16-year plan and the sticky words on the table to guide yourself.
3) Think about the scene where you harvest joy, in fact, the success that emerges from the cocoon is the most legendary. Will pay as joy, not pain and frustration.

Eternal City (WeChat public: product manager promotion, pmimprove), currently working as a product manager in JD.com, with 7 years of experience in technology, operations and products.