This book focuses on "Twelve Articles of Day Class", and analyzes how Zeng Guofan transformed himself from an ordinary person and eventually became a generation of saints through daily self-cultivation. The twelve daily classes are: respect for the Lord; Sit still; Get up early; Intensive reading; Reading history; Diary; Don't forget what you can do in the month; Be cautious; Nourish qi; Protect yourself; Write words; Don't go out at night
? Zeng Guofan once said to his son: I have made progress in my life, all when I was frustrated and humiliated. Be sure to grit your teeth and inspire yourself, save your breath and grow your wisdom, and never be complacent. It means: the moment when a person experiences great hardships and setbacks is the opportunity to move forward in the realm of life. At this time, he must grit his teeth and rise vigorously, and must not be depressed and decadent. Therefore, when we encounter hardships and setbacks on the road of life, don't be afraid, and strive to get into the game from today, face the difficulties and not be a bystander of our own destiny. As long as you work hard, it's never too late to start.
1. Neat and strict, never afraid. To pursue the sense of ritual in life, the sense of ritual can make people feel awe, and awe can gather a person's spirit. Over time, this person will have the determination to do things, and then have strong action and execution! This is a positive emotional chain. If there is a lack of sense of ceremony and awe, the spirit is dissipated. When you need to concentrate on doing things, you can't be overwhelming, let alone have strong execution and action!
when most people have nothing to do, they are mostly on their mobile phones, and we are constantly swiping the screen in our spare time. The mobile phone has a powerful search function, so its information becomes a powerful fragmentation mode, which leads to the fragmentation of the way we get information and read. Not only time is fragmented, but also our habits are fragmented. In the long run, we find that there is no determination when doing things; Even emotions are fragmented, so modern people are prone to anxiety, confusion and confusion! In the long run, it will also lead to fragmentation of thinking mode. This development means that human thinking ability will decline. Therefore, when you have nothing to do, don't let go of your energy and indulge in the sea of mobile phone network in Wang Yang.
when something happens, you should be "single-minded and not miscellaneous, like the rising of the sun". Only when you have nothing to do, you can put your energy away. When something happens, you can naturally mobilize your energy and release it at the key points. In this way, even in the face of difficulties and setbacks, you can be like a bamboo!
2. The secret of meditation: to open your eyes to the world is to look at the outside world; Once you sit still and close your eyes, you will open a richer internal world, experience the tranquility of life and examine your inner self.
3. It's very important to get up early: Zeng Guofan said: loser is either arrogant or lazy! Smart people mostly fail because of arrogance; Most mediocre people (ordinary people) fail because of laziness. To cure this "arrogance is laziness", we must start with the way of self-cultivation, get up at dawn and stay awake.
4. intensive reading: you can't stop reading other books until you finish reading a book, at the rate of ten pages a day; First: the biggest shortcut to learning is to read classics; Because classics can stand the test of time and are worth learning and absorbing by future generations; We study to learn the wisdom and thoughts of others; Intellectual things will be constantly updated with time, but ideological things and intelligent things, the more they precipitate over time, the more valuable they are to learn. Second: if you don't finish reading a book, you shouldn't be busy reading other books. You should immerse yourself in it. It's more helpful to write down your experiences when reading in time. Third; Look at the east and read the west, and follow the outside world. Brushing Weibo and WeChat on the Internet every day and paying attention to hot events must not become the main way for us to get information. Otherwise, it is irresponsible for us to keep watching and watching, and put our emotions and energy into it. This is to live for others and become a puppet of what others write.
5. The importance of reading history: from phenomenon to law; Reading history is to make a clear ambition, which has two meanings: first, to make a clear ambition; Second: the wisdom of wisdom. Only by reflecting on and learning from historical experience and mastering the wisdom of history can we carry forward the past and win a fuller present and create a better future. The wisdom summary of history is mostly a regular summary; A person's wisdom is limited, and historical wisdom is the accumulation of human civilization.
6. Face your heart with a diary: after a long period of self-examination and criticism, it will achieve an amazing effect. Keeping a diary is to face your inner world and reconcile yourself. While criticizing and being alert, you are more and more self-recognized, and you can discover a better self and be more optimistic about yourself. That is reconciliation. This is a realm of life, and the most important thing in life is to reach a reconciliation with yourself, and then to reach a reconciliation with the world. Keeping a diary can exercise a person's accumulated and persistent strength; People are constant, and nothing is impossible!
7. Never lose your housekeeping skills: Don't forget what you are good at. You must never lose the fundamental skills you have cultivated for decades, even if you change your career. In this impetuous era, many young people want to realize their dreams by changing the environment; But if you don't change yourself, the environment will be hard to change. For the skills that have been formed, we should temper them repeatedly, and as an interest and love of life, we will not change them easily. Because this skill, whether you are always engaged in this profession or not, will support your life when it is tempered to a certain extent.
8. There are many benefits to being cautious: it's not to say nothing or talk less, but to control yourself when facing people and things, so as to avoid disasters from coming out of your mouth and chaos from your mouth. Don't pester people when they meet, argue less, be less emotional and be more rational; This is a kind of wisdom of action, but also a kind of wisdom of communication. Zeng Guofan did not say much in team education, but said that he must reach out, heart and mouth. He pioneered the earliest team training in China. Throughout history, many people are actually not weak in ability or bad luck; Many things are not lack of conditions or opportunities, but some emotional expressions of the parties lead to a complete failure.
9. How important is gas? There is nothing to tell people about the gas reservoir. Nourish vitality, the qi of the abdomen, and the innate qi. This kind of spirit makes your spiritual world stronger and stronger. It means to shape your inner spiritual world, and when facing the oppression and ups and downs of the external world, it is enough to deal with it. (Small universe erupts! ) even in this world the spirit of a hero, lives and reigns for thousands of years!
1. Cherish yourself by keeping fit: scientifically maintain, make good use of your body and maximize your body resources. Abstinence; Save labor; Diet, this is called the way to preserve our health. Abstinence refers to abstinence from desire when you are young, and when you are mature and have the platform and conditions, you can face all things energetically. Use sparingly, keep the water flowing, and achieve sustainable development. Saving labor means not spending too much energy on irrelevant things and doing nothing. Many modern people have mobile phone onlookers, and brushing their mobile phones every day consumes the most. The most tiring thing is that "eyes" hurt blood for a long time. It hurts both blood and liver. It is necessary to avoid overwork, long-term blood injury, long-term bone injury, long-term muscle injury, long-term lying injury, and sedentary injury; Excessive diet means that it will aggravate the internal load, especially bad for the heart and stomach. The body is the capital of the revolution. Without the body, there is nothing.
11. why do you want to write: people are constant, and nothing is impossible; China's ancient writing with a brush is a great way to inherit China culture. Writing adheres to the righteousness of yin and yang of heaven and earth, and it is pleasant. Ancient calligraphers lived a long life because they conformed to the way of Yin and Yang.
12. staying at home at night is the beginning of a virtuous circle, which is the last and most fundamental: if you can't stay at home at night, you will be "absent from work and exhausted". Many evening dinners and entertainment are extremely exhausting. Not only are they exhausted, but their families are also very disgusted, but they often can't get rid of them. The ancients talked about sunrise and stayed at sunset; Chinese medicine also believes that from 9: pm to 11: pm, at the time of the sea, blood should enter the liver and nourish it, while at the time of the child, it should nourish the kidney. The liver is the chemical plant of the human body, and it is very tired at the end of the day. If you don't go to bed early and keep it tired, the liver will be the first to have problems. Kidney is the foundation of nature and the foundation of human beings. If you don't go to bed early, your liver will be damaged and your body will naturally have problems. People who often stay up late often look like they are driven out of their wits during the day, while energetic people have a good rest and will be very enterprising when they do things.
as long as we work hard, our life can also be reopened! As long as you work hard, it's never too late to start! Come on, be your best!