Chapter 25 of the Year of Tranquility

(a)

August 30th

Yesterday I studied "New Concept 3", and I only read 5 lessons, which was not very efficient, and I thought that it might be better to go to my mother's book today. So when I got up in the morning, in addition to exercising, I didn't finish practicing calligraphy and memorizing poems, which should be the practice of basic skills, and I should stick to it every day. When I feel that I don't have enough time, I want to give it up, but the result of giving it up is still nothing. During school, when I insisted on practicing words and memorizing good words and sentences, I felt full of spirit and learning more efficiently. In the days when I have no hobbies, I feel decadent, depressed, inferior, useless, and my motivation to study is also a lot weaker.

In the past two days, I was tired of reading English, and my thoughts slipped away, and the depression in my heart often made me unable to concentrate on books. So today I simply went to my mother's place.

Yesterday it was overcast and rainy, and the sky suddenly became cold, but today the sky is clear, and when I came to my mother's shop, I wiped the shoes on display, but I didn't want to study. At noon, I went to Danny's supermarket to buy vegetables, Danny's supermarket was just opened, there were crowds of people everywhere, we each bought a bottle of jujube nectar, the bottle was very large, there were more than three catties, and I also bought a bag of chrysanthemum essence.

After lunch, I went to Shenglong Supermarket to read a book. There is a book about health, and there are a few points that are quite interesting to me. For example, fungus with red dates and brown sugar is an excellent blood tonic, and I planned to eat it like this every night. I still have a lot of fungus, and I bought bags of red dates, and there is brown sugar in the house, which is just right to implement. There are also tips for the longevity of Rugao people, such as getting up in the morning with a glass of warm water, then cutting ginger into thin slices and holding it in your mouth for thirty or forty minutes, and then swallowing it slowly; Be sure to soak your feet in hot water at night, preferably with ginger slices and salt, to soak your whole body and sweat slightly. Pregnant women soak their feet, which is good for the body and face, and even the spots are less. When you get cold in a bath, wash your hair, soak your feet, and soak ginger slices until your body sweats slightly. After taking a shower tonight, I deliberately soaked my feet in half a basin of hot water, a little salt, and then massaged my feet with some children's cream, and I felt comfortable after that.

In the afternoon, I read books such as "Suffering is a Kind of Wealth" and "How to Succeed", and perseverance and perseverance should be the treasure of success. After reading the book for a long time, I felt that it was quite difficult to walk, so I slowly staggered back with my hands on my waist.

I haven't eaten "Fu Shi Fu" and high-calcium tablets for nearly a month, it's time to eat again, and calcium supplementation during pregnancy is the most effective. In the evening, my mother and I went to Longyu Pharmacy near our home and bought a box of "Fu Shi Fu". My mother said that I should move around more so that I could have a good birth, and I decided to accept this suggestion.

I saw a book that said that there was a successful person who insisted on reading 15 minutes before going to bed every day, and no matter how late he went to bed, he insisted on it for several years. According to the average person reading 300 words in 15 minutes, it is 9,000 words in a month and 108,000 words in a year. Although it is only 15 minutes a day, it can be accumulated and cannot be underestimated, but in the final analysis, it is still the power of perseverance. I also insist on reading books for 15 minutes every day, so let's read the tome "Chinese Medicine Dispensing" first.

I've also read books on money management that repeatedly emphasize the need to save and keep 30% of your income in the bank so that you don't end up in trouble one day. The highest interest rate on savings is the five-year lump sum deposit and the five-year principal deposit and interest rate, and the latter has a higher return. There are also 12 certificates of deposit method that save a fixed deposit certificate every month, and these savings methods are risk-free but profitable. Alas, if I have money in my hand now, wouldn't it be pleasing for me to save the Dharma like this, and the monthly interest should be spent as odd spending? Unfortunately, I don't have much money, and I have been constrained by financial difficulties for many years, and if I don't work and have a few hundred dollars a month in pocket money, my mental stress will be much less.

Today, I feel that I have a hard time walking, and I have gained weight, and I should have lost weight, but I have eaten more. If I want to be less bulky and have a good life, I should start losing weight now. Remember not to eat too much at night, I also deliberately ate sugar these two nights, it was too indulgent. A meal for breakfast and lunch, fungus + red dates + brown sugar in the evening, you can only eat like this.

I squeezed out the time to practice typing and calligraphy, and memorize poems, in fact, I grabbed the time in the middle of the night, and I got up early in the morning, and I didn't do anything like today, but I didn't have a sense of accomplishment in my heart, but increased the sense of decadence, and as a kung fu thing, I should practice it every day.

Monday, August 31 Sunny

Today is another sunny day, and it is only a little more than 8 o'clock after the exercise, which is earlier than a few days earlier, and it is already eight or nine o'clock a few days earlier.

The health book I read yesterday said that modern people don't need three meals a day at all, two meals or one meal is the best, and people should stay hungry in order to be healthy and energetic. You can implement a two-meal system from Monday to Friday, breakfast and lunch are enough, do not eat at night, and go to bed at 9 o'clock when you are hungry. On Sundays and Saturdays, because there is no work pressure, you can try the "one-meal system", that is, eat breakfast between 9:00~12:00 in the morning, which is a good method.

The book also says that modern people's diabetes is mostly due to eating too much, especially eating too much at night, which compresses the pancreas, and eventually makes the pancreas numb and has "diabetes". Man's natural inertia makes it easy to eat more at night. There are also various cancers, which are chronic diseases caused by long-term bad lifestyle habits. Cancer can die of old age, sickness and death, or it can be cured, spiritual counseling, meridian massage, scraping, and canning, which are all good ways to deal with cancer, and it is very important to relieve mental stress.

The book also mentions that the hula hoop exercise is good for the waist and should be insisted on for life, but because the hula hoop has its own weight, some people will have symptoms of lumbar spine pain, you can remove the hula hoop, keep it in the consciousness and keep the waist twisting action. This good action should be maintained until the end of life, I accept twisting the waist, soaking the feet until the end of life, and the two-meal system and the one-meal system are crossed.

When life is stable after giving birth, I can practice a "one-meal system" that can be a bag of yogurt or a piece of fruit in the evening. The book also says that yogurt should be heated and drunk, and the spleen and stomach will be good and the body will be good.

Star Xu Ruoxuan practices the Japanese spirit of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and implements the "one-meal system", which is her undefeated magic weapon to maintain her devilish figure.

The book says that if a person does not defecate for two or three days, the stool and toxins in the body can reach 5-6 kilograms, so it is very important to have a bowel movement in time.

I also read the book "The Yoga Life of the Lazy Sister", which introduced the various benefits of various yoga movements. I have a book called "Yoga for Slimming and Slimming" with a lot of simple yoga movements. After giving birth, I want to practice yoga, because it takes a year for a woman's uterus to repair, so the running and skipping rope that I wanted to learn from will be stranded. The book says that ligament opening is very important, some people can open it in a few days, while others take longer, but once the ligament opens, keep practicing and don't stop. When you are young, you should pay attention to physical exercise to prevent your bones from being brittle and brittle in old age. Imagine, if you insist on growing old every day, why do you need to drag people so hard when you are old: bedridden, you have to use crutches, and you need someone to help you.

Although my grandmother's life is very regular, she is more attentive than many elderly people, and her health is correspondingly better, but she can't walk. She is a person who can persevere, she has insisted on eating a vegetarian diet for decades, insisting on chanting scriptures, and insisting on massaging her stomach and abdomen every night before going to bed (I taught her, she persevered, and her stomach is acceptable, but I rarely practice it, and now I also have gastrointestinal diseases), but the physical exercise is neglected. I don't think my grandmother would have walked like this if she had been pressing her legs every day since she was fifty or sixty years old.

I think when I was 20 years old, I practiced taekwondo every day, I could quickly split and turn my heels, so half a year later, I almost didn't exercise anymore, if I persevered to this day, my figure and appearance should be much better than now.

Wednesday, September 2 Sunny

I watched five lessons in English today. I got up at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, exercised for more than an hour, and then went downstairs to eat, and then picked the fungus to soak the fungus, and then began to practice calligraphy, memorize poems, and went to sleep when I was sleepy at noon, and slept until nearly two o'clock to get up, read books, and wash clothes. At night, I read English until eleven or twelve o'clock, and sleepiness hit me and fell asleep.

I ate too much in the morning, ate tofu and noodles in the evening, it was too salty, and I was very thirsty at night, so I drank a few glasses of water. Alas, if you drink too much water at night, the bags under your eyes will become bigger, and when the bags under your eyes are bigger, you will look old.

(b)

September 4th

Yesterday I only read a short article in English, and I couldn't read it, and my thoughts were old and deserted, and today I didn't read it. Today is September 4th, and it is the day I should go to the health center for a pregnancy test. I went there at 10 o'clock in the morning, and in half a month my weight increased by 2.5 kilograms, my height increased by two centimeters, my blood pressure was the same as last time, and my fetal heartbeat was the same. In order to have a smooth delivery, the head to bed in the morning and evening to raise the hips cannot be stopped.

After going to my mother's place at noon to take her change of clothes (as long as I am at home, my mother's clothes will be washed by me, which is a habit I have developed since I was in school), I rode to Xinhua Bookstore. I first read books on quality education, such as how Jews teach children to read. Jewish children go to their home school to memorize the Bible at the age of three, and by the age of 10 they have memorized the Bible.

Jews also educate their children to develop the habit of saving from an early age. I read a book on finance and economics again, and there is a book that teaches women how to manage money, and talks about several stable financial management methods: the most important thing is to deposit 10~20% of your monthly income in the bank, and accumulate a certain amount of money to invest. For example, a. can deposit 1,000 yuan per month, deposit 12 certificates of deposit, deposit in the second year for two years, deposit in the third year for three years, and until the fifth year, so as to maximize the interest. The interest on each maturity certificate is deposited in a separate lump sum account. b. Suppose you have 60,000 yuan of spare money, you can save it for 5 years, take it out at maturity and deposit it for another 5 years, then after 15 years, it will be more than 100,000 yuan with interest. c. A fixed deposit of 500 per month, a fractional deposit will be withdrawn to the 5th year, and the principal and interest will be withdrawn and redeposited for another 5 years, until 15 years, the principal and interest will also be more than 100,000. This kind of savings method is suitable for pension, children's marriage leave education, I think I should implement plan C, a fixed deposit of 500 yuan per month, save for 15 years.

Saturday, September 5 Sunny

I didn't soak my feet in hot water when I went to bed last night, and because I was sleepy, I felt itchy on both feet today, maybe it was because I stood in Xinhua Bookstore for a long time yesterday. The legs and feet are still a little swollen, it seems that soaking the feet before going to bed at night is indispensable, I can prepare some ginger slices or chili peppers and other things to soak the feet, and the foot soaking must be insisted!

Yesterday I read a book on quality education in Xinhua Bookstore, and there was a book about a master of composition competition, talking about how he could write such a good article, saying that good composition writing lies in practicing more pen in ordinary times, he usually thinks about something, and is always used to writing it down, and sometimes he feels that he has a lot of ideas, so he writes down a lot. Over time, he felt that his writing became more and more fluent, and he always felt that there was something to write. I used to feel this way, but I neglected to write, and I always wanted to wait until I had learned everything and then concentrate on my creation, so there were so many tomorrows that I was so clumsy that I don't write today.

Another writer was asked to write a 250,000-word book within a month. He didn't think about how to write, but only thought about how to write the next paragraph, and completed it one by one, writing one or twenty pages of manuscript paper every day, and the 250,000-word work was completed in a month. Keep an eye on small goals, not big ones, because they will make you afraid. This is probably the kind of mentality that I have been learning English for the past two days, I want to read one or twenty short articles a day, but I only complete one or two a day.

The magic weapon of English learning is memorization, which is repetition and repetition.

It's 9 o'clock when I got up this morning, I got up in bed in the morning, spent an hour exercising, spent an hour doing facial dressing, practicing calligraphy, memorizing poems, and it was nearly 11 o'clock to finish these, and I went down for breakfast and lunch. After coming up, I washed the clothes that I didn't wash last night, and typed for an hour after washing, and I usually practiced at night, so that I could save an hour at night to read English. After typing, afternoon sleepiness also came, so I went to bed to take a nap, woke up at 3 o'clock, and took a nap for an hour or two. I didn't memorize an article in the morning. I remember reading a letter from a Soviet educator to his son who went to college a long time ago, asking him to cherish the period of 5:00~8:00 in the morning, because this period of time is quiet and people's energy is good, and many of his articles were completed during this time. A person who is accustomed to getting up early must be a diligent person, and life will not be too passive.

Yesterday I remembered that I was worried about memorizing English these days, and I felt that I had to complete some courses before I could devote myself to creation in the future, such as English, accounting, Chinese medicine, Chinese classic articles and poems, what should I do? I think of a famous foreign artist, when he was 30 years old, in addition to being busy in the field every day, his mouth always kept reciting all day long, so he mastered a lot of knowledge, and I need to do the same now, and my mouth keeps reciting it.

Wednesday, September 9 Sunny

The weather has changed a lot in the past two days, especially the strong winds with whistles, which make people feel cold to hear.

Last night, when I practiced typing, the power cord burned, and I couldn't practice the words, and now I basically keep typing for an hour every day, and over time I feel that the speed is still improving, so I can't stop. Today I went to the industry and trade to buy a new power cord, three yuan. At noon, I went to my mother's place to eat dumplings, and then went to the computer store, and changed the line on the desktop computer keyboard, 5 yuan. By the way, I asked about the Internet, the mobile cost 1200 yuan a year, the distribution of 3G phone card, if the installation of the network card to 100 yuan, and out of the province may not be able to use. Desktop computers are 600 yuan a year, and cats are delivered. You can also do it for three months or half a year, but you have to buy a "cat" by yourself, and the "cat" costs 100 yuan, which I heard a little discouraged.

These two days were very lazy, I didn't want to read English, and I was bored and afraid. Morning exercise, applying facial masks, practicing brush calligraphy, pen writing, and memorizing poems, basically persistent, calligraphy is still profitable.

This morning, I memorized two lessons of English from 9:00~10:00, the difficulty of the text is getting bigger and bigger, there are more and more words, and the polysyllabic is not easy to remember, and the diary is too lazy to remember every day. Although I know that there are many books to read, I don't have time to read: I can't complete my daily study tasks, how can I be in the mood to read novels and other literary books, and I can't control my food. If I get into the habit of memorizing an English article every day and skipping meals at night, my mood will be pleasant.

I feel very comfortable soaking my feet every night these days, and I should stick to it. I don't have the habit of soaking my feet all year round, so I always sleep cold at night in winter, and my feet are always molting in summer. If you insist on soaking your feet every day, it shouldn't be like this.

The articles in "New Concept II" are short and concise, and I should memorize one every morning as one of the basic skills I practice in the morning, which not only exercises my memory, but also learns a skill, and I should stick to it all year round.

Here are some excerpts from Li Yang's "I Love to Recite" to motivate myself:

As long as you have a general grasp of the meaning of the words and understand the basic situation of grammar, you should dive headlong into the text.

If you can't memorize it once or twice, you will complain and give up on yourself, thinking that you are not the material for learning a foreign language. It doesn't matter if you can't memorize it ten times, it doesn't matter if you can't memorize it a hundred times, you just have to repeat it, don't worry, your labor is not in vain. Each time I read it, my impression deepened, my sense of language increased, and my words and grammar became more impressive in my mind. Ordinary monks become masters because they repeat their Buddhist scriptures 10,000 times without outside interference!

The goal is not single, there is a dead end, some people will memorize this today, and tomorrow will memorize that, but they can't memorize any of them.

Lock the target, insist that Qingshan will not relax, and take the so-called articles as his own, asking them to go through one by one, and never enter the second article if he can't memorize the first article.

What is true intensive reading? You must memorize the article meticulously and thoroughly, so that the words are right, the sentences are correct, and you don't let go of any dead end!

Success in any discipline is based on rote memorization!

The time before going to bed is very precious, because what you think at this time will be strengthened while you are sleeping, don't waste the "golden memorization moment" before going to bed, let go of all boredom and trivialities.