Self-management: An Application On The Holistic View Of Lunyu

Turbulence age, different condition and different life. We can not image the life of thirty years ago, not to say the ancient life of our ancestors, especially in modern China. The changes are so fast that we can even not step up, but the life do not stop changing because of our hating on changing, and the meaning of life do not stop coming because of our carelessness. We must face all these problems directly in a real life, if not, we would be swallowed by complex phenomena. So we must learn to handle our life, then self-management becomes an implicit issue in everyone's daily life. But, when it comes to self-management, there are too many theories available; we even don't know how to choose a proper method, because there are too many choices, and too many choices equal to no choice. Especially, when the problem itself was covered by different conceptions, the first thing we should do, is not constructing a new type of theory but finding where the problems are. Therefore, this paper begins with the basic problems on self-management, which can be summarized as follows:think, practice and meaning. The first includes the problem how to construct our minds about the inner and outer world; the second includes the problem how to get our daily-life operated screamingly; and the last concerns on the meaning of our life and how is it coming in the future. And, different theories have different concerning, such as on theory, practice, principle, method, etc. And we Chinese have a historical tradition of'xiushen', but now the time has changed, therefore we must improve the tradition following the new conditions on self-management. This paper can not construct an end theory on self-management, even a theory itself also is not the aim of the paper; just try to make some attempts to arouse people to think themselves. So, this paper using the holistic view of Confucius as a methodology to improve our mental minds, tries to get the accordance between learn and practice in daily life, and get the meaning of life self-expressing on the basis of the above chapters at the end. And the paper can be divided into four chapters, the first chapter simply describes the theories in the field of self-management; the second tries to construct the holistic view of Confucius; the third is about how is the practice consistent with the life; the fourth concerns on the meaning of life and the way of expressing. So, the purpose of the whole paper can be summarized as:try to get a holistic view of Confucius, represented in lunyu, as the guidance of contemporary self-management in the practical fields.