晨讀美文：如何給夢想留出更多時(shí)間

　　晨讀美文：如何給夢想留出更多時(shí)間

　　摘錄：刻意保持專注比思想散漫時(shí)的工作效率要高得多。

　　讀書的時(shí)候可能覺得虛度時(shí)光沒什么，但步入社會(huì)開始工作后，原本大把大把的時(shí)間似乎一下子就變得稀少寶貴了起來。工作、家庭、朋友以及個(gè)人心愿等等，都是那么耗費(fèi)時(shí)間。珍惜時(shí)間、利用好時(shí)間，是我們都要學(xué)習(xí)的課堂。如何創(chuàng)造更多時(shí)間，如何擁有更多時(shí)間，如何擠出更多時(shí)間，來看看作者分享的時(shí)間小貼士。

　　This is, of course, not an all-inclusive list, but it’s a good start to reclaiming some time back. These were some of my biggest time-wasters:

　　當(dāng)然我沒法給出一個(gè)囊括所有可能的列表，但這個(gè)列表會(huì)是一個(gè)好開始，保證幫你爭取不少時(shí)間。下面這些都是我本人浪費(fèi)時(shí)間的常見行為：

　　1. Television – just stop it. Besides the occasional news, a movie every once in a while, some documentaries, I found it to be a huge time-waster.

　　電視——直接忽略。我發(fā)現(xiàn)，除了偶爾看看新聞、電影和紀(jì)錄片，電視對(duì)我來說純粹是浪費(fèi)。

　　2. Internet/web – It’s really become the new television, and as such, an equivalent waste of time. Ask yourself this, “Do I really need to see another cat video?”

　　互聯(lián)網(wǎng)/網(wǎng)絡(luò)——這些其實(shí)也都是變相“電視”，純粹浪費(fèi)時(shí)間罷了。何不問問自己：“我就非得再看一個(gè)喵星人視頻嗎?”

　　3. Email – This was a more difficult one for me since responding to emails made me believe that I was being more productive. However, responding to emails all day was actually making me less productive by taking my focus off things that I really needed to get done. I now limit my time and frequency of responding to emails.

　　郵件——這個(gè)還真難下手。畢竟，我一直認(rèn)為回復(fù)郵件可以提高效率。但事實(shí)卻是，每天回復(fù)郵件反倒轉(zhuǎn)移我的注意力，大大降低了效率?，F(xiàn)在我已經(jīng)限制了自己回復(fù)郵件的時(shí)間和頻率。

　　Seven Ways to Create More Time In Your Day

　　每天創(chuàng)造更多時(shí)間的七大方法

　　1. Get Up Earlier

　　早起

　　Get up fifteen minutes earlier. If you're like most folk, your morning probably feels rushed: you drag yourself out of bed at the last possible minute, grab a hasty shower, maybe get some breakfast if you're lucky, sort out the kids/cat/partner and dash off to work.

　　提前15分鐘起床。你要是像大部分人那樣起床，早上可能會(huì)覺得有點(diǎn)趕：在最后一刻掙扎著起來，趕緊沖個(gè)澡，來得及的話就吃兩口早餐，安頓好小孩/貓咪/愛人后沖出門上班。

　　Getting up just a bit earlier can give you some breathing space. Perhaps it'll give you time to actually sit down and enjoy your breakfast for once. Maybe you can use that fifteen minutes a day to read through that book or stack of journals that you keep meaning to get to.

　　稍微早點(diǎn)起床就不至于那么匆忙。或許至少可以真正坐下來吃頓早餐。你也可以利用每天早起的15分鐘看看書或者整理一下記事本。

　　2. Create a Plan

　　制定計(jì)劃

　　At the start of your workday, before you even check your emails, make a plan. Jot down the three most important tasks you want to accomplish that day. Put a big star next to the most important. Now, before you get into the busy work of emails and photocopying and tidying your desk, start on that important task and see it through to the end.

　　在你剛開始工作時(shí)，趁著還沒查看郵件，趕緊定個(gè)計(jì)劃吧。寫下當(dāng)天必須完成的三個(gè)最重要的任務(wù)，最重要的那個(gè)打上標(biāo)記。然后趁著還沒開始檢查郵件、影印資料或整理辦公桌等工作內(nèi)容前，趕緊著手那個(gè)最重要的任務(wù)并保證完成它。

　　Surprisingly few people take the time to plan their workday, and end up spinning their wheels on a number of low-priority tasks without really accomplishing anything big.

　　奇怪的是，很少有人能有計(jì)劃地工作，一天下來后還是周旋在幾個(gè)效率甚低的任務(wù)上，最后其實(shí)什么實(shí)事都沒做成。