晨读美文：如何给梦想留出更多时间

晨读美文：如何给梦想留出更多时间

　　晨读美文：如何给梦想留出更多时间

　　摘录：刻意保持专注比思想散漫时的工作效率要高得多。

　　读书的时候可能觉得虚度时光没什么，但步入社会开始工作后，原本大把大把的时间似乎一下子就变得稀少宝贵了起来。工作、家庭、朋友以及个人心愿等等，都是那么耗费时间。珍惜时间、利用好时间，是我们都要学习的课堂。如何创造更多时间，如何拥有更多时间，如何挤出更多时间，来看看作者分享的时间小贴士。

　　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:

　　当然我没法给出一个囊括所有可能的列表，但这个列表会是一个好开始，保证帮你争取不少时间。下面这些都是我本人浪费时间的常见行为：

　　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.

　　电视——直接忽略。我发现，除了偶尔看看新闻、电影和纪录片，电视对我来说纯粹是浪费。

　　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?”

　　互联网/网络——这些其实也都是变相“电视”，纯粹浪费时间罢了。何不问问自己：“我就非得再看一个喵星人视频吗?”

　　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.

　　邮件——这个还真难下手。毕竟，我一直认为回复邮件可以提高效率。但事实却是，每天回复邮件反倒转移我的注意力，大大降低了效率。现在我已经限制了自己回复邮件的时间和频率。

　　Seven Ways to Create More Time In Your Day

　　每天创造更多时间的七大方法

　　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分钟起床。你要是像大部分人那样起床，早上可能会觉得有点赶：在最后一刻挣扎着起来，赶紧冲个澡，来得及的话就吃两口早餐，安顿好小孩/猫咪/爱人后冲出门上班。

　　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.

　　稍微早点起床就不至于那么匆忙。或许至少可以真正坐下来吃顿早餐。你也可以利用每天早起的15分钟看看书或者整理一下记事本。

　　2. Create a Plan

　　制定计划

　　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.

　　在你刚开始工作时，趁着还没查看邮件，赶紧定个计划吧。写下当天必须完成的三个最重要的任务，最重要的那个打上标记。然后趁着还没开始检查邮件、影印资料或整理办公桌等工作内容前，赶紧着手那个最重要的任务并保证完成它。

　　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，很少有人能有计划地工作，一天下来后还是周旋在几个效率甚低的任务上，最后其实什么实事都没做成。