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You are spreading your focus and effort on too many places at once. Although you might be able to proceed on many fronts at once, it is still a very slow and error-prone way of working. 多个工作同时执行会分散注意力和精力。虽然你也许有能力同时兼顾，但是工作速度会慢，也容易出错。

Instead, when you focus solely on one task, you get all the work done much faster. You can put your mind fully to that task, complete it fully and move to the next task. 相反，如果你把所有注意力都集中在一项工作上，完成所有工作花的时间要少得多。你可以把自己的思想完全集中在这项工作上，完成后进入下一项工作。

7. Neglecting your body 7. 忽视身体健康

You should take utmost care of your body. Feed it nutritious food, keep it fit by exercising on a regular basis and give it enough sleep. 你应该尽量注意自己的身体状况。多吃点营养食品，定时锻炼保持健康，睡眠充足。

When doing these the quality of your life rises considerably and in some cases you are able to prevent some diseases to break out. Also, your energy levels are higher and you are more productive. 做了以上这些，你的生活质量会大大提高，有时还能防止某些疾病的发生，精力也充沛，工作起来效率更高。

8. Promising too much 8. 做出太多承诺

Control your "yeses". If you feel you have too much on your plate, be selfish and just say no! You have a right to decline from requests presented to you. Don't feel bad about saying no. 别说太多“好”。要是觉得自己工作太多，就自私地说“不”！你有权拒绝给你的工作要求。不要因为拒绝而内疚。

If another person has a right to ask something from you, you have an equal right to say no. 别人有权要求你做事，你也同样有权对他说“不”。

9. Reacting to every distraction that comes along 9. 回应让你分心的事

The number of distractions has grown radically over the last few years. The main problem is that you are expected to be reachable all the time. When you are distracted, it causes unnecessary stress and makes you procrastinate on your work. 最近几年，让人分心的事越来越多。主要是因为别人觉得你一直闲着。这些事会造成很多不必要的压力，也耽搁自己的工作。

Instead of being reachable, shut down the communication devices when you want to concentrate on your work. If this means shutting down your phone or even taking the network cable out of your computer, then do it. This way you can cut down your temptations to be distracted too easily. 想要把精力都集中在工作上，就把通讯工具全部关闭。把手机关了、网线拔了。这样一来，别人找你的途径就少了，你就不会轻易被其他事骚扰了。

10. Thinking that the more the better 10. 认为越多越好

More is not necessarily better. In fact, in many cases the quality beats the quantity. 多不一定就好。事实上，很多情况下，质量比数量重要。

Strive for mastering or focusing just the few. For example, this could be focusing on just a subset of your clients that bring most of your results or mastering one skill well rather than trying to be good on 12 different things. 只掌握一点或专注一点。比如，只专注于能带来最大利益的小部分客户；或者掌握一门技术，这样好过同时擅长12件事情。

Focusing on the things that bring the biggest rewards is a good strategy to be used in your life. 专注于几个能带来最大回报的项目，这是个生活良策。