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时间是这么被浪费的:29种浪费时间的表现
吃垃圾食品。吃点健康的东西,让你的身体活动起来吧。
Making empty promises. Stop saying what you’re not going to do.
说空话。不要再吹嘘那些你不会去做的事情了。
Waiting for something to happen. Go out and make it happen.
等待什么事发生。行动起来,自己去让这件事发生吧。
Attending unnecessary meetings. Practice the “Right to Decline” unneeded meetings.
参加没必要的会议。试着婉转地拒绝那些没必要参加的会议吧。
Reading Email. Only check it 3 times a day. Morning, noon, end of day.
查电邮。一天只要查3次就够了:早上,中午和晚上。
Answering the phone. Remember, your phone is there for your convenience.
接电话。记住,电话是为了你自己的方便才存在的。
Playing Email Ping-Pong. Avoid the back-and-forth, go talk to someone.
发电邮,你回复我,我回复你。不要用电邮回复来回复去,真正去跟别人聊聊吧。
Not putting things away. You’ll have to look for them later.
不把东西放好。之后你就要开始找东西了。
Surfing the web endlessly. One thing leads to another…
漫无目的地上网。事情一件连着另外一件……
Constantly updating your social media status. No one needs to know what you are eating for lunch.
不断更新社交媒体状态。没人想知道你中午吃的是什么。
Not capturing ideas. Where did you write down that million dollar idea?
不记录下好想法。上一次你写下很有价值的想法是什么时候?
Fighting with others. Agree to disagree, but skip the fight.
和别人争吵。求同存异保留各自不同的意见,不要和人争。
Reading the tabloids. Do you need to know which celeb got arrested this week?
读八卦小报。这周哪个明星被捕跟你有关系吗?
Looking for things you misplaced. Make sure you have a place for your stuff.
翻找被你放错地方的东西。每样东西都要有固定的放置位置。
Letting email notifications interrupt your day. Turn off those pop-ups!
让新电邮通知打扰到你。关掉弹出窗口吧!
Piling instead of filing. Piles are not organization.
乱堆乱放,而不是分类归档。堆成一团可不能算整理。
Not looking at your todo list. You wrote that task down, but you didn’t look at your list.
不查看待办事项。明明写下了要做的任务,但是不去查看待办事项。
Solving the same problems, again. Make sure you document solutions so you have them down the road.
花时间解决同样的问题。要把问题的解决方法归档,这样下次你就能用到它们。
What Shouldn’t You Do Today?
今天什么事是你不该做的?
Sometimes it’s not what you do, but what you stop doing. Protect your day from these time-wasters.You just might have a little more time in your day. Where do you catch yourself wasting time?
有时关键不在于你做什么,而在于你不该做什么。不要让你的一天被这些浪费时间的事情占领。这样也许你能挤出一些时间。今天你发现自己把时间浪费在哪里了呢?
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