我的时间我做主：成为效率达人只需四步

1) Have A Solid Daily Ritual
1）养成固定的日常习惯。

STEP 1 (5 Minutes): Your Morning Minutes. This is your opportunity to plan ahead. Before turning on your computer, sit down with the to-do list you created…and decide what will make this day highly successful…
第一步（五分钟）：你的晨间时光。这是你提前计划的机会。在打开电脑之前，坐下来看看你建立的任务清单，想想做些什么会让这一整天过得充实。

STEP 2 (1 Minute Every Hour): Refocus. …Set your watch, phone, or computer to ring every hour and start the work that’s listed on your calendar. When you hear the beep, take a deep breath and ask yourself if you spent your last hour productively. Then look at your calendar and deliberately recommit to how you are going to use the next hour. Manage your day hour by hour. Don’t let the hours manage you.
第二步（每小时1分钟）：重新调整注意力。把你的手表、手机或者电脑设定为每个小时响一次铃，以此提醒你日程表上列出的事项。当你听到铃声时，做一个深呼吸，然后反躬自问刚过去的一小时是否过得有效率。接着看看你的日程表，好好重新计划下你要如何利用接下来的一个小时。以小时为节点地支配你的一天，而不要让时间支配你。

STEP 3 (5 Minutes): Your Evening Minutes. At the end of your day, shut off your computer and review how the day went, asking yourself… questions like: How did the day go? What did I learn about myself? Is there anyone I need to update? Shoot off a couple of emails or calls to make sure you’ve communicated with the people you need to contact.
第三步（5分钟）：你的晚间时光。在一天结束的时候，关掉电脑并回忆这一天是怎么过的，扪心自问这些问题：我是怎么过这一天的？我今天学到了什么？我有什么需要改进的吗？另外，大量回复邮件和电话以保证你已经和所有需要联系的人联系过了。

2) Make Things Automatic
2）让事情程序化。

The secret to getting more done is to make things automatic. Decisons exhaust you: The counterintuitive secret to getting things done is to make them more automatic, so they require less energy.
完成更多事情的诀窍是让事情程序化。做选择会让你觉得筋疲力尽。所以想要完成更多事情，诀窍就在于让事情程序化（虽然这和我们直觉认为的不同），程序化做事会节省你的很多精力。

It turns out we each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it gets progressively depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation. In other words, if you spend energy trying to resist a fragrant chocolate chip cookie, you’ll have less energy left over to solve a difficult problem. Will and discipline decline inexorably as the day wears on.
我们每个人都有一个装载意志力和自控力的容器，它会随着我们有意识的自我规律行为而逐渐排空。换句话来说，假如你花精力拒绝一块美味的巧克力曲奇，你就没有精力去解决一个难题。意志力和自控力会随着时间流逝而无情地减少。

Build routines and habits so that you’re not deciding, you’re just doing. When you first learn to drive it’s 1000 activities like steering, shifting, checking mirrors, braking — but with practice you turned it into autopilot and it’s no stress at all.
建立一些例行公事和习惯，这样你就不用总是做决定，你只是按部就班做事而已。当你第一次学驾驶时要做1000种动作，比如握方向盘，转弯，看后视镜，踩刹车——但随着练习，你把它变成了“自动驾驶”，你根本没有什么压力了。