时间与效率：管理你的生活 挤出更多时间

Now you simply ask yourself if you’re happy with where your time is going in that additional 8 hours. If you wish you had more time to spend on your hobby or with your family but find you’re spending a couple of hours in front of the TV each night then you might want to change that.
现在你只需要问问自己，对于自己在剩下这8小时的时间安排是否满意。如果你希望有更多时间用在兴趣爱好上，或者用来陪家人，但发现你每晚花了几个小时看电视，那么你也许想要改变一下了。

This exercise is designed to show us the places where we’re leaking time into activities we don’t really care about. At the end of the day it’s up to you how you structure your life. Maybe you’d rather spend more time watching TV and less time with your family; it’s completely up to you.
这个测试告诉我们，我们把许多时间浪费在了那些我们其实并不在意的事情上。在一天结束时，你可以决定该如何规划你的生活。也许你宁愿花更多时间看电视，而不愿意多陪陪家人，这完全取决于你。

Eliminating Huge Time Sucks from Your Life
减少生活中浪费掉的时间

There are also parts of our life that you might have to do right now but aren’t always the best use of your time. For example you might spend an hour or two commuting to and from work. That’s time that you’re losing every single day of your life and you’ll never get it back.
我们的生活中还有一些事情你现在也许不得不做，但并没有让这些时间得到最佳利用。比如说你也许要花一两个小时上下班。这些时间你每天都在失去，而且永远不会再回来。

You might look at how you can get a job closer to home or tele-commute a few days a week. Since my commute is 7 steps from the bedroom to the office (yes I just counted), it saves me a ton of time every day that I’d otherwise lose. Again it’s your life and completely up to you which choices you make – just be aware that there are always choices available.
你也许可以考虑找一个离家近一些的工作，或者一周来回几天。因为我从卧室到办公室的距离只有7步 （是的，我刚刚数过），所以每天我节约了大量可能失去的时间。再重申一次，生活是你自己的，你做出何种选择完全取决于你——只要知道总有一些选择可供你考虑。

Other things might include dropping off and picking up children when you could take turns with other parents. Perhaps you jump on Facebook or turn on the TV and it’s time for bed before you know it. Limiting yourself in these areas can reveal a whole bunch of wasted productive time.
还有一些事情，也许包括接送孩子，你可以和其他家长轮流来。也许你登陆Facebook或者打开了电视，而此时已经该睡觉了。控制在这些方面花费的时间，你会发现大量被浪费的有效时间。

Using “Dead Time” Productively
有效利用“停滞时间”

If you still need to commute or do other tasks, then you’ll want to work out the most productive way you can do it. For example, you might start listening to personal development or business audios while commuting to up-skill in some area. By turning your car into a driving university you can easily listen to 5-10 hours of uplifting audio every week… that’s 250 to 500 hours a year!
如果你还是需要远距离上下班，或者有其他任务，那么你会想要研究出最有效利用这段时间的办法。比如说，在上下班路上你可以开始听一些关于个人发展或者商业的音频资料。把你的车变成一所移动的大学，这样你每周就可以听5-10个小时令人振奋的内容，一年下来就有250-500个小时呢！

When cooking or cleaning, you might get the kids involved or simply have them sit at the kitchen counter so you can chat. That way you have quality time with the kids every night as you cook and eat dinner at the same time. You’re basically asking yourself how to maximize the time spent on those “must do” activities.
当你做饭或者打扫房间时，你可以让孩子们参与进来，或者让他们坐在橱柜边，这样你们就可以聊天了。这样一来你每晚在做饭和吃饭的同事，就可以和孩子们共度黄金时光。你可以问问自己该如何让最大化利用花在“必须要做”的事情上的时间。

It’s Your Time… So Organize Your Life to Get What YOU Want
轮到你了。管理你的生活，做你想做的事

We all have a limited amount of time each day and it’s up to us to make the most of it. By knowing what’s important to you and making the most of your dead time you change your life dramatically. Remember it’s about designing your ideal life – not somebody else’s – so focus on what works for you.
我们每天的时间都是有限的，能否最大化利用时间取决于我们。知道了对你重要的事情以及该如何利用大部分停滞时间，你可以让你的生活得到巨大改变。记住，这样设计你的理想生活，而不是别人的。所以专注于对你有用的东西吧。