时间与效率：管理你的生活 挤出更多时间

Does This Sound Familiar?
这听上去很熟悉是吗？

Everyone seems to complain about being busy nowadays. That’s no surprise considering the wealth of information, activities and opportunities that we have at our fingertips when compared to just a few decades ago, but it also means that one of our most precious resources – time – is becoming even harder to control.
如今每个人似乎都在抱怨自己很忙。考虑到我们触手可及的信息、活动和机会的数量和几十年前相比已经不可同日而语，这并不奇怪。但这也意味着我们最珍贵的资源之一——时间——正在变得更加难以控制。

That said, there are people who are achieving amazing things every day in the same 24 hours that we all have available. So what do they know that most people don’t?
即便如此，还是有人每天都做到了不可思议的事情，而他们和我们拥有的同样都是每天24小时。他们知道什么大部分人不知道的秘诀呢？

What’s Really Important to You?
什么是对你真正重要的？

We’re surrounded by distractions that will steal our time if we’re not careful. Everyone is busy for 24 hours a day but it’s important to remember that we’re all busy doing different things.
我们周围充满了让我们分心的东西，一不小心，我们的时间就会被偷走。每个人一天都忙碌了24小时，但重要的是你要记住，我们忙碌所做的事情是不同的。

The question is whether you are busy doing the things that are really important to you, or if you find your days filled with endless time vampires.
问题在于，你每天是否在为那些对于你来说真正重要的事情忙碌，还是说你的时间只是被无尽的时间吸血鬼所吞噬。

How to Organize Your Life to Maximize Your Productivity
怎样管理你的生活，让效率最大化？

Here’s a simple exercise to look at where your time is going on an average day and to help prioritize the important stuff:
下面这个简单的方法可以看出你每天的时间都用在哪里，并且帮助你优先处理重要事项：

1. Take out a piece of paper and divide it into 3 sections
拿出一张纸，分成3个区

2. In the first section write “Sleep – 8 hours” or whatever that number is for you
在第一区里写上“睡觉——8小时”或者你平时的睡眠时间

3. In the second write “Work – 8 hours”
在第二区里写上“工作——8小时”

4. Now in the final box write down the following things and the time they take
在最后一个区里写上下面的事项和它们所需要的时间

1）Things that you have to do (showering, commuting, eating, etc)
你必须要做的事情（洗澡，上下班，吃饭等）

2）Things that you want to do (activities, time with family, etc)
你想做的事情（活动，陪家人等）

3）Other things that you currently do (TV, Facebook, etc)
其他你正在做的事情（看电视，用Facebook等）

4）Anything else that takes your time each day and isn’t captured already
任何其他你每天花时间做但还没有完成的事情

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。