对症下药：最常见的3大效率谎言如何破解

It’s easy to spot when people are lying to themselves—like when a co-worker confidently starts a huge project at 4:30, but has a 5 PM deadline. “Who’s he kidding?” you might chuckle. But when you’re telling lies to yourself—well, that’s another story.
指出某人在自欺欺人是十分容易的。——比方说一位同事自信满满地在4点30分开始做一个浩大的项目，但是这个任务的期限是5点。“他在开谁的玩笑呢？”你也许会这样嘲笑他。但当你自己在自欺欺人时——好吧，那就是另一种结果了。

When it comes to productivity, you may think you have it mastered. You check tasks off your to-do list, multitask like the best of them, and stay insanely busy from morning until night. But it turns out, your so-called “productivity” may actually be a jumble of popular myths that make you think you’re getting more done than you actually are.
当涉及到效率的问题时，你总是自以为把握得很好。你查看了一下你的任务清单，然后开始一心多用，从早到晚发了疯似地忙碌工作。最后你却发现，你所谓的“效率”可能事实上只是一句非常常见的，会令你错认为你真的完成了什么事儿的谎言而已，事实上你做的远没有那么多。

Lie #1: My Day’s Full of Activity, So I Must Be Super Productive
谎言#1：我一整天全是事情要做，所以我一定是个超级高效的人。

These days, there’s no shortage of digital time-fillers that can make you feel productive. You can easily spend all day emailing, tweeting, searching, instant messaging, texting, and whatever else it takes to stay in the online loop. But while your fingers are busy typing and your eyes busy reading, all you’re really doing is getting hits of information—over and over again—instead of working toward a goal.
时下，各种电子产品能让你觉得你相当有效率。你会轻易地花上一整天发邮件、转微博、搜索、聊天、发短信，或是任何那些会让你留在线上的事儿。但在你手指不停地打字，眼睛不停地看东西的同时，你唯一做的事情无非是一遍又一遍地点击信息罢了。——而不是为了一个目标而努力工作。

Solution: The Done List
解决方案：完成事项清单

To make sure you’re actually accomplishing substantial tasks each day, keep a “done list”—that is, a list of tasks you’ve completed instead of things you have left to do. When you stop to recognize each day’s accomplishments, you’ll be able to reflect more constructively: Did you spend your time wisely? Did you make any significant progress today?
为了确保你每天确实能够完成一些实际的任务，你必须创建一份“已完成事项列表”——你把那些你已经完成了的工作记下来，而不是记下你要去做的事情。当你停下来回想你已经完成的事情时，你就能进行以下这些更有建设性的思考了：你有没有合理的安排你的时间呢？你今天有没有什么显著的进展呢？