低效能人士的七个习惯

3. When actually doing something, doing something that isn’t the most important thing right now.
3.做无关紧要的事情

One of the easiest habits to get stuck in, besides procrastinating, is to keep yourself busy with unimportant tasks.
除了拖拖拉拉以外，另外一个容易陷入的不良习惯就是深陷无关紧要的事情之中。

To be effective you probably need some kind of time management-system. It might be something really simple, like using the 80/20-rule at the beginning of each day. The 80/20 rule, or the Pareto Principle as it´s also known, says that you’ll get 80 percent of your results from only 20 percent of your tasks and activities. So you need to focus most of your energy on those few important tasks to be effective.
为了提高效率你也许需要某种时间管理方法。比如这套极为简单的时间管理方法，使用80/20法则。80/20法则，也就是我们通常所熟悉的帕累托法则，认为80%的收获源自20%的努力。所以为求高效，你应该将大部分精力集中在那些极少数重要的事情上。

When you have prioritized using this rule just write down the top 3 most important things you need to do that day. Then, from the top, start doing them. Even if you just get one of the things done, you have still done the most important thing you could do today. However you organise your work it’s still of highest priority to find the most important tasks so you don’t spend days, weeks or months doing busywork that isn’t that essential anyway. Just getting things done faster isn’t that useful if the things you get done are unimportant to you.
你只需按优先顺序写下这一天你需要做的三件最重要的事情，然后从头做起。即使你只能完成其中的一件事，你仍然完成了今天最重要的事情。不过无论你如何组织工作，最关键的还是寻找那些最重要的工作，这样你就不必花费几天，几个星期甚至几个月的时间去忙于那些并不是很重要的事情。如果这些事情无关紧要，那么即使你快速地完成它们也是没有多大用处的。