10个小习惯 让你的生活更少压力

Keeping the stress away from your life isn’t just about the big things and decisions. It is also about the small things. About what you do and do not do from day to day.
让生活远离压力并不只是和大事儿及决策有关。它也和小事儿有关。和你每天做什么以及不做什么有关。

Those small daily – helpful or unhelpful – habits add up very quickly over the weeks and can be the difference between being focused and feeling good about life or not being able to sleep or work properly and enjoy your life as much as you could.
这些每天的小习惯——有益的或无益的——一周一周累积地非常快，正是它们有可能让你的生活有所不同。你可能享受生活并感觉良好，也可能无法入睡或无法正常工作，更不用提尽可能地享受生活了。

In this article I’d like to share 10 small habits that have had a huge positive effect in my life and that protects me from both the stress out there in the world and the stress I can cause myself.
在这篇文章中，我想和大家分享10个小习惯，这些习惯对我的生活起到了很大的积极影响，让我远离世界上本来就有的压力以及自己导致的压力。

1. One thing at a time.
一次只做一件事

It is often tempting to multi-task to get things done quicker. But every time I feel that impulse I remind myself that in the past I have actually gotten better results, been able to focus more sharply and had less stress in my mind and body when I single-tasked. And so I continue to do one thing at a time.
多任务处理往往很诱人，好像能让人更快地把事情做完。但是每当我有那种冲动时，我就会提醒自己，过去当我单任务处理时，结果更好，我更专注，头脑、身体的压力更少。所以我继续一次只做一件事情。

2. Just write it all down.
把它写下来。

Trying to remember every idea, meeting and so on is not the best use of your mind.
尝试记住每个想法、会议等等并不能最好地利用你的大脑。

And if your memory is anything like mine then you may lose many ideas if they are not captured pretty quickly. So just write all of your good or great ideas, insights and thoughts down to keep them safe and to unload your mind.
如果你的记忆力和我差不多，那要是你不很快的把想法捕捉下来，它们很快就会溜走。 所以把好的主意、看法和想法都写下来，保证它们记录下来，减轻大脑的负担。

3. Don’t guess. Ask.
不要去猜。去问。

Trying to read minds usually don’t go so well at all. So instead, just communicate and ask.
读心术并不是那么好用。取而代之，去和他人沟通并加以询问。

By doing so you promote openness in your relationships in the long run and that will also help you to minimize unnecessary conflicts, misunderstandings, negativity and waste or time and energy.
这样做，从长远的角度上来说可以提高关系间的开放性， 那也会帮你减少不必要的冲突、误解、消极情绪以及时间和能量的浪费。

4. Keep everything in its place.
把东西放在固定的位置上。

If everything has its place then your home and workspace will have a more calming effect and it will be less stressful to find those important papers or your keys and wallet as you are heading out to catch the next bus.
如果东西都有固定的位置，那么你的家和工作地点会有更好的镇定效果，当你赶车时去找重要文件或钥匙、钱包时压力就不会那么大了。

5. Set clear daily time-limits for your work.
每天为工作设定明确的时间限制

This has been so important for me to not get lost in the very stressful grey zone and to not think about my business and this blog after my workday is done.
这一点对我来说非常重要，它让我不会迷失在充满压力的灰色区域中，让我在工作做完后不去想业务和博客。

Three limits that I have set are:
我设定的三个限制是：

Breaks every hour. I usually work for about 45 minutes and then take a 15 minute break when I step away from the work and do something completely different.
每个小时都要休息。我通常工作45分钟然后休息15分钟，停止工作，做一些完全不同的事情。

Start and stop-times for work. I don’t work before 8 in the morning and I don’t work after 7 o clock in the evening.
设定工作的开始和结束时间。早晨8点前和晚上7点后我都不会工作。

I don’t work weekends. I usually check emails once per weekend just to see so there is not something truly important I have to attend to. But other than that I stay away from work over the weekend and spend time with my family, friends, a good book or movie or I do some other fun activity.
周末不工作。 我经常会在周末查一下邮件看看有没有真正重要的事情需要注意一下。除此之外，我周末是不工作的。我在周末和家人、朋友一起玩，或看一本好书、一部电影或做其他有趣的事情。