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TED主讲人:Laura Vanderkam(著有《时间管理手账》)
【1】When people find out I write about time management,they assume two things.One is that I'm always on time,the second thing is that I have lots of tips and tricks for saving bits of time here and there.
时间管理不意味着做任何事情都会准时,这是两件不同的事情。时间管理也不仅仅意味着掌握各种技巧去利用零碎时间,具体观点下文有提到。
【2】We don't build the lives we want by saving time.We build the lives we want,and then time saves itself.
关于时间管理,大部分人会想到利用零碎时间,这样可以使每天做的事情更多。但如果这样想,存在一个前提——做的所有事情都必须是非做不可的。如果有一些事情我们可以不必去做呢?那何谈挤零碎时间?完全可以把去做那些不必要事情的整块时间留出来。研究了成功人士如何使用时间之后,得出真正的时间管理应该是——先创造想要的生活,然后时间自动就节约下来了。
【3】Time is highly elastic.
时间的弹性是很强的。
【4】We cannot make more time,but time will strech to accommodate what we choose to put into it.And so the key to time management is treating our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater.
我们无法创造出更多的时间,但时间会得到充分的利用,这取决于我们选择用时间来做什么。
【5】She says,"Listen,everything I do,every minute I spend,is my choice."And rather than say,"I don't have time to do x,y or z,"she'd say,"I don't do x,y or z because it's not a priority.""I don't have time,"often means"It's not a priority."If you think about it,that's really more accurate language.
采访一位拥有小公司同时照顾6个孩子的女士,她回答道:我做的每一件事,花的每一分钟,都是我自己的选择。“我没空做这件事”=“这件事不重要”。
【6】Time is a choice.
时间是选择。
【7】On the professional side:pretend it's the end of next year.You're giving yourself a performance review,and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you professionally.What three or five things did you do to make it so amazing?So you can write next year's performance review now.
假设现在是明年年底,而这一年过的十分精彩,那么在这一年中,你做了哪些事情让这一年如此精彩?写下来,这样我们就有了明年要努力的目标。
【8】We don't even need that much time to do amazing things.But most of us have bits of time,what do we do?Pull out the phone,right?Start deleting emails.Otherwise,we're puttering around the house or watching TV.But small moments can have great power.
其实做一些事情我们甚至不需要太多时间。不过大多数人有了一点时间会做什么?拿出手机,对吗?开始删除邮件。或者,在家里晃荡,或者看电视。
【9】I truly believe this,there is time.Even if we are busy,we have time for what matters.And when we focus on what matters,we can build the lives we want in the time we've got.
我相信时间总是有的。就算我们再忙,还是有时间做重要的事情。而当我们关注重要的事情时,我们就能用拥有的时间去打造我们想要的生活。