假如你每天多出一小時(shí) 你會(huì)做什么？

What would you do if you had an extra hour a day?
如果每天的生活中可以多一個(gè)小時(shí)，你會(huì)做什么呢？

This is a common barrier I run into when I write about making positive life changes: people don’t have time to pursue their dreams. People don’t have time to exercise. People don’t have time to get organized.
當(dāng)我著手討論如何使生活更積極、更有意義時(shí)，這個(gè)問(wèn)題就產(chǎn)生了，人們通常沒(méi)有時(shí)間去追逐夢(mèng)想，沒(méi)有時(shí)間鍛煉，甚至沒(méi)有時(shí)間去思考。

Well, it’s time to make time.
好吧，現(xiàn)在是時(shí)間去想想這些了。

By using some combination of the following, you can free up an hour or more a day. Find the ones that work for you (not all will work for everyone), and then carve out that hour a day.
你可以通過(guò)以下的某個(gè)方法，使每一天都多出一小時(shí)甚至更多，找到那個(gè)適合你的（不是每一項(xiàng)都適合所有人），并堅(jiān)持下去，使每一天都多出一小時(shí)，做你喜歡的事。

Then make sure you use that extra hour a day in the best way possible — book that hour on your calendar for something you really, really want to do, whether that’s work on a goal, write a book, start a business, exercise, read more, or whatever. Don’t squander this gift of time!
你要好好利用這段時(shí)間，珍惜生活給你的這個(gè)特別的禮物，做你真正想做的事，無(wú)論是為實(shí)現(xiàn)一個(gè)目標(biāo)所做的努力、寫(xiě)一本書(shū)、開(kāi)展一項(xiàng)業(yè)務(wù)，或者是鍛煉、讀書(shū)都好，把它記錄下來(lái)。

Make an appointment right after work. Whether it’s exercise or working on some other goal, make an appointment to do it right when you get out of work (at 5 p.m., for example). This works especially well if you have to meet someone else, such as a workout partner or other group or team or coach or partner. You’ll be sure to meet the appointment, which means you won’t stick around work too long, and you’ll be sure to finish all your tasks on time so you can leave on time. This makes you more efficient in the afternoon especially.

1、下班后安排一個(gè)約會(huì)。在每天下班后（例如下午5點(diǎn)后），安排一點(diǎn)事去做，可以是健身，也可以是其它一些項(xiàng)目。如果這個(gè)時(shí)間可以與其他人一起那就更好了，這些人可以是工作以外的，例如健身教練、項(xiàng)目搭檔都可以。你每天都要堅(jiān)持這樣做，這可以讓你從每天的工作中解放出來(lái)，也會(huì)督促你在上班時(shí)間做好所有的工作。這會(huì)讓你在下午工作時(shí)效率提高。深圳英語(yǔ)翻譯  深圳英語(yǔ)翻譯公司  英語(yǔ)翻譯服務(wù)    深圳權(quán)威翻譯  權(quán)威翻譯公司

Wake up earlier. I’ve written about this before, of course, but I’ve found time for goals that are important to me by waking a bit earlier. Exercise, writing, reading — I do those now early in the day, so it doesn’t interfere with family time. Early in the day works well for me and many others, simply because there’s not much going on to distract or interrupt at this time of day.
2、早起一會(huì)兒。這一點(diǎn)我從前就提到過(guò)，我會(huì)找到一些對(duì)我很重要的事迫使自己早起一點(diǎn)。鍛煉、寫(xiě)作、讀書(shū)，現(xiàn)在我都在早上完成了，不會(huì)再占用跟家人共處的時(shí)間。由于這個(gè)時(shí)間段較少被打擾和轉(zhuǎn)移注意力，對(duì)很多人來(lái)說(shuō)，包括我，早上的時(shí)間是更有效率的。

Turn off the phones. You don’t have to turn off phones all day long, but you should have some unbroken blocks of time when you don’t take calls, so you can concentrate on your important tasks. This allows you to get more done in less time, as phone calls can eat up chunks of your day if you let them.
3、關(guān)掉移動(dòng)電話。當(dāng)然不是全天都關(guān)閉電話，但每天都應(yīng)該有一段時(shí)間不被別人打擾，專(zhuān)心于自已感興趣的、真正重要的事。這可以讓你在短時(shí)間內(nèi)做更多的事情，而不會(huì)因?yàn)榻与娫挾袛啾緛?lái)專(zhuān)注的事情。

Stop checking email. This doesn’t work for everyone, but if you can stop checking email except at one or two times during the day, you can free up a lot of wasted time. Checking email constantly takes up a lot of time.
4、不去看郵箱。這不適合每一個(gè)人，但如果你每天只查看一到兩次郵箱，就會(huì)節(jié)省很多時(shí)間，不停的查看郵箱會(huì)浪費(fèi)很多時(shí)間。

Brown bag it. Many people I know take an hour or more for lunch. While a relaxing lunch can be a good thing, if you take lunch to work, you can eat quickly and either spend the extra time 1) working on a goal; or 2) getting work done so you can leave earlier. Plus, brown bagging it saves money too.
5、叫外賣(mài)。據(jù)我所知，很多人會(huì)花費(fèi)一到兩個(gè)小時(shí)在午餐上，當(dāng)然一頓放松愜意的午餐是很美妙的，但如果叫外賣(mài)，你就可以節(jié)省時(shí)間去做更多的事，工作提前完成，就可以早點(diǎn)下班了。噢，對(duì)了，外賣(mài)更加省錢(qián)！

Figure out your core work activities. What is it that you really have to do each day? I mean, the stuff you have to do or your job would fall apart. If you really think about it, a lot of the tasks you do each day (and phone calls and emails, mentioned above, are included in these tasks) don’t really need to be done each day. Sometimes you can do them less often, sometimes you don’t need to do them at all. If you can learn to focus on your core activities, you can get your work done in less time.
6、掌握最重要的工作。你每天必須要做的是什么？我是說(shuō)那些必須做，不做會(huì)影響正常狀況的事。這樣認(rèn)真思考你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)很多事都不是必須的，比如接電話、查郵件，有時(shí)需要偶爾做，有時(shí)真的完全沒(méi)必要。如果你能了解什么是最重要的，則不必浪費(fèi)時(shí)間在無(wú)關(guān)緊要的事情上，重要工作會(huì)在更短的時(shí)間完成。

Cancel a meeting or two. Think about the last 4-5 meetings you’ve gone to. How many of them were really valuable? How many of them did you need to be at? It depends on your job, but sometimes you can beg out of a meeting — or just outright cancel it if you have that power — and accomplish the same thing through an email or two. You just saved yourself 30-60 minutes per meeting canceled.