What are the most effective and proven time management techniques?
The secret to time management is simple:Jedi time tricks.
時間管理的秘密簡單來講就是：絕地時間技巧
Imagine you were a Jedi master called Bob (your parents, whilst skilled in the ways of the force weren’t the best at choosing names). The love of your life - Princess Lucia – is trapped in a burning building as you hurry to save her.
想象一下你是一位絕地大師叫鮑勃，(你的父母，武力嫻熟，不過取名字能力方面一般般)。你的摯愛，露西亞公主，被困在一棟熊熊大火高樓的頂層，急切的等待你去拯救。
You might think of Lucia as the embodiment of your dreams, your aspirations – she isyour most important thing.
你可以把露西亞公主想象成你夢想，你的志向，她是你最重要的東西
Unfortunately, before you can reach her an army of stormtroopers open fire. The incoming stream of lasers demand your attention – if you fail to dodge them, you’re dead. You might think of them as anurgent distractionfrom saving your princess.
可是，不幸的是，你必須先穿越一個連的暴風突擊隊的槍林彈雨才能接近她。你要集中注意力控制手中的激光劍，如果你躲閃不及，你就死了。你可以把它看作拯救你的公主路上一切分心的事物。
We all know how a hero resolves this dilemma. If he takes his eye off the ultimate goal - his princess - then all his other efforts are for nought. He can engage an army of stormtroopers, cutting them down with graceful ease, but their numbers are limitless, and whilst momentarily satisfying they only distract him. Delayed too long, his princess will die.
我們都知道英雄如何解決困境。如果他忽視了最后的目標—露西亞公主，那么他所有的努力都是徒勞。他也可以吸引一個連的暴風突擊隊，毫不費勁的干掉他們，但是士兵的數字是無限的，同時，短暫的滿足感只會讓他分心。拖延的太久，公主就要死了。
And so it is with your life. You have things that are most important and things that are most urgent in permanent competition:
這也是和你生活相關的，你永遠都要面對最重要的事情和最緊急的事情中間的抉擇。
The secret to mastering your time is to systematicallyfocus onimportanceand suppressurgency. Humans are pre-wired to focus on things which demand an immediate response, like alerts on their phones – and to postpone things which are most important, like going to the gym. You need to reverse that, which goes against your brain and most of human society.
處理好你的時間的秘密就是同時專注重要的事和制止緊急的事。人們總是會預先關注需要立即回應的事，比如手機上的通知，把最重要的事不停的延遲，比如去健身房。你需要違反你的大腦和人類社會的大多數的做法，去翻轉它，
Look at what you spend your day doing. Most of it, I’ll warrant, is not anything you chose – it’swhat is being asked of you. Here’s how we fix that, young padawan:
看看你一天花的時間都花在哪了，我敢擔保，不是所有的事都是你自己選擇去做的，而有些事被要求做的。
這些就是我們如何解決的方法，年輕的絕地學徒。
·Say no.Most of us follow an implicit social contract: when someone asks you to do something you almost always say yes. It may feel very noble, but don’t forget there’s a dying princess you need to save, and you just agreed to slow yourself down because you were asked nicely. You may need to sacrifice some social comfort to save a life (as a bonus, people tend to instinctively respect those who can say no).
說不。我們中的大多數人都遵循社會上的一些不成文的約定：當別人要求你做某事時，你都會說好的，這會讓人覺得自己很高尚，但是不要忘了，有一位奄奄一息的公主，等待著你去拯救，別人友好讓你幫忙做事，你卻放慢了拯救公主的步伐，你可能需要犧牲一些社會的舒適感，去挽救自己的生活（有一個好處是人們本能上傾向于尊重那些敢于說不的人）。
·Unplug the TV.I haven’t had a TV signal for 7 years, which has given me about 12,376 hours more than the average American who indulges in 34 hours a week. Idowatch some shows – usually one hour a day whilst eating dinner - but only ones I’ve chosen and bought. You can do a lot with 12,000 hours, and still keep up with Mad Men.
拔掉電視機的插頭。美國人平均一禮拜花34小時看電視，自從我不看電視到現在，已經多給了我12376個小時了。我還是會看一些表演，通常是吃晚飯的同時看大概一個小時，但只看我選擇的或是購買的。這12000多個小時，你可以干很多的事情。
·Kill notifications.Modern technology has evolved to exploit our urgency addiction: email, Facebook, Twitter, Quora and more will fight to distract you constantly. Fortunately, this is easily fixed: turn off all your notifications.Chooseto check these things when you have time to be distracted – say, during a lunch break – and work through them together, saving time.
消滅通知。現代科技剝削了我們很多的注意力，郵件，Facebook，Twitter，quora,都會不斷的讓你分心。幸運的是，這是可以解決的。關掉你的通知，當你有分心的時間后，再去看這些通知，比如午餐結束休息的時間，一起都解決掉，節約時間。
·Schedule your priorities.Humans are such funny critters. If you have a friend to meet, you’ll arrange to see them at a set time. But if you have something that matters to you more than anything – say writing a book, or going to the gym - you won’t schedule it. You’ll just ‘get round to it’. Treat your highest priorities like flights you have to catch: give them a set time in advance and say no to anything that would stop you making your flight.
優先安排你的行程。人類是特別神奇的動物。如果你有一個朋友想認識一下，你會安排一個時間點去見面。但是如果有某些更加重要的事時，比如寫一本書，去健身房，你就不會安排行程了。你就會說，我考慮一下好了。對待更重要的事應該對待必須要趕上的航班一樣，提前設定截止時間，然后對一切會影響你趕上這個航班的事情說不。
·First things first.What is the single mostimportant(not urgent) thing you could possibly be doing? Do some of thattoday. Remember there’s a limitless number of distracting stormtroopers – don’t fool yourself by thinking “if I just do this thing first then I can”. Jedi don’t live by excuses.
先做第一位的事。你能想到的要做的最重要（不是緊急的）的事是什么？今天做部分掉。記住，有數不清的暴風突擊隊會不斷的讓你分心，不要認為可以做完這一件分心的事就能馬上開始做最重要的事。絕地武士不靠借口活著。
·Less volume, more time.There’s always millions of things you could be doing. The trick is topick no more than 1 - 3 a day, and relentlessly pursue those. Your brain won’t like this limit. Other people won’t like this limit. Do it anyway. Focusing your all on one task at a time is infinitely more efficient than multi-tasking and gives you time to excel at your work.
小容量，大時間。你能做的事總會有很多。這個技巧就是一天挑1到3件事做，然后不斷地追求。你的大腦并不局限于此。其他人不喜歡這種限制。無論如何試一下，只專注于做一件事比多任務做事要高效的多，也可以使你更擅長做這件事。
·Ignore.It’s rude, unprofessional and often utterly necessary. There are people you won’t find time to reply to. There are requests you will allow yourself to forget. You can be slow to do things like tidy up, pay bills or open mail. The world won't fall apart. The payoff isyouget done what matters.
忽視。既粗魯，不專業，也是完全不必要的。有些人你會找不到時間回應。有些要求你要允許自己去忘記。你可以慢慢的做某些事，比如整理，支付賬單，打開郵件。世界不會崩塌，做完事，回報自然會兌現。
One final lesson from the Jedi: they're heroes.
從絕地武士身上學到的最后一課，他們是英雄。
Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But there’s another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all,we know we have the power to become one ourselves.
英雄很多方面都能鼓舞我們，他們能做出正確的決定，他們前行，完成重要的事。我們愛英雄還有另一個原因，在我們的內心深處，也有成為英雄的力量。
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