20條提高效率的訣竅：教你擠出第25個小時大綱

Let’s face it we all want more time in our life to get more done, be more, do more and have thing is, we are all given the same 24 hours in a day as everyone why is it then that some people are just so much more efficient at squeezing more out of every moment of every day? Well they have a few secrets up their sleeve that you should know about.
面對現實吧。人人都希望能有更多的時間，做更多的事，什麼都要多多益善才好。事實是，每個人都只有24小時，那爲什麼有的人就可以把一天裏的每一分鐘都擠出來去做更高效的事情呢？那是因爲他們都藏着一些提高效率的小訣竅，你也來學習一下吧。

1. Get up an hour earlier.
1.早起一小時。

2. Use Sunday evening for planning the week.
2.在週日晚上爲下一週定好計劃。

3. Say no. (the power of constraints). Ignore. Focus only on the thing you’re looking to achieve.
3.學會說不（人的能力是有限的）。學會忽略。只把注意力關注在你想要完成的事情上。

4. Turn off your emails on your phone.
4.把手機上的郵件提示功能關了。

5. Don’t say should, say “I will”. Think like Yoda “There is no try, there is only do or do not.”
5.不要說“應該做”，而要說“我要做”。想想尤達大師的名言“世上沒有嘗試一說，只有做或不做。”

6. Don’t answer the phone. Literally. If it’s important they’ll leave a message.
6.不要接電話。如果真的有很緊急的事情的話，對方會給你發短信的。

7. Plan your day according to the most important, biggest task, not the smallest and easiest.
7.根據你最重要、最宏大的任務來安排你一天的計劃，而不是那些最容易完成的小事情。

8. Avoid meetings at all cost. If you have to go, have one specific outcome in mind.
8.不惜一切代價避免開會。如果一定要開的話，那也必須要得出一些切實的結果才行。

9. Know what the next step is at the end of every conversation.
9.在每次談話結束的最後，都要清楚下一步要做什麼。

10. Turn off the internet. If you’re writing or creating go to a coffee shop that has no internet.
10.不要上網。如果你正在撰寫文件或創作方案，那就到不能上網的咖啡館裏去完成。11. Set a timer to go off at 30 minute intervals to focus on one activity and take a short 1 minute break to refocus.
11.把定時器設置在每30分鐘休息一次，花一分鐘放鬆一下，以便更好地專注於接下去要做的事。

12. Take a proper break after 2 hours for 10-20 minutes and dance to your fave song, do some pushups, get out in the fresh air.
12.每兩個小時休息10-20分鐘，跟着你喜歡的歌曲扭兩下，做做俯臥撐，到室外去呼吸一下新鮮空氣。

13. Ask yourself “is what I’m doing right now getting me closer to what I want to achieve.
13.捫心自問“我現在正在做的事情是不是能讓我更接近自己的目標”。

14. Know what you’re looking to achieve – what does finished look like?
14.瞭解你一直想要實現的目標。目標實現後會是什麼樣子？

15. Play motivating upbeat music while working to keep your energy levels high.
15.在工作的時候，放一些能鼓舞情緒的音樂，讓你能始終保持情緒高漲。

16. Keep an idea book to dump your distractions in, and come back to them a week later.
16.準備一本本子，把讓你分心的事情都記錄下來，每週回顧一次。

17. Keep a journal of WHAT you have achieved.
17.把你完成的任務都寫下來。

18. Work out what is important and what isn’t.
18.分清事情的輕重緩急。

19. Stop procrastinating and just DO it!
19.終結拖延症。趕緊去做！

20. Throw out the TV – literally bury it in your back garden.
20.把電視機扔出去，說真的，把電視機埋在你家的後院裏。