假如你每天多出一小时 你会做什么？

What would you do if you had an extra hour a day?
如果每天的生活中可以多一个小时，你会做什么呢？

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.
当我着手讨论如何使生活更积极、更有意义时，这个问题就产生了，人们通常没有时间去追逐梦想，没有时间锻炼，甚至没有时间去思考。

Well, it’s time to make time.
好吧，现在是时间去想想这些了。

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.
你可以通过以下的某个方法，使每一天都多出一小时甚至更多，找到那个适合你的（不是每一项都适合所有人），并坚持下去，使每一天都多出一小时，做你喜欢的事。

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!
你要好好利用这段时间，珍惜生活给你的这个特别的礼物，做你真正想做的事，无论是为实现一个目标所做的努力、写一本书、开展一项业务，或者是锻炼、读书都好，把它记录下来。

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、下班后安排一个约会。在每天下班后（例如下午5点后），安排一点事去做，可以是健身，也可以是其它一些项目。如果这个时间可以与其他人一起那就更好了，这些人可以是工作以外的，例如健身教练、项目搭档都可以。你每天都要坚持这样做，这可以让你从每天的工作中解放出来，也会督促你在上班时间做好所有的工作。这会让你在下午工作时效率提高。深圳英语翻译  深圳英语翻译公司  英语翻译服务    深圳权威翻译  权威翻译公司

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、早起一会儿。这一点我从前就提到过，我会找到一些对我很重要的事迫使自己早起一点。锻炼、写作、读书，现在我都在早上完成了，不会再占用跟家人共处的时间。由于这个时间段较少被打扰和转移注意力，对很多人来说，包括我，早上的时间是更有效率的。

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、关掉移动电话。当然不是全天都关闭电话，但每天都应该有一段时间不被别人打扰，专心于自已感兴趣的、真正重要的事。这可以让你在短时间内做更多的事情，而不会因为接电话而中断本来专注的事情。

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、不去看邮箱。这不适合每一个人，但如果你每天只查看一到两次邮箱，就会节省很多时间，不停的查看邮箱会浪费很多时间。

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、叫外卖。据我所知，很多人会花费一到两个小时在午餐上，当然一顿放松惬意的午餐是很美妙的，但如果叫外卖，你就可以节省时间去做更多的事，工作提前完成，就可以早点下班了。噢，对了，外卖更加省钱！

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。你每天必须要做的是什么？我是说那些必须做，不做会影响正常状况的事。这样认真思考你会发现很多事都不是必须的，比如接电话、查邮件，有时需要偶尔做，有时真的完全没必要。如果你能了解什么是最重要的，则不必浪费时间在无关紧要的事情上，重要工作会在更短的时间完成。

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.