每个人一天都是24个小时，时间是一样的，但是有的人却总是在抱怨时间不够用，而有的人却做了更多的事情。为什么抱怨时间不够用的人做事反而更少呢？
我们经常说的时间管理就是要在各处都省点时间，加起来就有时间做我们想做的事了。时间管理专家、世界畅销书作者Laura Vanderkam在了解成功的人如何分配时间、并看过了他们的时间表后，觉得这个想法是 完全本末倒置的。让我们一起来看看如何破解“时间不够用”的难题。
When people find out I write about time management, they assume two things. One is that I'm always on time. And I'm not. I have four small children, and I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness, but sometimes it's just not their fault. I was once late to my own speech on time management.
当人们发觉我写关于年华管理的文章时，他们会如果两件事：一，我永远定时，但我不是。我有四个兒童，我迟到归罪于他们，不过有时候真的不是由于他们。我有一次在去我的一个关于年华管理的演讲时迟到了。
We all had to just take a moment together and savor that irony.
我们都需要一点时间去好好地体味一下这有多么讽刺。
The second thing they assume is that I have lots of tips and tricks for saving bits of time here and there. Sometimes I'll hear from magazines that are doing a story along these lines, generally on how to help their readers find an extra hour in the day. And the idea is that we'll shave bits of time off everyday activities, add it up, and we'll have time for the good stuff.
第二，人们老是若是我有很多关于如何节俭年华的贴士和妙技。偶尔候我听说极少杂志 在写这方面的故事，都是关于教读者如何在终日中获得额外一个小时。基本思绪是从的每个营谋中挤出一点年华，加起来，然后我们有年华做更有意思的事情了。
I question the entire premise of this piece, but I'm always interested in hearing what they've come up with before they call me. Some of my favorites: doing errands where you only have to make right-hand turns.
我对这个说法持保留偏见，不过我还是愿意听听他们在找我之前有什么方法。我喜好的几个是：只完成那些只须要右转的事;
Being extremely judicious in microwave usage: it says three to three-and-a-half minutes on the package, we're totally getting in on the bottom side of that. And my personal favorite, which makes sense on some level, is to DVR your favorite shows so you can fast-forward through the commercials.
用微波炉时，要极度审慎：当食物包装上面写了3到3.5分钟时，我们要挑岁月短的阿谁。我个人喜好的是，录下你喜好看的电视剧，然后你不妨跳过广告了。在某个水平上，还是有真理的。
That way, you save eight minutes every half hour, so in the course of two hours of watching TV, you find 32 minutes to exercise.
这样，你每半个小时可能挤出八分钟。那么你用来看电视的两个小时中，可能挤出三十二分钟训练的光阴。
Which is true. You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise? Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right?
倒是这么回事儿。你理解其他可以找到三十二分钟训练年华的方法吗？不要每天都看两个小时电视就行了，对吧？
Anyway, the idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, add it up, we will finally get to everything we want to do. But after studying how successful people spend their time and looking at their schedules hour by hour, I think this idea has it completely backward.
总之，便是要在随地省点时间，加起来有时间做我们想做的事了。但在我了解胜利的人何如分拨时间，并看过了他们的时间表后，我感觉这个方法是合座舍本逐末的。
We don't build the lives we want by saving time. We build the lives we want, and then time saves itself.
我们不是通过节省时间打造我们想过的生活。我们该当成立我们想要的生活，时间会自然而然节省出来。
Here's what I mean. I recently did a time diary project looking at 1,001 days in the lives of extremely busy women. They had demanding jobs, sometimes their own businesses, kids to care for, maybe parents to care for, community commitments -- busy, busy people.
我来注解一下。我有个年华日记项目，观察忙碌的姑娘生射中1,001。她们工作繁忙，偶然候是自身的商业，偶然候要照顾自身的小孩，或者是照顾怙恃，再有服务社区等等—都是极少很忙的人。
I had them keep track of their time for a week so I could add up how much they worked and slept, and I interviewed them about their strategies, for my book.
我让她们记录了一礼拜的行程，计算她们工作和睡觉的时间，为了我的书，我采访了解了她们的常用策略。
One of the women whose time log I studied goes out on a Wednesday night for something. She comes home to find that her water heater has broken, and there is now water all over her basement. If you've ever had anything like this happen to you, you know it is a hugely damaging, frightening, sopping mess.
此中一个被我查究过光阴表的女士，在一个周三夜晚出去了一趟，回家发觉她的热水器坏了，地下室被水淹了。倘若你遇到过这种事儿的话，你会懂得面前的气象何等令人倒闭和懊恼。
So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath that night, next day she's got plumbers coming in, day after that, professional cleaning crew dealing with the ruined carpet. All this is being recorded on her time log. Winds up taking seven hours of her week. Seven hours. That's like finding an extra hour in the day.
因而阿谁黑夜她马上着手治理，第二天她找了一个水管工，第三天找了专业的算帐人员 治理摧毁的地毯。所有这些算在了她的岁月表内。总共花了她一周中的七个小时。七个小时。这等于一周七天每天要挤出一个小时。
But I'm sure if you had asked her at the start of the week, "Could you find seven hours to train for a triathlon?" "Could you find seven hours to mentor seven worthy people?" I'm sure she would've said what most of us would've said, which is, "No -- can't you see how busy I am?" Yet when she had to find seven hours because there is water all over her basement, she found seven hours.
但是倘使你在这一周刚初阶时就问她，“你可以在这周抽出七个小时加入铁人三项吗？”，“你可以在这周抽出七个小时指导七个有潜力的人吗？“ 我确定她会像大多数人一样， 说，”奈何不妨，你看不出我有多忙吗？“ 但是她然后不得不抽出七个小时，因为她的地下室都被水淹了， 她挤出了这七个小时。
And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic. We cannot make more time, but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it.
这件事奉告我们：光阴是有弹性的。我们不能创造更多光阴，但是光阴会本身调动适应我们拔取做的事情。
And so the key to time management is treating our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater. To get at this, I like to use language from one of the busiest people I ever interviewed. By busy, I mean she was running a small business with 12 people on the payroll, she had six children in her spare time.
以是年华管理的关节，便是对待重要的事情应当像对待谁人的热水器一样。要做到这一点，我要借用我采访过忙的人的话。她经营着一个小企业，请了十二名员工，空余年华她还要光顾六个小孩。
I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview on how she "had it all" -- that phrase. I remember it was a Thursday morning, and she was not available to speak with me. Of course, right?
我相干上了她，想要采访她关于她是奈何做到“无所不能”的。我记得那是一个木曜日的早晨，她光阴和我发言。固然了，她。
But the reason she was unavailable to speak with me is that she was out for a hike, because it was a beautiful spring morning, and she wanted to go for a hike. So of course this makes me even more intrigued, and when I finally do catch up with her, she explains it like this. She says, "Listen Laura, everything I do, every minute I spend, is my choice."
但是她岁月和我发言的原因是，她远足了。由于那是春季一个标致的清晨，因此她远足了。这样的她让我变得感风趣了，当我关联上她时，她说：“听我说，劳拉，我做的所有的事情，我花的每分每秒，是我的选拔。
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."
以是与其说，“我没有时光做这个，这个，或者谁人。” 她会说：“我不做这些事情因为这些不是我的首要任务。”“我没有时光”的原理通常是“那不是我的首要任务”。
If you think about it, that's really more accurate language. I could tell you I don't have time to dust my blinds, but that's not true. If you offered to pay me $100,000 to dust my blinds, I would get to it pretty quickly.
你想想， 那是准确的说法。我可以会告知你我他国时光整理百叶窗，但那不是。若是你愿意付我一十万美金让我给百叶窗除尘，我会立即做。
Since that is not going to happen, I can acknowledge this is not a matter of lacking time; it's that I don't want to do it. Using this language reminds us that time is a choice. And granted, there may be horrible consequences for making different choices, I will give you that. But we are smart people, and certainly over the long run, we have the power to fill our lives with the things that deserve to be there.
既然那不不妨产生，我可能说是因为年华不够，而是我不想做。这么说指点了我们， 年华是一种拔取。我会奉告你，，分歧的拔取有时候会带来可怕的后果。但是我们都是机灵人，原本看，我们有才干拔取少许值得做的事，填补我们生掷中的年华。那么我们应当奈何做。
So how do we do that? How do we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater?
我们要怎么像对待那个的热水器一样对待我们的首要任务？，我们必要找出哪些事重要。
Well, first we need to figure out what they are. I want to give you two strategies for thinking about this. The first, on the professional side: I'm sure many people coming up to the end of the year are giving or getting annual performance reviews. You look back over your successes over the year, your "opportunities for growth." And this serves its purpose, but I find it's more effective to do this looking forward.
我想给你们分享两个技术手段。一个，从职业的角度来说：我信任许多人在年终的时候，会发出或者收到年度绩效审查。你回头看看这一年的成功和 “发展的机遇”。这起到了它的作用，但是我发觉往前看会灵验。
So I want you to 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 to five things did you do that made it so amazing? So you can write next year's performance review now. And you can do this for your personal life, too. I'm sure many of you, like me, come December, get cards that contain these folded up sheets of colored paper, on which is written what is known as the family holiday letter.
我想让你们把这当做下一年的年关。你在给自己做年度绩效审查，在专业方面，这一年的表现格外超群。是哪三到五件事使这一年变得如许超群？你现在就可能写来岁的绩效审查。你也可能在个人糊口方面这么做。我信任你们许多人，包孕我，在十仲春，都邑收到这种夹着彩色纸的卡片。上面写着“家庭假日函件”。
Bit of a wretched genre of literature, really, going on about how amazing everyone in the household is, or even more scintillating, how busy everyone in the household is. But these letters serve a purpose, which is that they tell your friends and family what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the year.
听起来像是一个凄惨的文学题材，谈论家里每个人有多了不起，或者精彩点，家里每个人有多忙。但是这些信有它们的用处，它们告知你的伴侣和家人你这一年里做了什么对个人糊口有意义的事。
So this year's kind of done, but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year, and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you and the people you care about. What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing? So you can write next year's family holiday letter now. Don't send it.
那么今年将近收场了，我想让你假装这是明年的年底，对你和你在乎的人来说，这都是无与伦比的一年。哪三到五件事让你这一年显示如斯出色？你现在能够写明年的家庭假日尺牍了。不要发出去。
Please, don't send it. But you can write it. And now, between the performance review and the family holiday letter, we have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next year.
果然，不要发出去。但是你能够写。现在，有了绩效评估和写给家人的信，我们有了六到十个来岁能够勤奋的方向。我们需要把他们分成可行的阶段性任务。
And now we need to break these down into doable steps. So maybe you want to write a family history. First, you can read some other family histories, get a sense for the style. Then maybe think about the questions you want to ask your relatives, set up appointments to interview them. Or maybe you want to run a 5K. So you need to find a race and sign up, figure out a training plan, and dig those shoes out of the back of the closet.
你要写一个家族列传。吗，你能够读读别人的家族史籍，了解一下的气概 然后能够联想你要问亲戚的问题，约定和他们会见说话的时光。或者你想要参与一个五千米的短程马拉松。你需要找一个竞赛报名，再做一个培训打算，从衣柜底下翻出你的运动鞋。
And then -- this is key -- we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater, by putting them into our schedules first. We do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them.
然后—这是关键—我们将我们的首要事变视为阿谁坏掉的热水器，它们优先放入我们的日程内外。我们要在事情产生的几周前想好。
I find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoons. Friday afternoon is what an economist might call a "low opportunity cost" time. Most of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoons saying, "I am excited to make progress toward my personal and professional priorities right now."
我发觉周五的下午适合料理这事儿。周五的下午是被经济学家称为“低机遇成本”岁月。我们大部分人不会在周五下午想着，“我要朝我的个人和职业生涯的首要事故迈进了， 因而很兴奋。“
But we are willing to think about what those should be. So take a little bit of time Friday afternoon, make yourself a three-category priority list: career, relationships, self. Making a three-category list reminds us that there should be something in all three categories.
但是我们愿意想那些事是什么。是以在周五下昼花一点年华，为自身做一个分成三类的首要事变的列表：事业、人际相关、个人。如许的三项分类列表指点了我们每一个类别应该有少许事。
Career, we think about; relationships, self -- not so much. But anyway, just a short list, two to three items in each. Then look out over the whole of the next week, and see where you can plan them in.
事业，我们经常考虑;人际关联，个人—很少会想。不论何如，只要一个短短的列表，每个都包括两到三件事。它们会补助我们看清下周，何如不才周筹划这些事情。你可能裁夺何如筹划。
Where you plan them in is up to you. I know this is going to be more complicated for some people than others. I mean, some people's lives are just harder than others. It is not going to be easy to find time to take that poetry class if you are caring for multiple children on your own. I get that. And I don't want to minimize anyone's struggle. But I do think that the numbers I am about to tell you are empowering.
这能够对极少人来说会难题一点。我的意思是，有些人的人生便是斗劲复杂。倘使你自己有好几个要照顾的兒童，想要找年华加入诗歌班不容易。我懂。我不想轻视任何人的难题。但是我感触我接下来要说的数字，是会调换你的办法的。
There are 168 hours in a week. Twenty-four times seven is 168 hours. That is a lot of time. If you are working a full-time job, so 40 hours a week, sleeping eight hours a night, so 56 hours a week -- that leaves 72 hours for other things. That is a lot of time.
我们每周有168个小时，24乘以7是168个小时。这是一段很长年华。假使你有一个全职的工作，一周是四十个小时，每晚睡八个小时，一周是五十六个小时，我们有剩下七十二个小时做其他事情。这是一段长的年华。
You say you're working 50 hours a week, maybe a main job and a side hustle. Well, that leaves 62 hours for other things. You say you're working 60 hours. Well, that leaves 52 hours for other things. You say you're working more than 60 hours. Well, are you sure?
假若你说你每周工作五十个小时，比喻一份全职和一份兼职。云云你还是有六十小时做其他的事情。假若你说你每周工作六十个小时，你还是有五十二个小时做其他的事情。你说你每周工作胜过六十个小时，你确定吗？
There was once a study comparing people's estimated work weeks with time diaries. They found that people claiming 75-plus-hour work weeks were off by about 25 hours.
曾经有一个研究对比了人们估计的工作年华，和现实的工作日志。他们发觉那些表示工作高出七十五小时的人，有25小时的误差。
You can guess in which direction, right? Anyway, in 168 hours a week, I think we can find time for what matters to you.
你能够猜到这个误差是多了还是少了吧？不论奈何，在一周的168个小时里，我感受我们总能够找到时间做我们想做的事。
If you want to spend more time with your kids, you want to study more for a test you're taking, you want to exercise for three hours and volunteer for two, you can. And that's even if you're working way more than full-time hours.
倘使你想花时光陪陪你的孩子，或者准备你到来的考试，你想陶冶两三个小时或者 做两个小时自觉者，你可以的。即便你的工作时光远超越法定时间。
So we have plenty of time, which is great, because guess what? We don't even need that much time to do amazing things. But when 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.
因此我们有许多年华，这好。但是你理解吗？我们不需要那么多年华完成一个大方向。但当我们有一点空闲年华的时候，我们会做什么？拿出手机，是吧？初阶删除邮件。或者在家里闲逛，看电视。
But small moments can have great power. You can use your bits of time for bits of joy. Maybe it's choosing to read something wonderful on the bus on the way to work.
但是每个不起眼的期间都潜力无限。你可以用琐细的时光，获得琐细的快乐。比喻说在上班的公车上读一些精彩的东西。
I know when I had a job that required two bus rides and a subway ride every morning, I used to go to the library on weekends to get stuff to read. It made the whole experience almost, almost, enjoyable. Breaks at work can be used for meditating or praying. If family dinner is out because of your crazy work schedule, maybe family breakfast could be a good substitute.
我往日的工作需要我每天上乘两趟公车和一趟地铁的时候，我周末会去图书馆找东西来读。这，让我的糊口富厚了。工作间隙的安眠光阴不妨用来冥想或者祈祷。假使你因为工作忙而不能吃家庭晚餐，试一下家庭早餐。
It's about looking at the whole of one's time and seeing where the good stuff can go. 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.
这就是看着一个人所有的时光，然后找到什么时候能够做想做的事。我信赖，我们都有充分的时光。就算我们很忙，我们有时光做重要的事。当我们关怀在重要的事上时，我们能够用所拥有的时光创造我们想要的生活。
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Time is highly elastic.We cannot make more time, but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it.
时间的弹性是很强的。我们无法创造出更多时间，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。
And so the key to time management is treating our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater.
所以时间管理的关键就是对待重要的事像对待坏掉的热水器一样。
She says, "Listen Laura, everything I do, every minute I spend, is my choice."
她说“听着，劳拉，我做的每件事，花的每一分钟，是我的采取。”
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.”
她异国说，“我光阴做伯仲叔季，”她说的是“我做伯仲叔季，是因为那不是重要的事。”
I don't have time. = It's not a priority.
“我没时间”相当于“这事不重要。”
But we are smart people, and certainly over the long run, we have the power to fill our lives with the things that deserve to be there.
但大家都是聪灵人，并且素来看，我们必然有才能让我们的人生充满有价钱的事物。
So how do we do that? How do we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater?
那么要如何做呢？我们怎么对待重要的事情像对待坏掉的热水器一样？
Well, first we need to figure out what they are.
首先，我们需要分析哪些是重要的事。
Write next year's review. What 3-5 things would make it a great year for you professionally?
写明年的评估。哪3-5件事会让你这一年工作表现优异？
And you can do this for your personal life, too.
这一招也可以用于私人生活。
Write the family holiday letter. What 3-5things would make it a great year for you personally?
写下家庭假期贺信。哪3-5件事让你这一年拥有了精彩的个人生活？
We do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them.
要在一周开始前就想好这一周的计划。
I find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoons.
我发现星期五下午是做计划的好时间。
So take a little bit of time Friday afternoon, make yourself a three-category priority list: career, relationships, self.
因而用一点星期五下午的时光，给自身列一张三栏优先顺次表：工作、情感、个人。
But anyway, just a short list, two to three items in each.
不过总之，只是列一个简单的表格，每一栏里写两到三项。
Then look out over the whole of the next week, and see where you can plan them in.
然后纵览接下来的整个星期，看看可以把这些事安排在什么时候。
24*7=168 hours
24乘以7等于168小时。
There are 168 hours in a week. That is a lot of time. Anyway, in 168 hours a week, I think we can find time for what matters to you.
一周有168小时。那是很多时间。总之，每周168小时，我想我们可以找到时间来做对你重要的事。
If you want to spend more time with your kids, you want to study more for a test you're taking, you want to exercise for three hours and volunteer for two, you can.
要是你想花多光阴陪伴兒童，你想花更多光阴学习备考，你想做三小时运动、2小时志愿者，能做到。
But small moments can have great powers. You can use your bits of time for bits of joy.
然而少量的时间能起到大大的效用。你不妨使用琐屑的时间得到小小的乐趣。
It's about looking at the whole of one's time and seeing where the good stuff can go.
重点是留意一个人的整段时间，看看有意义的事能安排到什么时候。
I truly believe this. There is time. Even if we are busy, we have time for what matter. And when we focus on what matters, we can build the lives we want in the time we've got.
我相信这一点。岁月总是有的。就算我们再忙，还是有岁月做重要的事。而当我们存眷重要的事情时，我们能用我们拥有的岁月打造我们想要的生活。
问题真的是时间不够吗？其实很多时候，真正制约我们成长的，并不是时间本身，而是我们的生活状态。我们不是通过节省时间来打造我们想过的生活，我们应该先建立我们想要的生活，时间就会自然而然节省出来。时间利用率高的人懂得安排时间做更多有意义的事情，实现了时间的增值。
