What are the most effective and proven time management techniques?
The secret to time management is simple:Jedi time tricks.
时间管理的秘密简单来讲就是：绝地时间技巧
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.
想象一下你是一位绝地大师叫鲍勃，(你的父母，武力娴熟，不过取名字能力方面一般般)。你的挚爱，露西亚公主，被困在一栋熊熊大火高楼的顶层，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.
你可以把露西亚公主想象成你梦想，你的志向，她是你最重要的东西
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，你必须先穿越一个连的暴风突击队的枪林弹雨才能接近她。你要集中注意力控制手中的激光剑，如果你躲闪不及，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.
我们都知道英雄如何解决困境。如果他忽视了最后的目标—露西亚公主，那么他所有的努力都是徒劳。他也可以吸引一个连的暴风突击队，毫不费劲的干掉他们，但是士兵的数字是无限的，同时，短暂的满足感只会让他分心。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:
这也是和你生活相关的，你永远都要面对最重要的事情和最紧急的事情中间的抉择。
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.
处理好你的时间的秘密就是同时专注重要的事和制止紧急的事。人们总是会预先关注需要立即回应的事，比如手机上的通知，把最重要的事不停的延迟，比如去健身房。你需要违反你的大脑和人类社会的大多数的做法，去翻转它，
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:
看看你一天花的时间都花在哪了，我敢担保，不是所有的事都是你自己选择去做的，而有些事被要求做的。
这些就是我们如何解决的方法，年轻的绝地学徒。
·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).
说不。我们中的大多数人都遵循社会上的一些不成文的约定：当别人要求你做某事时，你都会说好的，这会让人觉得自己很高尚，但是不要忘了，有一位奄奄一息的公主，等待着你去拯救，别人友好让你帮忙做事，你却放慢了拯救公主的步伐，你可能需要牺牲一些社会的舒适感，去挽救自己的生活（有一个好处是人们本能上倾向于尊重那些敢于说不的人）。
·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.
拔掉电视机的插头。美国人平均一礼拜花34小时看电视，自从我不看电视到现在，已经多给了我12376个小时了。我还是会看一些表演，通常是吃晚饭的同时看大概一个小时，但只看我选择的或是购买的。这12000多个小时，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.
消灭通知。现代科技剥削了我们很多的注意力，邮件，Facebook，Twitter，quora,都会不断的让你分心。幸运的是，这是可以解决的。关掉你的通知，当你有分心的时间后，再去看这些通知，比如午餐结束休息的时间，一起都解决掉，节约时间。
·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.
优先安排你的行程。人类是特别神奇的动物。如果你有一个朋友想认识一下，你会安排一个时间点去见面。但是如果有某些更加重要的事时，比如写一本书，去健身房，你就不会安排行程了。你就会说，我考虑一下好了。对待更重要的事应该对待必须要赶上的航班一样，提前设定截止时间，然后对一切会影响你赶上这个航班的事情说不。
·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（不是紧急的）的事是什么？今天做部分掉。记住，有数不清的暴风突击队会不断的让你分心，不要认为可以做完这一件分心的事就能马上开始做最重要的事。绝地武士不靠借口活着。
·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，大时间。你能做的事总会有很多。这个技巧就是一天挑1到3件事做，然后不断地追求。你的大脑并不局限于此。其他人不喜欢这种限制。无论如何试一下，只专注于做一件事比多任务做事要高效的多，也可以使你更擅长做这件事。
·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.
忽视。既粗鲁，不专业，也是完全不必要的。有些人你会找不到时间回应。有些要求你要允许自己去忘记。你可以慢慢的做某些事，比如整理，支付账单，打开邮件。世界不会崩塌，做完事，回报自然会兑现。
One final lesson from the Jedi: they're heroes.
从绝地武士身上学到的最后一课，他们是英雄。
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们，他们能做出正确的决定，他们前行，完成重要的事。我们爱英雄还有另一个原因，在我们的内心深处，也有成为英雄的力量。
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