時間管理100講|017【習慣】|如何過一天就是如何過一生|中英文

音頻鏈接:喜馬拉雅|時間管理100講

Today, I want to share with you a simple concept: how you spend your day is how you’ll live your life.

今天要跟大家分享的話題是:一日看人生。

Whether you are rich or poor, successful or unsuccessful, each of us has only 24 hours a day.

不論是富人還是窮人,不論是成功者還是普通人,我們每個人的一天都只有24小時。

All of us from one end of the Earth to the other, from the beginning of time to now and into the future have the same 24 hours to use.  Each of us uses that time differently giving us different results and very different lives.

同樣的24小時,也正是因爲使用它的人用了各自不同的方式,得到了不同的結果,也就造成了每個人很不相同的人生。

Each of us has a lot of repeated habits. In fact 70% of our behavior on any given day is the result of habits that we repeat each day.  Therefore, each day we are simply repeating the actions of the previous day.  Our lives then are the product of these repeated habits.

我們每個人都有很多的習慣,我們70%的行爲都受習慣的控制,所以我們的人生其實就是在重複中度過的。

So I often tell my Yixiaoneng students one thing: “how you spend your day is how you’ll live your life.”

所以我經常在易效能的線下課給學員們講這樣一句話:“如何過一天就是如何過一生。”


Each day we are given 24 hours and we actually do not spend most of it working.

一天24小時中我們能工作的時間其實不多。

In the last lecture, we talked about the "three basic habits of life": eating, sleeping and exercising. These three habits will account for about 13 to 15 hours of our time in a day. If you can make full use of these 13 to 15 hours, then you will be healthier and have more energy to do the “important things” in the remaining 8 hours of your day. In this way, you will maximize your efficiency, and have the time to do what you want – those things that will get you closer to your dreams.

上一講中我們講到的“人生三大基礎習慣”:吃飯、睡覺和運動,這三個習慣大約就要佔我們一天時間中的13-15個小時,如果大家能用好這13-15個小時,那麼你就能更健康,更有精力去做剩下8個小時當中的“要事”,這樣你的效率就會很高,你也纔會有時間去做自己想做的事情。

Most people live chaotic and inefficient lives and can you guess why?  It’s because they have bad habits and are unwilling to change those habits.

大多數人都在過着混亂、沒效率的生活。你知道原因嗎?他們的習慣很不好,也沒有決心改變。

I often tell my students that there two ways to live life: offline and online.

在易效能的線下課上我也常會給大家講兩種人生狀態:線下的人生和線上的人生。


What is offline life?

線下的人生是怎麼樣的呢?

We talked about this in our last lesson.  Remember that person who wakes at 7AM and sleeps at 11PM?

就是上一講中我們講到的7-11的生活狀態。

Remember the person who is woken unnaturally by an alarm clock with little energy?

也就是早上7:00被很多個鬧鐘叫醒。

The inability to wake up in the morning comes from your decision to socialize or entertain guests at home until 11:00 PM at night.

早上起不來的原因一般都是因爲頭天下午下班以後去外面社交或應酬到11:00纔回家。

Then when you get home and lie in bed do you go directly to sleep?  No, we often lay in bed, look at WeChat, read some magazine articles or message with someone over our phones.

回到家後躺在牀上習慣性地刷刷微信,看看雞湯文,有的時候還留言罵罵人......

And then you actually sleep later… around midnight.  It’s no wonder you cannot wake in the morning and when you do, you have no energy!  You are simply not getting enough quality sleep.

一般要到凌晨之後才入睡,睡眠時間少,早上自然就沒辦法早起了。

And if you don’t get up early in the morning, you will have no time to plan your day and organize your tasks or even to have a good breakfast.

不早起你就沒時間做“晨間檢視”,也沒時間對今天這一天要乾的事做計劃,甚至也沒時間吃一個很好的早餐。

Then you will be hungry well before noon and be hypoglycemic (that low on sugar) at 11:00, and you will begin to feel faint.  You will be unable to concentrate and will not be able to work efficiently.

早餐沒吃好中午就餓得快,11:00不到就低血糖,腦子開始犯暈,沒辦法工作了。

And when you begin working, you will be distracted and complete unimportant tasks like shopping on Amazon or TaoBao or gossiping with your colleagues.

應該工作的時間也是先做不重要的事,像是打開淘寶購個物,和同事聊聊八卦......

Thus, the important things are pushed from the morning to the afternoon.  If your energy is lower in the afternoon than in the morning, your frog will become bigger and uglier and it will be more unpleasant to complete.

重要的事留到下午來做,下午的精力更不好,青蛙變得越來越大,越來越醜,心情也變得不愉快了。

And in the end, your work is inefficient so it takes longer to complete your tasks.  You must extend the time you spend working.  Instead of leaving at 5:00 PM you must work until 8:00 PM.  And then after work, you have a late meal with your colleagues and friends, and then go to the bar for a while. Then your day is over before you know it.

於是工作更沒有效率,工作時間就被拉得很長,然後你就不得不加班,本來下午5:00就可以下班的,但是因爲手裏的工作沒做完,你就又要加班到晚上8:00,8:00從公司出來之後再和同事或者朋友去吃個宵夜,酒吧玩一會兒,基本上這一天就又要結束了。

This hurried, inefficient, non-productive, unfulfilling life is the one most people live.  The life of 7 to 11.

很多人就過着這樣7-11的生活。這樣的生活匆匆忙忙,效率很低。

This is the offline life. Getting up late and going to bed late.  No exercise.  Lack of focus.  Working longer hours.Not having the discipline to go to bed when you arrive home and end the day but rather lying on it and distracting yourself with unimportant things because nothing meaningful was accomplished during the day.  Each day continuing to sleep late, vowing that things will be different, that he or she will change. But living the same life day after day, until slowly he or she begins to hate himself, or just becomes numb with the cloak of hopelessness and the feeling of powerlessness to change.

所以我們總結起來就很容易發現:線下的人生就是晚睡晚起,每天沒有運動,做事不專注,加班......晚上回到家躺在牀上沒有勇氣結束這一天,因爲他白天沒幹什麼有意義的事,於是繼續晚睡,繼續發誓要改變自己,然後又日復一日地過着同樣的生活,慢慢地,他就會開始討厭自己,或者變得麻木。

This is the life a person controlled by his bad habits.  This is the offline life.

這就是線下的人生,被壞習慣所掌控。


What about the online life?  How does it compare?

那麼與線下人生相對應的線上人生是什麼樣的呢?

We get up when the first ray of sunlight enters the room;

就是當早上第一束陽光照進房間的時候我們就起牀了;

Automatically we begin our morning rituals: take a cold shower, meditate for 10 minutes, write in the morning diary, read a few pages of certain books, run for 30 minutes, list the tasks we planned to complete today, and set the Pomodoro clocks to begin the task of eating the frogs.

然後進入自己的晨間儀式:洗個冷水澡、冥想10分鐘、寫寫晨間日記、閱讀幾頁書、跑步30分鐘,列出今天自己準備完成的事務清單,安排番茄鍾吃青蛙......

This time is designed to squeeze as much as work into a little time as possible so that work time can be reduced into spurts of focused energy so that we can use our time later to do the things we want to do.

早上做的計劃都是在使時間的密度加大,從而讓工作的時間減少,最後是留出更多的時間去做自己想做的事情。

In this way, you will increase your energy more and more, you will achieve greater things and your life will burst with excitement, and people will come closer and closer to you.

這樣你的能量就會越來越高,成果就會越來越多,你的人生就會越來越精彩,也會有越來越多的人靠近你。

And most importantly, you will have the energy, the time and the means to focus on what is truly important to you – the opportunity to go after your dreams whatever that may be.  To create a life that is meaningful for you.

而且這樣你也更能聚焦目標,去做對自己人生積極有意義的事情。

This is the online life.

這就是線上的人生。


What is the difference between the online and offline life?

那線上和線下的區別在哪裏呢?

Not much.  The difference is in the small things.Go to sleep two hours earlier.  Wake up two hours earlier.

其實只不過是把睡覺的時間提前了兩個小時,把起牀的時間提前了兩個小時;

Eat a healthy breakfast.  Eat a full and reenergizing lunch.Eat little supper.

每天注意吃好早餐,吃飽午餐,少吃晚餐;

At work reverse the order of tasks you complete.  Start with the important things.  End with the unimportant things.

工作時間裏先做重要的事再做不重要的事;

Exercise just a little more in your life.

在生活中加入運動的時間;

And finally, eat frogs with vigor and energy.

最後就是精力充沛地去吃青蛙。

Day after day, year after year, the gap in the number of people who live the offline life and the online life grows wider and wider.

就這樣,日復一日,年復一年,人與人之間的差距就拉大了。

The lives of online and offline people are drastically different, but if you look at their everyday lives… each day is only a little different.

線上、線下的人生不一樣,但只需一日,就能看出你的人生狀態了.


So focus on this day. Focus on the small things. Make the small changes.And from these small changes, your entire life will change dramatically.

這就是我們今天的話題:一日看人生的意思。專注於小事,做一些小改變,將會改變你的一生。

One last thing I want to tell you today.

最後還想告訴大家的是:

Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA’s greatest players, gets up at 4:00 AM every morning;

科比每天早上4:00起牀;

Ben Franklin, woke up at 5:00 AM and slept at 10:00 PMevery day, and every morning he asked himself, "What will I do today?" and each night he would ask “What have I done today”?

富蘭克林過晚十早五的生活,他還每天早上都問自己“我要做些什麼?”  每天晚上同樣要問自己“今天我做了些什麼?”

Michael Esiner, the President of Disney gets up at 4:30AM every day.  Steve Jobs when he was alive and Tim Cook – the leaders of Apple rose early in the morning.

迪斯尼老總每天4:30起牀,喬布斯、庫克都是早起族;

Tseng Kuo-Fan, a famous Chinese leader in the 19thcentury, rose early every morning. He said: "Getting up early is the basic rule to build a family, and getting up late is the bad quality that will destroy a family’s happiness and fortune.

曾國藩每天也早起,他甚至說:“早起是治家之本,晚起是敗家之凶德。”

So, the whole day's work depends on a good start in the morning. If you can get up early, plan your day and eat frogs in the morning, your life will change dramatically.

所以,一日之計在於晨,如果你能早起、能早上做計劃、早上吃青蛙,你的人生就會變得不一樣。

Of course, you don’t have to do this every single day, and you can relax during a holiday, but we must develop the habit.

當然你也不見得每天都這樣做,在度假期間可以不那麼嚴格,但是在工作期間,我們就要保持嚴謹。

So which life are you living?  The online life or the offline life?  Change the little things, make them your habits and watch your life change before your very eyes.  Open a new chapter in your life.  Try it today!  Begin today!

所以你正在過線上的人生還是線下的人生?如果你能養成過線上人生的生活習慣,那麼你的人生將會從此開啓新的篇章,今天試試看吧!

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