看完心慌！效率极低人群的七大习惯你也有么？

与通常所列举的应该培养的有益习惯不同，本文在此举出的是我们最好避免的7种习惯。

就像寻找对你有益的习惯一样，寻找妨碍你的习惯同样重要。这7种习惯中大多数都可能会轻易成为你日常生活的一部分，使你难以察觉它的存在(或者它如何影响到你)。我曾经略微尝试了这些习惯，结果毫无疑问，那些重要的事情没有几个可以完成。同时我也要添加说明的是，这只是在生活中你可能形成的影响效率的主要的7个习惯，我很确定绝不仅仅是这些。

1、缺席。

1. Not showing up.

也许你曾经听过伍迪·艾伦所说的这句话：“百分之八十的成功来自于出席。”

Maybe you’ve heard this quote by Woody Allen: “Eighty percent ofsuccess is showing up”

更多的出席——这是在生活中你可以保证更多成功所做的最大也是最简单的事情之一，无论是在你的社交生活中，你的事业上还是你的健康方面。如果你想要改善你的健康状况，一个最重要也是最有效的事情就是在每次你该出席时出现在健身房里。

One of the biggest and simplest thing you can do to ensure moresuccess in your life – whether it be in your social life, yourcareer or with your health – is simply to show up more. If you wantto improve your health then one of the most important and effectivethings you can do is just to show up at the gym every time youshould be there.

也许天气会不好，也许你会不想出门，也许你有一大堆其他必须要做的事情。但是，如果即使你在积极性不高时仍然继续出现在健身房里，那将比你呆在家里的沙发上放松要有效的多。

The weather might be bad, you might not feel like going and youfind yourself having all these other things you just must do. Ifyou still go, if you show up at the gym when motivation is low youwill improve a whole lot faster than if you just stayed at homerelaxing on the sofa.

我想这个也可以推及到生活的其他领域。如果你每天都坚持写作或绘画，你就会快速的得到提高。如果你更多的出门你就可以遇到更多的新朋友。如果你参加更多的约会，你遇到心上人的机会就会大大提高。仅仅只是更多出席就会使你的生活大大不同。而缺席却会使你毫无收获。

I think this applies to most areas of life. If you write or paintmore, each day perhaps, you will improve quickly. If you get outmore you can meet more new friends. If you go on more dates youchances of meeting someone special increases. Just showing up morecan really make a big difference. Not showing up will not get youanywhere.

2、拖拖拉拉。

2. Procrastinating half the day.

为了简化，我将最喜欢的3种摆脱拖拉情况的方法列举如下：

To keep it short, my 3 favourite ways to get out of aprocrastinating state are:

吞食青蛙。早上良好的开始会让你一天都保持高昂的情绪和积极的动力。这通常会使你这一天都十分高效。

Swallow that frog. What´s this means is simply to do the hardestand most important task of the day first thing in the morning. Agood start in the morning lifts your spirits and creates a positivemomentum for the rest of the day. That often creates a prettyproductive day.

你如何吃掉一头大象呢?不要打算一口吃成胖子，这会使你感到过多负担以至于产生拖延的念头。把一项工作分为若干可付诸于行动的小步骤，然后仅仅关注第一步直到把它完成，接下来再继续下一步。

How do you eat an elephant? Don´t try to take it all in one bigbite. It becomes overwhelming which leads to procrastination. Splita task into small actionable steps. Then just focus on the firststep and nothing else. Just do that one until it’s done. Then moveon to the next step.

-说服自己。我发现这种向导型调整十分有效。就在我花了20分钟躺在床上反复默念在这几天里我都十分高效之后，我就不再会陷入拖拉的情况或者浏览1至5个我喜爱的网站寻找更新信息的必要。

The Get around to It Paraliminal. I find this guided mediation tobe very useful. After 20 minutes of mostly just lying on my bed andlistening I’m far more productive for a few days. I don´t feel theurge to sink into that procrastinating state or the need to findout what’s new over at one or five of my favourite websites.

3、做一些无关紧要的事情。

3. When actually doing something, doing something thatisn’t the most important thing right now.

除了拖拖拉拉以外，你最容易陷入的不良习惯之一就是忙于一些无关紧要的事情之中。

One of the easiest habits to get stuck in, besides procrastinating,is to keep yourself busy with unimportant tasks.

为了提高效率你也许需要某种时间管理方法。它可能会是一件极为简单的事情，比如在一天的开始使用80/20法则。80/20法则,也就是我们通常所熟悉的帕累托法则认为，80%的收获源自20%的努力。所以为求高效你应该将你精力的大部分集中在那些极少数重要的事情上。

To be effective you probably need some kind of timemanagement-system. It might be something really simple, like usingthe 80/20-rule at the beginning of each day. The 80/20 rule, or thePareto Principle as it´s also known, says that you´ll get 80percent of your results from only 20 percent of your tasks andactivities. So you need to focus most of your energy on those fewimportant tasks to be effective.

当使用这个法则时你只需按优先顺序写下这一天你需要做的3件最重要的事情，然后从头做起。即使你只能完成其中的一件事，你仍然完成了今天最重要的事情。也许你也会偏爱其他诸如GTD等方法。但是无论你如何组织工作，最关键的还是寻找那些最重要的工作，这样你就不必花费几天，几个星期甚至几个月的时间去忙于那些并不是很重要的事情。如果这些事情无关紧要，那么即使你快速的完成它们也是没有多大用处的。

When you have prioritized using this rule just write down the top 3most important things you need to do that day. Then, from the top,start doing them. Even if you just get one of the things done, youhave still done the most important thing you could do today. Youmay perhaps prefer some other system, such as GTD. But however youorganise your work it’s still of highest priority to find the mostimportant tasks so you don’t spend days, weeks or months doingbusywork that isn’t that essential anyway. Just getting things donefaster isn’t that useful if the things you get done are unimportantto you.

4、多虑。

4. Thinking too much.

因为多虑而很少采取行动。陷于无穷的分析之中只会使你虚度光阴。行动之前加以思考是没有错的。

And thereby seldom taking action. Paralysis by analysis can wasteyears of your life. There is nothing wrong with thinking before youdo something. Do some research, make a plan, explore potentialupsides and problems.

但是强制性的反复思考就会成为另外一种浪费时间的做法了。在尝试之前你没有必要去从每一个角度检查每一件事情。而且你也不可以等到一个最完美的时间再去做事，因为这样的时间从来不会出现。如果你继续这样思考就只会使自己陷的越来越深，从而使采取行动变得越来越难。相反，虽然思考在一定程度上对你有所帮助，但你现在需要做的就只是停止思考，然后去做那些你应该做的事情。

But compulsively thinking and thinking and thinking is just anotherway to waste your time. You don’t have to examine everything fromevery angle before you try it. And you can’t wait for the perfecttime to do something. That time never comes. And if you keepthinking you’ll just dig yourself down deeper and deeper and takingaction will become more and more difficult. Instead you just needto stop thinking. Shut of your mind – it just helps you up to apoint – and go do whatever you need to do.

5、凡事过于消极。

5. Seeing the negative and downsides in just aboutanything.

当你凡事都从消极方面考虑时，你的积极性就会被大大打击。你会发现到处都是问题和错误，而这些问题是本不存在的。你抓住细节不放。如果你想要寻找一个不做某事的理由，这当然没有问题。而当你从一个消极角度看问题时，每次你都可能找出十个借口。

When you see everything from a negative perspective you quicklypunch a hole in your own motivation. You find faults everywhere andproblems where there are really none. You cling to details. If youwant to find a reason to not do something then that’s no problem.From a negative viewpoint you can find ten reasons every time.

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