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15 surprising things productive people do differently

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2016-01-26 14:58China Daily Editor: Yao Lan

I recently interviewed over 200 ultra-productive people including seven billionaires, 13 Olympians, 20 straight-A students and over 200 successful entrepreneurs. I asked a simple, open-ended question, "What is your number one secret to productivity?" After analyzing all of their responses, I coded their answers into 15 unique ideas.

近期,我采访了超过200位拥有超凡表现的人,其中包括7位亿万富翁,13位奥运会选手,20位高材生和200多位成功企业家.我问了他们一个简单的开放式问题:"你能保持高效工作的最主要秘诀是什么?"经过分析,我将他们给出的答案归类为15种.

Secret #1: They focus on minutes, not hours.

秘诀1:细分时间

Average performers default to hours and half-hour blocks on their calendar. Highly successful people know there are 1,440 minutes in every day and there is nothing more valuable than time. Money can be lost and made again, but time spent can never be reclaimed. As legendary Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller told me, "To this day, I keep a schedule that is almost minute by minute." You must master your minutes to master your life.

普通工作者们的日程表上都是默认以整点和半点来划分时段的,而那些成功人士不同.他们知道,每一天都由1440分钟组成,每一分钟都是最宝贵的财富.钱不够了还能再挣,时间一去可不会回头.大名鼎鼎的奥运体操运动员香农•米勒告诉我说:"直到今天,我的日程表还是按分秒来记."你要能够通过把握每一分钟,来掌控你的整个生活.

Secret #2: They focus only on one thing.

秘诀2:专注一件事

Ultra productive people know their Most Important Task (MIT) and work on it for one to two hours each morning, without interruptions. Tom Ziglar, CEO of Ziglar Inc., shared, "Invest the first part of your day working on your number one priority that will help build your business." What task will have the biggest impact on reaching your goal? What accomplishment will get you promoted at work?

拥有超凡表现的人都清楚自己的首要任务,并且会在接下来的每个早晨,用一到两个小时去完成它,期间绝不分心.齐格勒公司的首席执行官汤姆•齐格勒分享了他的成功经验:"将一天的开始分配给你最首要的任务,这有助于你事业的发展."什么样的任务最有助于你完成目标?什么样的成就有助于你在工作中稳步提升?

Secret #3: They don't use to-do lists.

秘诀3:废除任务清单

Throw away your to-do list; instead schedule everything on your calendar. It turns out only 41% of items on to-do lists are ever actually done. And all those undone items lead to stress and insomnia because of the Zeigarnik effect. Highly productive people put everything on their calendar and then work and live from that calendar. "Use a calendar and schedule your entire day into 15-minute blocks. It sounds like a pain, but this will set you up in the 95th percentile…", advises the co-founder of The Art of Charm, Jordan Harbinger.

  

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