Schedule Your Day with Tasks
用任務(wù)計(jì)劃一天

Sometimes the to-do list seems less urgent on a Friday. (‘It can wait until next week.’) While that may be true, do you really want to start your Mondays already behind? To combat this mindset,schedule a meeting with your work.
有時(shí)候任務(wù)表在周五看起來不那么緊急。(我可以等到下周再做。)盡管是這樣沒錯,但你真的想在下周一開始就落后么?為了打破這種思維,好好的計(jì)劃一下你要處理的工作吧。

First, write down everything that needs to be done, in order of importance. This frees up your mind from being cluttered,confused, or disorganized (especially important on a Friday).
首先,按重要程度寫下所有你需要干的活。這樣你的思路就不會混亂、疑惑。(周五列任務(wù)清單尤其重要。)

If anything on that list takes longer than a few hours, break it down into mini-tasks that can get done within a shorter time frame. This keeps work from appearing overwhelming. Next, put a circle or empty check box next to the top three things to get done, along with a time frame or deadline. This focuses your attention on to one thing at a time, which is the key to personal productivity.
如果清單上面的任何一個(gè)任務(wù)需要花費(fèi)幾個(gè)小時(shí),不如分解成一個(gè)個(gè)的小任務(wù),再以更短的時(shí)間一項(xiàng)項(xiàng)完成。這樣能讓你的工作看起來不那么鋪天蓋地。接下來,在最首要的三件事旁畫個(gè)圈或是一個(gè)方框,寫上完成時(shí)間范圍或最后期限。這能讓你的注意力一次集中在一件事情上,對個(gè)人的效率至關(guān)重要。

Schedule Breaks
打破計(jì)劃

If the office is much quieter on a Friday than on a Monday, you may not get interrupted at all. While that sounds great,it also means the day can feel long, you might be more prone to procrastinating, or you find it difficult to concentrate and focus after a few hours of intense independent work. To combat that, schedule breaks. I wouldn’t set an alarm, but if you find yourself looking at the clock, give yourself structured work time and structured play time in an interval format to get you through the day. In the end, it will be more productive than attempting to exert your willpower 100% evenly. For example:
如果比起周一,周五辦公室要安靜許多,你可以完全不受打擾。盡管這聽起來很不錯,但也意味著這一天似乎更加漫長一點(diǎn),你也許拖延癥會加劇,或者發(fā)現(xiàn)自己在幾個(gè)小時(shí)的獨(dú)立緊張工作之后難以集中注意力了。想改善這個(gè)情況?那就打破你的計(jì)劃吧。我不會設(shè)一個(gè)鬧鐘,但如果你發(fā)現(xiàn)自己會時(shí)不時(shí)看時(shí)間,給自己一個(gè)規(guī)劃好的工作時(shí)間和玩樂時(shí)間,讓自己熬過這一天吧。最后你會發(fā)現(xiàn)比起付出百分百的努力,這樣做你的效率會高出很多。舉個(gè)例子:

90 minute work effort followed by a 20 minute break [word processing],60 minute work effort followed by a 15 minute break [Power Points],20 minute work effort followed by a 5 minute break [spreadsheets]
工作90分鐘之后休息20分鐘【文字處理】,工作60分鐘之后休息15分鐘【PPT】,工作20分鐘 之后休息5分鐘【表格處理】

Change Your Script
改變思維想法

If instead of distracting yourself away from negativity, you refocused with positive thoughts about your workweek, how much more productive could you be?
與其讓自己一直被消極所干擾,不如轉(zhuǎn)念關(guān)注那些有關(guān)工作周的積極想法,你還能再有效率多少?

What if instead of thinking or saying:“I need a weekend to recover from my weekend,” on Monday;“Hump day/halfway there” on Wednesday;“I can’t wait to get out of here and start my weekend,” on Friday…
與其說:周一說“我還需要一個(gè)周末才能從上個(gè)周末中恢復(fù)過來”;周三說“一半過去了”;周五說“我真是等不及離開這里去過周末了”……

We approached the days with:“Let’s get this week off to a good start,” on Monday;“Look at what I accomplished this week already and here’s what I will get done today,” on Wednesday;“Here are the three things I absolutely want to accomplish before I start my weekend,” on Friday.
我們不妨這樣度過每一天:周一說“干起來,新的一周要有個(gè)好的開始”;周三說“看看我這周都完成了先什么,我今天要完成這些”;周五說“周末開始之前還有三件非常重要的事需要解決”。

Compress Your Workweek
壓縮工作時(shí)間

Finally, if all else fails, use a work around. Pretend Friday doesn’t exist. Start each week thinking you only have Monday-Thursday to get everything done and then act on that. This will improve your productivity throughout the whole week, and then Friday can be catch-up day, a strategic work day, a day to schedule your meetings, or a day to take it easy (without guilt). Along those lines, you can rearrange your week in a way that leaves easy or mindless things to be done on Friday (though easy and mindless differs for everyone, examples might be filing, documenting,planning, or updating).
最后,如果上述那些都沒有效果,那就當(dāng)做周五不存在。每一周開始都設(shè)想你只有周一-周四這四天時(shí)間來完成任務(wù),這樣會提高你一周的整體效率。那么周五就沒有那么緊張,只是個(gè)工作日而已,你可以安排一下自己的會,或者放松一下(毫無負(fù)罪感)。做到這些,你可以重新規(guī)劃你的一周,讓自己在周五處理一些簡單無意識的工作(盡管對每個(gè)人來說簡單無意識的工作各不相同,比如填表,文件處理,計(jì)劃或者信息更新。)