TED -「如何掌控你的自由时间」

把喜欢的节目录下来
Is to DVR your favorite shows

这样就能快进广告
so you can fast-forward through the commercials

通过这个办法，每半小时能节省八分钟
that way, you save eight minutes every half hour

那么在看两小时电视的过程中
so in the course of two hours of watching TV

就有了三十二分钟来锻炼
you find 32 minutes to exercise

可你知道找出三十二分钟锻炼的另一种方法吗？
you know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise?

就是一天不要看两小时的电视
Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right?

总之，这个理论就是我们把节省零散的时间加起来
Anyway, the idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, add it up

最终就能够做到我们想做的所有事情
we will finally get to everything we want to do

但是在研究了成功人士如何使用时间之后
But after studying how successful people spend their time

并且逐个小时审查了他们的日程表
and looking at their schedules hour by hour

我认为这个理论已经彻底落后了
I think this idea has it completely backward

并不是通过节省时间创造想要的生活
We don't build the lives we want by saving time.

而是先创造想要的生活, 然后时间就自动节约下来了
We build the lives we want, and then time saves itself.

时间的弹性是很强的
And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic

我们无法创造出更多的时间
We cannot make more time,

但时间可以得到充分的利用
but time will stretch to accommodate(适应)

这取决于我们选择用时间来做什么
what we choose to put into it

所以时间管理的关键就是对待重要的事
And so the key to time management is treating our priorities(优先顺序)

我做的每件事，花的每一分钟，都是我的选择
Everything I do, erery minute I speed, is my choice.

我没做甲乙丙丁，是因为那不是最重要的事
I don't do x, y or z, because it's not a priority.

“我没时间” 通常意味着 “这事不重要”
"I don't have time," often means "It's not a priority."

我没时间 = 这事不重要
I don't have time = It's not a priority

因此我可以承认这不是时间不够的问题
I can acknowledge this is not a matter of lacking time;

而是我不想去做
it's that I don't want to do it.

使用这种说法能提醒我们时间是选择
Using this language reminds us that time is a choice.

我们如何对待重要的事情
How do we treat our priorities

我真心相信这一点
I truly believe this.

时间总是有的
There is time.

就算我们再忙
Even if we are busy,

还是有时间做重要的事
we have time for what matters.

而当我们关注重要的事情时
And when we focus on what matters,

我们就能用我们拥有的时间打造我们想要的生活。
we can build the lives we want in the time we've got.