10個小習慣 讓你的生活更少壓力大綱

Keeping the stress away from your life isn’t just about the big things and decisions. It is also about the small things. About what you do and do not do from day to day.

讓生活遠離壓力並不只是和大事兒及決策有關。它也和小事兒有關。和你每天做什麼以及不做什麼有關。

Those small daily – helpful or unhelpful – habits add up very quickly over the weeks and can be the difference between being focused and feeling good about life or not being able to sleep or work properly and enjoy your life as much as you could.

這些每天的小習慣——有益的或無益的——一週一週累積地非常快，正是它們有可能讓你的生活有所不同。你可能享受生活並感覺良好，也可能無法入睡或無法正常工作，更不用提儘可能地享受生活了。

In this article I’d like to share 10 small habits that have had a huge positive effect in my life and that protects me from both the stress out there in the world and the stress I can cause myself.

在這篇文章中，我想和大家分享10個小習慣，這些習慣對我的生活起到了很大的積極影響，讓我遠離世界上本來就有的壓力以及自己導致的壓力。

1. One thing at a time.

一次只做一件事

It is often tempting to multi-task to get things done quicker. But every time I feel that impulse I remind myself that in the past I have actually gotten better results, been able to focus more sharply and had less stress in my mind and body when I single-tasked. And so I continue to do one thing at a time.

多任務處理往往很誘人，好像能讓人更快地把事情做完。但是每當我有那種衝動時，我就會提醒自己，過去當我單任務處理時，結果更好，我更專注，頭腦、身體的壓力更少。所以我繼續一次只做一件事情。

2. Just write it all down.

把它寫下來。

Trying to remember every idea, meeting and so on is not the best use of your mind.

嘗試記住每個想法、會議等等並不能最好地利用你的大腦。

And if your memory is anything like mine then you may lose many ideas if they are not captured pretty quickly. So just write all of your good or great ideas, insights and thoughts down to keep them safe and to unload your mind.

如果你的記憶力和我差不多，那要是你不很快的把想法捕捉下來，它們很快就會溜走。 所以把好的主意、看法和想法都寫下來，保證它們記錄下來，減輕大腦的負擔。

3. Don’t guess. Ask.

不要去猜。去問。

Trying to read minds usually don’t go so well at all. So instead, just communicate and ask.

讀心術並不是那麼好用。取而代之，去和他人溝通並加以詢問。

By doing so you promote openness in your relationships in the long run and that will also help you to minimize unnecessary conflicts, misunderstandings, negativity and waste or time and energy.

這樣做，從長遠的角度上來說可以提高關係間的開放性， 那也會幫你減少不必要的衝突、誤解、消極情緒以及時間和能量的浪費。

4. Keep everything in its place.

把東西放在固定的位置上。

If everything has its place then your home and workspace will have a more calming effect and it will be less stressful to find those important papers or your keys and wallet as you are heading out to catch the next bus.

如果東西都有固定的位置，那麼你的家和工作地點會有更好的鎮定效果，當你趕車時去找重要文件或鑰匙、錢包時壓力就不會那麼大了。

5. Set clear daily time-limits for your work.

每天爲工作設定明確的時間限制

This has been so important for me to not get lost in the very stressful grey zone and to not think about my business and this blog after my workday is done.

這一點對我來說非常重要，它讓我不會迷失在充滿壓力的灰色區域中，讓我在工作做完後不去想業務和博客。

Three limits that I have set are:

我設定的三個限制是：

Breaks every hour. I usually work for about 45 minutes and then take a 15 minute break when I step away from the work and do something completely different.

每個小時都要休息。我通常工作45分鐘然後休息15分鐘，停止工作，做一些完全不同的事情。

Start and stop-times for work. I don’t work before 8 in the morning and I don’t work after 7 o clock in the evening.

設定工作的開始和結束時間。早晨8點前和晚上7點後我都不會工作。

I don’t work weekends. I usually check emails once per weekend just to see so there is not something truly important I have to attend to. But other than that I stay away from work over the weekend and spend time with my family, friends, a good book or movie or I do some other fun activity.

週末不工作。 我經常會在週末查一下郵件看看有沒有真正重要的事情需要注意一下。除此之外，我週末是不工作的。我在週末和家人、朋友一起玩，或看一本好書、一部電影或做其他有趣的事情。

6. Be 10 minutes early for meetings.

開會時早去10分鐘。

This is a very small habit but in my experience it can sure decrease the daily stress a whole lot.

這是個非常小的習慣，但是以我的經驗，它會減少大量的壓力。

For me it has transformed travel time during my day into relaxing breaks instead of passages of time and space that only up my levels of stress and other negative feelings.

對我來說，它把我的出行時間轉換成了休息的片刻，而不是成段的增加壓力和其他負面情緒的時間和空間。

7. Do email checking etc. as late in the day as possible.

儘可能晚地去查看電子郵件

I try to stay away from my inbox until the end of my workday. Doing my work this way helps me to have less distraction and to focus fully on creating new articles, newsletters and premium courses early in the day.

我儘量在工作快結束時查看電子郵件。這樣做能讓我少分心，能讓我在一天的早些時間裏把注意力完全放在寫新的文章、通訊稿和優質的課程上。

This may not be possible for everyone of course. But see if you can do one or two hours of uninterrupted work on your most important tasks in the morning before checking your email.

當然，這並不對每個人都適用。但是你可以試試，在查看郵件前能不能一兩個小時無打擾地去做最重要的任務。

8. Pack before you go to bed.

在上牀睡覺前把明天的東西準備好。

You’ll be less stressed out in the morning and you are less likely to forget something.

早晨你的壓力就會減少， 你忘帶東西的可能性也會降低。

9. Aim to keep it very simple instead of creating drama or mountains out of molehills.

目的是要簡單，而不是要弄出戲劇性的事件或小題大做

Drama, conflicts or creating mountains out of molehills can fill life with things that seem important and sometimes exciting. But those things will also suck up much of your time and energy and create stress and friction in your life.

戲劇性的事件、衝突或小題大做能讓生活充滿着看似重要和讓人興奮的事情。但是那些事情會佔用你大量的時間和精力，並讓你的生活增加壓力和摩擦。

A few things that help me to avoid extra drama, conflicts or creating mountains are to ask myself these 3 questions when I am in a negative situation:

有幾件事能幫我避免額外的戲劇性的事件、衝突或小題大做。這就是當我處於不利的局面時，我會問自己這三個問題：

Am I making a mountain out of a molehill right now? Will this matter in 5 years or even 5 weeks? How can keep things extremely simple in this situation?

我現在是不是小題大做？ 這件事5年後或甚至5周後還重要嗎？ 在這種情況下如何能讓事情變得非常簡單？

10. When overcome with stress, just breathe.

面對壓力時，深呼吸

When stressed, lost in a problem or the past or future in your mind breathe a little more deeply than usual and make sure you breathe with your belly. Do this for about 1-2 minutes.

當有壓力時，當迷失在腦海裏的問題或沉迷於過去、未來時，比平常呼吸得深一些，確保用腹部呼吸。這樣做1-2分鐘。

It will calm your body down and bring your mind back from future worries or past mistakes and into what is happening right here in the present moment again.

它會讓你的身體平靜下來，讓你從對未來的擔憂或過去的錯誤中回過神來，把注意力集中在當前發生的事情上。