控制好事情的優先級 而不是控制好你的時間

Your to-do list is crammed full and you only have so many hours in the day. How can you ever get it all done? For starters, stop trying to figure out how to fit everything in. Instead, focus on the high-priority tasks that matter.

你的任務清單排得很滿，但是你每天只有那麼多的時間。如何才能將所有的事情做完呢？首先，不要總想着如何完成所有的事。而是集中精力完成最重要的任務纔是關鍵。

As advice site The Muse explains, many of us often feel like we have to get everything on our list done or else simply by virtue of it being on our list. We’ll build our schedules around crossing the most items off our list, while still feeling overwhelmed. Instead, work on the most important things on your list and get comfortable with some less important tasks falling by the wayside:

提供建議的繆斯網站解釋說，我們大多數人往往想要將任務清單上的事情全部做完，或者僅僅憑藉清單上的任務做事情。我們通過劃掉清單上大多數的任務來實現自己的計劃，但是卻還感到壓力很大。然而，完成清單上最重要的任務，將不太重要的任務放置一旁，會讓你感到舒服一些。

All of this has given rise to a new school of time management, one concerned with zeroing in on your most important priorities, doing them well, and eliminating everything else—including keeping crazy hours. “The wrongheaded notion that you can manage time and that by managing it you’ll get a ton of stuff done, cross everything off your to-do list, and live this superhuman life really just sets people up for disappointment and failure,” says Brigid Schulte, the author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time. “What you can manage are your priorities and your expectations of what you do in time.”

這些都是新的時間管理學校誕生的原因，這一學校主要涉及集中精力完成最重要的事情，做好這些事，然後再劃掉其他事情——包括瘋狂時間。布利基德·舒爾特是《不堪重負：當沒時間工作、戀愛和玩耍的時候》的作者，他說“頑固錯誤的概念就是認爲自己能夠管理好時間，通過管理時間你就能做完許多事，然後劃掉清單上的所有任務，過着這種超人的生活確實會讓人總是感到失望和失敗。你可以管理控制的是一定時間之內的優先級和預期。”