This is, of course, not an all-inclusive list, but it’s a good start to reclaiming some time back. These were some of my biggest time-wasters:

　　當然我沒法給出一個囊括所有可能的列表，但這個列表會是一個好開始，保證幫你爭取不少時間。下面這些都是我本人浪費時間的常見行為：

　　1. Television – just stop it. Besides the occasional news, a movie every once in a while, some documentaries, I found it to be a huge time-waster.

　　電視——直接忽略。我發現，除了偶爾看看新聞、電影和紀錄片，電視對我來說純粹是浪費。

　　2. Internet/web – It’s really become the new television, and as such, an equivalent waste of time. Ask yourself this, “Do I really need to see another cat video?”

　　互聯網/網絡——這些其實也都是變相“電視”，純粹浪費時間罷了。何不問問自己：“我就非得再看一個喵星人視頻嗎?”

　　3. Email – This was a more difficult one for me since responding to emails made me believe that I was being more productive. However, responding to emails all day was actually making me less productive by taking my focus off things that I really needed to get done. I now limit my time and frequency of responding to emails.

　　郵件——這個還真難下手。畢竟，我一直認為回復郵件可以提高效率。但事實卻是，每天回復郵件反倒轉移我的注意力，大大降低了效率。現在我已經限制了自己回復郵件的時間和頻率。

　　Seven Ways to Create More Time In Your Day

　　每天創造更多時間的七大方法

　　1. Get Up Earlier

　　早起

　　Get up fifteen minutes earlier. If you're like most folk, your morning probably feels rushed: you drag yourself out of bed at the last possible minute, grab a hasty shower, maybe get some breakfast if you're lucky, sort out the kids/cat/partner and dash off to work.

　　提前15分鐘起床。你要是像大部分人那樣起床，早上可能會覺得有點趕：在最后一刻掙扎著起來，趕緊沖個澡，來得及的話就吃兩口早餐，安頓好小孩/貓咪/愛人后沖出門上班。

　　Getting up just a bit earlier can give you some breathing space. Perhaps it'll give you time to actually sit down and enjoy your breakfast for once. Maybe you can use that fifteen minutes a day to read through that book or stack of journals that you keep meaning to get to.

　　稍微早點起床就不至于那么匆忙。或許至少可以真正坐下來吃頓早餐。你也可以利用每天早起的15分鐘看看書或者整理一下記事本。