英文精读27章（第四章ProjectForward）
英文精读27章（第四章ProjectForward）Take the time to evaluate your life and your activities in a larger context. Think of where you are today and where you want to be in five years. Look at the activities that you are engaged in today and determine which of them can have the greatest impact on your future. This way of thinking will allow you to manage your time much better than you can even imagine at this moment. Sometimes just on
WHAT IS THE MOST important and valuable work that you do in any field or profession? It’s thinking! Your ability to think clearly about what you do and how you do it will have a greater impact on your future results than any other single action you take.
在任一领域或职业中 你所做的最重要和有价值的工作是什么?它就是思考!你清楚地思考你做什么和怎么做的能力对你的未来结果的影响比你采取的任何其他单一行动都大。
There are some areas of your work where “slow thinking” is absolutely essential for you to perform at your best.
在工作中 有些领域的"慢思维"对于你发挥出最佳表现是绝对必要的。
Take thirty minutes or more each day to review your goals your plans and your progress. The best time to do this review is first thing in the morning. Take time to think plan dream and create. All exceptional executives and highly effective men and women set aside this time each day to carefully consider what they are going to do before they begin. You should read review reflect and think about what you are doing before you take action.
每天花三十分钟或更长时间来回顾你的目标、计划和进度。而做这个回顾的最佳时间应该是早上的第一件事。花时间思考、计划、梦想和创造。所有优秀的高管和高效的男性和女性都会每天留出时间 仔细考虑他们开始做什么。在采取行动之前 你应该阅读、回顾、思考和思考自己在做什么。
Over the years I have read hundreds of biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women in every field. One common thread in these biographies that I discovered was that true greatness only emerges with introspection retrospection solitude and contemplation. You will only achieve the greatness you are capable of when you begin to take time regularly to think about who you are what you want and the very best way to achieve it.
多年来 我阅读了数百本关于各个领域成功男女的传记和自传。我发现这些传记中的一个共同点是 真正的伟大之处只有在反省、回顾、独处和沉思中才会显现出来。只有当你开始花时间去思考你是谁 你想要什么 以及实现它的最佳方式时 你才会实现你可能获得的成就。
Take the time to evaluate your life and your activities in a larger context. Think of where you are today and where you want to be in five years. Look at the activities that you are engaged in today and determine which of them can have the greatest impact on your future. This way of thinking will allow you to manage your time much better than you can even imagine at this moment. Sometimes just one good idea gained in a period of solitude or contemplation can save you months and even years of hard work.
花点时间在更大的环境中评估你的生活和活动。想想你今天在哪里 五年后你想去哪里。看看你今天从事的活动 并确定哪些活动能对你的未来产生最大的影响。这种思维方式将让你管理你的时间比你甚至可以想象的要好得多。有时候 在独处或沉思期间 一旦有一个好主意就可以节省你几个月甚至几年的辛勤工作。
Long Time Perspective
长期视角
Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University conducted more than fifty years of research into the attitudes and behaviors of high-performing people both in America and worldwide. He identified one special quality that seemed to separate the high performers from the low performers. He called it a “long time perspective.” Banfield found that high performers took the time to think far into the future often ten and twenty years and to develop absolute clarity about where they wanted to be in their lives and work at that time. They then come back to the present and make sure that everything they are doing at the moment is consistent with where they want to be in the future.
哈佛大学的爱德华·班菲尔德博士对美国和全世界高绩效人群的态度和行为进行了五十多年的研究。他发现了一种特殊品质 似乎可以将高绩效者与低绩效员工区分开来。他称之为"长期视角"。Banfield 发现 高绩效员工花时间思考未来 通常是十年和二十年 并明确他们当时想要在生活和工作中所处的位置。然后 他们回到现在 并确保他们目前所做的一切与他们希望的未来一致。
This is a powerful technique that you can use too. Project forward one two or three years and imagine that your life situation is ideal in every way. Create a clear mental picture of what your work situation would be if it were perfect. From this vantage point of the future look around you and describe your ideal life and work situation. Then ask yourself if what you are doing right now is consistent with the creation of your ideal future.
这是一个强大的技术 您也可以使用。提前一年、两年或三年 想象一下你的生活状况在各方面所达到的理想状态。创建一个清晰的心理图片 你的工作情况 如果它是完美的。从未来的这个角度 环顾你 描述你理想的生活和工作情况。然后 问问自己 你现在所做的事情是否与创造你的理想未来是一致的。
From that future vantage point look back at yourself to where you are today and see the steps that you will need to take to get to where you want to go. This “back from the future thinking” is a practice of many top executives.
从未来的有利位置 回顾一下你自己 回到你今天所处的位置 看看你需要采取的步骤 才能到达你想去的地方。这种"从未来思维中回来"是许多高管的做法。
Make Better Decisions in the Present
在当下做出更好的决策
For example a young woman decides that she wants to be very successful in business in her adult life. With this clear long-term perspective in mind the individual works many extra hours to get excellent grades in high school so that she will qualify for a good college. In college the individual takes harder courses and studies much longer than her peers to graduate as close as possible to the top of her class.
例如，一位年轻女子决定，她想在成年后在商业上非常成功。考虑到这个明确的长期观点，个人要投入许多额外的时间 以在高中获得优异的成绩，这样她才有资格进入一所好大学。在大学里，个人比她的同龄人学习更艰苦的课程和学习时间要长得多，以尽可能地进入班级前列。
As a result of many years of hard work and study and putting off the immediate gratification of parties sports and social life the individual graduates at a high level from a prestigious university and is then hired by a large company where she has the opportunity to get paid more and promoted faster than classmates who were not really thinking about the future at all.
由于多年的辛勤工作和学习，并推迟了能立即获得满足感的聚会，体育和社会生活，她将以一个很高的水平从一所著名的大学毕业，然后被一家大公司雇用，在那里她有机会比那些没有真正考虑未来的同学得到更多的报酬和提升更快。
When you are clear about where you want to be some-time in the future it is much easier for you to make better decisions in the present. The rule is that long-term vision improves short-term decision making. You have heard the saying “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will get you there.”
当你清楚将来想去哪里的时候，你现在更容易做出更好的决定。规则是，长期愿景可以改善短期决策。你听过一句谚语，"如果你不知道你要去哪里，那么你就只能随波逐流，无所适从。”
The habit of developing long time perspective is quite powerful. By projecting into the future and looking back to the present you will often see steps that you could take and mistakes that you could avoid. This exercise will help you to crystallize your values. It will give you the internal tools to organize your time and activities so that what you are doing today is moving you toward the creation of your ideal future.
培养长期视角的习惯相当有用。通过预测未来并回顾现在，你通常会看到你可以采取的步骤，以及你可以避免的错误。本练习将帮助您将价值观具体化。它将为您提供组织时间和活动的内部工具 这样您今天所做的就是推动您创造理想的未来。
Ready for Time Management Techniques
准备时间管理技术
If you are not headed toward your desired destination you don’t want to get there any faster. If you are not moving in your own self-determined direction there is no point in managing your time in a way that accelerates your speed of accomplishment. Time management strategies and tactics applied without a clear future vision will get you to a destination that holds no interest for you only faster.
如果你没有往你期望的目的地前进，那你就别想更快到达那里。如果你不朝着自己自主的方向前进 用一种能加快你成就速度的方式管理你的时间是没有意义的。时间管理策略和策略应用，如果没有明确的未来愿景作为支撑，只会让你进入一个你不感兴趣的领域，仅仅是速度快一点儿而已。
Once you are clear about your values vision and mission for your life and work and you are clear about what it is you want to accomplish and the best way to achieve it then and only then can you begin to apply some of the powerful time management techniques that are available to you.
一旦你清楚你的价值观，愿景，和任务，你的生活和工作，你很清楚你想完成的是什么，哪种方式是实现它的最佳途径，然后，只有这样，你才能掌控的运用一些适合你的时间管理技能。
