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How to Avoid Multi Tasking

You’re working on two projects at once, while your boss has placed two new demands on your desk. You’re on the phone while three new emails come in. You are trying to get out the door on time so you can pick up a few groceries on the way home for dinner. Your Blackberry is going off and so is your cell phone. Your co-worker stops by with a request for info and your Google Reader is filled with 100+ messages to read.Congratulations, multi-tasker

几乎所有的上班族都是多任务工作者。

In this age of instant technology, we are bombarded with an overload of information and demands of our time. Even having a system designed for quick decisions and for keeping all the demands of your life in order can't prevent us from being so overwhelmed with things to do that our system begins to fall apart.


This article is how not to multi-task — a guide to working as simply as possible for the sake of preserving your mental health and keeping your bodily health intact.

11个方法使你的工作变得简单，高效！

1.Get clear on why it is a bad thing to multi-task.

多任务是一件不好的事情，会使效率低下，多任务的复杂性会给你带来压力，同时增加的犯错误的几率。

* Multi-tasking is less efficient, due to the need to switch gears for each new task, and the switch back again.
* Multi-tasking is more complicated, and thus more prone to stress and errors.
* Multi-tasking can be crazy, and in this already chaotic world, we need to reign in the terror and find a little oasis of sanity and calm.

2.Start avoiding multi-tasking. The remaining steps demonstrate how to stop multi-tasking and start approaching your tasks in a zen like manner that will provide a much calmer work method.

既然多任务带来这么多坏处，我们就需要避免她。

3.Set up to-do lists for different contexts. This means having to-do lists related to such things as calls, computer, errands, home, waiting-for, etc., depending on your situation.

列出任务列表，排定优先级，设定任务最晚完成时间

4.Use a capture tool. A capture tool, such as a notebook, can be used for instant notes on what needs to be done.

使用提醒工具，或Excel记录工作列表

5.Have a physical and e-mail inbox. Make sure to have as few in-boxes as possible, so that all incoming stuff is gathered together in one place. Basically, have one in-box for paper stuff, and one for digital.

将纸质的任务放到一个文档夹里面，或将电子档的任务放到同一个文件夹里面

6.Plan your day in blocks. Have open blocks in between for urgent stuff that comes up. You might try one-hour blocks, or half-hour blocks, depending on what works for you. Or try this: 40 minute blocks, with 20 minutes in between them for miscellaneous tasks.

将你一天的时间划分成更小的时间段，来完成不同时长要求的工作，这样你的时间利用率会很高

7.First thing in the morning, work on your Most Important Task. Don’t do anything else until this is done. Give yourself a short break, and then start on your next Most Important Task. If you can get 2-3 of these done in the morning, the rest of the day is gravy.

在没有制定出来一天的MIT时，不要开始任何任务，养成这个习惯

8.When you are working on a task in a time block, turn off all other distractions. Shut off e-mail, and the internet if possible. Shut off your cell phone. Try not to answer your phone if possible. Focus on that one task, and try to get it done without worrying about other stuff.

当你决定开始做一件事情的时候，先深呼吸，然后开始专注到这件事情上，不要被周围的事务所打扰，在一小段时间内，将你的注意力全部集中到这件事情上！一件一件的专心的来完成一个个小任务。

9.If you feel the urge to check your email or switch to another task, stop yourself. Breathe deeply. Re-focus yourself. Get back to the task at hand. If other things come in while you’re working, put them in the in-box, or take a note of them in your capture system. Get back to the task at hand.

当你遇到不可避免的要去做另外一个任务的时候，先记录下你刚才做到哪一步了，然后再去做更紧急的任务，或者你可以将新任务先加入任务列表，然后回来继续做没有完成的任务，后者更为可取，因为你的思维不至于被割断。

10.Every now and then, when you’ve completed the task at hand, process your notes and in-box. Add the tasks to your to-do lists and re-figure your schedule if necessary. Process your e-mail and other in-boxes at regular and pre-determined intervals.

当你完成了一件事情后，不要急于去做先一个任务，先可以更新你的任务列表，或者将问题进行一个总结，或者重新安排一下其他的任务，这样会使你的工作更加有条理。

11.Take deep breaths, stretch, and take breaks now and then. Enjoy life. Go outside, and appreciate nature. Keep yourself sane.

当你在一个任务无法进行下去的时候，或者你没有思路的时候，你需要深呼吸，或去喝杯水，或去一趟洗手间，停止思考这个问题。当你放松回来后，说不定你已经有了新的想法！

Tips:
There are times when an interruption is so urgent that you cannot put it off until you’re done with the task at hand. In that case, try to make a note of where you are (writing down notes if you have time) with the task at hand, and put all the documents or notes for that task together and aside (perhaps in an “action” folder or project folder). Then, when you come back to that task, you can pull out your folder and look at your notes to see where you left off.