雙語散文:計劃你一天最重要的事
【英文原文】
Purpose Your Day: Most Important Task (MIT)
I’ve mentioned this briefly in my morning routine, but I thought I’d explain a little bit more about MITs – Most Important Tasks. It’s not an original concept, but one that I use on a daily basis and that has helped me out tremendously.
It’s very simple: your MIT is the task you most want or need to get done today. In my case, I’ve tweaked it a bit so that I have three MITs — the three things I must accomplish today. Do I get a lot more done than three things? Of course. But the idea is that no matter what else I do today, these are the things I want to be sure of doing. So, the MIT is the first thing I do each day, right after I have a glass of water to wake me up.
And here’s the key to the MITs for me: at least one of the MITs should be related to one of my goals. While the other two can be work.stuff (and usually are), one must be a goal next-action. This ensures that I am doing something to move my goals forward that day.
And that makes all the difference in the world. Each day, I’ve done something to make my dreams come true. It’s built into my morning routine: set a next-action to accomplish for one of my goals. And so it happens each day, automatically.
Another key: do your MITs first thing in the morning, either at home or when you first get to work. If you put them off to later, you will get busy and run out of time to do them. Get them out of the way, and the rest of the day is gravy!
It’s such a small thing to implement, and yet I’m raving about it like it’s a huge revelation. But it is. Sometimes small things can make big differences. I highly recommend you give it a go.
【中文譯文】
計劃你一天最重要的事
在我的晨例中已經簡單的提到了這個問題，但是我想我應該把這個“一天中最重要的事”解釋得再更具體一點。它不是一個最新的概念，但是我基本上每天都使用，並且給了我極大的幫助。
很簡單：你的一天中最重要的事就是你今天想要或是需要完成的任務.以我爲例，做了一下調整，我有一天中要做三件最重要的事——這三件事是我今天必須完成的。除了這三件事情之外，我還可以做其它的事情嗎？當然可以了。但是不管我想今天要做其它的什麼事情，這三件事是我確信要做的。所以最重要的事情是我每天要做的第一件事，之後我就喝一杯水好讓自己保持清醒。
做最重要的事的一個關鍵：至少有一件要與我的目標相關。當其它兩件事能夠圓滿完成的時候，這件事必須是下一個行動的目標，這樣就能夠保證我正在做的事情能夠跟隨我的目標而前進。
那樣就使這個世界裏的一切不同而趨同。每天，我做一些事情去實現我的夢想。也被記錄在我的晨例中：建立下一個行動去完成我的目標。不知不覺的，每天都這樣子了。
另一個關鍵：早晨做的第一件事就是你最重要的事，要麼在家完成，要麼上班的時候完成。假如你把它拖到後面去做，你就會變得很忙併耗盡時間去做它.把事情放在一邊，一天的其他時間就會變得沉重！
去做這樣的一件小事，也還能夠使我像一件大事一樣的極力讚美。但是，有時，一件小事也會有很大的影響。我極力推薦你也採取這樣的行動。
