如何讓你的週五和週一一樣有效率大綱
Schedule Your Day with Tasks
用任務計劃一天
Sometimes the to-do list seems less urgent on a Friday. (‘It can wait until next week.’) While that may be true, do you really want to start your Mondays already behind? To combat this mindset,schedule a meeting with your work.
有時候任務表在週五看起來不那麼緊急。（我可以等到下週再做。）儘管是這樣沒錯，但你真的想在下週一開始就落後麼？爲了打破這種思維，好好的計劃一下你要處理的工作吧。
First, write down everything that needs to be done, in order of importance. This frees up your mind from being cluttered,confused, or disorganized (especially important on a Friday).
首先，按重要程度寫下所有你需要乾的活。這樣你的思路就不會混亂、疑惑。（週五列任務清單尤其重要。）
If anything on that list takes longer than a few hours, break it down into mini-tasks that can get done within a shorter time frame. This keeps work from appearing overwhelming. Next, put a circle or empty check box next to the top three things to get done, along with a time frame or deadline. This focuses your attention on to one thing at a time, which is the key to personal productivity.
如果清單上面的任何一個任務需要花費幾個小時，不如分解成一個個的小任務，再以更短的時間一項項完成。這樣能讓你的工作看起來不那麼鋪天蓋地。接下來，在最首要的三件事旁畫個圈或是一個方框，寫上完成時間範圍或最後期限。這能讓你的注意力一次集中在一件事情上，對個人的效率至關重要。
Schedule Breaks
打破計劃
If the office is much quieter on a Friday than on a Monday, you may not get interrupted at all. While that sounds great,it also means the day can feel long, you might be more prone to procrastinating, or you find it difficult to concentrate and focus after a few hours of intense independent work. To combat that, schedule breaks. I wouldn’t set an alarm, but if you find yourself looking at the clock, give yourself structured work time and structured play time in an interval format to get you through the day. In the end, it will be more productive than attempting to exert your willpower 100% evenly. For example:
如果比起週一，週五辦公室要安靜許多，你可以完全不受打擾。儘管這聽起來很不錯，但也意味着這一天似乎更加漫長一點，你也許拖延症會加劇，或者發現自己在幾個小時的獨立緊張工作之後難以集中注意力了。想改善這個情況？那就打破你的計劃吧。我不會設一個鬧鐘，但如果你發現自己會時不時看時間，給自己一個規劃好的工作時間和玩樂時間，讓自己熬過這一天吧。最後你會發現比起付出百分百的努力，這樣做你的效率會高出很多。舉個例子：
90 minute work effort followed by a 20 minute break [word processing]，60 minute work effort followed by a 15 minute break [Power Points]，20 minute work effort followed by a 5 minute break [spreadsheets]
工作90分鐘之後休息20分鐘【文字處理】，工作60分鐘之後休息15分鐘【PPT】，工作20分鐘 之後休息5分鐘【表格處理】
Change Your Script
改變思維想法
If instead of distracting yourself away from negativity, you refocused with positive thoughts about your workweek, how much more productive could you be?
與其讓自己一直被消極所幹擾，不如轉念關注那些有關工作周的積極想法，你還能再有效率多少？
What if instead of thinking or saying:“I need a weekend to recover from my weekend,” on Monday；“Hump day/halfway there” on Wednesday；“I can’t wait to get out of here and start my weekend,” on Friday…
與其說：週一說“我還需要一個週末才能從上個週末中恢復過來”；週三說“一半過去了”；週五說“我真是等不及離開這裏去過週末了”……
We approached the days with:“Let’s get this week off to a good start,” on Monday；“Look at what I accomplished this week already and here’s what I will get done today,” on Wednesday；“Here are the three things I absolutely want to accomplish before I start my weekend,” on Friday.
我們不妨這樣度過每一天：週一說“幹起來，新的一週要有個好的開始”；週三說“看看我這周都完成了先什麼，我今天要完成這些”；週五說“週末開始之前還有三件非常重要的事需要解決”。
Compress Your Workweek
壓縮工作時間
Finally, if all else fails, use a work around. Pretend Friday doesn’t exist. Start each week thinking you only have Monday-Thursday to get everything done and then act on that. This will improve your productivity throughout the whole week, and then Friday can be catch-up day, a strategic work day, a day to schedule your meetings, or a day to take it easy (without guilt). Along those lines, you can rearrange your week in a way that leaves easy or mindless things to be done on Friday (though easy and mindless differs for everyone, examples might be filing, documenting,planning, or updating).
最後，如果上述那些都沒有效果，那就當做週五不存在。每一週開始都設想你只有週一-週四這四天時間來完成任務，這樣會提高你一週的整體效率。那麼週五就沒有那麼緊張，只是個工作日而已，你可以安排一下自己的會，或者放鬆一下（毫無負罪感）。做到這些，你可以重新規劃你的一週，讓自己在週五處理一些簡單無意識的工作（儘管對每個人來說簡單無意識的工作各不相同，比如填表，文件處理，計劃或者信息更新。）
