第七十五篇 How to Make Your Hard Work Really Count

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How to Make Your Hard Work Really Count
如何使你辛勤工作物有所值



And find time for what truly matters
并为真正最紧的事情找点时间


You are a hard worker. But oftentimes at day’s end, it seems you haven’t accomplished much. You want what you do to really count. Here are ways to consistently and incrementally improve performance.
你是一个努力工作者。但是经常在一天结束时，似乎你并未完成多少事。你想你所做的物有所值。下面有几种方法来持续连贯地提高你的工作业绩。

Don’t overwrite e-mail. Much of your time—probably too much—gets eaten up by e-mail. There’s no need for
wringing your hands over every word. Make a conscious effort to keep your e-mails short and sweet. Get to the point quickly and use action verbs in subject lines so that both you and the recipient know what needs to happen before the e-mail is even opened. And while long e-mails waste the time it takes you to write them, keep in mind that the person receiving the e-mail doesn’t want to have to spend so much time reading it, either. Chances are your boss doesn’t want or need a three-paragraph rundown of how your client meeting went. He just wants to know if the client is happy and continuing business with you.
不要写过长的电子邮件。你的很多时间——也许太多——被电子邮件消耗掉了。没有必要为每个词语而绞尽脑计。开始尝试有意识的努力来使你的电子邮件简单明了。直截了当进入主题，并在标题栏使用动词，这样在邮件打开之前，你和邮件接收者都能知道什么要发生。很长的邮件浪费你写的时间，牢记电子邮件接受者同样不希望花费这么多的时间来阅读它。同样，你的老板不想或者不需要三段式的关于你的客户会议如何进行的邮件。他只是想知道客户是否满意和是否和你保持业务持续往来。

Quit over-staying at meetings and on conference calls. Often meetings and conference calls will take as long as you’ve allotted for them. Set an hour for a meeting and you’re sure to go the full hour. Pay close attention to how much of your meeting is actually spent focused on the important stuff. If you spend 15 to 20 minutes at the beginning or end of the meeting discussing your co-worker’s golf game, then next time reduce the amount of time allotted for the meeting. And always know the meeting’s or call’s objectives before you begin. That way you can get to them right away.
摆脱超时呆在会议和电话会议上。经常，会议和电话会议将花费你已经分配给他们一样长（的时间）。为一个会议规定一小时并你确保使用全部时间。密切注意你的会议时间多少是真正花在重要的东西上面。如果你在会议开始或结束时花费15到20分钟来讨论你的同事高尔夫球运动，那么下次减少分配给这个会议的时间量。并总是在会议开始时知道会议或者电话会议的目标。那样你能马上进入主题。

Set your own deadlines and stick to them. It’s very easy to get distracted or sidetracked by things you think you should do or things others think you should do. Having a self-imposed deadline will help you ignore those distractions. If a colleague calls you about a non-urgent task, you can let him know you’ve got a 3 p.m. deadline that you have to meet. There’s no need for him to know that it’s self-imposed. And then as 3 p.m. draws near, start wrapping up that particular task.
设定你自己的截止时间并坚持到底。你认为你应该做的事情或者其他人认为你应该做的事情很容易让你分心或者转变话题。制定一个自愿接受的截至日期来帮助你不理睬这些分心的事情。如果一个同事关于一个不紧急的工作打电话给你，你可以让他知道你在下午三点前必须完成。没有必要让他知道那是自我强加的。那么临近下午三点时，开始结束那项特殊的工作。

Know when it’s time to ask for help. Have you ever been stumped by a certain project or task? Did you walk away from it for a while and then come back to it hoping you’d suddenly know what to do? Recognize when you can’t take a project
any further. You simply might not have the right expertise to completely finish a certain project. And that’s okay. Wasting time on something you’re never going to be able to figure out is much worse than asking for help.
知道何时是寻求帮助的时间。你曾经因一个特定的项目或者工作被为难过吗？你暂时从它旁边走开然后返回到它的旁边，希望你突然知道如何去做吗？承认何时你不能更进一步的获得一个项目。你也许仅仅没有正确专业知识完全地来完成某一个项目。那就好吧。浪费时间在你将永远不能解决一些事情是比寻求帮助可能更糟糕。

Learning how to manage just a few factors can truly make your effort count.
学会如何管理几个因素能使你的付出物有所值


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
作者简介

Jason W. Womack 沃麦克.W.詹森
Jason W. Womack provides practical methods to maximize tools, systems, and processes to achieve quality work/life balance. He has worked with leaders and executives for more than 16 years in the business and education sectors. His focus is on creating ideas and implementing solutions that are valuable to organizations and matter to the individuals in those organizations. He is the author of Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More (Wiley, 2012 2012) . Womack’s signature workplace performance techniques offer specific strategies to consistently and incrementally improve performance.
沃麦克 W.詹森对最大化的工具、系统和流程来实现质量工作/生活平衡提供实用性的方法。他曾在商业和教育部门与领导者和高管们一起工作超过16年。他的关注点是创造思想和执行对组织有价值和和在这个组织中对个人重要的解决方案。他是《没有最好，只有更好》的作者，聪明工作，大胆联想，更多创造。（威利. 沃麦克的亲授工作场所绩效技术为一贯地和增值地提高绩效提供具体战略。