Laura Vanderkam: How to gain control of your free time
蘿拉.凡德坎姆: 如何掌控你的空閒時間
Laura Vanderkam shatters the myth that there just isn’t enough time in the week for working professionals to live happy, balanced and productive lives. Full bio
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I write about time management,
for my occasional tardiness,
on time management.
時間管理的演講時遲到...
together and savor that irony.
以及玩味這等諷刺。
is that I have lots of tips and tricks
在各處節省時間的技巧和妙招!
that are doing a story along these lines,
找出多餘的時間。
find an extra hour in the day.
每天的作息中省出一點時間,
bits of time off everyday activities,
拿來做不賴的事情。
of this piece, but I'm always interested
所想出來的東西很感興趣。
up with before they call me.
have to make right-hand turns --
in microwave usage:
minutes on the package,
the bottom side of that.
在某些層面上是有其道理的-
which makes sense on some level,
你就可以快轉跳過廣告,
fast-forward through the commercials.
eight minutes every half hour,
of watching TV,
32 minutes to exercise?
來運動的另一個方法嗎?
of time here and there, add it up,
我們會東省西省一點時間,
做想做的每件事情。
to everything we want to do.
people spend their time
如何花用他們的時間,
schedules hour by hour,
has it completely backward.
we want by saving time.
營造我們想過的生活;
of extremely busy women.
1,001 天的生活。
sometimes their own businesses,
有時候是自家的事業、
maybe parents to care for,
of their time for a week
一個星期的時間留下軌跡,
they worked and slept,
她們工作和睡覺的時間;
about their strategies, for my book.
for something.
that her water heater has broken,
all over her basement.
like this happen to you,
生人迴避、溼透了的一團亂。
frightening, sopping mess.
aftermath that night,
crew dealing with the ruined carpet.
整治面目全非的地毯。
on her time log.
an extra hour in the day.
at the start of the week,
to train for a triathlon?"
做鐵人三項訓練嗎?」、
to mentor seven worthy people?"
督導七個可用之才嗎?」
what most of us would've said,
how busy I am?"
all over her basement,
is that time is highly elastic.
what we choose to put into it.
以迎合我們選擇置入其中的事宜。
of that broken water heater.
of the busiest people I ever interviewed.
最忙碌者的話語來說;
a small business
to set up an interview
「我擁有了一切!」,
to speak with me.
unavailable to speak with me
even more intrigued,
she explains it like this.
because it's not a priority."
因為那不是我的要務。
"It's not a priority."
that's really more accurate language.
那真的是更正確的話語;
to dust my blinds,
to dust my blinds,
讓我去擦拭我的百葉窗,
a matter of lacking time;
that time is a choice.
時間是一個選擇。
for making different choices,
of that broken water heater?
to figure out what they are.
for thinking about this.
coming up to the end of the year
annual performance reviews.
your successes over the year,
to do this looking forward.
it's the end of next year.
a performance review,
amazing year for you professionally.
無疑是個精采絕倫的一年!
that made it so amazing?
使它如此精采絕倫?
year's performance review now.
你明年的考績報告!
for your personal life, too.
like me, come December,
內附這些五彩繽紛折好的紙張,
sheets of colored paper,
「全家近況年節拜會書」。
as the family holiday letter.
of literature, really,
everyone in the household is,
是如何的精采絕倫;
your friends and family
你做過哪些對你重要的事情;
that mattered to you over the year.
it's the end of next year,
that made it so amazing?
使得這一年如此精采絕倫呢?
year's family holiday letter now.
全家近況年節拜會書。
review and the family holiday letter,
we can work on in the next year.
我們可以在明年貫行。
these down into doable steps.
拆分成落實的步驟,
to write a family history.
some other family histories,
you want to ask your relatives,
figure out a training plan,
擬定一個培訓計畫,
out of the back of the closet.
of that broken water heater,
一如故障熱水爐的同款事,
before we are in them.
is Friday afternoons.
an economist might call
叫做「低機會成本」的時間。
on Friday afternoons saying,
坐定而嘴巴說著:
and professional priorities
那些要務應該是些什麼。
about what those should be.
of time Friday afternoon,
事業、親友、自己。
list: career, relationships, self.
in all three categories.
of the next week,
將會比其他人更不簡單,
complicated for some people than others.
就是比其他人更吃緊;
are just harder than others.
to find time to take that poetry class
children on your own.
anyone's struggle.
我要告訴你的數字是鼓舞人的。
I am about to tell you are empowering.
一星期也就 40 小時、
job, so 40 hours a week,
so 56 hours a week --
for other things.
for other things.
people's estimated work weeks
估算工作週時和時間日記帳
75-plus-hour work weeks
超過 75 小時的人...
給你認為對你重要的事用;
for what matters to you.
more time with your kids,
for a test you're taking,
and volunteer for two,
way more than full-time hours.
來做精采絕倫的事情。
time to do amazing things.
我們拿來做什麼呢?
bits of time, what do we do?
around the house
something wonderful on the bus
閱讀一些精采的讀物。
that required two bus rides
每天早上需要坐兩段公車和一段地鐵,
on weekends to get stuff to read.
almost, almost, enjoyable.
for meditating or praying.
because of your crazy work schedule,
錯過了家庭晚餐,
could be a good substitute.
the whole of one's time
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Laura Vanderkam - AuthorLaura Vanderkam shatters the myth that there just isn’t enough time in the week for working professionals to live happy, balanced and productive lives.
Why you should listen
Between careers and kids, many women feel that they are too busy to cram in anything else. To test the truth of this feeling, author Laura Vanderkam began logging her time for each of the 168 hours of the week. Among her surprising findings: we retroactively overestimate the amount of time spent stressing about work while underestimating our available downtime.
In her latest book, I Know How She Does It, Vanderkam analyzes the ways in which professional women successfully balance free time and work -- and explores how everyday readers can benefit from their experiences.
Laura Vanderkam | Speaker | TED.com