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五个最难开始GTD时间管理的月份

 昵称535749 2011-12-12

一年里有几个月是非常不适合开始执行GTD - Getting things done时间管理的。。。

David Allen的“尽管去做” (Getting Things Done)理论恐怕是一种最能在多层面上提升工作效率的理论系统了,不过想要去付诸实际行动却并不是仅仅“去做”就可以的。GTD理论对那些想要自己去实践GTD,或是难以按照自己想法实施GTD的人来讲并不简单。当然,David Allen公司提供了丰富的资源能帮助你快速有效的开始GTD,但就算这样也难免要耗费不少精力。

David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology is one of – if not the – most highly-touted way you can improve your productivity on multiple levels. But implementing it isn’t something that you can just “get done”. GTD can be dififcult for those stuck in their ways and trying to adopt it on their own. Sure, the David Allen Company provides resources that can help you get into it more efficiently and effectively, but it’s still a lot to wrap your head around. 

许多人出于长远考虑,花费大量时间精力去想“到底什么时候开始实施GTD呢”。所以选好日子开始GTD计划很重要。这里我先不讨论什么时候开始GTD最好(且听下回分解xD),相反,我要说说哪些月份是不适合开始做GTD的。这样你能更好的明白应该什么时候开始,而不是总在选好日子的问题上磨叽,又或是一时兴起立即就做。

Many people have to adjust their entire way of thinking when they try to use GTD, and that takes a whole lot of time, focus and effort. So choosing when to start GTD is critical. Rather than offer the best times to start (which I may do in a later post), I’m going to go a different way. I think that by suggesting the worst months to start GTD you might just stand a better chance ofcommitting to a start date, as opposed to waffling on one or trying to start right now. 

七月:这个月之所以不合适是因为在这个月北半球的夏天开始了。每个人想的更多的是好好消遣而不是去学习怎么管理时间。而且天气炎热,孩子也放暑假了,干扰太多。问问自己,暑假里是愿意心如止水还是愿意泡在水里?所以七月还是干脆去海边耍耍吧。。。

1. July This month is a bad one to start GTDing because it basically begins the summer season (for those living in the Northern Hemishpere). It’s a time where people want to enjoy their time, and not spend it learning how to best spend their time. Distraction levels are high due to the warm weather and the fact the kids (if applicable) are out of school. Ask yourself this: Would you rather start to practice “Mind Like Water” or actually “be in the water” during the month of July? In July, get out of your head…and get to the beach. 

三月:旅游月。学生的春假和热带的温暖气候让三月显得尤其短,因为你一定会在三月安排假期的。当你想着出去放松的时候,GTD什么的就先放一边了。

2. March This is a month where traveling is a big thing. Spring Break for a lot of students, warmer weather in the tropics for those North Americans seeking refuge from the cold – March doesn’t even like a full month once you factor a vacation in there. When you’re thinking about getting away at this time of year, it’s best not to think about getting things done at this time of year. 

十二月:这个月你肯定不会闲着的,你跟你朋友甚至都忙到没法同步了。就算没有GTD你也会很充实的。在忙碌的假期时间还想着采用时间管理是不明智的,这个月你的事够多了,不用去想怎么去更高效的解决这些事了先。

3. December Don’t you have enough to do during this month? Doesn’t everybody that you’ll need to communicate with have enough to do that you’ll have trouble even syncing up with them when you need to – even without GTD as your ally? The holiday season is stressful enough for many; don’t over-season yourself by tackling the adoption of a productivity system on top of things. You’ve got enough to do in this month without having to learn how to do it better. 

九月:有是来的快去得更快的一个月。夏天刚结束,学校开学,上班族们也终于能在长周末恢复一下了。比较适宜思考打算一下自己现在的状况而不是纠结于过程上的琐碎。这个月之所以匆匆主要是一切都是处于开始阶段,人们更觉得这个月只是要回复到工作的正轨而已。所以就收收心,看看情况,盘算一下接下来的工作吧。

4. September Another time of year that seems to slip away just as quickly as it arrived. Summer is over, school is starting up and everyone at the office is hopefully refreshed from a few long weekends over the last couple of months. September is a time best spent getting connected with where you’re at so far in the year as opposed to tweaking how you got there. The month may leave quickly because of all of the “starting” happening all over the place, but most people seem to take the entire month just to get back into a routine. So settle back into that routine while looking at it for what it is this month. Save the looking at it for what it could be for a month in the future. 

一月:这个或许乍一听有点奇怪,因为很多决议决定之类的都是在一月做出的。不过想想看,你应该才从十二月的休假季过来,而且美国人从感恩节开始就是休假季的状态的。。。这个时候你会愿意立即开始安排GTD,连缓冲都不用的?人们或许奇怪既然这样,为什么那些决议决定都发生在一月。一月往往会很好的回顾总结刚刚过去的一年,让人们从假期的状态中恢复,为新一年的工作做好准备。

5. January This one may sound a bit odd, especially considering that most resolutions are made (and often broken) in January. But think about it. You’ve just come out a holiday season that basically has lasted for all of December (and those in the United States have been in that mode since Thanksgiving) and now you’re asking yourself to commit to putting a system in place to get things done – and you’re asking yourself to do this without any recovery time. And people wonder why resolutions don’t stick. January is a better month to spend reflecting on the year that just passed, to prepare yourself for the year ahead and recover from the holiday blitz you’ve just experienced. 

GTD的理念在于帮助人们寻找更有效的工作模式。选一个难以做到这种寻找与思考的月份开始GTD是不明智的。所以还有别的七个月,你要选哪个月开始你的GTD计划?

The Big Idea The big idea behind GTD is that it will help you in your quest to get things done. The worst idea is to pick a month where you have less of a chance of completing that quest. So, during which of the 7 remaining months will you start GTD? (Photo credit: Close Up Calendar Page with drawing-pin by Shutterstock)  Mike Vardy is a writer, speaker, and "productivityist". You can follow him on Twitter, listen to him regularly on his podcast, ProductiVardy, and read more from him at MikeVardy.com and at Vardy.me.

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