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拖延让你浪费时间，逃避问题，怎样解决这个问题？运用一些时间管理工具吧！
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Ever since I started school I have had to battle my procrastination. Sometimes it almost feels like a disease; one that is treatable at times, but just seems to never go away. Because of my bad procrastination, I adopted systems like GTD, a calendar and scheduled and time-blocked everything, reminders of important tasks and due dates “dinging” from everywhere. What I found is that unless I am on top of my game and choosing to “be productive”, I easily fall back into the pit of procrastination, where time is never “of the essence”.
自从我读书开始我就与我的拖延习惯做斗争。有时它几乎就像是一种疾病：一种偶尔认为已经治愈，但事实上从未彻底解决。由于我拖延的坏习惯，我采取了如GTD的时间管理系统以求克服这种坏习惯。我将日历、计划表和日程表排满了事件，提醒我重要事件和待做事项的“叮叮”铃声在每个地方响起。我发现，除非我为了选择“更有效率”而非玩游戏，不然我又会落入拖延的陷阱，在这点上时间从不是“本质原因”。
Objective and subjective time
主观和客观时间
I’ve read quite a few books and essays on the psychological effects and reasons of procrastination. Something interesting that has stuck with me is in the book Procrastination by Jane B. Burka (not an affiliate link) having to do with the way that “procrastinators” perceive and interact with time. According to Burka there are two ways that we deal with and understand time: objectively and subjectively. Objective time is “measured by clock and calendar” and is predictable where as subjective time is measured by our own personal understanding and is outside of clock time.
我读过相当多的关于解说拖延的原因和心理学影响的书籍和随笔。其中珍妮?B.布莱克所写关于拖延（并非有效会员链接）的著作中关于拖延感受以及与时间相互作用的有趣观点吸引了我。根据布莱克的观点：我们对于时间的理解有主观和客观两种方式。客观上的时间指的是“可由钟表和日历量度的”，是可以预测的；主观上的时间指的是我们个人对于时间的理解，其不能由钟表来量度。
As you can see, if your personal subjective time isn’t lining up with the world’s objective time you can have some serious issues, especially since your boss, your professors, and your spouse tend to base everything off of objective time.
正如你所看到的，如果你的个人主观时间与世界的客观时间不配对的话，你将会遇到很严重的问题，特别是当你老板、导师和配偶都是依据客观时间来度量日程的话。
I have this problem with objective time and after reading through Procrastination I decided to break myself of it by employing some different techniques when it came to my “time management skills” or lack thereof.
我对客观时间的认识正存在这个问题，因此当通读拖延书籍后我决定让我自己摆脱它，通过使用一些我所缺乏的“时间管理技能”与相应工具来达到这个目的。
Track, track, track
追踪，追踪，追踪
Some bright person once said, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” and that holds completely true with managing your time. The first thing that I had to do to understand how I use my time was track almost everything. For instance, I found myself being late in the mornings for work and always blamed it on something external; like the winter weather, traffic, how long it took to get gas in the morning etc. It wasn’t until I started tracking how long it actually took me to take a shower and get out of the house did I understand that I needed to get up about 20 minutes earlier. It sounds stupid, I know, but to someone who thinks they understand time and where it goes, it takes the detail of tracking the real world to understand it.
一些聪明人曾说过：“如果你不能度量它，你就不能管理它。”在进行你的时间管理上也完全适用。我所做的第一件事就是通过追踪我的每一件事来判断我是怎么利用时间的。例如：我发现当我早上工作迟到了我却会将其归因于外界的条件：像寒冷的天气、交通拥堵、加气时间过长等等。直到我追踪发现我淋浴和离开房间的时间我才发现我需要早起20分钟。我知道这听起来很傻，但对于那些自认为理解时间知道时间如何花费的人来说，通过追踪现实世界的细节可以更好的理解时间。
You can track your time many different ways but some of the best apps that I have found for Android and iPhone are great when you are on the run and need to get a quick statistic to use for planning. There are a ton of options on both platforms but in the free category I would go with Eternity Time Lite and aTimeLogger for iPhone and Time Recording – Timesheet App and Track Task Time for Android. All of these offer the user the ability to track multiple activities, create their own categories, and gives them reports and statistics they can use to help understand just where there time goes.
你可以通过许多不同的方式来追踪你的时间，但是我发现当你正在进行或者为了制订计划需要快速统计时，一些适用于安卓手机或者苹果手机的应用软件十分有效。这两个平台上都有大量的软件可供选择，从自由范畴上来讲，我在苹果手机平台选择Eternity Time Lite和aTimeLogger软件，在安卓手机平台选择Time Recording – Timesheet App和Track Task Time。这些软件都可以使使用者追踪多个活动、自由的建立分类等级，并反馈给使用者报告和统计信息从而使使用者了解他们的时间到底花费在哪些方面。
You can also track your time use on your PC or Mac with RescueTime. RescueTime basically tracks what applications you are spending your time with and can give you a realistic view of where your computer time is going.
你同样可以通过“RescueTime”软件在个人计算机或苹果机上追踪你的时间。“RescueTime”软件通过追踪你计划将要如何使用你的时间而在计算机时间基础上给予你现实的建议。
Starting now and time blocking
马上行动，阻断时间
One of the most elusive ways that procrastinators abuse time and do not sync their subjective time with objective time is underestimating how long a task will take to complete. I’ve been told my many former and current software project managers that when they ask a software developer how long it will take to get something done they usually multiply their answer by two or three to set realistic expectations. Many of us are confident (sometimes overconfident) and do not set realistic time constants on ourselves.
一个最隐蔽的关于拖延浪费时间以及主观与客观时间不同步的方式就是低估了完成任务所需花费的时间。我经常告诉许多我前任的现任的软件项目经理，当他们询问软件设计人员需要多久的时间来完成一个项目时，他们最好将得到的答案时间乘以2或3倍才是切实的期望。我们中的许多人因为自信（有时是过度自信）而没有对我们自己设定一个切实可行的时间期望。
This is where starting a task or project immediately and then time blocking the rest of it is a great way to balance time. The idea is simple, when given a task or project to complete, jump in and start working on it for at least 25 minutes. This allows you to understand how big the task or project is which allows you to make realistic predictions of how long it will take to complete. This is syncing your subjective time with objective time. After this you can time block the project.
当开始一项任务或项目时安排好剩余时间是一个平衡时间的好方法。方案很简单，花费至少25分钟计划并筹备项目。这会使你充分了解计划或项目的庞大，从而为预计完成时间作出切实可行的计划。这将使你的主观时间与客观时间同步。之后你的计划就有很好的时间性。
Time blocking, the idea of blocking out a certain amount of time on your calendar for a task or project, has been around forever and works well if you have a realistic view of how long something will take to complete. After starting your task or project, take out your favorite calendar app and start “blocking” out time in your schedule to complete the task. Usually, if I think something is going to take 2 hours to complete, I block out about 2.5 total hours. This gives me some starting and stopping leeway. I also suggest only blocking out 50 minutes at a time to prevent burning yourself out. It seems that 50 minutes of work and 10 minutes of rest/play when you are in a working period is ideal.
阻断时间，指在你的日程表中伴随着任务或项目的进行而划分出一定的时间，在你能很准确的估计你完成某项任务将要花费的时间时，这将会使你工作的更好。当你开始任务或项目，使用你最常用的日程软件并在你的日程表中做好完成这项任务的时间计划。通常，如果我认为有些事将要花费2小时去完成，那么我会留出大约2.5小时。这会给我一些开始和停顿的时间余地。我还建议一次只要工作50分钟以防止使我精疲力竭。当你在工作阶段，用50分钟工作然后休息10分钟是一个很好的循环。
When it comes to generic timers for PC or Mac I highly recommend FocusBooster . It’s an Adobe Air application that lends itself to the Pomodoro technique of task timing, but you can use it for setting your working time on a task or project. For calendaring, I have to admit that I solely use Google Calendar for all my calendaring needs as it is everywhere I go and I can sync it to just about any device I want to. That isn’t to say there aren’t a bunch of good calendaring options out there, it’s just that Google Calendar has met all of my needs thus far.
在个人计算机或苹果机上广泛使用时间应用我推荐FocusBooster.它是一款Adobe Air application，使用了Pomodoro技术，但是你可以使用它安排好你的任务时间计划。对于日程提醒，我唯一使用的是谷歌日历，它能满足我的日程提醒需要无论我去哪或是想要使用何种工具同步时间表。这并不是说除此之外就没有其他更好的选择了，只是谷歌日历完全可以满足我的需要。
Conclusion
Having an understanding of how to sync your subjective time and the world’s objective time can save you a ton of pain in your personal and professional life. But, if you are anything like me you will need a some help along the way to understand where the objective time goes. Hopefully if you understand the difference between your “inner clock” and the real world, track how long it takes you to accomplish tasks, and think more realistically about how long it take to accomplish something and schedule accordingly, you can say goodbye to procrastinating your time away.
总结： 对如何同步你的主观时间与客观时间有良好的理解将有助于减少你个人生活和工作中的许多痛苦。但是，如果你像我一样，那你或许需要一些帮助来帮你了解客观时间到底是怎样的。幸运的是，如果你理解了你内在的时间与现实世界时间的差别的话，比如你追踪你完成任务的时间并且现实的考虑参照日程表完成任务所需时间，那么你就能跟因拖延而浪费的时间说再见了。 |
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