如何衡量并提高你的工作效率模板

如何衡量并提高你的工作效率Why are so many of us struggling with productivity?

为什么很多人会苦于效率低下?

We set out positively when we start our working day and we’re determined that we’ll do a lot of things that will bring us a step closer to our goals, but when at the end of the day we look back at what we have actually accomplished, we realize that not much has been done, despite having enough time.

新的一天开始时，我们会认真的列出很多计划，下定决心去做很多事情，使我们离目标更进一步。而当一天结束，再回头看看究竟完成了什么时，我们会发现到，尽管有很多的时间，但实际完成的事情却并不多。

We’re not productive because we are not AWARE of our moments of being unproductive. Our minds get distracted by a cool video on YouTube, or an interesting article we read on Yahoo News, or a phone call or one of a myriad of other things.

缺乏效率是因为我们没有注意到那些不工作的时刻。一个很酷的YouTube 视频，一篇雅虎新闻上有趣的文章，或者一个电话乃至大千世界的林林总总都会令我们的大脑走神。

And every time a minor distraction happens, we might even be

aware for a split second that we’re not being productive, but we convince ourselves that, ‘this won’t take long,’and that we’ll be back to work in no time.

每次走神时，即便有那么一瞬间我们已经意识到自己没有在工作，但仍会说服自己，“这不会耽误多长时间”，“我会立即回到工作中"。

The problem with this is that these distractions add up during the day and eventually constitute more of our working time than actual productive work.

问题是，在工作期间，走神占用的总时间总会最终会比实际工作的总时间还要多。

The reason why this keeps happening is because we don’t measure our productivity, and measurement is crucial if we want to control something:

这种现象经常发生的原因在于我们没有衡量自己的工作效率，而如果我们想要掌控某件事，这一点是至关重要的。

‘Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you canít understand it, you can’t control it. If you canít control it, you canít improve it.’- Dr. H. James Harrington

“衡量是控制并最终改善的第一步。如果你无法衡量某件事，那你就无法理

解它。如果你无法理解它，你就无法控制它。如果你无法控制它，你就无法改进它。”——James Harrinton博士如是说。

So, how do we measure productivity?

那么，我们如何衡量工作效率呢?

Very simple: we measure the time we had available in each day and then we measure the time we were productive, the time when we were working on the projects that led us closer to our goals.

很简单：我们先衡量我们每天已支配的时间，然后衡量我们有产出的时间，也就是能让我们接近目标的工作时间。

We can then divide our productive time by the total time available to calculate our productivity in percentage form.

然后我们以产出时间除以总支配时间，以百分比的形式来计算我们的工作效率。

For example, today I started work at 9:30 and I am finishing this article at around 11:30.

例如，今天我从9:30开始，大约到11:30，写完了这篇文章。

For this system to work, you need to be brutally honest. If I am, then in my two hours of available work, I spent around 40 minutes writing this post and about 20 minutes answering emails related to my business.