一天之計在於晨：五招提高早晨效率
有沒有發現早上的時光總是很快溜走？怎麼能夠利用好每天開頭的幾個小時，爲自己的一整天開個好頭呢？教你幾個小妙招，讓你輕鬆提高清晨的效率，迎接新一天！
Step 1: Establish Current Routine
確立日常流程
Before you can make any changes to your current routine, you need to know what it is. Start by taking notice of how you spend your time. Do you reset the alarm a few times? Do you sit in the kitchen and wait for the coffee to brew? Jot down the steps you take and the times that you actually do these things.
在改變你當前的常規之前，你應該想清楚它們到底是什麼。第一步把你每天做的事情記下來。你會把鬧鐘延遲幾分鐘再響嗎？你會坐在廚房裏等咖啡做好嗎？把你每項活動花費的實際時間記錄下來。
Step 2: Decide What’s Most Important
選擇最重要的事情
What’s the point of being efficient if you’re not able to enjoy the time you’re saving. If there is something in your morning routine that you feel you simply can’t live without, it needs to be identified and considered sacred. For example, if you really need to [en]snooze
at least once in the morning, that ten minute sleep snack can be preserved. Likewise the cup of coffee and headline grazing.[/en]
如果你不會享受你節約下來的時間，那你的效率還有什麼意義呢？如果在你的清晨常規中有一些事情你不做就不能活，那就把它們列出來當作神聖不可侵犯。比如，假如你每天早上都不得不小睡一下，那你必須爲你的小睡留出十分鐘。同樣你可以爲你的咖啡和報紙留出時間。
Step 3: Make a List
列個單子
Now that you know what you’re doing, make a list of the things that must be done in the morning. It may be as simple as: wake up, bathroom, coffee, shower, dressed, check emails, and leave for work. Some lists are much more complicated with exercise, dog walking and meditation thrown in.
現在就把你每天要做的事情列出一個表吧。這個列表可能很簡單：起牀、廁所、咖啡、洗澡、打扮、查郵件、去上班。有些列表可能稍複雜一些：鍛鍊、遛狗、冥想。
Step 4:Stop Your Paper Subscription
停止報紙訂閱
Normally you might linger ten minutes or so over the paper while you eat your breakfast or drink your coffee. It would be far better, however, to stop your paper subscription and simply read the news on your device or listen to the news of the world on the radio on your way to work.
通常情況下你會在吃早飯或喝咖啡的時候瀏覽十幾分鐘的報紙。不過，如果你停止訂閱報刊，只是閱讀下移動設備上的新聞或是在上班的路上聽一聽國際新聞廣播會更好。
Step 5: Mesh Schedules
交叉時間表
If you’re sharing a bathroom, all of your efficiencies are completely wasted if your roommate or partner isn’t on something of a schedule, too. Be very clear about the times that you need the bathroom and if the times overlap between the two of you, rearrange your schedule, adjust your wake-up time or simply flip a coin to make it all work. Otherwise it’s all for naught!
如果你是和別人共用衛生間，那你必須和你的室友就時間表達成協商，否則一切都是白搭。明確你需要使用衛生間的時間，如果你們之間存在衝突，那一定要調整你的時間表，換個時間起牀或乾脆拋硬幣來解決問題吧。否則一切都沒有意義。
