消除拖延的方法

在最有价值的活动上花费最宝贵的时间 ，您将改变自己的生活轨迹。 (Spend Your Most Valuable Time on Your Most Valuable Activities and You’ll Change the Trajectory of your Life.)

“Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth. The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well, and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life.”

“在我的整个职业生涯中，我发现并重新发现了一个简单的事实。 一心一意地专注于最重要的任务，善于完成并完全完成它的能力，是人生获得巨大成功，成就，尊重，地位和幸福的关键。”

— Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog

— Brian Tracy， 吃那只青蛙

The problem with programming, along with entrepreneurship and most jobs in tech, is that it requires a lot of mental effort. So no matter how pointless or trivial the task, we still feel productive.

编程，企业家精神和大多数技术工作的问题在于，它需要大量的脑力劳动。 因此，无论任务多么琐碎或琐碎，我们仍然会感到富有成效。

While your brain may be sweating from the sheer challenge of it all, it doesn’t mean that what you’re doing is automatically the best use of your time.

尽管您的大脑可能因这一切的艰巨挑战而出汗，但这并不意味着您正在做的事情自动地是对时间的最佳利用。

Your best use of time is always going to be adding value. Sometimes that’s code, sometimes not.

您对时间的最佳利用总是会增加价值 。 有时是代码，有时不是。

If you’re an entrepreneur or single founder, your job is to add value to your customers lives. If you’re employed or want to be, your job is to add value to your company, and the company’s customers.

如果您是企业家或单一创始人，那么您的工作就是为客户的生活增添价值。 如果您是受雇或想成为的人，那么您的工作就是为公司以及公司的客户增加价值。

Nothing in life will move you forward, faster, than consistent prioritization of things that add the most value for others (and for yourself.)

始终如一的优先事项可以为他人(以及对您自己)增加最大的价值，生活中的一切都不会使您前进，更快。

This is what separates the top performers from everyone else, the highest paid from the resentful, the productive and impactful from the overworked.

这就是将业绩最佳的人与其他所有人区分开的地方，最高的薪水来自怨恨的人，最高的薪水来自过度劳累的人。

Don’t be fooled by what you see on social media. The answer is not 18 hour days and 100 hour weeks. The hustle never stops!

不要被社交媒体上的内容所欺骗。 答案不是 18小时工作日和100小时工作周。 喧嚣永远不会停止！

You’ll sleep when you’re dead, right?

你死后会睡觉吧？

Well, I like sleeping. And I like clocking into work, getting a lot done, getting paid well for it, and leaving work at work. I like having the free time to write and work on my own stuff.

好吧，我喜欢睡觉。 而且我喜欢超频投入到工作中，获得了很多要做，得到报酬，以及为它，并在工作中留下的工作。 我喜欢有空闲时间来编写和处理自己的东西。

I’m afforded these “luxuries” (you know, like a work-life balance) because my company trusts me. I’m far from a world-class developer. In fact, I’m a self-taught programmer and I didn’t start coding seriously until my late 20's.

我得到了这些“奢侈品”(就像工作与生活的平衡)，因为我的公司信任我。 我离世界一流的开发商还很远。 实际上，我是一个自学成才的程序员，直到20年代后期我才开始认真地进行编码。

But I’ve built up a track record of getting the stuff done that adds value for other people and the organization. I’ve achieved this through systems and techniques anyone can learn.

但是我已经建立了完成工作的记录，为其他人和组织增加了价值。 我已经通过任何人都可以学习的系统和技术实现了这一目标。

We all have a never-ending list of things we have to do.

我们都有事情我们要做一个永无止境的名单。

But they’re only a few key things that provide the most value and contribution, more than the rest of your list combined.

但是，它们只是提供最大价值和贡献的几项关键要素 ，比清单中其余部分的总和还要多。

And we all have a few hours each day when our energy levels and circadian rhythm line up and we’re truly engaged (or least, can be truly engaged). The time of day and length will vary, but we all have it in us.

当我们的能量水平和昼夜节律一致时，我们每个人每天都有几个小时，我们真正参与其中(或者至少可以真正参与)。 一天中的时间和时长会有所不同，但是我们所有人都有。

Spend your most valuable time on your most valuable activities and you’ll change the trajectory of your life.

将最宝贵的时间花在 最有价值的活动上 ，您将改变自己的生活轨迹。

You don’t have to be the best in the world.

您不必成为世界上最好的。

But if you’re in the top 10% of developers in your organization or city, or in the top 10% of job candidates, or in the top 10% of freelancers on Upwork, then you’re going to do pretty well.

但是，如果您在组织或城市中排名前10％的开发人员中，或者在应聘者中排名前10％，或者在Upwork的自由职业者中排名前10％，那么您将做得很好。

You’ll know when you’re in the top 10% because the rewards will come to you. The rewards are both internal (fulfillment in your career, free time for family) and external (recognition, promotions, and financial rewards).

当您进入前10％的位置时，您会知道的，因为奖励将会降临。 奖励既有内部的(成就事业，有空的家庭时间)，也有外部的(表彰，晋升和财务奖励)。

通过爱吃青蛙来在更短的时间内完成更多工作 (Getting More Done in Less Time By Loving to Eat Frogs for Breakfast)

“Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that this is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long.”

“马克吐温曾经说过，如果您每天早晨要做的第一件事就是吃活青蛙，那么您就可以满意地度过一天，知道这可能是您整天要经历的最糟糕的事情。 ”

— Eat That Frog p.2

— 吃那只青蛙 p.2

Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time is a book by Brian Tracy that is loaded with simple and practical productivity advice.

《吃掉那只青蛙：停止拖延并在更短的时间内完成更多工作的21种好方法》是Brian Tracy所著的书，其中载有简单实用的生产力建议。

It’s only about 120 pages but its dense with actionable insights and wisdom. Brian Tracy has been a pillar in the self-improvement field for decades, still going strong at 74 years old.

它只有约120页，但密密麻麻，充满了可行的见解和智慧。 布莱恩·特雷西(Brian Tracy)几十年来一直是自我完善领域的Struts，直到74岁时仍然坚强。

It’s a little outdated (well, at least my copy published in 2007.)

这有点过时了(嗯，至少我的副本是在2007年出版的。)

Blackberries get mentioned a lot, and it can get cheesy and repetitive. Some of it can sound a little old-school and hardline, like an old grandpa yelling clichés at you.

黑莓得到了很多提及，它可以变得俗气而重复。 其中有些听起来有点老派和强硬，就像老爷爷朝你大喊大叫。

But the main ideas are sound. Most have worked really well for me.

但是主要思想是合理的。 大多数人对我来说真的很好。

All self-help and productivity advice ultimately boils down to the same thing: A little planning. Prioritization. Taking action on the hard stuff. Procrastinating on the stuff that doesn’t matter. Finishing.

所有自助和生产力建议最终都归结为同一件事：进行一些计划。 优先级。 对困难的事情采取行动。 拖延无关紧要的事情。 精加工。

That’s it. It doesn’t need to be more complicated than that.

而已。 它不需要比这更复杂。

什么是青蛙？为什么我要吃它们？ (What Are Frogs and Why Should I Eat Them?)

“Your ‘frog’ is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don’t do something about it. It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results at the moment.”

““青蛙”是您最大，最重要的任务，如果您不做任何事情，您很可能会拖延这一任务。 这也是目前可以对您的生活和结果产生最大积极影响的一项任务。”

— Eat That Frog p.2

— 吃那只青蛙 p.2

When you get into the habit of doing your most difficult task before you do anything else, you become a person of action and discipline.

当您养成在做其他事情之前先完成最困难的任务的习惯时，您就会成为有行动和纪律的人。

Your identity changes from cog in the wheel to engine that moves the ship forward.

您的身份从轮子上的齿轮变成引擎，使船前进。

Not just any difficult task. There are a lot of difficult things we can fill our day with. Difficult does not always equate to important or greatest positive impact.

不只是任何困难的任务。 我们可以解决很多困难的事情。 困难并不总是等于重要或最大的积极影响。

If you’re unsure what that means, the keyword is procrastination.

如果不确定这是什么意思，则关键字为procrastination 。

You’re likely to procrastinate because of fear. Fear is a great sign that this thing you have to do is an important frog.

您可能会因为恐惧而拖延。 恐惧是一个好兆头，表明您要做的事情是一只重要的青蛙。

It can be the fear of failing or looking stupid.

可能是担心失败或看上去很愚蠢。

You don’t start the online Computer Science 101 course because you’re scared it’s going to be too complicated to understand.

您不必开始在线计算机科学101课程，因为您担心它太复杂了，难以理解。

As a junior developer, you don’t take on projects that are just slightly out of your comfort zone. It’s safer to work on what you already know.

作为一个初级开发者，你不拿上稍稍走出自己的安乐窝是项目。 处理您已经知道的内容更安全。

It’s also the fear of success.

这也是对成功的恐惧。

What if your career actually takes off and they start giving you more responsibility and money? Who wants that?!

如果您的职业真正腾飞并且开始给您更多的责任和金钱，该怎么办？ 谁想要那个？

The fear of success is often worse than the fear of failure. It’s insidious because it’s not obvious that people would be scared of achieving more. But the Jonah complex is real and many talented men and women are stopped short of their true excellence because of it.

对成功的恐惧往往比对失败的恐惧更糟。 这很阴险，因为人们不敢害怕取得更多成就，这并不明显。 但是乔纳综合大楼是真实的，因此许多有才华的男女都无法获得真正的卓越。

So we procrastinate on real contribution. We procrastinate on finishing and showing our work.

因此，我们会拖延实际贡献。 我们会拖延完成和展示我们的工作。

Instead, we keep busy doing stuff that “should” get done, and the stuff we’re told to do, in order to avoid looking a big, ugly frog in the face.

取而代之的是，我们一直忙于做“应该”完成的事情，并告诉我们要做的事情，以避免看起来像一只大而丑陋的青蛙。

从Ta中分离出大丑青蛙 (Separating Big Ugly Frogs from Tadpoles)

Tadpoles are helpless babies that aren’t frogs. They’re easy to kill. Killing tadpoles is a mindless activity that doesn’t impress anyone.

are是无助的婴儿，不是青蛙。 他们很容易杀死。 杀死t是一种无意识的活动，不会给任何人留下深刻的印象。

Eat the biggest, nastiest frog you’ve ever seen and now you have something to be proud of.

吃你见过的最大，最讨厌的青蛙，现在，你有一些值得骄傲的地方。

If you’re learning to code, your frog is starting and finishing an online course. Your frog is repeating the modules you don’t understand until you do. Your frog is doing your code camp assignments with focus and intention.

如果您正在学习编码，那么您的青蛙就会开始和结束在线课程。 您的青蛙会重复您直到不了解的模块。 您的青蛙在集中精力和意向地完成代码训练营。

If you want to get hired, then your frog is building things. There is no better way to learn to code and get hired than building stuff, plain and simple.

如果您想被录用，那您的青蛙就在建造东西。 没有什么比编写简单明了的东西更好的学习编码和录用的方法了。

Your frog is not organizing your bookmarks or polishing your Linkedin profile. Your frog is not posting to forums, Stack Overflow, Reddit, and Facebook groups. These are tadpoles. These things are mindless and easy.

您的青蛙没有整理书签或修饰Linkedin个人资料。 您的青蛙没有发布到论坛，堆栈溢出，Reddit和Facebook组。 这些是t。 这些事情是无脑且轻松的。

If you want to launch a side project that’s been kicking around in your head for a while, then writing code is your frog. Launching is your frog. Shutting it down after it’s clear that nobody is interested? A big frog.

如果您想启动一个在脑海中徘徊了一段时间的辅助项目，那么编写代码就是您的青蛙。 发射是你的青蛙。 很明显没有人感兴趣后，将其关闭？ 一只大青蛙。

Your frog is not never-ending market research or reading about how other people launched their side projects. Your frog is most definitely not tweeting about how hard you’re “hustling.”

您的青蛙不是永无止境的市场研究，也不是关于其他人如何启动其附属项目的文章。 您的青蛙绝对不会在Twitter上发布关于您“忙碌”的程度的推文。

如何找到最有价值的活动 (How to Find Your Highest Value Activities)

You may already know what your frogs are, but take some time to do the exercises below. A few minutes of reflection is worth a hundred times more than hours of mindless busy work.

您可能已经知道青蛙是什么，但是请花一些时间进行以下练习。 几分钟的反思比不费力气的忙碌工作所花费的时间多一百倍。

When you realize importance of deciding, starting, and finishing the things that will have the greatest impact on your life, career and organization, then you’re going to do better than 90% of the people out there.

当您意识到决定，开始和完成将对您的生活，职业和组织产生最大影响的事情的重要性时，那么您将比90％的人做得更好。

第1步-写出达到目标所需要做的一切 (Step 1 — Write Out Everything You Have To Do To Reach Your Goal)

Goals and goal-setting have fallen out of favor these days. Instead, we’re all about systems, habits, and daily practice.

如今，目标和设定目标已不受欢迎。 相反，我们只关注系统，习惯和日常实践。

I agree because goals can be dangerous. Goals focus on the outcome, which we don’t control.

我同意，因为目标可能很危险。 目标集中在结果上，这是我们无法控制的。

If you don’t reach your goal, it can make you feel like a complete failure. Or you may end up so obsessed with the outcome that you neglect to do any real work towards achieving it. The term “wantrepreneur” comes to mind.

如果您达不到目标，则可能会让您感到完全失败。 否则，您最终可能会沉迷于结果，以至于忽略了为实现该结果而做的任何实际工作。 想到“企业家”这个词。

Systems are better because we have control over our systems. We can measure “success” with a system because every day we either do it or we don’t. Focus is on the daily process, not the eventual outcome.

系统更好，因为我们可以控制我们的系统。 我们可以用系统来衡量“成功”的原因，因为每天我们要么做，要么不做。 重点在于日常流程，而不是最终结果。

Frog eating is a system. When you organize the things you have to do in order of impact, plan ahead, and then focus on the most important tasks until they’re done, every day, that’s a system.

青蛙吃是一个系统。 当您组织影响顺序所需要做的事情时，要事先计划，然后专注于最重要的任务，直到每天完成为止，这就是一个系统。

But you need some idea where to aim your energy. Without some clarity, all of the effort we put into our systems can go to waste.

但是您需要一些想法，将精力放在哪里。 如果不清楚，我们投入到系统中的所有工作都会浪费掉。

写你的目标 (Write Your Goal)

So let’s pretend goals are cool for a second. Use the present tense with a positive voice. Be specific. You want clarity because vague, general goals aren’t helpful.

因此，让我们假装目标很棒。 用积极的语气使用现在时。 请明确点。 您需要明确说明，因为模糊的总体目标无济于事。

Don’t write “Learn to code.” A specific and achievable goal would be “I am an experienced front-end developer who has finished the freeCodeCamp curriculum and built three small side projects for my portfolio.”

不要写“学习编码”。 一个可以实现的具体目标是“我是一位经验丰富的前端开发人员，他已经完成了freeCodeCamp课程并为我的投资组合建立了三个小型项目。”

“Get a new job” is not a good goal. Instead, “I’m earning 50% more than my current salary, working my dream job at X company.”

“找到新工作”不是一个好目标。 取而代之的是，“我在X公司的理想工作是比现在的薪水高出50％。”

列出实现该目标所需要做的一切 (List Everything You Need To Do To Achieve That Goal)

Write out every single thing, large and small, that would be required to achieve your goal. Add in all of your obligations, the stuff you have to do anyway.

写出实现目标所需的每一件事，无论大小。 加上您必须履行的所有义务。

This exercise of listing everything has a few benefits.

列出所有内容的练习有一些好处。

First, this gives you a master list. Every new thing that comes your way, or that you think of, should be added to your master list. That doesn’t mean you have to do it. It just means you get it out of your head so you stop worrying about it.

首先，这给您一个主列表。 您遇到或想到的每件事都会添加到主列表中。 这并不意味着您必须这样做。 这只是意味着您可以将其从头脑中摆脱出来，因​​此不必担心它。

Next, working from a list is also great way to be more productive. (Chapter 2 — Plan Everyday in Advance)

接下来，从列表中进行工作也是提高生产力的好方法。 (第2章-提前计划每天)

When you have a big list, you can pick off the big frogs and get started immediately. When you start your day without knowing what to work on, it becomes much easier to procrastinate on doing anything at all.

当您的清单很大时，您可以挑选大型青蛙并立即开始使用。 当您开始新的一天而不知道要做什么时，拖延做任何事情的难度会大大提高。

Plus, breaking down the huge, overwhelming tasks into actionable steps is the only way you’re going to get started on them. (Chapter 18 — Slice and Dice the Task)

此外，将庞大而繁重的任务分解为可行的步骤是您着手执行的唯一方法。 (第18章-将任务切片和切块)

Lastly, it gives you clarity.

最后，它使您清晰。

You can “Learn React,” an admirable accomplishment for any budding front-end developer. But if it has nothing to do with your goals at this point in your life, then your time is better spent elsewhere.

您可以“学习React”，这对于任何崭露头角的前端开发人员来说都是令人称赞的成就。 但是，如果这与您人生中的目标没有关系，那么您的时间最好花在其他地方。

第2步-组织最大的青蛙到最细的Ta (Step 2 — Organize the Biggest Frogs Down to the Tiniest Tadpoles)

“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all”

“最糟糕的时间利用之一是做一件根本不需要做的事情”

— Eat That Frog p.10

— 吃那只青蛙 p.10

Recognizing the difference between high-value and low-value activities is the core of Eat That Frog. It’s the core of most productivity advice.

认识高价值活动和低价值活动之间的差异是Eat That Frog的核心。 这是大多数生产力建议的核心。

If you learn only one thing from this post, I hope it’s the ability to separate true contribution and value from everything else that doesn’t really matter.

如果您从这篇文章中学到的只有一件事，我希望它是能够将真正的贡献和价值与其他无关紧要的东西分开的功能。

做更多的工作 (Do More of What’s Working)

This advice is so important that I had to put it first, even though it’s not from Eat That Frog. It comes from a great post by Justin Jackson.

这个建议是如此重要，以至于我不得不把它放在第一位，即使它不是来自Eat That Frog。 它来自贾斯汀·杰克逊 ( Justin Jackson)的精彩文章 。

If something you’re doing is working, do more of it. Recognize when you have a hit on your hands.

如果您正在执行的操作正在执行，请执行更多操作。 识别何时受到打击。

“I’d finally created something people wanted. It was like I’d written a hit song. Once you have a hit, all the locked doors open wide. People love it so much it seems to promote itself. Don’t persistently do what’s not working.”

“我终于创造出人们想要的东西。 就像我写了一首热门歌曲。 一旦受到打击，所有上锁的门就会敞开。 人们非常喜欢它，似乎可以自我推广。 不要坚持做不起作用的事情。”

— Derek Sivers about CDBaby

—关于CDBaby的Derek Sivers

If your side project is growing without much effort, keep working on it. Don’t start on some new brain fart of an idea.

如果您的副项目不费吹灰之力就可以继续进行下去。 不要从一个新的想法开始。

If you’re doing something for your career that is getting recognized, like giving talks at conferences, do more of it.

如果您正在为自己的职业做某件事而得到认可，例如在会议上发表演讲，则可以做更多。

If people love what you write, write more.

如果人们喜欢你写的东西，那就写更多。

It’s rare to strike gold. So when you do, put more of your time and energy into mining that precious vein, and eliminate everything that doesn’t add to its success.

打金很少。 因此，当您这样做时，请花费更多的时间和精力来挖掘这一宝贵的脉络，并消除所有不会增加成功的因素。

使用ABCDE方法整理清单 (Organize Your List with the ABCDE Approach)

If you haven’t struck gold yet, that’s OK.

如果您还没有击中金子，那没关系。

There’s work to be done before opportunity can even show up. Your chances increase when you’re working on high impact activities, not low value nonsense.

在机会还没有出现之前，需要做一些工作。 当您从事具有高影响力的活动时，机会会增加，而不是低价值的废话。

We can give weight to each activity using the ABCDE method.

我们可以使用ABCDE方法来权衡每个活动。

Think about how much each item moves you towards your goal. Think about the short-term and long-term consequences of doing or not doing each thing on your list.

考虑一下每个项目能使您朝目标迈出多少。 考虑做或不做清单上的每件事的短期和长期后果。

• A items — Things you must do, which will have a serious positive or negative consequence if you do or don’t do it. If you have multiple A items, rank them A-1, A-2, etc.

  项目 –您必须执行的操作，如果您执行或不执行，则将产生严重的积极或消极后果。 如果您有多个A项目，请将它们排列为A-1，A-2等。

• B items — Things you should do. Tadpoles that have minor consequences. Someone might be inconvenienced if you don’t do these things, but it’s not the end of the world. Never do a B task when an A task is left unfinished.

  B项 -您应该做的事情。 consequences有轻微后果。 如果您不做这些事情，可能会给您带来不便，但这不是世界末日。 当A任务未完成时，切勿执行B任务。

• C items — Things that are nice to do but don’t have any real consequences when they’re done. These items can be chunked together and done all at once when you finish your A tasks. For example, replying to emails.

  C项 -可以很好地完成但没有任何实际后果的事情。 这些项目可以打包在一起，并在完成A任务时一次完成。 例如，回复电子邮件。

• D items — Things to delegate so you can free up more time to do A tasks.

  D项 - 委派的事情，因此您可以腾出更多时间执行A任务。

• E items — Things to eliminate. Generally stuff you do out of habit, like checking social media or reading news headlines.

  E项 -要消除的东西。 通常情况下，您会出于习惯而不喜欢查看社交媒体或阅读新闻头条。

Let’s stick with the “Land your dream job” goal.

让我们坚持“实现梦想的土地”目标。

Applying to jobs by submitting your resume everywhere might seem like the obvious A activity, but there are bigger impact ways to achieve this goal.

通过在任何地方提交简历来申请工作似乎是显而易见的一项A活动，但是实现此目标的影响力更大。

Spend time researching the companies you would love to work for. Get to know everything about them, as if you already work there. Connect with people who do work there. Find the decision makers. Take a recruiter out to lunch. Spend time writing a thoughtful cover letter. Read great books on getting hired like “What Color is Your Parachute?” Spend lots of time thinking about how you can contribute and add value on day one.

花时间研究您想工作的公司。 了解有关它们的所有信息，就像您已经在这里工作一样。 与在那里工作的人保持联系。 寻找决策者。 带一个招聘者去吃午餐。 花时间写一封周到的求职信。 阅读有关受聘的好书，例如“降落伞是什么颜色？” 花很多时间思考如何在第一天就可以做出贡献并增加价值。

Strive to be in the top 10% of candidates and stop doing what 90% of people do. Eliminate the shotgun strategy of blindly uploading your resume to any and every available job opening. Your chances are so much higher with an intentional, laser-focused approach.

力争成为候选人中前10％的人，并停止做90％的人所做的事情。 消除盲目地将简历上传到任何职位空缺的the弹枪策略。 采用有针对性的，专注于激光的方法，您的机会要多得多。

问自己一个好问题 (Ask Yourself the Great Question)

“What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?”

“如果我以一种出色的方式发展并做到这一点，哪一项技能将对我的职业产生最大的积极影响？”

Look into yourself for the answer. Ask your boss this question. Ask your coworkers. Ask your friends and your family. Whatever the answer is, find out and then go to work to bring up your performance in this area.

寻找答案。 向老板问这个问题。 问你的同事。 问问你的朋友和家人。 不管答案是什么，找出并开始工作以提高您在该领域的表现。

— Eat That Frog p.45

— 吃那只青蛙 p.45

The best way to figure out how you can add value, especially if you’re employed or doing work for somebody, is to ask. Have a conversation about it.

弄清楚如何才能增加价值的最佳方法是询问，特别是如果您被雇用或为某人工作时。 讨论一下。

步骤3 —选择您的前三只青蛙 (Step 3 — Choose Your Top 3 Frogs)

“You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.”

“只有在中止低价值活动的程度下，您的时间和生活才能得到控制。”

— Eat That Frog p. 34

— 吃那只青蛙 p。 34

If you did the exercises above, you should have a pretty big list of things to do.

如果您进行了上述练习，则应该有很多事情要做。

Now accept that you’re never going to do it all. There’s never enough time and there never will be. But your goal is not to become the best “checker of lists.”

现在接受您永远不会做的所有事情。 没有足够的时间，也永远没有。 但是，您的目标不是成为最佳的“清单检查者”。

80% of your results will come from 20%, maybe less, of the items on your list. Out of all your frogs, which one (three at most) is going to have the biggest impact on your life?

80％的结果将来自列表中20％或更少的项目。 在您所有的青蛙中，哪一只(最多三只)对您的生活影响最大？

第4步-创建您的日常系统 (Step 4 — Create Your Daily System)

You don’t have control over a company hiring you. You don’t have control over getting a raise. You don’t have control over how the market responds to your startup or side project.

您无法控制雇用您的公司。 您无法控制加薪。 您无法控制市场如何响应您的启动项目或附带项目。

What you do have control over is how many big, ugly frogs you can eat in a day.

您所能控制的是每天可以吃多少只大而丑陋的青蛙。

You have control of continuous elimination and delegation of things that don’t add value.

您可以控制不断消除和委派不增加价值的事物。

You have control of committing to your routine, day after day, to become a person of action.

您可以控制自己日复一日地成为一个行动者。

We’re not trying to be busy for 18 hours a day here. We just want to commit those few precious hours, when our ability to concentrate and focus is highest, on our most important and difficult things.

我们不想在这里每天忙18个小时。 当我们专注和专注的能力最高时，我们只想花一些宝贵的时间专注于最重要和最困难的事情。

For most people, it’s in morning before the distractions of the day claw at your time.

对于大多数人来说，这是在早上分散您白天注意力的时候。

Learning to code is huge mountain to climb for beginners, especially if you have a limited amount of time. But when you break it down into actionable steps, you can form a daily system.

对于初学者来说，学习编码是一个艰巨的任务，尤其是在您的时间有限的情况下。 但是，当您将其分解为可操作的步骤时，您可以形成一个日常系统。

• Two hours on instructor driven learning, like a Frontend Masters course or freeCodeCamp exercises.

  两个小时的讲师驱动学习，例如Frontend Masters课程或freeCodeCamp练习。

• Next hour learning tools and theory, like Github or JavaScript best practices.下个小时的学习工具和理论，例如Github或JavaScript最佳实践。
• Last hour is spent building stuff and writing code. One of the best ways as a beginner is to extend and build on the code examples you do in the courses from the first few hours.最后一个小时花在构建东西和编写代码上。 作为初学者的最佳方法之一是扩展和建立您在前几个小时中在课程中编写的代码示例的基础。

As you get more experienced, the contents of each hour will change, but the system remains the same.

随着经验的增加，每个小时的内容都会改变，但是系统保持不变。

我的青蛙饮食系统 (My Frog Eating System)

My frog, as far as personal projects go, is writing on Medium and launching codetip.com.

就个人项目而言，我的青蛙是在Medium上编写并启动codetip.com 。

I want to produce practical and useful content that you can implement to help your career. My fear is that I’ll spend days writing something that no one will read or care about.

我想提供一些实用且有用的内容，您可以将其实施以帮助您的职业生涯。 我担心我会花几天时间写一些没人会读或关心的东西。

So I procrastinate. That is, until I toughen up and eat the frog.

所以我拖延了。 也就是说，直到我坚强起来吃青蛙。

My best writing comes in the morning when I open my laptop and start writing. I block all my distracting websites, put my phone in another room, start a Pomodoro timer, then write.

我最好的写作是在早上打开笔记本电脑并开始写作时。 我封锁了我所有分散注意力的网站，将手机放在另一个房间，启动了番茄计时器 ，然后写东西。

I start writing even when I have nothing to say, or if my thoughts are all over the place. These don’t make for good articles. But I keep taking bites of this big, nasty frog until the good stuff gets teased out.

即使我无话可说，或者我的想法无处不在，我也开始写作。 这些都不是好的文章。 但是我一直咬着这只大而讨厌的青蛙，直到好东西被逗弄出来。

The most productive code I write at my job happens the same way.

我在工作中编写的最高效的代码以相同的方式发生。

I get into the office early, turn off the distractions, and start working on the hardest, most difficult thing on my list. This thing is important to the company and other stakeholders, like a new feature, performance optimization, or fixing a major defect. I add value by helping the people above me look good.

我很早就进入办公室，分心，然后开始处理清单上最困难，最困难的事情。 这件事对于公司和其他利益相关者很重要，例如新功能，性能优化或修复主要缺陷。 我通过帮助我上方的人们看起来不错来增加价值。

Most days, I only have the stomach to eat these frogs for a few hours before I get tired.

在大多数日子里，在累之前，我只有几个小时要吃这些青蛙的肚子。

But in those few, highly-focused hours, I add more value in a day than I would in a week if I were jumping around between a bunch of unimportant things without any intention.

但是在这几个高度集中的小时中，如果我无意间在许多无关紧要的事情之间跳来跳去，我一天中会比一周中增加更多的价值。

The rest of the day is spent on tadpoles like responding to Slack and emails, fixing minor bugs, and planning work for tomorrow. These activities have some impact and require some effort.

一天的其余时间都花在t上，例如回复Slack和电子邮件，修复小错误以及计划明天的工作。 这些活动会产生一些影响，需要付出一些努力。

The things I absolutely avoid at work are mindless activities that have zero impact on my company or career, like browsing Hacker News, Reddit, or social media.

我绝对避免在工作中发生的盲目的活动对我的公司或职业产生零影响，例如浏览Hacker News，Reddit或社交媒体。

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t succumb to these entertaining temptations at times. I just do everything in my power to start my day with my most difficult tasks and get as far along on those as I can.

如果我说我有时不屈从于这些有趣的诱惑，那我会撒谎。 我会尽我所能，以最艰巨的任务开始新的一天，并尽我所能。

世界上最大，最丑陋的青蛙正在整理 (The Biggest, Ugliest Frog in the World is Finishing)

Creative people, especially the ones with an entrepreneurial trait, are notorious for starting projects and not finishing them. The next idea comes. It’s newer and shinier, so we chase that.

有创造力的人，特别是具有企业家特质的人，因开始项目而不是完成项目而臭名昭著。 下一个想法来了。 它越来越新，也越来越漂亮，所以我们追逐它。

“The sad fact is that ‘almost done’ probably meant ‘not yet started.’ Don’t let this happen to you.”

“可悲的事实是，“几乎完成”可能意味着“尚未开始”。 不要让这种情况发生在您身上。”

— Eat That Frog p.58

— 吃那只青蛙 p.58

Our hard drives are a wasteland of ideas, articles, and half finished apps that seemed like good opportunities at the time. How’s that novel coming along, Brian?

我们的硬盘驱动器浪费了许多想法，文章和半成品应用程序，这在当时似乎是个好机会。 布莱恩，那本小说怎么样？

When you don’t finish stuff, when you don’t release it out into the public, you’ll never reach the top 10% of anything. You might as well have not started in the first place.

当您不完成工作时，如果不将其发布给公众，则您永远都不可能达到前10％。 您可能还没有开始。

I get that some ideas and projects are not worth finishing. I get that there’s an art of knowing when to quit. I get that there’s a obsession with struggling.

我得到一些想法和项目不值得完成。 我知道知道何时退出是一种艺术。 我知道对挣扎有一种迷恋 。

But I think most of the time we quit when we’re a few short feet from gold.

但是我认为大多数时候我们离黄金只有几英尺远。

You have to finish because that’s the only way you’re going to get the feedback you need to decide if what you’re doing is adding value.

您必须完成操作，因为这是您获得反馈的唯一方法，您需要确定您在做什么是否在增加价值。

Don’t start learning Android development because learning JavaScript got too hard. Don’t dive into machine learning because Android development got too hard, and heck, that sounds like the hot new thing, so yeah, I’ll just do that!

不要开始学习Android开发，因为学习JavaScript太难了。 不要深入研究机器学习，因为Android开发太难了，这听起来很新，所以，我会这样做！

Don’t give up on your side project because you couldn’t figure out how to join two database tables.

不要放弃您的辅助项目，因为您无法弄清楚如何联接两个数据库表。

Don’t start writing the next article before you finish the last one. Don’t start the next project unless you finish the the one you’re working on now.

在完成上一篇文章之前，不要开始写下一篇文章。 除非您完成正在处理的项目，否则不要开始下一个项目。

If this is you, then tomorrow’s frog is finishing. Not eight hours starting something new.

如果是您，那么明天的青蛙就在整理。 开始新事物的时间不超过8个小时。

Commit to thirty minutes, or an hour, whatever you need to finish your frog.

花费30分钟或一个小时，完成青蛙的一切。

Finish it, launch it, and walk away.

完成它，启动它，然后走开。

你走之前 - (Before You Go —)

Also, give me a follow on Medium (Bar Franek) if you like what you see and want me to write more.

另外，如果您喜欢自己所看到的内容，并希望我写更多内容，请给我关注Medium( Bar Franek )。

翻译自: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/procrastination-sucks-so-heres-the-eat-that-frog-way-to-powerful-productivity-543b07ecf360/

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