成功人士的週末是怎麼度過的?

first step to controlling your weekends is making conscious choices.

1.第一步是爲自己的週末做個理智的選擇

It's so easy to plop down on the couch on a Friday night or Saturday morning and watch TV, but falling into these routines will suck away the few free hours you ead of doing something by default, choose to decide how your time is spent.

週五晚上或週六早上靠着沙發看電視最爽啦，但如果這樣過週末可真是浪費了你僅有的閒暇時光呢。與其就這樣默認地過週末，不如好好想想怎麼利用好週末時間吧。

In her book, "What The Most Successful People Do On The Weekend," time management expert Laura Vanderkam writes, "In a world of constant connectivity, even loafing time must be consciously chosen, because time will be filled with something whether it’s consciously chosen or not — and not choosing means that the something that fills our hours will be less fulfilling than the something our remembering selves will likely wish we’d elected to do."

時間管理專家勞拉·凡德卡姆在著作《最成功的人週末做些什麼》一書中寫道：“在這個被即時通訊充斥的世界，即使是空閒時間也需要謹慎選擇，因爲一些事總會莫名佔用時間——如果不理智選擇，就意味着你的時間將會虛度，而非花在實現心中目標之上。”

appointments for yourself, even if it's only to read a book.

2.跟自己預約，哪怕只是讀一本書而已

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee says you need to have a plan for the weekend, setting specific hours or minutes aside for activities you want to you have to commit.

前阿肯色州州長麥克·赫卡比說你需要爲週末定個計劃，空出幾個小時或幾分鐘來做你想做的事情。然後就去履行這個計劃吧。

Huckabee advises: "If you know you want to read a book, then get the book out and have it set aside and make plans to read it's going to be at that starts, get on 't wait until that afternoon, then think — could I read? Or listen to some music? Or take a walk? Then you'll sit about wasting an hour of what little time you have figuring out what to do with the rest of it."

赫卡比建議道：“如果你想讀一本書，那麼就把書帶着，放在身邊，做個計劃來閱讀這本書吧。比如你準備一點開始看，一到一點，就不要再拖啦。不要等到下午再去想——我是讀書呢還是聽音樂呢?要不去散個步?然後你就會浪費一個小時的時間去糾結接下來到底應該幹什麼。

You have to be disciplined and commit to the decisions you make.

一定要自律，遵守自己做出的決定。

ning actually makes weekends happier, and unlocks a key mechanism of joy.

3.做計劃能增加週末的樂趣，讓你找到快樂

Vanderkam cites Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert's 2006 book, "Stumbling on Happiness." In it, Gilbert argues that "the greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real."

凡德卡姆還引用了哈佛心理學家丹尼爾·吉爾伯特在2006年的著作《撞上快樂》，中間提到“人腦最偉大的地方就在於有能力去想象現實生活中完全不存在的東西。”

Gilbert is talking about cipation accounts for a huge chunk of happiness, which comes from thinking about the events we erkam writes, "As you look forward to something good that is about to happen, you experience some of the same joy you would in the major difference is that the joy can last much longer."

吉爾伯特提到了期望。期望包含了大量的幸福，皆來源於我們所計劃的事情。凡德卡姆寫道：“當你期待好事發生的時候，你會感受到其他類似情形中的樂趣。主要的不同在於這種期望的快樂持續的更加長久。”

three to five anchor events each weekend, but don't plan out every hour.

4.每週安排三到五個事情，但不要排滿每個小時

Vanderkam says most people cringe at the idea of planning their placing three to five main, or "anchor," events on your calender for the weekend doesn't mean you need to plan them down to the minute.

凡德卡姆說大部分的人想到列週末計劃就會退縮，但其實列三到五個重點就可以了，週末日曆上的安排不需要你精確到每一分鐘。

She writes, "Three things taking three hours apiece is nine hours of your 36 waking leaves a lot of time for sitting and nursing a scotch, if you don't have three small children, or watching 'The Backyardigans,' if you do."

她還寫道：“三件事，每件事三小時，9個小時就花掉了，而你總共的活動時間有36個小時。如果你沒有三個小孩子，或是需要打理後花園，你還是有充足的時間來品一杯威士忌。”

a list of the things you dream about doing, and you'll find the ones you can do every day.

5.給自己想做的事列個清單，你會發現每天都能實現一個

When the weekend rolls around there may be so many things that you want to do that you freeze up and end up doing almost none of 's why it's effective to have a really good list.

週末來襲，也許你想做的事太多反而不知該如何下手最後卻一事無成。所以列個清單十分有效。

Vanderkam suggests people create something called "A List of 100 Dreams," which prompts you to brainstorm anything you might want to do in ough some things, like going to see the pyramids in Egypt, may not be doable right now, by the end of the list you'll have come up with everyday activities, like getting together with friends for a picnic in the park.

凡德卡姆建議大家去列一個類似”100個最想做的事“這樣的清單，首先你要絞盡腦汁去想到底想做些什麼。有些事，比如去埃及看金字塔，不能馬上實現，但越到最後你就越會列出每天都能做到的事情，比如和朋友一起去公園野炊。

you make your plans, don't discount something you haven't done in years.

6.做計劃的時候，不要忘記那些一直被自己遺漏的事情

One of Vanderkam's key secrets is to "dig deep." Even if there are activities that you haven't done since childhood, you can still make them part of your regular weekends.

凡德卡姆的祕訣之一在於“深挖”。即使有些事你長大之後就再也沒有做過，你還是可以把它列在週末計劃裏。

For example, one of her readers signed up for Saturday morning piano says that sometimes parents get so caught up in planning their kids' lives that they forget to schedule fun activities for something that means a lot to you, and make it a permanent routine.

比如，她的一位讀者登記了週六早上的鋼琴課。她說有時候家長總是會一心去安排孩子的生活而忽視了自己的樂趣。挑一個對你而言很重要的事情，然後養成習慣去做吧。

end mornings can be the best time to do things for yourself.

7.週末早晨可是爲自己生活的最佳時機

Weekend mornings are very easily wasted in laying ead, set them aside for personal pursuits.

週末的早晨最容易被懶覺吞噬啦。實際上，好好利用這段時間來搞點人生追求吧。

Vanderkam writes, "If you're training for a marathon, it's less disruptive for your family if you get up early to do your four-hour run than if you try to do it in the middle of the get up early, you'll probably have to avoid staying up late the night before, but this is a good idea in general."

凡德卡姆寫道：如果你一直爲馬拉松備戰，那麼不如早起開始你的四小時長跑，以免中午跑步耽誤家人的行程安排。早點起牀，你就會避免頭一天晚上熬夜，看，這是多好的辦法啊。