“三分鐘原則”控制自己不分心

Manage Distractions When Working From Home With the "Three-Minute Rule"

When you’re working remotely, it’s easy to get distracted by all the nagging tasks you have to do around the house. If you want to keep those chores from pulling your focus, it can help to indulge in them in short bursts so you put your mind at ease.

當(dāng)你遠(yuǎn)程辦公的時候，你很容易被家里雜七雜八的瑣碎事情打擾。如果你想讓這些瑣事不影響自己集中注意力的話，你可以將這些瑣事放任不管，然后你就很容易放心了。

If your to-dos at home are keeping you from getting any real work done, Stephanie Taylor Christensen, freelance writer, yoga instructor, and mother, recommends the “three-minute rule” at Fast Company:

如果你在家中的瑣事讓你不能真正將工作做好的話，斯蒂芬·泰勒·克里斯提森是一位自由作家，瑜伽教練，同時也是一位母親，她向法斯特公司推薦了“三分鐘法則”。

I allow three minutes to tend to anything I feel I need to respond to immediately that is not on my to-do list. Give yourself three minutes every hour of your official ‘work hours’ to scan and respond to important emails, put shoes that accumulate around the doorway in the closet, etc.—if it takes no more than three minutes.

我會騰出三分鐘時間去做我感覺需要馬上處理的事情，這些事情并不包含在我的工作列表之內(nèi)。在你的辦公室“工作時間”中，拿出三分鐘時間去瀏覽回復(fù)重要的郵件，將門口雜亂擺放的鞋子放進(jìn)鞋柜等——如果這些事三分鐘之內(nèi)就能搞定的話。

You’ll be able to focus on important work tasks more if you address the little things that are bugging you and clear them from your mental to-do list. And if you keep it short at three minutes, you’ll be able to dive back into your work without losing track of what you were doing. Plus, you’ll have to spend less time cleaning and doing busy work at the end of the workday.

如果你處理了這些瑣事，并且將它們從你腦中的工作清單清除后，你就能更加集中注意力處理重要的工作任務(wù)了。如果你能將瑣事的處理時間控制在三分鐘之內(nèi)，你就能很容易回到自己剛才處理的任務(wù)中去。而且，你必須在工作日的最后忙碌工作用更短的時間打掃衛(wèi)生。