Effectiveness Is All About Managing Your Time, Energy, and Attention
This is largely the foundation of the idea ofheatmapping your productivity and the engagement threshold. In each case, time is only one factor – with energy and attention being the others.影响效率的因素虽有三个，但也不意味着时间是一个不重要的因素。因为要是你没有充足的时间去做一件事的话，你就算拥有更多的精力和更高的专注力也无济于事。所有变化都是需要时间的，但时间也不是唯一的一个因素。
The fact that time is only one of three factors doesn’t discount the importance of time, for having an abundance of creative energy or being especially engaged doesn’t help much if you don’t have enough time to do anything with them. Manifesting change in the world takes time, but that’s not all it takes.
之所以把时间、精力与注意力都视为同等重要的因素，是因为人们错误地把“工作时间越多”等同于“工作产能越大”。实际情况并不如此。要是一个人既不工作又不玩乐地度过一天，那么他就能真切地明白这点。人们普遍的观点就是认为投入进工作的时间越多也就意味能够完成更多的工作量，与此相反的观点则被他们所嗤之以鼻。
The reason why thinking in terms of time, energy, and attention is important is that many of us operate as if more time equals more capacity, when in reality it often doesn’t . Anyone who’s sat at their desk at the end of the day in that awkward middleground where they’re neither working nor playing understands this. Yet the overriding tendency is to sit there nonetheless because the operating assumption is that more time working equals more work done, evidence to the contrary be damned.
为什么我们仅考虑到了时间管理
We like to think in terms of time because it’s a lot easier than to try to evaluate the trinity of time, energy, and attention – our TEA – especially since time is objectively measurable. If we’re in a scenario where others are directly or indirectly evaluating our output, a dutifully completed time card is a safe fallback because, as we’ve already observed, more time at work equals more work done. And, in fairness, it’s hard to gauge someone else’s energy and attention from the outside when you’re in a large organization, so the time card gives us something to go by.
之所以这样是因为这样相对而言要容易些，如果我们同时对时间、精力、注意力这三者进行评估的话，难度会更大---而且，只有时间这一项是可以被客观评估的。不论是直接还是间接地评估一个人的工作产量，一张忠实的时间卡就是种较妥当的观测方法，因为大家都是普遍认可“工作时间越多，工作产量也就越大”这种观点。另外，在一个大型的组织里对每个人的精力和注意力作评估是件根本就无法办到的事，所以，时间卡就是一种比较公平的评估手段。
Many of us creatives don’t work in those environments, though, but we’ve done an excellent job of keeping the model. This is quite unfortunate, because creative effectiveness is all about harnessing our TEA . We might only have two hours per day where we have the concentrated TEA that we need to do some creative heavy lifting, and if we don’t use that TEA wisely, no amount of any single component of the triad is going to help us work at that same level.
虽然许多创造性的人才并不在这样的环境中工作，但他们确实以自己的出色表现作了好榜样，他让我们目标效率不仅仅与时间管理有关，还与精力、注意力密切相关。或许我们每天仅仅有两个小时的时间处于高效状态，但是，如果我们没有明智地协调使用我们的时间、精力和注意力的话，我们就无论无何也无法达到高效工作的状态。
This Isn’t New, But We Need to Be Reminded About It A Lot
这并不是什么新鲜的概念，但我们也要时常提醒自己运用这种理念
What I’m saying here isn’t anything new either in my own thinking or in that of others. For my own part, I’ve written about some of these ideas directly in a General Theory of Productivity a few years ago and indirectly in just about every post I’ve written on productivity. One way to understand a lot of what’s going on in Getting Things Done is to see that David Allen is giving us a process to get things out of our heads, which increases the amount of attention and energy we have available to us. Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz address energy and attention more directly in The Power of Full Engagement. Stephen Covey’s 7 Habitsframework is generally about using our TEA proactively rather than reactively. The huge body of work on time management and efficiency tends to focus on creating processes and systems that increase available time by decreasing the time seepage that often happens with our work. And so on.
本文所将的并不是什么新鲜的内容，早在几年前我就在《效率概论》一文中表达了其中的一些想法。要想理解戴维·艾伦在《搞定》一书书中所传达的理念的一个方法，就是要看到他向我们展示了一条将头脑中的想法变成现实的过程，这一过程让我们的精力与专注力都有了很大的提升。 吉姆·洛尔和托尼·施瓦茨在《全力以赴:高效能人士的精力管理手册》一书中对精力与专注力作了非常清晰的阐述。史蒂芬·科维所著的《高效能人士的七个习惯》 的基本概念就是在讲我们要主动地而非被动地使用我们的时间、精力与注意力。花费在时间管理与效率提升上的大块时间有助于我们忘我地投入到创造性的工作体系中去，通过这种方法就可以削减时常发生在我们身上的低效工作时间的总量。
Instead of thinking just about how you’re using your time, think about how you’re using your time, energy, and attention . I’ll wrap this up with some questions for you to ponder:
与其把目光局限在时间的使用方式上，还不如地去思考自己是如何使用自己的时间、精力与注意力的。下面就是我专门为你所准备的几个问题，好好思考下吧：
On gaining time : What are you doing that you could either stop doing or do more efficiently so that there’s less time seepage?
关于获取时间: 为了节约宝贵的时间，你现在所做的事情中又哪些事情可以停止去的呢？还有哪些事情可以更高效地完成的呢？
On losing energy : What are the sources of energy drain in your life? Is there something you can do to address those sources? It’ll probably take more energy to deal with the cause than the symptom, but continually applying band-aids has a cost, too.
关于精力消耗: 哪些事情让你疲惫不堪呢？你可以做哪些事来减少这类情况的发生呢？寻找原因比起应对它所引起的症状而言，很有可能会花费你更多的精力。不过这也没什么，无论做什么事都是要付出代价的。
On losing attention (being distracted) : What’s distracting you or causing you to continually shift focus? Is there a way to alter your environment so you’re less prone to be distracted by them?
关于分心: 有哪些事使得你分了心？或者说无法保持专注力？你是否可以找到一种方式改变外部的环境，从而减少干扰呢？
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