Today, I’d like to talk about an important topic, one that is very closely related to time management.
今天我想分享一個老生常談的話題，因為講時間管理繞不開這部分。
What I want to say is that time cannot be managed, but you can manage yourselves. By managing your habits and your actions, you can achieve the same effect as managing time.
我想說：時間是無法管理的，能夠管理的只有自己。透過管理自己的習(xí)慣，管理自己的事件來達(dá)成對時間的管理。
Are there any theories, methods or tools in this world that tell us how to improve and how we manage our matters and habits? management essay writing www.hotessay.cn
那當(dāng)今世界上有哪些非常成熟的理論、方法和工具，可以讓我們能夠更好地去管理自己的事件和習(xí)慣呢？
Peter Drucker, known as the father of management theory said about time management: “Time is man’s scarcest resource.” He even ranks time management as one of the top five skills needed in an effective manager.
首先是我們管理學(xué)的泰斗，叫德魯克。德魯克老先生，他是這么說時間管理的，他說：“時間是一個人最重要的稀缺性資源?！彼踔涟褧r間管理排在5項管理中第一的位置。
How, then, do we manage our time?
時間怎么來管理呢？
Drucker said, we should record and analyze each day’s events, so we can manage our time better.
德魯克說，要把每天發(fā)生的事情記錄下來，然后進(jìn)行分析，最后才能更好地安排時間。
Drucker found, in his analysis, that 80% of the tasks completed in a day are simple enough that they can be delegated to others. Only 20% are so important are so specific that you must complete them yourself.
德魯克沒有給時間管理進(jìn)行更多的闡述，但是他得出一個結(jié)論：他說一個人20%的事情需要自己做，80%的事情不需要做，或者委托別人做。
An Italian economist named Pareto advocated the 80/20 principle stating that about 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
二八法則是意大利的一個經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家---帕累托提出來的。
But, Drucker proposes an 80/20 principle in time management. He thinks that we ourselves need to complete essential tasks but not all tasks. This brings up a quote that I want to share with you now, “Life lies not in how many things you complete, but in completing the critical few important things with your heart and soul and doing them to the best of your ability!.”
但是德魯克提出了時間管理的二八法則，他認(rèn)為我們要去做重要的事，所以就引發(fā)了我現(xiàn)在想跟大家分享的一句話：“人生不在于做多少事，而在于把重要的事情專注做、用心做、把它做到極致！”
This is called completing the critical few!
這就叫做要事！
A time management guru Stephen Covey wrote a book titled The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. You may familiar with it. But right now, can you recall these seven habits?
經(jīng)過很多年的發(fā)展，有一個叫史蒂芬·柯維的人，他寫了一本書叫《高效能人士的7個習(xí)慣》，大家都很熟悉，可是空中的你?，F(xiàn)在可以記起來這7個習(xí)慣嗎？
I believe, most of you may have forgotten them. I’ve asked numerous people in my classes. Many people remember one or two or a few of them but not all of them. This demonstrates that these seven habits seems to be easy, but in fact they are difficult to put into use.
我想很多人，不一定記得起，我在課堂上問過無數(shù)的人，很多人都背不全，說明看似簡單，實則用起來比較難。
Stephen Covey taught us an important principle: the four quadrants of time management as a way of categorizing and prioritizing the tasks we need to accomplish at any given moment. These are:
當(dāng)然了，史蒂芬·柯維，談到很重要的時間管理四象限：
*Important but non-urgent
重要不緊急
*Important and urgent
重要緊急
*Unimportant and non-urgent and
不重要不緊急
*Unimportant but urgent.
不重要緊急
