告别拖延症-奖励自己(1)

Say goodbye to procrastination¹.

 

告别拖延症。

 

 

Eliminate Distractions²

 

排除干扰因素

 

It's hard to get any real work done when you keepturning your attention to what's on television or you keep checking yourfriends Facebook status updates. Assign yourself a period of time during whichyou turn off all distractions – such as music, television, and socialnetworking sites – and use that time to focus all of your attention on the taskat hand.

 

如果你的注意力不断地放在电视内容或者脸书主页上你很难完成任何任务。排除一段时间，消除所有的干扰因素——音乐、电视、社交网站等等，在这段时间专注于手头的任务。

 

Reward Yourself

 

奖励自己

 

Once you have completed a task (or even a smallportion of a larger task), it is important to reward yourself for your efforts.Give yourself the opportunity to indulge in something that you find fun andenjoyable, whether its attending a sporting event, playing a video game,watching your favorite tv show, or looking at pictures on a social sharingsite.

 

一旦你完成了一项任务（或者仅仅是一项大任务的一小部分），奖励一下自己的努力十分重要。给自己一个机会沉浸在有趣的事物中，看比赛、玩电子游戏、追电视剧、在网站上看图片，想怎么玩就怎么玩。

 

1 procrastination   

n.拖延，耽搁

参考例句：

• Procrastination is the father of failure. 因循是失败的根源。
• Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延就是浪费时间。

2 distractions   

n.使人分心的事[人]( distraction的名词复数 )；娱乐，消遣；心烦意乱；精神错乱

参考例句：

• I find it hard to work at home because there are too many distractions. 我发觉在家里工作很难，因为使人分心的事太多。
• There are too many distractions here to work properly. 这里叫人分心的事太多，使人无法好好工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》