五招教你提高早晨效率

 有没有发现早上的时光总是很快溜走？怎么能够利用好每天开头的几个小时，为自己的一整天开个好头呢？教你几个小妙招，让你轻松提高清晨的效率，迎接新一天！

Step 1: Establish Current Routine确立日常流程Before you can make any changes to your current routine, you need to know what it is. Start by taking notice of how you spend your time. Do you reset¹ the alarm a few times? Do you sit in the kitchen and wait for the coffee to brew²? Jot³ down the steps you take and the times that you actually do these things.

在改变你当前的常规之前，你应该想清楚它们到底是什么。第一步把你每天做的事情记下来。你会把闹钟延迟几分钟再响吗？你会坐在厨房里等咖啡做好吗？把你每项活动花费的实际时间记录下来。

Step 2: Decide What’s Most Important选择最重要的事情What’s the point of being efficient if you’re not able to enjoy the time you’re saving. If there is something in your morning routine that you feel you simply can’t live without, it needs to be identified and considered sacred. For example, if you really need to [en]snoozeat least once in the morning, that ten minute sleep snack can be preserved. Likewise the cup of coffee and headline grazing.[/en]

如果你不会享受你节约下来的时间，那你的效率还有什么意义呢？如果在你的清晨常规中有一些事情你不做就不能活，那就把它们列出来当作神圣不可侵犯。比如，假如你每天早上都不得不小睡一下，那你必须为你的小睡留出十分钟。同样你可以为你的咖啡和报纸留出时间。

Step 3: Make a List列个单子Now that you know what you’re doing, make a list of the things that must be done in the morning. It may be as simple as: wake up, bathroom, coffee, shower, dressed, check emails, and leave for work. Some lists are much more complicated with exercise, dog walking and meditation⁴ thrown in.

现在就把你每天要做的事情列出一个表吧。这个列表可能很简单：起床、厕所、咖啡、洗澡、打扮、查邮件、去上班。有些列表可能稍复杂一些：锻炼、遛狗、冥想。

Step 4:Stop Your Paper Subscription⁵停止报纸订阅Normally you might linger ten minutes or so over the paper while you eat your breakfast or drink your coffee. It would be far better, however, to stop your paper subscription and simply read the news on your device or listen to the news of the world on the radio on your way to work.

通常情况下你会在吃早饭或喝咖啡的时候浏览十几分钟的报纸。不过，如果你停止订阅报刊，只是阅读下移动设备上的新闻或是在上班的路上听一听国际新闻广播会更好。

Step 5: Mesh⁶ Schedules交叉时间表If you’re sharing a bathroom, all of your efficiencies are completely wasted if your roommate or partner isn’t on something of a schedule, too. Be very clear about the times that you need the bathroom and if the times overlap⁷ between the two of you, rearrange your schedule, adjust your wake-up time or simply flip⁸ a coin to make it all work. Otherwise it’s all for naught⁹!

如果你是和别人共用卫生间，那你必须和你的室友就时间表达成协商，否则一切都是白搭。明确你需要使用卫生间的时间，如果你们之间存在冲突，那一定要调整你的时间表，换个时间起床或干脆抛硬币来解决问题吧。否则一切都没有意义。

1 reset   

v.重新安排，复位；n.重新放置；重放之物

参考例句：

• As soon as you arrive at your destination,step out of the aircraft and reset your wristwatch.你一到达目的地，就走出飞机并重新设置手表时间。
• He is recovering from an operation to reset his arm.他做了一个手臂复位手术，正在恢复。

2 brew   

v.酿造，调制

参考例句：

• Let's brew up some more tea.咱们沏些茶吧。
• The policeman dispelled the crowd lest they should brew trouble.警察驱散人群，因恐他们酿祸。

3 jot   

n.少量；vi.草草记下；vt.匆匆写下

参考例句：

• I'll jot down their address before I forget it.我得赶快把他们的地址写下来，免得忘了。
• There is not a jot of evidence to say it does them any good.没有丝毫的证据显示这对他们有任何好处。

4 meditation   

n.熟虑，（尤指宗教的）默想，沉思，（pl.）冥想录

参考例句：

• This peaceful garden lends itself to meditation.这个恬静的花园适于冥想。
• I'm sorry to interrupt your meditation.很抱歉，我打断了你的沉思。

5 subscription   

n.预订，预订费，亲笔签名，调配法，下标（处方）

参考例句：

• We paid a subscription of 5 pounds yearly.我们按年度缴纳5英镑的订阅费。
• Subscription selling bloomed splendidly.订阅销售量激增。

6 mesh   

n.网孔，网丝，陷阱；vt.以网捕捉，啮合，匹配；vi.适合； [计算机]网络

参考例句：

• Their characters just don't mesh.他们的性格就是合不来。
• This is the net having half inch mesh.这是有半英寸网眼的网。

7 overlap   

v.重叠，与…交叠；n.重叠

参考例句：

• The overlap between the jacket and the trousers is not good.夹克和裤子重叠的部分不好看。
• Tiles overlap each other.屋瓦相互叠盖。

8 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

9 naught   

n.无，零 [=nought]

参考例句：

• He sets at naught every convention of society.他轻视所有的社会习俗。
• I hope that all your efforts won't go for naught.我希望你的努力不会毫无结果。