Archive for May, 2009

英语角——Facing the Enemies Within(直面内在的敌人)

英语角 May 31st, 2009

周末英语角,简单有意义的英语美文。

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. Maybe some of our fears are brought on by your own experiences, by what someone has told you, by what you’ve read in the papers. Some fears are valid, like walking alone in a bad part of town at two o’clock in the morning. But once you learn to avoid that situation, you won’t need to live in fear of it.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear can destroy fortunes. Fear can destroy relationships. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

Let me tell you about five of the other enemies we face from within. The first enemy that you’ve got to destroy before it destroys you is indifference. What a tragic disease this is! “Ho-hum, let it slide. I’ll just drift along.” Here’s one problem with drifting: you can’t drift your way to the top of the mountain.

The second enemy we face is indecision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity and enterprise. It will steal your chances for a better future. Take a sword to this enemy.

The third enemy inside is doubt. Sure, there’s room for healthy skepticism. You can’t believe everything. But you also can’t let doubt take over. Many people doubt the past, doubt the future, doubt each other, doubt the government, doubt the possibilities and doubt the opportunities. Worse of all, they doubt themselves. I’m telling you, doubt will destroy your life and your chances of success. It will empty both your bank account and  your heart. Doubt is an enemy. Go after it. Get rid of it.

The fourth enemy within is worry. We’ve all got to worry some. Just don’t let conquer you. Instead, let it alarm you. Worry can be useful. If you step off the curb in New York City and a taxi is coming, you’ve got to worry. But you can’t let worry loose like a mad dog that drives you into a small corner. Here’s what you’ve got to do with your worries: drive them into a small corner. Whatever is out to get you, you’ve got to get it. Whatever is pushing on you, you’ve got to push back.

The fifth interior enemy is over-caution. It is the timid approach to life. Timidity is not a virtue; it’s an illness. If you let it go, it’ll conquer you. Timid people don’t get promoted. They don’t advance and grow and become powerful in the marketplace. You’ve got to avoid over-caution.

Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what’s holding us back, what’s keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.

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激励系列——自我抑制

生活金点子 May 28th, 2009

褪墨最新系列短篇:你的生活由自己选择,挖掘激情与激励

  • 自我抑制

每当我设定一项新试行计划或正式的目标,并不急着开始。因为这时我只有亢奋和激情,而缺少对障碍和自己能力有限的认识,总觉得无所不能,不必多久我就将看到局限性,从而热情也开始减退。

没关系,面对一项新计划开始时的满腹热情和想一气呵成的冲动,我学会了一个非常奏效的激励措施——自我抑制。先别什么都干,只干计划里的50%- 75%,然后对容易使你停滞不前的地方制定一个方案。比如:我要去跑步,觉得自己能一口气跑下3公里,但取而代之的是我先让自己跑下1公里,跑完以后我觉得还能跑得更多,但我不会继续,而是等下一次健身再跑1.5公里。将精力良好地支配和释放,才能更好地驾驭它。

这还有个额外的好处,避免受伤和累垮。但我可以向你保证,如果你抑制自己,你达成目标的愿望只会有增无减。

原文:Top 20 Motivation Hacks - #19 - Zenhabits

译者:Sylvia(GTD翻译小组核心成员)

十种方法让你成为更具好奇心的摄影师

摄影知识 May 23rd, 2009

每个周末,褪墨上都将介绍一些摄影/软件/演讲技巧

在上一次的文章《保持一颗好奇心》中,我认为好奇心是添加摄影乐趣的游泳工具。于是我就想,怎样才能成为一个具有好奇心的摄影师呢?所以这篇文章就这样诞生了。

  • 1. 打破常规

学习摄影时,你常会碰到一些定理,例如“三等分定律”,“黄金比例”等等。这些定理对摄影师是很有帮助的。但是好奇的摄影师不只是参照这些定理,他们往往会打破常规。拿“三等分定律”来说吧,一些出色的摄影作品并没有使用这条定理,反而是让被摄物置于画面中间,直面镜头。

  • 2. 多提问

好奇的摄影师总会有一肚子问题要问。关于其他摄影师的问题,关于自己作品的问题,关于相机的问题,关于拍摄对象的问题等等。这样一来,他们能学到其他人看不到的精髓,而他们的作品也随之进步。找一个跟你有相同相机的人,问问他是如何使用相机的。找一个与你拍摄风格不同的摄影者,问问他用了哪些技巧。回顾你最近拍的照片,问问自己哪里拍的好,哪里拍的不好。

  • 3. 用”如果……”来发问

关于”多提问”的一个核心问题是,你要习惯用“如果……”来发问。好奇心重的人不仅仅满足于提问,他们更想得到答案。大多数情况下,这些”答案”都是不及格的。但是当你”如果”了足够多的次数,你的进步一定是有目共睹的。(过程比结果更有意义)”如果我从这个角度拍摄会怎么样?”,”如果我把对象竖立着放会怎么样?”,”如果我俯在地上来拍摄这个会怎么样?”"如果我把快门速度调慢会怎么样?”……

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GTD在Windows Mobile上的快速应用

时间管理 May 21st, 2009

本文由网友 稀饭 翻译。

这几年我迷上了David Allen的GTD,并坚持在Palms和Treos上使用。但在Windows Mobile上,我找不到满意的GTD解决方案。当然Windows Mobile也有各种丰富的GTD工具软件可以选择,但是,大多数使用比较麻烦。用它们来建立GTD系统,需要花费很多的时间和精力,而当你在真正使用的时候,又显得复杂笨重,使你举步维艰!

clip_image002所以,我决定寻找一种尽可能少使用其他的软件的方法来实施GTD。这种方法要方便快捷,只要扫一下清单就知道要做什么,而对数据的输入和管理也尽可能的轻量化。这种方法要能很方便地收集处理、决定和执行。而下面要介绍的就是这样的方法!

如你所料,这种方法以管理任务为中心。GTD不主张给任务安排优先级,对此我非常同意,这样我就可以利用Exchange/Outlook里的任务优先级做其他的事情:分类你的清单

有三种类型的事情会进入到GTD的任务清单:下一步行动(你可以马上做的行动)、项目(有相同目标的一系列下一步行动清单)和将来某时/也许(希望在某个时候做但还没有决定做的事情)。在我的系统里,下一步行动全部设为高优先级,项目是普通优先级,将来某时/也许是低优先级。

当按优先级给任务排序时,所有的下一步行动会全部排在前面,然后是你的项目。当排在前面的下一步行动全部做完时,就需要从项目里再创建出新的下一步行动,推进项目的进展!

对于每一个项目(普通优先级的任务),我会在备注里分解成下一步行动清单,GTD不主张过多过细的分解树状结构的任务,因为这会加重你修改时候的复杂度(计划永远赶不上变化)。

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自律是效率的基础

个人提升 May 19th, 2009

创造效率总是充满技巧,系统和招数使事情在更短的时间内完成。然而,对那些为了把事情完成好而阅读相关书籍和博客的人来说,他们在使用这些工具和变得更有效方面总遇到麻烦。

不受控制的邮件系统不可能自发地有助于你;关于预算的一切技巧也不可能自发地帮助你。那些拼命求得纯粹效率的人,主要问题并不在于理解和学会做事系统与否,而是缺少着手做事的自律。

自律常被描述为使人变得更强大的肌肉。本质上,从效率角度看,自律是一种立即行动的能力和激励

自律在不同领域有不同体现:追求个人发展的人把它视作改变习惯、摆脱旧习惯的能力;音乐家把它视作每天早起练习以保持技术水平和身体操作记忆的能力。

我并不打算全方位阐述这个概念,而要从一个我认为确实有帮助的角度谈:自律是想法变成实践的能力,这是一种将头脑中的想法通过行动来实现并取得实际成果的能力。

学习或创造一个完美有效的邮件管理系统是没有意义的,除非你强制自己在检收邮件时去使用它。

知识本身不是方法的一部分,知识不等于生产力,它并非效率,它是做事必不可少且处于首位的条件,而执行才是花时间和精力学习知识物有所值的步骤。

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英语角——To Be or Not to Be(生存还是毁灭)

英语角 May 17th, 2009

周末英语角,简单有意义的英语美文。

Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally. He answered it by saying: “I think, therefore am.”

But the best definition of existence ever saw did another philosopher who said: “To be is to be in relations.” If this true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations. Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned - poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs - you are dead.

Contrariwise, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest - even more, a new accomplishment - you increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in a large variety of subjects can remain unhappy; the real pessimist is the person who has lost interest.

Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts, new friends. What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are also alive. Where your thoughts are, there will your live be also. If your thoughts are confined only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow cir-conscribed life. But if you are interested in what is going on in China, then you are living in China, if you’re interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people, if you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination.

To be or not to be - to live intensely and richly, merely to exist, that depends on ourselves. Let widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let live!

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激励系列——找一个志同道合者

生活金点子 May 15th, 2009

褪墨最新系列短篇:你的生活由自己选择,挖掘激情与激励

  • 找一个训练伙伴或志同道合者

靠自己保持热情是艰难的,而一旦找到目标相仿的人(长跑,节食,省钱等等),看看他是否愿意成为你的拍档。也可以和你的另一半、兄弟姐妹或好友在实现目标上搭档。你们并不需要有相通的目标——只需互相激励,共同进步,迈向成功。

举例来说,我和妻子就是实现目标中的搭档。我们制定了各自的 年度目标排行榜,还每周碰头制定月目标、周目标,回顾前一周彼此取得的成绩(每月末回顾前一个月),我们持续彼此提醒、鼓励、促进,这在前进道路中很有乐趣。

我还有个健身伙伴。跑步我多数时间和妻子一起,游泳、骑车和一个叫Patrick的朋友一起。我们都是游泳新手,因此有个和自己在同一起跑线的同伴很好。他骑车比我有经验,这也很不错,因为这样练习时他能教我一些基本技能。

有一个训练伙伴或志同道合者很棒,因为你不仅只回馈自己——你还得向另一个人汇报,每周你都要和那人碰面,所以必须要坚持训练和你的目标,没人愿意让别人失望或在别人面前丢脸。

原文:Top 20 Motivation Hacks - #16 - Zenhabits

译者:Sylvia(GTD翻译小组核心成员)

自律之坚持不懈

个人提升 May 11th, 2009

来自 GTD翻译小组 的,精品《自律》翻译系列,保证值得一读再读!

世上没有什么东西能够代替坚持,才华不能代替它,那些有才华的人不能成功的实例太常见了;天赋不能代替它,“没有回报的天赋”都快成一个俗语了;接受教育也不能代替它,世界上到处都是接受过教育而不得志的人。单单是坚持不懈和决心就是无所不能的。“天天向上”的口号已经解决并且总是能够解决人类的难题。 —— Calvin Coolidge

坚持不懈,是我想说的自律五大支柱的最后一根支柱。

  • 什么是坚持不懈?

坚持不懈就是你不顾自身感受努力维持一项行动的能力。甚至当你想退出时还是继续在行动。

当你执行任何一项大目标时,你的动机会时强时弱,就像海浪冲打礁石。有时候,你觉得充满动力;有时候你又不会这样。但是并不是你的动机决定了结果--而是你的行动。坚持不懈可以让你在失去动力的时候帮助你继续你的行动,这样可以保持结果渐渐好转。

坚持不懈最终会产生它的动机。仅需你保持你的行动,你最终就会得到回报,这个回报可以为你带来强大的动力。举个例子,你因为持续节食和运动减掉了10磅体重,你感觉你的衣服合身多了,这个结果就会给你带来很多热情去做这件事。

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