同等學(xué)力申碩2013年考試時(shí)間為5月26日。由于報(bào)考人數(shù)較多，同等學(xué)力全國(guó)統(tǒng)考網(wǎng)上報(bào)名原本在3月20日截止，現(xiàn)延長(zhǎng)至4月7日。現(xiàn)在距離同等學(xué)力申碩考試只有50幾天了，同等學(xué)力申碩考生在工作之余如何騰出時(shí)間復(fù)習(xí)備考，對(duì)于成功通過(guò)考試非常重要。下面，給同等學(xué)力申碩考生整理了四種方法，希望對(duì)同等學(xué)力申碩考生有所幫助。

　　There are many important things in life. Your family and friends. A hobby perhaps. Working out and staying healthy. Reading, learning and growing as person。

　　生活中有很多重要的事情。你的家庭、朋友，抑或你的愛(ài)好。鍛煉身體，保持健康。閱讀、學(xué)習(xí)、成長(zhǎng)。

　　But finding the time for what is most important in life is not always easy. It sometimes feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day。

　　但是找出時(shí)間做重要的事情并不總是很容易。有時(shí)你會(huì)覺(jué)得時(shí)間不夠用。

　　But even if it may not feel like it, there are often ways to improve how you use your time. In this article I’ll share some of the most effective strategies I have found for doing so and for shaking yourself out of a rut and reconsider how you actually spend your time。

　　但即便你沒(méi)有意識(shí)到，還是有很多方法能夠讓你更好地利用時(shí)間。在這篇文章中，我會(huì)和大家一起分享利用時(shí)間的一些最有效的策略， 讓你發(fā)生改變，重新思考如何利用自己的時(shí)間。

　　1. Focus。集中注意力

　　With a lack of focus on what is most important in your life it becomes easy to spend too much time and energy on aimless actions or work on things that aren’t really that important but you do out of old habit or other unhelpful reasons. To become more focused:

　　對(duì)生活中重要的事情缺乏注意力會(huì)讓你很容易把時(shí)間或精力浪費(fèi)在漫無(wú)目的的行為或不是很重要的事情上，而你做這些事情往往是出于習(xí)慣或其他借口。要想變得專心：

　　Write down your top 4 priorities where you see them every day。

　　To keep your attention in the right place it is essential to remind yourself every day of what is truly most important to you. So think about it and reduce what is important in your life at this moment to the top 4 most important priorities. Write those four things down on two notes and post one in your workspace and one your night table。

　　在你每天能看到的地方寫(xiě)下四個(gè)優(yōu)先事項(xiàng)。要想把注意力放在正確的地方，很有必要每天提醒自己什么東西對(duì)你來(lái)說(shuō)是最重要的。想一想，然后把此刻生活中最重要的事情縮減到4個(gè)。把這四件事寫(xiě)到兩張便條上，一張貼到你工作的地方，一張貼到你的床頭柜上。

　　Reduce distractions。 Ask yourself: what are the 3 most common distractions that keep me from doing my work in a focused way? Figure out how you can prevent those things from distracting you. It could be by shutting the door to your office, by putting your phone on silent mode for an hour at a time or by having notifications for email shut off。

　　減少令你分心的事情。問(wèn)問(wèn)自己：哪三件是最常見(jiàn)的讓你沒(méi)法專心工作的事情?想一想怎樣才能讓這些事情不讓你分心�？赡苁顷P(guān)上辦公室的門，或把手機(jī)調(diào)成一小時(shí)的靜音模式，或關(guān)閉電子郵件的通知。

　　Find balance。 If you just work and work you will quickly become unfocused and the longer the week drags on the more tired you become. To work smarter try using a timer – on your cell phone or use an egg-timer – and set it for 45 minutes. Then put in a drawer or somewhere where you can’t see it。

　　找到平衡點(diǎn)。如果你一直工作，你很快就無(wú)法集中注意力。工作的時(shí)間越長(zhǎng)，你就越感覺(jué)到累。工作時(shí)也有技巧，可以使用定時(shí)器——可以用手機(jī)上自帶的，或是雞蛋計(jì)時(shí)器——把時(shí)間設(shè)為45分鐘，然后把它放到抽屜里或看不見(jiàn)的地方。

　　During those 45 minutes dive in and immerse yourself in the no-distraction zone and your work until the clock rings. Then set you timer for a 15 minute break where you get away from your work space if possible. Take a walk, go for a snack or have a conversation about something else than work。

　　在這45分鐘的時(shí)間里，讓自己沉浸在無(wú)干擾的環(huán)境中，一直工作直到計(jì)時(shí)器響起。再把計(jì)時(shí)器設(shè)為15分鐘，在這段時(shí)間內(nèi)休息一下，有可能的話還可以離開(kāi)工作區(qū)。散散步，拿點(diǎn)兒零食，或和別人聊會(huì)兒天，這會(huì)兒就別談工作的事情了。

　　2. Simplify。簡(jiǎn)化生活

　　One of the smarter ways to simplify your life and to free up time is to set limits. Here are a few key areas that you can set powerful limits for:

　　簡(jiǎn)化生活、為生活騰出時(shí)間最簡(jiǎn)單的一個(gè)方法是設(shè)定限度。你可以在下面的這幾個(gè)關(guān)鍵地方設(shè)定限度：

　　Your daily input. Reduce the number of blogs, newsletters, magazines, book clubs, podcasts, TV-shows etc. you follow. Just keep the ones you are really getting something out of。

　　每天的信息攝入量。少看一些博客、新聞、雜志、圖書(shū)俱樂(lè)部、播客、電視等里面的內(nèi)容，只看那些你真的能從中受益的內(nèi)容。

　　Email。 Just check and process your email during one chunk of time once per day. Instead of checking it 10 times or more each day。

　　電子郵件。每天僅拿出一小段時(shí)間來(lái)檢查和處理電子郵件。而不是每天檢查10次或更多次。

　　Social activities。 Write down a list of the social activities you are involved in after school or work. Maybe you are involved in a club or an activity that it is not as fun or rewarding as it used to be. Maybe you want to rearrange your priorities a bit to focus on something else this year。

　　社交活動(dòng)。為你放學(xué)后或下班后要進(jìn)行的社交活動(dòng)列一張清單。也許你現(xiàn)在參加的俱樂(lè)部或活動(dòng)沒(méi)有以前那么有趣或有益。也許你今年想重新調(diào)整事情的優(yōu)先級(jí)別，想把注意力集中在別的事情上。

　　3. Minimize or eliminate。盡量減少或消除一些事情。

　　What else can you eliminate or minimize besides the things listed above? Some meetings at work or in school? Redditing or some online forum you hang out on a lot?

　　除了上面列出的這些事情，還有什么事情需要你盡量減少或消除的?上班或上學(xué)時(shí)的會(huì)議?去Reddit或其他網(wǎng)上論壇的時(shí)間?

　　Question and reconsider your own habits regularly instead of moving along in the same old tracks just because it what you usually do. See if you want make changes to make more room for things you would honestly get more out of。

　　不要因?yàn)榱?xí)慣而沿著舊的軌道前進(jìn)，要定期質(zhì)疑并重新考慮自己的習(xí)慣。 看看自己是否想改變一下，騰出時(shí)間做一些能讓自己受益更多的事情。

　　4. Find unnoticed free time in your day。找出每天被忽視的空閑時(shí)間。

　　One final tip. There is often quite a bit of open travel- or waiting-time during a year. What will you use your such time for this year? Perhaps you would like to read more while riding the train or listen to audio books while waiting for a meeting to start or while you are out driving your car。

　　最后一個(gè)小貼士。每年經(jīng)常有不少戶外旅行的時(shí)間或等待時(shí)間。你會(huì)如何利用這些時(shí)間?也許你想在火車上多看點(diǎn)兒書(shū)，在等待開(kāi)會(huì)或開(kāi)車時(shí)聽(tīng)會(huì)兒有聲書(shū)。

　　Even if you only have 20 minutes of commuting time each day then you still have a many, many hours in a year that you may want to, at least partly, use in a new way。