一天之计在于晨：五招提高早晨效率

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 reset the alarm a few times? Do you sit in the kitchen and wait for the coffee to brew? Jot 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]snooze

at 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 meditation 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 Subscription

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资讯或是在上班的路上听一听国际资讯广播会更好。

Step 5: Mesh 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 overlap between the two of you, rearrange your schedule, adjust your wake-up time or simply flip a coin to make it all work. Otherwise it’s all for naught!

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。