大約係咁：
應該係新 virus
2009-09-30
2009-09-29
食，食，還是食
出前一丁印尼撈！？
窮人救星印尼撈麵，原來有出前一丁版，不過呢份係手信，唔知貴定平，不過我估大品牌，正如 LV 出紅白藍都賣咁貴，呢個出前版點都貴啲掛？
迷你茶餐
同事枱面有個迷你早餐，雖然條腸長到有半張枱咁張，放返大我估飽死都似，但係都幾得意～
油油意大利麵
某日去咗間公司附近試咗間唔知算咩既餐廳（意大利掛？）除咗見到黃真真（六樓后座個導演），當然仲食咗野，雖然 open rice 有七十幾個笑，但係我最欣賞都係個湯同個飽，個粉就油咗啲，都係上次金鐘o個間好味啲。
窮人救星印尼撈麵，原來有出前一丁版，不過呢份係手信，唔知貴定平，不過我估大品牌，正如 LV 出紅白藍都賣咁貴，呢個出前版點都貴啲掛？
迷你茶餐
同事枱面有個迷你早餐，雖然條腸長到有半張枱咁張，放返大我估飽死都似，但係都幾得意～
油油意大利麵
某日去咗間公司附近試咗間唔知算咩既餐廳（意大利掛？）除咗見到黃真真（六樓后座個導演），當然仲食咗野，雖然 open rice 有七十幾個笑，但係我最欣賞都係個湯同個飽，個粉就油咗啲，都係上次金鐘o個間好味啲。
今時今日咁既服務態度
今時今日咁既服務態度點得。
經已成為唔少顧客對服務人員唔係人既理由（當佢唔係人，係奴隸），又或者上司對下屬等不平對待，甚至係 partner 對 partner 亦係。
引致：
你咁樣我幫親第二到！
你信唔信我投訴你！
我拍你片上 youtube！
我上網唱衰你！
你唔幫我死掂佢我下年唔比你做！
等等唔當你係人既現像出現。
根本問題係大家對人有幾尊重，同權力係邊個到。
可能因為呢句金句，同“顧客永遠是對的”，又或了爭一口飯，所以不經不覺大家似乎已習慣了這樣的模式。
其實，大家可唔可以互相尊重呢？大家都係人，點解要咁刻薄？比錢係唔係大晒？既要自重，亦要尊重。可惜，似乎唔識尊重對方既情況愈嚟愈嚴重．．．
經已成為唔少顧客對服務人員唔係人既理由（當佢唔係人，係奴隸），又或者上司對下屬等不平對待，甚至係 partner 對 partner 亦係。
引致：
你咁樣我幫親第二到！
你信唔信我投訴你！
我拍你片上 youtube！
我上網唱衰你！
你唔幫我死掂佢我下年唔比你做！
等等唔當你係人既現像出現。
根本問題係大家對人有幾尊重，同權力係邊個到。
可能因為呢句金句，同“顧客永遠是對的”，又或了爭一口飯，所以不經不覺大家似乎已習慣了這樣的模式。
其實，大家可唔可以互相尊重呢？大家都係人，點解要咁刻薄？比錢係唔係大晒？既要自重，亦要尊重。可惜，似乎唔識尊重對方既情況愈嚟愈嚴重．．．
2009-09-28
2009-09-23
回英文題
說回：
Lifts are disinfected regularly for health.
得一個人答。
但係呢句野比我既感覺係，部𨋢雖然受過感染，但係經己無事，仲會定期消毒，因為想保持佢既健康。
哈。
Lifts are disinfected regularly for health.
得一個人答。
但係呢句野比我既感覺係，部𨋢雖然受過感染，但係經己無事，仲會定期消毒，因為想保持佢既健康。
哈。
2009-09-22
建國大業
節錄自 Yahoo 香港電影介紹：
反映中國共產黨與中國各民主黨派在反對蔣介石國民黨獨裁統治的鬥爭中和衷共濟且團結奮鬥，為建立多黨合作和政治協商制度所經歷的曲折艱辛，以及為取得最後勝利的光輝歷程。
嗯,原來共產黨係好民主的，反對獨裁統治的。
反映中國共產黨與中國各民主黨派在反對蔣介石國民黨獨裁統治的鬥爭中和衷共濟且團結奮鬥，為建立多黨合作和政治協商制度所經歷的曲折艱辛，以及為取得最後勝利的光輝歷程。
嗯,原來共產黨係好民主的，反對獨裁統治的。
2009-09-20
2009-09-18
“好”
甚麼是好吃的東西，甚麼是好的人生？甚麼是好？
最近朋友轉發了一篇名為 “B 級人生” 的文章級我看（不錯的， 大家可 search search），結尾是“賺錢也賺到人生，其實就是 B 級人生的真義，擁有一定水準的金錢，做自己想做的事情，才是人生的贏家。”
我並不全盤認同，如果你是工作狂的話，或你的目標是有一番成功事業，你自已想做的，就是好好幹一番，這對你可能才是最好的？
說到底，最好的，就是試過以後，從心底裹你會有一種喜悅，就是好。
例如好的食物，不是電視某人說好就是好，不是雜誌介紹好就是好，你走去吃過，如果令你有想再吃的念頭，回味的味道，哪就是好。
正如一包即食麵，以不同方法煮出來，有没有用心去留意細節，結果會有不同味道，口感，吃過不同的，找到你最喜愛的，才是最好。
人生亦然。
最近朋友轉發了一篇名為 “B 級人生” 的文章級我看（不錯的， 大家可 search search），結尾是“賺錢也賺到人生，其實就是 B 級人生的真義，擁有一定水準的金錢，做自己想做的事情，才是人生的贏家。”
我並不全盤認同，如果你是工作狂的話，或你的目標是有一番成功事業，你自已想做的，就是好好幹一番，這對你可能才是最好的？
說到底，最好的，就是試過以後，從心底裹你會有一種喜悅，就是好。
例如好的食物，不是電視某人說好就是好，不是雜誌介紹好就是好，你走去吃過，如果令你有想再吃的念頭，回味的味道，哪就是好。
正如一包即食麵，以不同方法煮出來，有没有用心去留意細節，結果會有不同味道，口感，吃過不同的，找到你最喜愛的，才是最好。
人生亦然。
2009-09-16
栢拉圖與蘇格拉底的對話
栢：甚麼是幸福？
蘇：你去田野，摘一朶最美麗的花，按老規矩，不走回頭路，只能摘一次。
栢拉圖不久就捧著一朶也算美麗的花回來
蘇：這是最美麗的嗎？
栢：我穿過田野後不久，便摘下這朶花，並認定它是最美麗的，即使沿路有更多比它美麗的，但我堅持它是最美麗的信念，没有動搖，於是我把它帶回來了。
蘇：這就是幸福了。
幸福，就是活在當下，就是知足常樂，除了對人，對你的事業、你的生命，你會堅持它是最好的嗎？
蘇：你去田野，摘一朶最美麗的花，按老規矩，不走回頭路，只能摘一次。
栢拉圖不久就捧著一朶也算美麗的花回來
蘇：這是最美麗的嗎？
栢：我穿過田野後不久，便摘下這朶花，並認定它是最美麗的，即使沿路有更多比它美麗的，但我堅持它是最美麗的信念，没有動搖，於是我把它帶回來了。
蘇：這就是幸福了。
幸福，就是活在當下，就是知足常樂，除了對人，對你的事業、你的生命，你會堅持它是最好的嗎？
2009-09-14
Tea or Dinner.
某天晚上走到這間“連鎖”餐廳吃晚飯，價錢絕不便宜，一個晚餐連一杯咖啡或蛋糕，接近一百元的消費。
不過，得到的没有令我失望，當日試了一個 Today Special (Seafood Penne in cream sauce)，很久没有吃過這麼 creamy 和 seafood 味的 cream sauce 了。
Cake 方面，雖然不是試了最有名的 Temptation，但 blueberry cheesecake （我叫了 blackberry cheesecake =_=)，味道也算不錯，口感較硬，有機會試了 Temptation 再告訴大家。
不過，得到的没有令我失望，當日試了一個 Today Special (Seafood Penne in cream sauce)，很久没有吃過這麼 creamy 和 seafood 味的 cream sauce 了。
Cake 方面，雖然不是試了最有名的 Temptation，但 blueberry cheesecake （我叫了 blackberry cheesecake =_=)，味道也算不錯，口感較硬，有機會試了 Temptation 再告訴大家。
懷念
懷念那裹的風光，懷念那兒的簡單，生活就是作息，即使生活辛苦，也是自已選擇的，在這，大多數人也會告訴你：「生活是這樣的。」「打工是這樣的。」但其實，這是我們選擇去接受我們没有撰擇的權利，當然，我很幸運，吃飽飯没有糞便要排出來，可以在這打些東東，但，不代表我也要說一句：「生活是這樣的。」我開始計算我應如何去選擇，和我有的撰擇了。
這大約是我面對著，預期著你把你的私人時間要來工作的工作，的一些心底話？
這大約是我面對著，預期著你把你的私人時間要來工作的工作，的一些心底話？
2009-09-13
叮叮男？
某日在天星小輪上，看見一名少年，拿出了一件不知是甚麼，拍照起來：
輝某也會做煩似的，我不應帶有奇怪的眼光，可是， 一會兒後，發覺他不只拍了一張，但每張也拍向相同方向：
原來當他前面的一班少女在自拍時，他就會拿他的 _ _ 出來拍照，拍的是少女們或是他的 _ _，我不知道，但意識告訴我，他拍的是一班少女。
吖，為甚麼香港的男生會變成這樣？變成了叮叮男！？
輝某也會做煩似的，我不應帶有奇怪的眼光，可是， 一會兒後，發覺他不只拍了一張，但每張也拍向相同方向：
原來當他前面的一班少女在自拍時，他就會拿他的 _ _ 出來拍照，拍的是少女們或是他的 _ _，我不知道，但意識告訴我，他拍的是一班少女。
吖，為甚麼香港的男生會變成這樣？變成了叮叮男！？
2009-09-09
2009-09-08
地道文化
很多兒時的回憶，隨著香港發展，慢慢離我們而去，旺角波鞋街、麥花臣、街邊檔，而令我最回味的，其中當然不少得魚蛋。
這個地點，很久以前，每晚也有不少車仔檔做生意，魚蛋、串燒、碗仔翅、燒買粉果、糖水砵仔糕。而今天、只剩得魚蛋。食過不少魚蛋，而這檔的味道，就像天興咖啡室的沙嗲牛肉麵，令我十分回味，或許這就是樓下的風味？（當然可能加入大量味精？）
不知她能堅持多久？
這個地點，很久以前，每晚也有不少車仔檔做生意，魚蛋、串燒、碗仔翅、燒買粉果、糖水砵仔糕。而今天、只剩得魚蛋。食過不少魚蛋，而這檔的味道，就像天興咖啡室的沙嗲牛肉麵，令我十分回味，或許這就是樓下的風味？（當然可能加入大量味精？）
不知她能堅持多久？
2009-09-06
再有狗行山中暑召消防 消防感無奈 盼市民自律
原來我作篇野都有幾似，特別係＂但對於抬狗落山的任務確實感到無奈，希望市民自律盡責，行山時帶備充足清水，及先了解愛犬的體能是否能適應炎熱環境始遠足，避免阻礙緊急的救援工作。＂
我覺得同我既＂當大家懷疑自己染上疑似流感時，應減少劇烈運動，對自己生命負責，不要加重前線醫護人員工作量，處理這些無謂個案。＂好似～哈哈。
【明報專訊】繼上周六有狗在大嶼山中暑要勞動一眾消防員合力抬落山，昨日在大埔再事件重演。一頭唐狗隨主人登山3小時後，疑難抵烈日暴曬而中暑，狗主報警求救，消防要上山用抬床把清醒的唐狗抬落山。
其實自6月起屢次發生狗行山中暑身亡或不適事故後，專家已多次勸喻狗主應避免在酷熱天氣下帶狗行山。對於市民屢勸不聽，最終需召喚消防員協助，消防處職工總會主席趙善聰表示，抬狗抬人都是拯救工作，並無分別，如同僚不協助抬狗，最終狗主自行抬落山，屆時體力不逮暈倒，後果可能更嚴重。
消防﹕人狗都會救
趙強調，消防接獲求助報告後，不會衡量召喚是否對錯，都會盡力協助市民。但對於抬狗落山的任務確實感到無奈，希望市民自律盡責，行山時帶備充足清水，及先了解愛犬的體能是否能適應炎熱環境始遠足，避免阻礙緊急的救援工作。
天文台昨日發出酷熱天氣警告，下午1時本港普遍錄得33℃，其中上水更一度錄得35℃高溫。昨早11時許，一名30多歲男子帶同一頭身長約3呎的黑色唐狗，沿粉嶺林村郊野公園行山徑出發，擬前往白牛石遠足，詎料至下午2時許行至嘉道理農場對上的觀音徑時，唐狗疑難抵炎熱天氣，身體軟癱地上，出現中暑徵狀，狗主見狀大驚，立即取水給狗飲用，情急下報警求救。
等候救援人員到場期間，狗主愛犬心切，抱著愛犬跑落山，途中遇到趕抵的消防員，唐狗飲水及稍事休息後並無大礙。消防其後用抬床合力將唐狗抬下山，約半小時後抵達山腳。愛護動物協會人員奉召到場前，狗主與愛犬已登上到場友人的私家車絕塵而去，相信是前往動物診所求醫。
放狗宜選清早傍晚
有獸醫提醒，放狗宜選清早或傍晚時分，並應帶備大量清水供狗飲用解渴，如牠不肯飲用，可嘗試用沾濕的手撫摸其舌頭，或用清水淋濕其全身毛髮，包括頭、鼻及腿腳內側助其降溫。由於狗遍身有毛，在令人中暑的酷熱高溫下，狗更容易中暑。
我覺得同我既＂當大家懷疑自己染上疑似流感時，應減少劇烈運動，對自己生命負責，不要加重前線醫護人員工作量，處理這些無謂個案。＂好似～哈哈。
【明報專訊】繼上周六有狗在大嶼山中暑要勞動一眾消防員合力抬落山，昨日在大埔再事件重演。一頭唐狗隨主人登山3小時後，疑難抵烈日暴曬而中暑，狗主報警求救，消防要上山用抬床把清醒的唐狗抬落山。
其實自6月起屢次發生狗行山中暑身亡或不適事故後，專家已多次勸喻狗主應避免在酷熱天氣下帶狗行山。對於市民屢勸不聽，最終需召喚消防員協助，消防處職工總會主席趙善聰表示，抬狗抬人都是拯救工作，並無分別，如同僚不協助抬狗，最終狗主自行抬落山，屆時體力不逮暈倒，後果可能更嚴重。
消防﹕人狗都會救
趙強調，消防接獲求助報告後，不會衡量召喚是否對錯，都會盡力協助市民。但對於抬狗落山的任務確實感到無奈，希望市民自律盡責，行山時帶備充足清水，及先了解愛犬的體能是否能適應炎熱環境始遠足，避免阻礙緊急的救援工作。
天文台昨日發出酷熱天氣警告，下午1時本港普遍錄得33℃，其中上水更一度錄得35℃高溫。昨早11時許，一名30多歲男子帶同一頭身長約3呎的黑色唐狗，沿粉嶺林村郊野公園行山徑出發，擬前往白牛石遠足，詎料至下午2時許行至嘉道理農場對上的觀音徑時，唐狗疑難抵炎熱天氣，身體軟癱地上，出現中暑徵狀，狗主見狀大驚，立即取水給狗飲用，情急下報警求救。
等候救援人員到場期間，狗主愛犬心切，抱著愛犬跑落山，途中遇到趕抵的消防員，唐狗飲水及稍事休息後並無大礙。消防其後用抬床合力將唐狗抬下山，約半小時後抵達山腳。愛護動物協會人員奉召到場前，狗主與愛犬已登上到場友人的私家車絕塵而去，相信是前往動物診所求醫。
放狗宜選清早傍晚
有獸醫提醒，放狗宜選清早或傍晚時分，並應帶備大量清水供狗飲用解渴，如牠不肯飲用，可嘗試用沾濕的手撫摸其舌頭，或用清水淋濕其全身毛髮，包括頭、鼻及腿腳內側助其降溫。由於狗遍身有毛，在令人中暑的酷熱高溫下，狗更容易中暑。
2009-09-04
忙
成日都話自已忙？咁可以點算？今日收到呢段野：
http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20070725_timesaving.htm
Time Saving Techniques
by Dr. Don Wetmore
If you can recapture a wasted hour here and there and redirect it to a more productive use, you can make great increases in your daily productivity.
Here are five of the techniques I share in our Time Management seminars, each one of which will help you to get at least one more hour out of your day of additional productive time.
Maintain Balance: Your life consists of Seven Vital Areas: Health, Family, Financial, Intellectual, Social, Professional, and Spiritual. You will not spend equal amounts of time in each area or time every day in each area. But, if in the long run, you are spending a sufficient quantity and quality of time in each area, then your life will be balanced. But ignore any one of your areas, (never mind two or three!) and you will get out of balance and potentially sabotage your success. Fail to take time now for your health and you will have to take time for illness later on. Ignore your family and they may leave you and cost you a lot of time to re-establish relationships.
Get the Power of the Pen: A faint pen has more power than the keenest mind. Get into the habit of writing things to do down using one tool (a Day-Timer, pad of paper, Palm Pilot, etc.) Your mind is best used for the big picture rather than all the details. The details are important, but manage them with the pen. If you want to manage it you have to measure it first. Writing things down helps you to more easily remember all that you need to accomplish.
Do Daily Planning: It is said that people do not plan to fail, but a lot of people fail to plan. Take the time each night to take control of the most precious resource at your command, the next twenty-four hours. Plan your work and then work your plan each day. Write up a To Do list with all you have to's and all of your want to's for your next day. Without a plan for the day, you can easily get distracted, spending your time serving the loudest voice rather than attending to the most important things for your day that will enhance your productivity.
Prioritize It: Your To Do list will have crucial and not crucial items on it. Despite the fact most people want to be productive, when given the choice between crucial and not crucial items, we will most often end up doing the not crucial items. They are generally easier and quicker than crucial items. Prioritize your To Do list each night. Put the #1 next to the most important item on your list. Place the #2 next to the second most important item on your list, etc. Then tackle the items on your list in order of their importance. You may not get everything done on your list, but you will get the most important things done. This is working smarter, not harder, and getting more done in less time.
Control Procrastination: The most effective planning in the world does not substitute for doing what needs to be done. We procrastinate and put off important things because we don't sense enough pain for not doing it or enough pleasure to do it. To get going on something you have been putting off, create in your mind enough pain for not doing it or enough pleasure to do it. I prefer the pleasure approach. Take a procrastinated project and turn it into to a game. Work with one thing in front of you at a time so other things won't distract you. ("Out of sight, out of mind.") Break it down to little bite-sized, manageable pieces. Get it started, take the first step and you will likely continue it to completion.
Published: July 25, 2007
http://www.wellnessjunction.com/members/moretime.htm
If you can recapture a wasted hour here and there and redirect it to a more productive use, you can make great increases in your daily productivity and the quality of your life.
Here are five techniques you can use, each of which will help you get at least one more hour out of your day for additional productive time:
1. Run an Interruptions Log. The average person gets 50 interruptions a day. The average interruption takes five minutes. Some five hours each day are spent dealing with interruptions. Many are crucial and are what we are paid to do, but many have little or no value. Run an Interruptions Log to identify and eliminate the wasteful interruptions.
On a pad labeled “Interruptions Log,” create six columns: Date, Time, Who, What, Length and Rating. After each interruption is dealt with, log in the date and time it occurred, who brought it to you, a word or two about what it related to, the length of time it took and, finally, the rating of its importance (“A” for crucial, “B” for important, “C” for little value and “D” for no value).
Maintain this log for a week or more to get a good measure of what is happening in your life, then evaluate the results and take action to eliminate some of the “C” and “D” interruptions that have little or no value.
2. Delegate it. We all have 168 hours each week. When you subtract 56 hours for sleep and an additional 10 hours for personal care, that doesn’t leave a lot of time to complete what needs to be done. Delegation permits you to leverage your own time through others and thereby increase your own results.
The hardest part of delegation, though, is simply letting you. We take great pride in doing things ourselves; just look at the saying, “if you want a job done well, you better do it yourself.”
Every night, while planning the next day, look at all you have to do and want to do that day. For each item, ask yourself, “Is this the best use of my time?” If it is, do it. If it isn’t, try to delegate it to someone else.
There is a lot of difference between “I do it” and “It gets done.”
3. Manage Meetings. A meeting is when two or more people get together to exchange common information. What could be simpler? Yes, meetings can be one of the biggest time-wasters we must endure.
Before a meeting, ask, “Is it necessary?” And, “Am I necessary (to the meeting)?” If the answer to either of these questions is “no,” consider eliminating the meeting or excusing yourself from attending.
If the meeting will be held, prepare a written agenda with times assigned for each item, including a starting time and an ending time. Circulate the agenda among those who will be attending. There is no sense in holding a meeting by ambush; let people know in advance what is to be discussed.
4. Handle Paper. It’s easy to get buried today in the blizzard of paperwork around us. The average person receives around 150 communications each day by e-mail, telephone, fax, regular mail, memos, circulars, etc. A lot of time is wasted going through the same pile day after day and correcting mistakes when things slip through the cracks.
Try to handle the paper once and be done with it. If it is something that can be done in a minute or two, do it and be done. If it is not the best use of your time, delegate it. If it is going to take some time to complete, schedule ahead in your calendar on the day you think you might get to it, then put it away.
5. Run a Time Log. If you want to manage it, you have to measure it. A Time Log is a simple, yet powerful, tool to create an overview of how your time is actually being spent during the day.
Simply make an ongoing record of your time as you spend it. Record the activity, the time spent on it and a rating of A, B, C or D (as in the Interruptions Log). Some examples of how your time may be spent: made telephone calls, 35 minutes, A; answered e-mails, 48 minutes, B; attended staff meeting, 55 minutes, C.
Maintain this log for a few days to get a good picture of how your time is being spent, then analyze the information. Add up all the A, B, C and D time. Most people discover that a lot of their time is being spent on items that have little or no value. Take action to reduce the C and D items to give you more time for the really important things in your life.
不過，其實有好多野，講有幾難？所以我好鐘意呢句，知而不行，等於未知!
http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20070725_timesaving.htm
Time Saving Techniques
by Dr. Don Wetmore
If you can recapture a wasted hour here and there and redirect it to a more productive use, you can make great increases in your daily productivity.
Here are five of the techniques I share in our Time Management seminars, each one of which will help you to get at least one more hour out of your day of additional productive time.
Maintain Balance: Your life consists of Seven Vital Areas: Health, Family, Financial, Intellectual, Social, Professional, and Spiritual. You will not spend equal amounts of time in each area or time every day in each area. But, if in the long run, you are spending a sufficient quantity and quality of time in each area, then your life will be balanced. But ignore any one of your areas, (never mind two or three!) and you will get out of balance and potentially sabotage your success. Fail to take time now for your health and you will have to take time for illness later on. Ignore your family and they may leave you and cost you a lot of time to re-establish relationships.
Get the Power of the Pen: A faint pen has more power than the keenest mind. Get into the habit of writing things to do down using one tool (a Day-Timer, pad of paper, Palm Pilot, etc.) Your mind is best used for the big picture rather than all the details. The details are important, but manage them with the pen. If you want to manage it you have to measure it first. Writing things down helps you to more easily remember all that you need to accomplish.
Do Daily Planning: It is said that people do not plan to fail, but a lot of people fail to plan. Take the time each night to take control of the most precious resource at your command, the next twenty-four hours. Plan your work and then work your plan each day. Write up a To Do list with all you have to's and all of your want to's for your next day. Without a plan for the day, you can easily get distracted, spending your time serving the loudest voice rather than attending to the most important things for your day that will enhance your productivity.
Prioritize It: Your To Do list will have crucial and not crucial items on it. Despite the fact most people want to be productive, when given the choice between crucial and not crucial items, we will most often end up doing the not crucial items. They are generally easier and quicker than crucial items. Prioritize your To Do list each night. Put the #1 next to the most important item on your list. Place the #2 next to the second most important item on your list, etc. Then tackle the items on your list in order of their importance. You may not get everything done on your list, but you will get the most important things done. This is working smarter, not harder, and getting more done in less time.
Control Procrastination: The most effective planning in the world does not substitute for doing what needs to be done. We procrastinate and put off important things because we don't sense enough pain for not doing it or enough pleasure to do it. To get going on something you have been putting off, create in your mind enough pain for not doing it or enough pleasure to do it. I prefer the pleasure approach. Take a procrastinated project and turn it into to a game. Work with one thing in front of you at a time so other things won't distract you. ("Out of sight, out of mind.") Break it down to little bite-sized, manageable pieces. Get it started, take the first step and you will likely continue it to completion.
Published: July 25, 2007
http://www.wellnessjunction.com/members/moretime.htm
If you can recapture a wasted hour here and there and redirect it to a more productive use, you can make great increases in your daily productivity and the quality of your life.
Here are five techniques you can use, each of which will help you get at least one more hour out of your day for additional productive time:
1. Run an Interruptions Log. The average person gets 50 interruptions a day. The average interruption takes five minutes. Some five hours each day are spent dealing with interruptions. Many are crucial and are what we are paid to do, but many have little or no value. Run an Interruptions Log to identify and eliminate the wasteful interruptions.
On a pad labeled “Interruptions Log,” create six columns: Date, Time, Who, What, Length and Rating. After each interruption is dealt with, log in the date and time it occurred, who brought it to you, a word or two about what it related to, the length of time it took and, finally, the rating of its importance (“A” for crucial, “B” for important, “C” for little value and “D” for no value).
Maintain this log for a week or more to get a good measure of what is happening in your life, then evaluate the results and take action to eliminate some of the “C” and “D” interruptions that have little or no value.
2. Delegate it. We all have 168 hours each week. When you subtract 56 hours for sleep and an additional 10 hours for personal care, that doesn’t leave a lot of time to complete what needs to be done. Delegation permits you to leverage your own time through others and thereby increase your own results.
The hardest part of delegation, though, is simply letting you. We take great pride in doing things ourselves; just look at the saying, “if you want a job done well, you better do it yourself.”
Every night, while planning the next day, look at all you have to do and want to do that day. For each item, ask yourself, “Is this the best use of my time?” If it is, do it. If it isn’t, try to delegate it to someone else.
There is a lot of difference between “I do it” and “It gets done.”
3. Manage Meetings. A meeting is when two or more people get together to exchange common information. What could be simpler? Yes, meetings can be one of the biggest time-wasters we must endure.
Before a meeting, ask, “Is it necessary?” And, “Am I necessary (to the meeting)?” If the answer to either of these questions is “no,” consider eliminating the meeting or excusing yourself from attending.
If the meeting will be held, prepare a written agenda with times assigned for each item, including a starting time and an ending time. Circulate the agenda among those who will be attending. There is no sense in holding a meeting by ambush; let people know in advance what is to be discussed.
4. Handle Paper. It’s easy to get buried today in the blizzard of paperwork around us. The average person receives around 150 communications each day by e-mail, telephone, fax, regular mail, memos, circulars, etc. A lot of time is wasted going through the same pile day after day and correcting mistakes when things slip through the cracks.
Try to handle the paper once and be done with it. If it is something that can be done in a minute or two, do it and be done. If it is not the best use of your time, delegate it. If it is going to take some time to complete, schedule ahead in your calendar on the day you think you might get to it, then put it away.
5. Run a Time Log. If you want to manage it, you have to measure it. A Time Log is a simple, yet powerful, tool to create an overview of how your time is actually being spent during the day.
Simply make an ongoing record of your time as you spend it. Record the activity, the time spent on it and a rating of A, B, C or D (as in the Interruptions Log). Some examples of how your time may be spent: made telephone calls, 35 minutes, A; answered e-mails, 48 minutes, B; attended staff meeting, 55 minutes, C.
Maintain this log for a few days to get a good picture of how your time is being spent, then analyze the information. Add up all the A, B, C and D time. Most people discover that a lot of their time is being spent on items that have little or no value. Take action to reduce the C and D items to give you more time for the really important things in your life.
不過，其實有好多野，講有幾難？所以我好鐘意呢句，知而不行，等於未知!
2009-09-02
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