来源：《卫报》
原文刊登日期：2021年6月15日
[A] Don’t be a prisoner to email
[B] Nix social media
[C] Give yourself a cave day
[D] Trust your colleagues
[E] Get a mentor
[F] Discover micro-practices
[G] Ask lots of questions
Getting stuff done is hard. Getting stuff done while there is a pandemic continuing is almost impossible. Even for work-from-home lifers who haven’t had to make an adjustment to their professional environment, it can be a struggle to summon the energy to get through a list of tasks. But perhaps change is still within our grasp. If you struggle to get through your to-do list, here are some productivity tips from experts.
把事情做完很难。在大流行还在继续的情况下完成工作几乎是不可能的。即使对于那些不需要调整职业环境的在家工作的人来说，也很难集中精力完成一系列任务。但也许改变仍在我们的掌控之中。如果你在努力完成你的待办事项清单，这里有一些来自专家的提高效率的建议。
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Faye Cox, a mindset and confidence coach, suggests that you set aside three or four times each day to check your emails, to allow yourself distraction-free time to concentrate on other tasks. “Allocating certain times for email will enable you to give your full attention to the message and reply accordingly, instead of sending a quick response that hasn’t said everything you wanted it to, and isn’t in the tone that you had intended,” she says.
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Cox also recommends not playing with the open flame of a Twitter feed while you have more important things to do. “This is one of the worst time-zappers out there,” she says. “Most of us use social media for our business, but it’s the biggest time-waster and you’ll kick yourself for it later when you realise that you’ve not achieved everything you needed to.”
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If you are able to, commit only to meetings and messages that have to happen. Or, as Tariq Rauf, the founder of the digital work hub Qatalog, puts it: “Foster a culture of trust over tracking. Unnecessary meetings and real-time messaging eat up countless hours. Where possible, teams should encourage ways to collaborate asynchronously, without tracking people down for a status update or a quick response, and trust them to respond at a time that suits them.”
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In terms of panic or confusion, it is always nice to be able to rely on someone who has been through it before. Domenica Di Lieto, the CEO of the digital marketing agency Emerging Communications, says: “The results from successful mentoring produce a significant motivational boost. Just solving a problem is very motivating. Weaknesses are easily identified – they are the things you don’t like doing, or the business tasks that are the biggest headache. If you identify a personal weakness, find a mentor who can help with it.”
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When you feel that you can’t accomplish a task, a lot of the time the real culprit is a badly-explained task. Joshua Zerkel, the head of global community at the team-management platform Asana, points out that this is very easily eliminated with questions. Ask the task-giver for any necessary explanation “as soon as you receive and read a brief. Without this clarity, employees are left confused about priorities, resulting in a lack of motivation within teams.”
答案：1A 2B 3D 4E 5G