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4. Designing Your Life

4. 设计你的生活

Design your life so it works for you.

设计你的生活，让它适合你。

Health, work, play, love

现在我们来到了本指南的第四章，我们将继续进行时间审计。这最后一章将鼓励你审视自己目前在健康、工作、娱乐和爱情这四个不同方面所付出的时间。问题是，这些方面在你的日常生活中又是如何体现的呢？《设计你的生活》由比尔-伯内特（Bill Burnett）和戴夫-埃文斯（Dave Evans）撰写，书中的观点同样简单而有力。你可以设计出适合自己的生活。让我们想象一下，你是否坐过一把设计精美的椅子或一辆做工精致的跑车？也许你会停下脚步，惊叹于智能手机的设计，如果是这样，你就体验过优质设计带来的幸福感。

We've now arrived at chapter four in this guide and we're gonna continue with our time audit. This final chapter will encourage you to look at how much time you're currently giving to four different aspects of your life, health, work, play and love. And the question is, how do these aspects in turn show up in your daily routines? "Designing your life" is written by Bill burnett and Dave Evans, and the idea in the book is again simple but powerful. You can design your life to work for you. So let's imagine for a second, have you ever sat in a beautifully designed chair or an exquisitely well made sports car? Maybe you stopped and marveled at the design of your smartphone, and if so, you've experienced the bliss of quality design.

我想想象一下，你可以把自己的生活拿出来，修修补补，精雕细琢，直到它被设计得完美无缺。因此，就像设计师通过创造新事物来解决日常问题一样，你也可以尝试解决生活中的问题。专注于它的设计。我们将聆听《设计你的生活》一书中的一个章节。记住，如果这些想法能引起你的共鸣，你可以随时在本指南底部找到并收听完整的空白章节。现在，如果你正在尝试，就让我们来听听吧。

I want to imagine you could take your life, tinker with it, fine tune it until it was perfectly designed. So just as designers solve everyday problems by creating new things, you can also try to address the problems in your life. By focusing on its design. We're gonna listen to one chapter from the blink "designing your life". And remember, if these ideas resonate, can always find and listen to that full blink at the bottom of this guide whenever you want to. For now, let's just listen if you're trying.

Excerpt from Designing Your Life

如果您想从谷歌地图上获取路线，您需要知道的不仅仅是目的地。你还需要知道自己当前的位置。当你开始设计自己的人生时也是如此。要弄清自己的现状，第一步就是评估生活中的四个关键领域：健康、工作、娱乐和爱情。健康包括情绪健康、心理健康和身体健康。工作包括有偿工作和志愿工作。玩耍包括任何单纯为了乐趣而进行的活动，而爱则包括伴侣、子女、朋友和宠物。我们的目标是在所有这四个领域中找到健康的平衡，而精确的平衡完全取决于您自己。年轻人可能会更重视玩耍。而老年人可能更注重健康。

If you're trying to get directions from Google maps, you need to know more than just the destination. You also need to know your current location. The same is true when you start designing your life. The first step to figuring out your current situation is to assess four critical areas in your life, health, work, play, and love. Health includes your emotional, mental and physical health. Work includes both paid and volunteer jobs. Play any activity done simply for the fun of it, and love applies to partners, children, friends and pets. The goal is to find a healthy balance among all four of these areas, and the precise balance is totally up to you. Someone young will likely give more importance to play. While an elderly person might focus more on health. 

在对这些领域进行评估之后，你就会发现是否有一个领域被忽视了。例如，也许你太专注于工作，导致你的健康和感情生活都受到了影响。又或者，你太沉浸于玩乐而忽略了你的职业理想。记录那些能让你保持投入、精力充沛或处于流动状态的时间和活动。

After you've taken stock of these areas, it should become apparent to you if one is being neglected. For example, maybe you're too focused on work and it has caused both your health and your love life to suffer. Or maybe you've been too immersed in play and have neglected your career aspirations.  Log the times and activities that keep you engaged, energetic, or in a state of flow.

有了正常工作的指南针，让我们来仔细看看 "投入"。要想生活得快乐，重要的是要知道什么能让你投入，什么不能让你投入。为此，一本好的时间日志是一个非常宝贵的工具。在这里，你可以写下自己在顺境和逆境中的经历，这样做可以帮助你了解是什么给你的生活带来了快乐。

 With your compass in proper working order, let's take a closer look at engagement. To live a joyful life, it's important to know what engages and disengages you. And for this, a good time journal can be an invaluable tool. This is a place to write down your experiences in both good times and bad, and doing so will help you understand what brings Joy to your life.

在每一天中，无论你身在何处，都要写下你的投入程度和专注程度，还要记下你是否感到不开心或无聊。此外，还要记下你当时在做什么。需要特别注意的一点是，当你体验到 "流动 "时，你会完全沉浸在某项活动中，时间似乎过得飞快。也许这发生在你研究法律文件或切胡萝卜的时候。也许你在运动时也会有这种感觉，这取决于你自己。如果有一天你从 "状态 "中清醒过来，惊讶于时间过得如此之快，请务必记下你当时在做什么。这些时刻是衡量你投入程度的重要指标，在设计你的事业和生活时，你应该牢记这些时刻。

Throughout each day, wherever you are, write down how engaged and focused you feel, also noting if you're unhappy or bored. Also, jot down what you were doing at the time. One thing to make special note of is when you experience flow, where you become completely immersed in an activity and time seems to fly by. Maybe it happens when you're researching a legal document or when you're chopping carrots. Maybe you feel it when you play sports, it depends on you. If you ever emerge from being in the zone and are surprised by how much time has passed, be sure to make note of what you were doing. These moments are a great indicator of your engagement, and you should keep them in mind when designing both your career and your life.

帮助您找到人生方向的另一条线索是你的精力水平。每天都会有体力和脑力劳动，但有些活动比其他活动消耗更大。用你的美好时光日志来记录哪些活动消耗了你的精力，哪些活动有助于维持你的精力。如果你在参加会议或录入数据后感到精力完全耗尽，但在向潜在客户推销产品后却感到精力充沛，那就记下来。了解如何保持精力充沛并充分利用一天的时间将非常有用。

Another clue to help you find your way in life are your energy levels. Every day involves both physical and mental work, but some activities take a bigger toll than others. Use your good time journal to keep track of which activities drain your energy and which ones help to sustain it. If you feel completely drained after sitting in meetings or doing data entry, but feel energized after pitching products to a potential customer, make a note of it. Understanding how to stay energized and make the most of your day will be useful.

Discover your flow

因此，除了写子弹日记外，记录自己的精力水平，以及什么时候你会体验到畅快淋漓的感觉，什么时候你会脱离现实，这些都是非常有用的工具，可以帮助你找出日常工作的重点。

So alongside bullet journaling, keeping note of your energy levels and when you experience moments of flow or disengagement is a really helpful tool in figuring out what you want your daily routine to prioritize. 

还可以尝试一种叫做思维导图的练习。思维导图的意义在于帮助你摆脱那些让你感到困顿的常规思维。或多或少，我们都会经历这些困顿的时刻。也许你被困在一份你并不在意的工作中，或者家里发生的一些事情对你来说并不奏效。思维导图的理念就是给自己留出时间和空间，让自己重新投入到令自己兴奋和充满活力的事物中去。这项练习的概念是，拿起笔和纸，写下你喜欢做的任何事情。

Might also want to try an exercise called mind mapping. Point of mind mapping is to help you get out of routines that are causing you to feel stuck. And one point or another, we all experience these moments of stuckness. Perhaps you're stuck in a job you don't care about, or there are things going on at home that are just not working for you. The idea of mind mapping to give yourself time and space to reengage with what excites and animates you. The concept of the exercise is to take a pen and some paper and write down anything you enjoy doing.

开始自由联想，记下你脑海中闪现的任何东西，比如远足、冲浪、旅行。这样做五分钟后，再回到每个词，开始进行二次联想。例如，在 "远足 "的旁边，可以写上 "山 "或 "探索"。这项练习的目的是发掘你的愿望和梦想，然后围绕它们展开更具体的联想。下一步就是把你的想法整合成一个计划。你对自己的工作很满意，但感到焦躁不安？也许你只是需要一个假期，在这种情况下，在你的日程表上划出时间来安排一下。你喜欢自己的工作，但感觉远离大自然。也许是时候考虑搬迁了。这是你可以与老板、伴侣、家人进行的一次对话。

Begin to free associate, jot down whatever pops into your mind, like hiking, surfing, travel. After you've done this for five minutes, go back to each of your words and begin to make secondary associations. So next to hiking, for example, might write down mountains or exploring. The idea of this exercise is to uncover your wants and dreams and then to get more specific around them. And the next step is putting your ideas together into a plan. You're happy in your job but feeling restless? Maybe just need a holiday, in which case block off time in your calendar to get organizing. You like your work, but you feel far away from nature. Maybe it's time to explore relocation. That a conversation you can have with your boss or your partner, your family.

这就是思维导图的作用。它能让你敞开心扉，接触到你可能会忽略的新想法和新联系。因此，只需一支笔和一张纸，你就能开始将梦想连接起来，为更快乐、更健康的生活铺平道路。

That's how mind mapping works. It allows you to open your mind to new ideas and new connections you might otherwise overlook. So just a pen and paper, you can begin to connect those dots between your dreams and pave that way to happier, healthier routines.

My Evening Checklist

A checklist

Recap of Chapter 4

Designing Your Life

- 你可以设计出适合自己的生活。

要想知道自己想去哪里，首先要知道自己在哪里。从评估自己开始：

健康：情绪、精神和身体健康。工作：有偿工作和志愿工作。娱乐：任何单纯为了娱乐而进行的活动。爱情：伴侣、孩子、朋友和宠物。

进行评估，以便在生活的这些重要方面之间取得良好的平衡。

• You can design your life to work for you.

To figure out where you want to go, you first need to know where you are. Start by assessing your:

Health: emotional, mental, and physical health. Work: both paid and volunteer jobs. Play: any activity done simply for the fun of it. Love: partners, children, friends, and pets.

Take stock so you can strike a good balance between these vital aspects of your life.

- 时间日志是一个很好的工具，它能帮助你找出哪些事情能吸引你，哪些事情不能吸引你。

如何使用？

写下你在顺境和逆境中的经历。记下你在做什么以及你的感受--你是否投入/专注/快乐/烦躁？

特别注意什么时候你会体验到 "流动"--当你沉浸在活动中，时间飞逝--以及哪些活动会消耗或维持你的能量水平。

• A time journal is a great tool to figure out what engages and disengages you.

How does it work?

Write down your experiences in both good and bad times. Take a note of what you’re doing and how you feel– are you engaged/focused/unhappy/bored?

Make special note of when you experience flow–when you’re immersed in an activity and time flies–and which activities drain or sustain your energy levels.

- 试试思维导图，重新认识令你兴奋和生动的事物。

用五分钟时间，写下你喜欢做的任何事情（如 "徒步旅行"）。

回过头来，自由联想与之相关的词语（如 "山"、"探索 "或 "锻炼"）。

然后，您就可以利用这些信息来计划下一步，无论是抽出时间计划度假、会见朋友，还是协商搬迁到更接近大自然的地方。

• Try mind-mapping to re-engage with what excites and animates you.

For five minutes, write down anything and everything you enjoy doing (ie ‘hiking’)

Go back to each of those and free-associate related words (like ‘mountains,’ ‘exploring,’ or ‘exercise.’)

You can then use this information to plan your next steps, whether it’s making time to plan a holiday, see friends, or negotiating a relocation to somewhere closer to nature.

参考：

https://www.blinkist.com/en/app/guides/reset-your-routine-with-the-blinkist-team