來自：http://zenhabits.net/about/有時(shí)候，簡(jiǎn)單的生活似乎是遙不可及的。有太多的雜物塞滿了自己的生活，有太多的事情需要去完成，它們就像山一樣壓在自己的肩上。
達(dá)到簡(jiǎn)化生活，不需要也不可能一下子就改善。只有循序漸進(jìn)，每次做一件事，才能達(dá)到目標(biāo)。事實(shí)上，你只要拋棄一些雞毛蒜皮的小事，做一些重要的事情，就能開始過簡(jiǎn)單輕松的生活。
你只要做十件最重要的事情，這些事情并不困難。只要你今天開始完成其中一件，明天再完成一件。很快，你就會(huì)簡(jiǎn)化生活了。
拿一張小紙片，把它折成一個(gè)3×5的小方形，或者用一張索引卡。在紙片上寫下現(xiàn)在你一生中最重要的四或五件事情。什么對(duì)你最重要？你覺得什么最有價(jià)值？你的一生中最想做哪幾件事？?jī)?yōu)先去完成這些事情，因?yàn)槟阏跒槟愕纳顒?chuàng)造空間，這樣你就有更多的時(shí)間做這些重要的事。
想想你的一生中有多少事情要做，然后找出一個(gè)你不想做的。這件事耗費(fèi)了你很多時(shí)間但收獲甚少。也許你在一個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì)，也許在接受什么訓(xùn)練，也許在一個(gè)對(duì)外委員會(huì)，或者其他無論什么。這件事你每天，每星期，每月都在不停地做，但是你真的不想做了。那現(xiàn)在就把這個(gè)負(fù)擔(dān)給丟掉，給這個(gè)任務(wù)的負(fù)責(zé)人打個(gè)電話，或者發(fā)一封Email，告訴他你沒時(shí)間做這個(gè)了。我建議你放棄那些在任務(wù)清單中無足輕重，不必親為的任務(wù)，給自己減輕一些負(fù)擔(dān)。但是今天，你只要舍棄一個(gè)就好了。
清空一個(gè)抽屜，或一個(gè)書架、一個(gè)柜子頂端、一個(gè)房間角落。不是整個(gè)房間或者甚至整個(gè)壁櫥。只要一個(gè)小小的空間。你可以把這個(gè)空間作為你簡(jiǎn)化你的生活的據(jù)點(diǎn)，并且向外擴(kuò)張。如何清理：
基本上，你要給經(jīng)常做的事情設(shè)一個(gè)限度：收發(fā)Email、閱讀RSS文章、任務(wù)清單、生活的雜事等等。然后讓自己堅(jiān)守這些限制。今天，你只需要設(shè)定一下這個(gè)限度，明天，開始習(xí)慣堅(jiān)守他們。
看看你的待做事項(xiàng)清單。如果超過了10個(gè)條目，你就能小小地簡(jiǎn)化它一下。至少找出一些可以放棄、委任他人完成的、或者可以忽略的條目。每星期簡(jiǎn)化一次清單，這可是一個(gè)很好的習(xí)慣。拓展閱讀：《同強(qiáng)動(dòng)力的任務(wù)改善你的工作效率》。
簡(jiǎn)化生活的一個(gè)方法就是讓你的時(shí)間更自由，這樣你就有更多的時(shí)間做自己想做的事。不幸的是，你可能或甚至找不到時(shí)間來想想如何簡(jiǎn)化你的生活。如果這樣，那你該騰出30分鐘來想想這個(gè)問題了。你怎么樣才能每天騰出30分鐘呢？很簡(jiǎn)單：早起一點(diǎn)、少看會(huì)兒電視、在你的辦公桌上便餐、午飯后散步、斷開互聯(lián)網(wǎng)、每天只查一次EMAIL、關(guān)掉電話、每天比前一天少做一件事。
一個(gè)干凈整潔的桌子會(huì)給你帶來驚人的愉悅感。這是一件非常簡(jiǎn)單的事情，但是它帶給你的好處無法估量。這里是一些清理桌面的基本步驟：
這和清空你的桌面有著同樣的效果。你的Email郵箱中是不是堆滿了已讀和未讀的郵件？那定是你不斷地拖延自己處理郵件的決定。如果你的收件箱里的郵件少于50封，今天你就可以花上幾個(gè)小時(shí)把他們?nèi)慷继幚砹?。如果已超過了100封，你就把它們放到一個(gè)臨時(shí)文件夾里，每次處理一部分（比如每天20封）。以下是如何過濾你的收件箱并清空，包括已經(jīng)存在在你的收件箱里的信件和即將到來的：
我們一整天都在奔走，從一個(gè)任務(wù)到另一個(gè)，從一個(gè)職位到另一個(gè)，直到暮色四合，我們才能躺下。那現(xiàn)在就來改變它，停止忙碌，開始做慢些。慢慢地吃飯、慢慢地駕駛、慢慢地行走、慢慢地淋浴。要有計(jì)劃，活在當(dāng)下。這不是你需要計(jì)劃到明天去做的事情，你應(yīng)該現(xiàn)在就開始練習(xí)。
與多任務(wù)不同的是，每次只做一件事情。當(dāng)你做這件事情的時(shí)候你要避免所有的干擾，擺脫其他不相干的習(xí)慣（比如查看Email，或者其它習(xí)以為常的事情）。堅(jiān)持那一個(gè)任務(wù)，直到你完成它。這樣就不會(huì)給你很大壓力，也不會(huì)影響到你的精力。Simple Living Simplified: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Simplify Your Life
Every Wednesday is Simplicity Day on Zen Habits.
Simplifying can sometimes be overwhelming. The amount of stuff youhave in your life and the amount of things you have to do can be toobig a mountain to tackle.
But you don’t have to simplify it all at once. Do one thing at atime, and take small steps. You’ll get there, and have fun doing it.
In fact, you can do little but important things today to start living the simple life.
I was criticized a few weeks ago when I published the Simple Living Manifesto: 72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life,because many people felt the list was too long. I heard this point, andthis post is my response: just the 10 most important things.
And these are not 10 difficult things, but 10 simple things that youcan do today. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next month. Today.Choose one and do it today. Tomorrow, choose another.
If you do these 10 things, you’ll have made great strides with little effort.
1. Make a short list. Take out a sheet of paper andfold it into a small square, perhaps 3×5 inches. Or take out an indexcard. Now make a short list of the 4-5 most important things in yourlife. What’s most important to you? What do you value most? What 4-5things do you most want to do in your life? Simplifying starts withthese priorities, as you are trying to make room in your life so youhave more time for these things.
2. Drop 1 commitment. Think about all the things inyour life that you’re committed to doing, and try to find one that youdread doing. Something that takes up time but doesn’t give you muchvalue. Perhaps you’re on a team, or coaching something, or on a boardor committee, or whatever. Something that you do each day or week ormonth that you don’t really want to do. Now take action today to dropthat commitment. Call someone, send an email, telling the appropriateperson or people that you just don’t have the time. You will feelrelief. I’d recommend dropping all commitments that don’t contribute toyour short list (from Item #1), but for today, just drop 1 commitment.
3. Purge a drawer. Or a shelf, or a countertop, ora corner of a room. Not an entire room or even an entire closet. Justone small area. You can use that small area as your base of simplicity,and then expand from there. Here’s how to purge: 1) empty everythingfrom the drawer or shelf or corner into a pile. 2) From this pile, pickout only the most important things, the stuff you use and love. 3) Getrid of the rest. Right now. Trash it, or put it in your car to giveaway or donate. 4) Put the stuff you love and use back, in a neat andorderly manner.
4. Set limits. Read Haiku Productivityfor more. Basically, you set limits for things you do regularly: email,RSS posts, tasks, feeds, items in your life, etc. And try to stick withthe limits. Today, all you have to do is set limits for a few things inyour life. Tomorrow, try to stick with them.
5. Simplify your to-do list. Take a look at yourto-do list. If it’s more than 10 items long, you can probably simplifyit a bit. Try to find at least a few items that can be eliminated,delegated, automated, outsourced, or ignored. Shorten the list. This isa good habit to do once a week.
6. Free up time. Simplifying your life in generalis a way to free up time to do the stuff you want to do. Unfortunately,it can be hard to find time to even think about how to simplify yourlife. If that’s the case, free up at least 30 minutes a day forthinking about simplifying. Or alternatively, free up a weekend andthink about it then. How can you free up 30 minutes a day? Just a fewideas: wake earlier, watch less TV, eat lunch at your desk, take a walkfor lunch, disconnect from the Internet, do email only once today, shutoff your phones, do 1 less thing each day.
7. Clear your desk. I can personally attest to theamazing feeling that a clean desk can give you. It’s such a simplething to do, and yet it does so much for you. If your desk is coveredwith papers and notes and gadgets and office supplies, you might not beable to get this done today. But here are the basic steps: 1) Cleareverything off your desk and put it in a pile (either in your inbox oron the floor). 2) Process the pile from top to bottom, one item at atime. Do not defer decisions on any item — deal with them immediatelyand quickly. 3) For each item, either file it immediately, route it tosomeone else, trash it, or note it on your to-do list (and put it in an“action” folder). If it’s a gadget or office supply, find a place forit in your desk drawers (or get rid of it). 4) Repeat until your pileis empty and your desk is clear. Be sure to get rid of any knickknacks. Your desk should have your computer, your inbox, perhaps anotepad, and maybe a family photo (but not many). Ahh, a clear desk! 5)From now on, put everything in your inbox, and at least once a day,process it in the same way as above.
8. Clear out your email inbox. This has the samepsychological effect as a clear desk. Is your email inbox always fullof read and unread messages? That’s because you’re delaying decisionson your emails. If you have 50, let’s say, or fewer emails in yourinbox, you can process them all today. If you have hundreds, you shouldput them in a temporary folder and get to them one chunk at a time (do20 per day or something). Here’s how you process your inbox to empty —including emails already in your inbox, and all future incoming emails:1) process them top to bottom, one at a time, deciding and disposing ofeach one immediately. 2) Your choices are to delete, archive, respondimmediately (and archive or delete), forward (and archive or delete),or mark it with a star (or something like that) and note it on yourto-do list to respond to later (and archive). 3) Process each emaillike that until the inbox is empty. 4) Each time you check your email,process to empty. Ahh, an empty inbox!
9. Move slower. We rush through the day, from onetask to another, from one appointment to another, until we collapse onthe couch, exhausted, at the end of the day. Instead, simplify yourlife by doing less (see Items 1, 4 and 5) and doing them more slowly. Eat slower, drive slower,walk slower, shower slower, work slower. Be more deliberate. Bepresent. This isn’t something you’re going to master today, but you canstart practicing today.
10. Single-task. Instead of multi-tasking, do onething at a time. Remove all distractions, resist any urge to checkemail or do some other habitual task like that while you’re doing thetask at hand. Stick to that one task, until you’re done. It’ll make ahuge difference in both your stress level and your productivity.
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