讓生活更簡單:世上本無事,庸人自擾之

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."Confucius
“世上本無事，庸人自擾之。”孔子

"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity."Ludwig Wittgenstein
“事物中於我們最重要的方面都由於它們的簡單和熟悉而隱蔽不見”路德維希·維特根斯坦

I love simplifying my life.
我喜歡簡化自己的生活。

It makes me more effective and life less stressful. It makes me calmer, more energetic and happier.
簡約的生活能給我減壓，讓我更適於工作。我會因此變得更冷靜，更有活力，更快樂。

So today I'd like to share 42 ways to make your life simpler. I hope you'll find something inspiring and helpful among these tips.
因此，今天我要分享簡化生活的42個辦法。希望大家能在這些辦法中找到一些能激發你的有用建議。

1. Mix things up. Try the opposite. Have the vegetarian dish if you always go for the meat. Walk away from a stupid conflict instead of making it worse. Let one thing go if you often cling to things. Make a habit of mixing things up to grow your life in small or bigger ways. And to make it easier and simpler to step out of your comfort zone in general when you really need to.
1.換個套路試試。去嘗試下與你習慣相反的事物，如果你老是吃肉那就試試素食；不要持續無謂的衝突，趁事情變得更壞之前立即停止；如果經常抓着事情不放那就讓它過去吧。在成長的過程中要養成這種習慣，能用各種不同方法去解決問題。同時要不斷簡化解決辦法，提醒自己要步出習慣舒適區。

2. Get up 20 minutes earlier. This will help you to reduce stress in the morning and during the rest of the day.
2.提前20分鐘起牀。這將有助你在整個清晨和白天都減少壓力。

3. Be 10 minutes early for meetings and appointments. This will help you to make your time of travel a time of rest and relaxation instead of stressful. And you will not be late.
3.提前10分鐘到場參加會議或赴約。這會使你的行程有一段休息放鬆時間，否則你可能會感覺緊張。而且你也不會遲到。

4. Single-task. You be more focused, less stressed and get to done more quickly. So do one thing at a time and do it with your full attention.
4.一次只做一件事。這樣你會集中精力去完成，而且不會揹負壓力，完成速度更快。因此一次只做一件工作，並且要全力以赴。

5. Ask yourself: am I keeping things extremely simple? If not, figure out how you can do that in the situation you are in.
5.問問自己：我是在簡化這個問題嗎？如果不是，找出在這種情況下你怎樣才能簡化問題。

6. Ask yourself: will this matter 5 years from now? Or even 5 weeks from now? Do this to avoid making mountains out of molehills.
6.問問自己：這件事真的有那麼嚴重嗎？或者根本沒你想的那麼可怕。這樣做可以避免小題大做。

7. Buy things with the money you have earned and saved. Avoid getting into debt.
7.用你的存款或薪水去購物。這樣不會負債。

8. Learn a few recipes and cook. You'll save money and probably eat healthier.
8.學樣新的食譜。這會給你省錢而且讓你吃的更健康。

9. When you cook, cook more than you'll eat. This will help you to spend less time on cooking and washing dishes. And you'll have an extra dinner or two to just reheat when you don't have time or energy to cook.
9.如果做飯的話，那就多做一點。這將有助於你不必花那麼多時間做飯和洗碗。當你沒時間或者沒精力做飯的時候，熱熱飯菜來頓加餐就行了。

10. Write things down. Pretty much everyone's memory is leaky. So help yourself. Write down what you need to do or shop for today. Write down what your top 4 priorities in life are and post that note where you can see it every day.
10.把事情記下來。幾乎每個人都有忘事的時候，那麼幫幫你自己，當你今天需要購物或者做什麼事的時候記下來寫在本子上。把你生活中最先要做的4件事寫在便利貼上，貼在你每天都容易看到的地方。

11. Remember that life is larger than you may think it is. You do not know everything and you are not always right. Remembering this makes it easier for me to learn things, to accept other viewpoints, to create changes and to stay more open.
11.謹記生活比你想象的廣闊。你不一定懂所有的事情，你也不會總是對的。謹記這個，可以讓我願意去學一些新的東西，接受別人的觀點，做出改變，保持坦率。

12. Risk making mistakes. Learn from them. Then do again with that helpful new experience and knowledge in mind.
12.敢於冒出錯的風險，然後從中吸取教訓。當你有了有用的經驗和知識以後，就可以重複這項工作了。

13. Do what YOU really, really, really want to do. Do not get stuck in trying to live someone else's dream.
13.做你真正，真正，真正想做的事情。不要爲了實現別人的夢而痛苦的活着。

14. Go grocery shopping once a week. You'll save money and time if you make the effort to plan for a week and to shop for it all at once.
14.一週去一次雜貨店。在去購物前如果你能列出計劃，在購物時一次買清將爲你節省時間和錢。

15. Go grocery shopping when you not hungry. You'll buy more healthy food instead of impulse buying yourself through the store.
15.趁還不餓的時候去雜貨店。這時候你會買更健康的食物而不是衝動性購買。

16. Enjoy the simple pleasures. An apple, the latest episode of your favorite show, fresh and clean bed sheets, a hug and kiss, holding hands, the sun and blossoming nature after a long and cold winter.
16.享受簡單的樂趣。一個蘋果，你心愛的電視劇集更新，剛換的乾淨牀單，一個擁抱一個吻，牽手，漫長的嚴冬過後溫暖的陽光和充滿生機的大自然。

17. Have a glass of water. Instead of eating when you are bored or when are having a craving have 1-2 glasses of water. This will help you to keep to those cravings away until the next meal and to maintain your health and weight.
17.喝一杯水。當你煩悶或者想吃東西的時候不要立刻吃東西，試着喝一兩杯水。這將幫助你趕走食慾，直到正餐時間。這樣有利於你保持苗條和健康。

18. Eat slower. Make your lunch time a time of relaxation rather than a time to just add to the stress of your morning. Try putting down the fork between bites to slow down the eating.
18.慢食。把你的午飯時間變成一種放鬆和享受，而不是整個忙碌早晨的延續。試着在夾菜和咀嚼的過程中放下叉子，這能讓你減少吃飯速度。

19. Be kind. Be kind to other people and especially to yourself.
19.善意待人。善意對待別人，特別是自己。

20. Write shorter emails. 1-5 sentences is often enough.
20.寫封更短的信。1到5句話就足夠了。

21. Write emails only once a day. Batch and process them all at once all the way to an empty inbox.
21.一天只回一次郵件。批量處理郵件，一次回覆所有的郵件。

22. Learn about ways to keep stress down and try them out. Examples would be mindfulness, setting human standards for yourself and saying no. A few such habits can help you to drastically cut down on the stress in your life.
22.學習減壓的辦法，嘗試把壓力趕走。榜樣能讓你注意到這些。可以爲自己找出一些人物模範，並對壓力說不。這樣的一些小習慣能幫你徹底擺脫掉生活的壓力。

23. Give everything its home. Then you know where to put the item when you have used it. You'll know where to find it when you need it again. And you'll reduce the clutter in your home or work space.
23.讓每樣東西各歸其位。這樣在你用過之後就知道下次能在哪兒找到它了。同時也使房間更整潔。

24. Slow down and enjoy and pay attention what is actually happening today. Instead of just rushing through the day and always on to the next thing.
24.放慢速度，享受生活，留心每天都發生了什麼。不要一味地向前衝，急於奔向下一個目標。

25. Spend more time with people who make life simpler. And less time with people who make life unnecessarily complicated.
25.和生活簡單的人多在一起。儘量少和那些把生活搞的非常複雜的人在一起。

26. Exercise every week. This will reduce stress, up your energy levels and in my experience reduces negative thoughts.
26.每週做運動。運動會爲你減壓，提高你的能量水平，而且會減少你的消極思想。

27. Declutter. Declutter your life of the things that aren't really that useful or meaningful for you anymore. Give that stuff away to someone who needs it. Or throw it out. A question that can help you to know if it is time to declutter something out of your life is: have I used this item in the last year?
27.收拾雜物。丟掉那些沒用或者對你不再有意義的東西。把那些東西送給真正需要的人們。或者直接丟掉。這有一個幫你辨別某樣東西是否有用的辦法，那就是想想：我最近一次用它是去年嗎？

28. Look for advice from people who have been where you are. Learn from people who have been in the situation you are in and had the challenge you are having.
28.向和你處境相似的人尋求意見。想那些和你處境相同，或者和你一樣面臨着相同挑戰的人學習。

29. Stop trying to please everyone. There will always be people who you don't get along with or that do not like you for some reason.
29.不要試圖取悅所有人。總會有那麼一些不能和你融洽相處，甚至不喜歡你的人。

30. Break a task down into smaller and actionable pieces. Single-task that first piece until it is done. Then do the same with the next piece. And so on.
30.把一項工作分成小的，可執行的部分。一次只做一部分，完成後進行下一部分。事皆如此。

31. Stop trying to do things perfectly. Go for good enough instead and when you are there you are done. Get things all the way to done this way and then move on to the next thing.
31.不要苛求事事完美。全力以赴去完成一件事情，當你做完的時候你就成功了。抱着這樣的心態去做所有的事情，然後着手下一步。

32. Take a minute and just breathe a couple of times a day. This will help you to reduce the stress and overwhelm of your day. It will help you to reconnect with the present moment, to create a habit of living more mindfully and to focus all your attention on what is happening right now.
32.每天花一分鐘深呼吸幾次。這樣能幫助你減壓，忘掉白天的紛紛擾擾。讓你的思緒回到當下這一刻，形成謹慎生活的習慣，把你的注意力集中到此刻發生的事情上來。

33. Spend just 20% of your time on dwelling on a problem and 80% of your time focusing on a solution. Instead of the other way around.
33.完成工作的時候要用20%的時間細想問題，80%的時間找出解決辦法。而不是反過來。

34. Focus on a few priorities in your life. Keep things simple to be able to put enough effort, attention and energy into those most important things. Rather than becoming spread too thin, rarely finishing things and being distracted by all those many other things you want to do or that feel you need to do too.
34.集中考慮生活中需要優先完成的事情。簡化問題，讓你能夠投入所有的努力，注意力和能力來解決最重要的問題。而非把問題擴展成無窮小的部分，或者幾乎不能完成的事情，繼而被許多其他需要你去完成或者你想做的事情弄的心煩意亂。

35. Keep a journal. By writing the facts and your thoughts and feelings down in a journal it becomes easier to work through a challenge and to find a good solution. You can also use a journal to track your actual results instead of guesstimating how your life is going. And to better remember all the things that you did well or that went well if you worry often or have quite a bit of negative thoughts.
35.按時寫日記。通過記錄下事情的面貌，你的想法和感受，可以幫你完成挑戰或者找出解決辦法。你也可以通過記日記來寫下你生活的真實結果，而不是瞎猜你到底過的怎麼樣。這樣也能記住你完成的好的事情，或者你經常擔心但是沒什麼大礙的事情，或者一些負面情緒。

36. Stop doing what you don't like doing anymore. Life changes and so do you. If you you don't like doing something anymore then perhaps it is time to stop doing that (even if it may take some time before you can do so by for example switching jobs).
36.不要再做你討厭做的事情了。生活在改變，你也一樣。如果你特別討厭做某事那就不要再做了（及時這將花去你一段時間，比如換工作）

37. Use a very simple workspace. My work space is just a laptop on a small black desk made out of wood. I use a comfy chair and there is room for my glass of water beside the computer. That's it. There are no distractions here. Just me, the computer and the water.
37.擁有一個簡單的工作空間。我的工作間只是個木頭的黑色小桌，上面擺一臺筆記本電腦。我有一把舒服的椅子，筆記本旁邊放着一杯水。就這些了。沒有其他讓我分心的食物，只有電腦，水和我。

38. Spend 15 minutes each Sunday to plan the next week. Write down your plans for the week, organize your prioritized to-do list and get ready for the week before you are in the middle of it all. This will help you to find more clarity, get more of the most important things done next week and minimize stress.
38.每個週末抽出15分鐘計劃下週的事情。寫下你下週的計劃，整理出下週優先要做的事情，並在之前做好準備。這將幫你把下週最重要的事情變明瞭，從而減少壓力。

39. Cancel subscriptions for TV-channels, newsletters and magazines you rarely get around to watching or reading anyway.
39。退訂那些你很難抽空去看或者讀得電視節目，新聞郵件，雜誌。

40. Ask instead of guessing. Reading minds is hard. So, instead ask questions and communicate. This will help you to minimize unnecessary conflicts, misunderstandings, negativity and waste or time and energy.
40.詢問而不是猜測。讀心是很難的。因此，要去詢問別人並交流。這會幫你避免不必要的衝突，誤會，節省你的時間和精力。

41. Make one change at a time and start small. Focus on one habit or area at a time. If you want to start running or decluttering, start with doing just a few minutes of that activity a day or week. Then gradually increase the amount of time you spend on that activity to make it easier to adopt the new habit.
41.一次改變一小點，從小事做起。一次只關注一個習慣，如果你打算開始跑步，或者收拾屋子，那麼試着每天或者每週開始做那麼幾分鐘。然後慢慢逐漸增加你花在這項活動上的時間，這樣可以讓你更容易的來適應這項新習慣。

42. Be lazy. By using the tips in this article you'll be able to get things done more quickly and in a simpler way. This will give more time in a regular week to simply be lazy. To just take it easy alone or with family or a friend, to not do much at all. I highly recommend spending time with being lazy every week to relax, to mindfully enjoy the small pleasures of life and to recharge yourself so that you can be effective and focused again later on.
42.偷個懶。通過使用本文中的建議，你可以更容易 ，更有效的解決問題。這樣每週都會定期多出時間來。那麼就和家人，朋友，或者自己放鬆放鬆，不要太過就行。我強烈推薦每週偷了懶放鬆自己，讓自己明白要享受生活中細小的幸福，讓自己充電後能更專心和有效的面臨即將到來的工作。