经济学人 | New year, new you 新年，新的你（2023年第00
It’s the first full working week of 2023. You have two new year’s resolutions. First, to turn yourself into a humming machine of productivity. No more procrastinating, no more afternoon naps. Second, to maximise your own sense of well-being. A few days in, and your daily journal bears witness to a changed person, a model of self-caring efficiency.
这是2023年的第一个完整工作周。你有两个新年决心。首先，把自己变成一台嗡嗡作响的生产力机器。不再拖延，不再午睡。第二，最大化自己的幸福感。几天后，你的每日日记见证了一个人的改变，一个自理效率的典范。
07:00 Go to the gym. Leave phone at home. Mens sana in corpore sano.
07:00去健身房。把手机留在家里。健全的心灵寓于健全的身体。
08:00 Tell au pair to wake children, and to keep them out of your way.
8:00告诉互惠生叫醒孩子，不要让他们妨碍到你。
08:15 Listen briefly to the call of a whale on Spotify. Shower. Dress.
8:15听听Spotify上鲸鱼的叫声。沐浴。穿衣。
08:30 Eat something with chia seeds.
8:30吃点有奇亚籽的食物。
08:40 Remove chia seeds from teeth.
8:40去除牙上的奇亚籽。
08:58 Enter home office. Great sense of wellness. Never felt weller.
8:58进入家庭办公室。感觉非常健康。从未感觉这么好过。
09:00 Turn phone off aeroplane mode and fire up laptop. Phone goes mad: missed calls, Slack messages, texts. Precisely where the day went wrong in the bad old days of 2022. Use new batching technique: respond to the oldest five emails and ignore everything else. Turn notifications off again.
9:00关闭手机飞行模式，启动笔记本电脑。电话“疯了”: 未接电话、Slack信息、短信。这正是2022年糟糕的日子里出问题的地方。使用新的批处理技术: 回复最早的五封邮件，忽略其他所有邮件。再次关闭通知。
09:30 Make a list of tasks that need to be completed today. Colour-code those tasks according to priority. Chunk each of the high-priority tasks into discrete segments. Use combination of time-boxing and Pomodoro techniques to put them into the calendar for the day ahead.
9:30 列出今天需要完成的任务清单。根据优先级用颜色标记这些任务。把每一个高优先级的任务分成离散的部分。结合使用时间框和番茄工作法，将它们放入一天的日历前面。
10:30 Calendar for the day is now complete. Very full few hours ahead. Get up and go for a walk around the block to avoid musculoskeletal problems. Every so often stop and look 20 yards into the distance to maintain eye health. See friend on street.
10:30 一天的日历已经完成。非常满的几个小时。站起来，绕着街区走一圈，以避免肌肉骨骼问题。每隔一段时间停下来看看20码远的地方，以保持眼睛健康。在街上见见朋友。
11:30 Back at desk. Decide to find a “Study with Me” video, a recording of someone else working at their desk, as extra motivation for the day to come. Very effective technique, just need to choose the right recording. Might have one with rain pattering on the windows. Or a cat sleeping. Or logs on a fire.
11:30 回到办公桌。决定找一个“Study with Me”的视频，一段别人在办公桌前工作的录像，作为新的一天的额外动力。非常有效的技巧，只需要选择正确的录像。也许会有一间雨打在窗户上的房间。或者一只正在睡觉的猫。或者着火的木头。
12:00 “Study with Me” recording is now playing. Went with the cats. Day is slightly off-track now. Begin first 25-minute Pomodoro session.
12:00 “Study with Me”视频正在播放。陪猫一起。今天有点偏离轨道了。开始第一个25分钟的番茄钟。
12:25 Excellent session. Get up. Stretch.
12:25 这25分钟好极了。站起来。拉伸。
12:30 Second Pomodoro session begins. Lasers are less focused than me.
12:30 开始第二个番茄钟。激光都不如我专注。
12:40 Extremely bored. Try to get onto Wordle but have installed blocker on laptop that means I cannot use the site until 18:00. Only way around this is to change the time on the computer. Not sure how to do this but it cannot be that hard.
12:40 极度无聊。尝试进入Wordle猜字游戏，但在笔记本电脑上安装了拦截程序，这意味着直到18:00前我不能使用该网站。解决这个问题的唯一方法就是改变电脑上的时间。不知道如何做到这一点，但它不会那么难。
13:30 It is quite hard. But Wordle is done (in four tries!). Clock on computer is now totally wrong; saying it is 2024. Just need to change it back.
13:30 相当难。但是Wordle已经完成了(四次尝试!) 电脑上的时钟现在完全错乱了; 显示2024年。只需要把它改回来。
14:00 No time for second email-batching session. Lunch and well-being hour begins an hour late. Make open sandwich with rye bread, salmon, dill. Use stacked-habits advice to do two mindfulness exercises at once: self-administer head massage while listening to soundtrack of grasshopper noises.
14:00 没有时间进行第二次邮件批处理。午餐和健康时间晚了一个小时开始。用黑麦面包，三文鱼，莳萝做个单片三明治。使用习惯叠加的建议，一次做两项正念练习: 一边听蚱蜢的声音，一边自我按摩头部。
15:00 Activating hermit mode. Ditch Pomodoro technique: need to get at least two hours done before final email-batching session. Use timer tab to set countdown clock going on my browser.
15:00 启动“隐士”模式。抛弃番茄工作法: 在最后的电子邮件处理时间之前，至少需要两个小时的时间。在浏览器上使用计时器标签设置倒计时时钟。
15:30 Not made great progress. Feeling a bit worthless. Open the compliments folder in my email inbox to remind myself of praise I have received from colleagues in the past.
15:30 进展不大。感觉有点没用。打开电子邮件收件箱里的赞美文件夹，提醒自己过去从同事那里得到的赞美。
15:45 Starting to feel a bit panicky. As last resort use “Write or Die”, an old program that starts deleting your work if you have not met targets for word count. Helps just to get something on the page.
15:45 开始感到有点慌了。最后的手段，使用“Write or Die”，一个老程序，如果你没有达到字数目标，就会开始删除你的工作。在页面上写点东西很有帮助。
16:15 FFS. Child came in with something hairy (a rat? someone else’s hair?) glued to her hand. By the time I had shooed her out, “Write or Die” had erased most of what I had got done.
16:15 难以置信(For fuck's sake)。孩子进来了，手上粘着毛茸茸的东西(老鼠?别人的头发?)。当我把她赶出去的时候，“Write or Die”已经抹掉了我所做的大部分工作。
17:00 Have used child’s stencil set to make a very professional poster that says “Do not enter: I am working”. I will paste it on my door here. Good to get this done. Need a pick-me-up, so am going to attend laughter-therapy session that the company has been advertising.
17:00 用儿童模板制作了一张非常专业的海报，上面写着“请勿进入:我正在工作”。我要把它贴在我的门上。很高兴能完成这项工作。我需要提神，所以我要去参加公司宣传的笑疗。
17:30 Couldn’t get sound to work for some reason. Everyone looked completely mad on the laughter-therapy thing. Have logged the problem with IT.
17:30 因为某些原因，声音无法“工作”。每个人对笑疗的事都很生气。已向IT部门记录问题。
17:45 Third (well, second) email-batching session begins. Notifications back on, and email opened. Torrent of messages. Four calls from my boss. Hard to tell what is going on, but everyone seems upset that I have been consciously prioritising work. Typical.
17:45 第三个(好吧，第二个)电子邮件批处理时间开始。通知重新打开，电子邮件打开。大量的信息。老板给我打了四个电话。很难说出发生了什么，但每个人似乎都对我故意确定的工作优先事项感到生气。一贯如此。
18:00 Ring boss. I have until 9am tomorrow morning to get something done for a new client. Feel much better. If only people could just set me an urgent deadline every day.
18:00 给老板回电话。明早9点之前我得为一个新客户办点事。感觉好多了。如果人们能每天给我设定一个紧急的最后期限就好了。
