Ep: 3 - David Allen guides you through a GTD® Mind Sweep

您正在收听《搞定》播客，这是大卫·艾伦公司官方播客的第三集，由大卫·艾伦带领的思维清空指南。

You're listening to Getting Things Done, the official podcast of The David Allen Company, episode three, a guided Mind Sweep with David Allen.

欢迎各位收听《搞定》第三集，简称GTD。本播客旨在帮助您踏上学习无压力高效能艺术的旅程。

Welcome everyone to the third episode of Getting Things Done, GTD for shorthand, and this podcast is all about helping you on your journey, learning the art of stress free productivity.

我是安德鲁·杰伊·梅森，本集我们将带来特别的内容。

My name's Andrew Jay Mason, and this episode, we're in for something special.

这是一段大卫·艾伦在以往网络研讨会中进行的引导式思维清空实录。

This is a guided mind sweep that David Allen's performed at a previous webinar.

与前两集相比，本集播客会略有不同——您可以从头到尾完整收听，无需做任何记录。但我敢打赌，正如大卫所说，一两件事会突然浮现在您的意识中，如果您把它们记下来，将来会非常有价值。

Now this podcast episode is going to differ a little bit from the previous two so far, meaning you can listen to it entirely from start to finish and, you know, not write anything down, but I'm willing to bet, as David says, that one or two things are gonna pop to the front of your consciousness that if you write them down, gonna be highly valuable for you later on.

您知道，GTD方法论的第一步就是捕捉所有吸引您注意力的事物。而我们今天所进行的这个过程，正是为了将您脑海中的想法外化，退后一步，从而获得做出决策的空间。

You know, one of the first steps of GTD methodology is capturing anything that has your attention, and so this process that we're going through today is all about externalizing what's on your mind, taking a step back, and then getting to a place where you can make decisions about it.

本段内容，以及数百个其他精心设计的优质内容，旨在助您将GTD水平提升至新高度，这些均可通过GTD Connect获取。

This segment, as well as literally hundreds of other pieces of awesome content designed to take your GTD game to the next level, are available as part of GTD Connect.

如果您有兴趣加入这个社群并获得所需的灵感，请前往gettingthingsdone.com/podcast。请留意本集末尾，我们将提供一张优惠券，可在结账时享受大幅折扣。

Now if you're interested in becoming a part of that community and getting the inspiration you need, head on over to gettingthingsdone.com/podcast, and stay tuned to the end of this episode for a coupon that'll give you a significant discount at checkout.

如果你还没有的话，拿出你的笔记工具，任何你用来外化想法的设备。

Now if you haven't already, get out your note taking devices, whatever you use to externalize thoughts.

这会很有价值。

This is gonna be valuable.

以下是大卫·艾伦正在进行一次引导式思维清空。

Here's David Allen performing a guided mind sweep.

对于那些可能还不太熟悉GTD、刚加入Connect的新成员，或者还没怎么为自己做过思维清空的人来说，这里的基本理念就是清空我们所说的‘心理内存’——也就是那些一直挂着‘我得’、‘我会’、‘我可以’、‘哦，我得’、‘对了，我得’之类想法的短期记忆空间。

For those of you who may not be that familiar with the GTD, and you're a new member here to connect, you're not that familiar or haven't done a whole lot of mind sweeping for yourself personally yet, basically the idea here is simply to empty what we call psychic RAM, that short term memory space that's hanging on to, Oh, I need to, would, could, oh, I got to, oh, that's right, I need to whatevers.

这里有一些基本规则和指南，能帮助你从中获得最大价值。

Some basic ground rules here are some guidelines to get the most value out of this.

你不想做的是停下来思考你正在想的事情。

What you don't want to do is stop and think about what you're thinking about.

你只需要把它写下来。

You just want to write it down.

没人会看你，除非现在有人正在看着你做这件事。

So nobody's looking unless somebody's watching you do this right now.

所以要对自己完全诚实坦率。

So be totally honest and candid with yourself.

完成之后，你可以把纸团成一团扔掉，完全自由。

You have the total freedom to wad up the piece of paper and throw it away after you finish it.

这并不是为了分析你的承诺。

This is not to analyze your commitment.

这仅仅是捕捉你可能关注的事情。

This is just to capture the things that you might have attention on.

另一种思考方式是：你目前关注的是什么？

Another way to think about this is just what do you have attention on?

对你来说，哪些事情有潜在意义？

What has potential meaning for you?

今天早上，其实是昨晚，我走在回家小屋的路上时，注意到院子里的三盏灯——我的小卤素灯，就是外面的灯——都不亮了。

This morning, actually last night, as I was walking back to my cottage at home, I just noticed three of my yard lights, my little halogen lights, know, the outside lights were out.

我当时想：天啊。

I went, Oh, God.

我的意思是，这种事对我来说太容易了，我会想：我会记住的，对吧。

I mean, that's one of those things that's so easy for me to go, I'll remember that, right.

一进家门我就忘了，然后就拖到下次，你知道的，直到什么时候为止。

As soon as I get into the house, I've been forgotten, and then the next, you know, till whatever.

但这次我记得，我一进门，就在电话旁边放了一个小小的半尺寸便签本，可以随时走进来写下来。

But I remember this time that I walked in and I've got a nice little half sized pad right by the phone that I could just walk in and write.

凯瑟琳和我经常跑过去，在这种便签本上写东西，然后撕下来。

Catherine and I often would see each other running over and writing stuff on the pad much like that, and then tearing the pad off.

所以今天早上我要求换掉那些灯，这对我来说真是好事。

So I've asked to replace those lights this morning, which was yay, good for me.

总之，我不想用我生活的细节让你觉得无聊。

Anyway, don't want to bore you with the details of my life.

我们开始吧。

Let's get into it.

所以，这里的核心理念是，如果你脑子里有什么想法，你们中有些人可能已经开始了，就把它写下来。

So the whole idea here, if anything on your mind, some of you probably started already, just write it down.

猫粮。

Cat food.

哦对了，我得给苏西阿姨打个电话。

Oh yeah, I need to call Aunt Susie.

哦对了，哒哒哒哒。

Oh yeah, da da da da.

现在我要做的这件事，既有帮助又让人烦。

Now what I'm going to do is both helpful and bothersome.

我会用语音的方式直接说出来，我会给你一些可能触发你想法的提示。

I'm going to actually call out in an auditory form, I'm going to give you triggers of stuff that might trigger some things.

因为有时候，让脑海里的尘埃被搅动起来，由我或别人提醒你一些事情，是有帮助的。

Because sometimes it's helpful to stir the dust inside your head and have me or somebody remind you about things.

哦对了，这或许会有帮助。

Oh yeah, that might help.

之所以让人烦，是因为你正进入状态时，却听到我喋喋不休，而你仍想继续自己的思路。

The reason it's bothersome is you get on a roll here and then you hear me jabbering, you still want to keep going with your own roll.

所以我建议你继续做自己的事，同时听我说说这里发生的情况，看看是否能触发什么想法。

So I suggest just keep going with your own roll and listen to me what happened here, see if that triggers anything.

如果你开始放慢节奏，就回来听一听我可能提到的任何内容。

If you start to slow down a little bit, then come back and listen to whatever I may be mentioning.

这就是这个游戏的规则。

So that's the game.

所以如果你还没开始，就赶紧把所有浮现在脑海里的事情都列出来，任何冒出来的想法都行。

So if you haven't started already, just grab all the top of mind stuff, anything top of mind.

不过，这里还有一个小小的注意事项。

Now, one other just little caveat here.

如果你是GTD的老手，而且这些内容已经存在于你的系统中，如果你明确知道脑海中浮现的事情已经被妥善处理了，那当然就不必再写下来。

If those of you who are old timer GTD if this is already in your system, if whatever it is that's on your mind or that pops into your head, you absolutely know you have there, then sure, you probably don't need to write it down.

但要小心这一点，因为只要它出现在你脑海中，就说明这件事可能还没进入自动运行状态，所以有疑问时，还是写下来比较好。

But be cautious about that, because if it pops into your head at all, meaning there's probably something that might not be on cruise control about it, so when in doubt, write it down.

如果你后来发现记录得太多了，随时可以划掉它。

You can always scratch it out later if you realize you've over captured.

但宁可多记一些。

But much better to over capture.

这并不是为了整理或分析。

So this is not to organize, not to analyze.

尽快把它们记下来，因为一旦你停下，这些想法就会开始滚动，让你的脑海中联想到很多其他事情。

Just grab them as fast as you can, because you see once you pull the plug, these things start to roll, and they'll be associating in your mind lots of other stuff.

首先，记下脑海中第一时间浮现的事情。

So first of all, top of mind stuff.

你脑子里现在想着什么？

What's on your mind?

今天你有什么事还没记录下来吗？

What do you have to do today that may not be captured yet?

你目前有什么事要处理？

What's up for you?

赶紧记下来。

Just jot it down.

缩写，快写。

Abbreviate, write fast.

你可以想想昨天或最近几天发生了什么。

You might want to think about what just happened yesterday or the last couple of days.

会议、对话、走廊里停下来说的事、收到的邮件、语音留言，还有那些揪着你心、你还没来得及处理或思考、但你知道必须处理的事情。

Meetings, conversations, stopping the hall stuff, things that have shown up in the mail, voice mails you've gotten, e mails that have yanked your chain and that you haven't been able to do anything or think through yet that you know you need to.

在做这件事的时候，如果你们有日历或日记本，不妨拿出来快速翻一翻，这没什么坏处。

While you're doing this, if any of you have access to your calendars or diaries, it's not a bad idea to pull that out and glance.

每周回顾是件很棒的事，我总说这是我的生活的一部分，就是回头看看过去一两周的情况。

Part of the weekly review, which is a great thing to do that I always say is my life, is a backward look for a week or two.

快速回顾一下，捕捉所有那些‘哦，我想起来了’的念头。

Just quickly scan back and catch all the, oh, that reminds me.

如果你回头看看，我敢打赌你会在会议或日程安排中发现一些东西，这些会触发你脑海中一些需要记录下来的事情。

If you look back, I'll be willing to bet you that you'll see something back there in terms of meetings or things you had on your calendar that may bounce some stuff out of your head that you need to grab.

同样地，也要往前看，尤其是接下来的一两周。

Same thing with going forward, especially this next upcoming week or two.

即将到来的活动、演讲和家庭事务。

Events, presentations, family stuff coming up.

说到这个，你脑子里有没有什么需要总结的事情？注意是ER，不是AR。

Speaking of which, any summarizing things and that's with an ER, not an AR on your mind?

除非你住在南半球，而且现在是冬天。

Unless you're Down under and it's winterized.

这个季节有什么安排？

What's up for this season?

无论如何，对于北半球的很多人来说，这正是度假时间。

It could be a lot of you in the Northern Hemisphere anyway, this is vacation time.

关于度假、计划、家庭或社交活动，有什么要提的吗？

Anything about vacation, planning, family, social events.

有没有什么具体的工作事项或项目冒出来了，但你还没意识到它们是项目？

Nitty gritty work stuff or projects, projects that have emerged that you haven't identified as such yet?

现在有什么让你觉得是问题的事情，需要你先记下来，之后再转化为项目？

Anything on your mind that you'd call a problem right now that you need to grab to later on make a project?

在脑海中进行一次实地巡视是个非常好的主意。

Real good idea to do a site walk around in your mind's eye.

所以，如果你现在在办公室，就环顾四周。

So if you are in your office right now, look around.

桌面上、书桌上、边柜上、你的篮子或待办区域里，任何你还没来得及识别的新出现的东西，都需要你采取行动。

Anything on the tables, on the desk, on the sidebar credenzas, on your end baskets, your pending areas, anything representing new stuff that's shown up you haven't had a chance to identify yet is something you need to do something about.

在脑海中，你也可以走一圈看看。

And in your mind's eye you might want to walk around.

如果你平时每周去一个常规的办公室、常规的办公楼，周围有同事和其他人，就快速在脑海中去那里走一走。

If you do during the week go to a regular type of office, a regular type of office building and have staff around you and other people around you, just go there quickly in your mind's eye.

那你觉得怎么样？

What about that?

有没有什么让你想起会议、人、项目、问题、状况或机会，这些事情已经出现但你还没捕捉到？

Anything that reminds you about meetings, people, projects, problems, situations, opportunities that are up and haven't been caught yet?

你也可以在家里或房子里做同样的事情。

Might do the same around your home, house.

如果你在那里，不妨在脑海中环顾四周，看看你能看到的和看不到的一切。

If you're there, you might want to look around just in your mind for even what you can't see and also what you can.

有什么项目需要处理吗？管道需要修理吗？墙壁需要填补吗？

Any projects, pipes need fixing, gold need spackling?

有什么新设备需要更换、清理、修理或重做吗？如果你有院子，那里的项目呢？

Any new equipment changes, clean up, fix, redo, projects in the yard if you have one.

当然，一个很好的触发点就是人。

And, of course, a great trigger is just people.

我们就是你生活中现在所有的人。

We're all the people in your life right now.

想到什么了吗？

What comes to mind?

有没有谁是你目前特别关注的？

Anybody you have attention on?

有哪些对话是你需要或想要进行的？

Conversations you need to have, want to have?

这特别适合那些熟悉心灵清扫的人，所以我将提升到我所说的两万英尺高度，因为很多时候，我们所提到的关注点和责任范围会涉及一些更微妙的内容，这些内容可能仍然萦绕在你心头，只是不太容易抓住。

This is particularly for those of you who are familiar with Mind Sweep, so I'm going to lift up to what I call 20,000 feet, because oftentimes the areas of focus and responsibility that we refer to sometimes gets into subtler stuff that may be still on your mind, just a little not quite as easy to grab.

比如，在两万英尺的高度，我们来看看你的工作。

So for instance, 20,000 feet, let's take your job.

如果你正在工作，你负责的那四、五、六、七件关键事情是什么？

If you're doing work, what are the four, five, six, seven things you are supposed to be handling well?

首先，你的工作职责本身是否清晰？

First of all, is your job clear itself?

有没有任何不清楚的地方需要你去明确？

Anything unclear about that you need to grab.

公司里你的责任范围是否发生了变化、演变或转移？

Things changed, things have morphed, things have shifted in the company in terms of your responsibility.

这些变化都清楚了吗？是否已经进入平稳运行状态？

Is all that clear and on cruise control yet?

无论你负责的领域是研究、公关、业务拓展、销售、市场，还是人员、人员发展、招聘、绩效评估等，资产、质量控制、技术相关事项，或是绩效评估周期，这一阶段你将因哪些事项的完成情况而受到评估？

And whatever those areas you're responsible for research, PR, business development stuff, sales, marketing, anything about staff, staff development, hiring, performance reviews, etcetera, assets, quality control, tech stuff, Comp performance review time, what are you going to be held accountable to have done well over this period of time?

所以，想想这些，有没有什么突然浮现在你脑海中但你还没处理的事情？

So thinking about all that, did anything pop into your head that you haven't grabbed yet?

项目，那些一直悬而未决的、更微妙的事情，可能性或机会？

Projects, more subtle stuff that's kind of been hanging out there, possibilities, opportunities?

改天再说吧。

Someday, maybe.

现在我们转向更广泛的生活关注领域，你的个人和职业发展呢？

Sort of moving over to the sort of overall life areas of focus, how about your own personal and professional development?

有什么课程是你想参加的吗？

Anything about classes?

有什么是你正试图学习的吗？

Anything you're trying to learn?

有什么是你想研究并提升的吗？

Anything you'd like to research and get better at?

关于这些，你心里还有什么想法吗？

Anything on your mind about that?

个人财务、资产、投资、银行事务。

Personal finances, assets, investments, bank stuff.

那乐趣呢？

How about fun?

我不太想承认，但有时候我会忘记。

I hate to admit it, but sometimes I forget.

哦，对，乐趣。

Oh, yeah, fun.

你喜欢做什么事情？

What are the things you like to do?

你心里有没有想到什么想参加的音乐会、订阅系列、戏剧，或者和家人一起做的有趣活动？

Anything on your mind you might want to concerts, subscription series, plays, fun things, things to do with the family.

说到家人，如果你还没提到的话，关于你的关系有什么想法吗？

Speaking of family, anything about your relationships if you haven't caught it yet?

个人的直系家庭关系、大家庭、好朋友、你的社交圈，还有宠物，别忘了宠物。你的创造力和表达方式怎么样？一切都还好吗？有没有想上的课程，或者想做的事情？

Personal direct family relationships, extended family, good friends, your network, pets don't forget the pets Your creativity, your creative expression, everything okay about that, any classes you want to take, things you might want to do.

那你的所有设备呢？

And how about all your gear?

你的所有设备都还好吗？

All your gear okay?

打印机、传真机、扫描仪、黑莓手机、iPhone。

Printers, faxes, scanners, BlackBerrys, iPhones.

你真的打算处理一下iPad的问题吗？

You really going to do something about the iPad or not?

这些方面有任何问题吗？

Any of that.

好的。

Okay.

如果你还有什么没提到的，会是什么？

If there were something that you haven't captured, what would it be?

好的。

Okay.

看起来你们中没几个人退出了，希望这并没有让你们感到太有压力。

Well, it looks like not many of you have dropped off, so hopefully this wasn't too intimidating for you.

通常情况下，当人们坐下来进行这些整理时，会感受到一种悲伤与释然交织的情绪。

Usually people feel a combination of grief and relief when they sit down and do these lifts.

但这正是我们所要应对的现实。

But that's obviously what we work with.

对于那些不熟悉我们工作流程辅导流程的人，这正是我们第一步要做的，几乎是我与任何高管或被辅导者开始合作时的第一件事——我们需要把所有东西都清空出来。

And for those of you who are not familiar with our workflow coaching process, that's the first thing we do, just about the first thing we do when I sit down to work with an executive or whoever I'm coaching, is we need to get it all out.

掌控事务的第一步，首先是识别哪些事情没有处于自动运行状态。

Stage one of how do you get things under control is, first of all, you have to identify what's not on cruise control.

也就是说，那些占据你注意力的事情。

That is, the things that we have attention on.

因为通常来说，这些事越在你脑子里盘旋，它们就越难真正推进。

Because usually there's an inverse relationship between these things being on your mind and them actually happening.

所以整个思路是从识别转向让事情进入自动运行状态，这正是我们接下来要讨论的，也是掌控事务的后两个阶段：好吧，我已经把这些事从脑子里清空了，这能暂时帮你减压，感觉也不错。

So the whole idea is to move from identifying to then getting things onto cruise control, which is where we go next about these, which are the next two phases of getting things under control, which are, okay, I got these out of my head, that will serve you temporarily and feels good temporarily.

很多人只是这样，生活就真的发生了改变。

A lot of people, that just sort of changes their life, actually.

当他们刚开始接触GTD时，只是进入第一阶段，就开始写下比以往多得多的内容。

When they just get into GTD, they just get this first stage and start writing down a lot more than they ever wrote down before.

睡得更好，能更专注，等等。

Sleep better, able to focus better, etcetera.

但如果你不进入接下来的两个阶段，也就是现在我得弄清楚我写下的这些东西对我究竟意味着什么。

But then if you don't move to the next two phases of, okay, now I've to decide what exactly that means to me that I wrote down.

很多人会写下类似‘妈妈’这样的内容。

So many times people will write down something like mom.

我会说，是的，你确实有个妈妈，但这不只是历史数据，你为什么写下它？

I go, yeah, well you had one, but that's not just historical data, why'd you write it down?

是的。

Oh yeah.

所以现在我们必须继续推进：如果你想真正把这些事情纳入巡航控制，它们就会重新涌回你的脑海，你会开始抗拒查看你的清单，仅仅因为还需要更多的思考。

So now we have to go through the, okay, if you really want to get this onto cruise control, it'll suck right back up into your mind again, and you'll start to resist looking at your lists, simply because there's more thinking to be done.

所以，需要更多思考的部分是第二阶段和第三阶段，也就是我们所说的处理或澄清这些从你脑海中浮现出来的事物对你而言究竟意味着什么。

So the more thinking to be done is Phase II and Phase III, what we call processing or clarifying what exactly these things mean to you that you got out of your head.

第三阶段则是对这些思考结果进行组织。

And then Stage III is now organizing the results of that.

所以当我想到妈妈时，我真正想达成的结果是什么？

So when I think through mom, what is the outcome that I'm wanting to achieve there?

你会看到凯莉已经在屏幕上展示了我们的新工作流程图，你可以看到这些就是你需要问自己的基本问题。

And you'll see Kelly's put our new workflow diagram up on the screen so you can see these are the basic questions you just need to ask yourself.

因此，事情之所以占据你的注意力，是因为你还没有给予它们足够的关注。

So essentially, the reason things have your attention is because you have not put sufficient attention on them.

这有点像一种悖论。

It's kind of a paradoxical situation.

但真正的原因是你还没有完成对它们的思考，所以你的脑海中才会有未完成的循环，才会不断冒出来。

But it's because you actually haven't finished your thinking about them that that's why there's still open loops in your head and why they keep popping in there.

但人的大脑并不擅长管理这些事情。

But the mind just doesn't manage those very well.

它无法非常客观地管理这些事。

It doesn't manage them very objectively.

它们只是容易冒出来，通常取决于你赋予它的情感含量，或者这件事进入你脑海的远近，这些因素会影响它们浮现的顺序。

They just tend to pop in, oftentimes based upon how much emotional content you had wrapped into it or how recent the thing got inserted into your head, those will tend to be as they pop out.

但这一切只是在提醒你：嘿，伙计，你还没彻底思考过、决定过或明确过这件事。

But all that's doing is just letting you know, hey, dude, there's something that you still haven't thought about or decided about or really determined about this yet.

这些都是基本问题。

And these are the basic questions.

它是什么？

What is it?

妈，你为什么把它写下来？

Mom, why'd you write it down?

因为她的生日快到了。

Well, it's her birthday coming up.

很好，这件事可操作吗？

So great, is it actionable?

你在屏幕上看到了。

You see that on the screen.

基本问题。

Basic question.

两个可选答案：是或否。

Two optional answers, yes or no.

你会为妈妈做点什么吗？

You're going to do something about mom or not?

很多时候，事情就卡在这里了。

Oftentimes that's where things get hung up right there.

一旦你做了决定，你可能会说，算了，我就祝妈妈生日快乐吧。

And then once you make that decision, you might say, nah, I just wish mom a happy birthday.

她并不在意这些，我只是送她美好的祝福。

She doesn't make a big deal out of it and I send her good thoughts.

所以，不用了。

So no.

也许我想把她生日记在电子表格里，因为我正在跟踪所有生日，这样它就变成一个参考信息。

Maybe I want to put her birthday on a spreadsheet where I'm keeping track of birthdays so it'll become a piece of reference.

或者也许先放一放。

Or maybe it's incubate.

也许她的生日还要六周才到。

Maybe her birthday's not coming up for another six weeks.

你还不想立刻做决定。

You don't want to decide yet.

你会说，让我好好想想。

And you say, you know, let me think that.

我先搁置几周，睡一觉再说。

I'll just kind of sleep on that for a couple of weeks.

这样我仍然有充足的时间去处理这件事。

That'll give me still plenty of time to do something about it.

所以你可以在日历里设置一个提醒，或者在PICLR文件里加个标记，然后过段时间再回来处理。

So then you could put a trigger in your calendar or in a PICLR file and then come back to it.

所以我怀疑你会想丢弃这个想法。

So I doubt you'd want to trash the idea.

你可能会说，嗯，只是祝她生日快乐就足够了，这件事就完成了。

You might say, well, they're just wishing her happy birthday is sufficient and it's complete.

但这些是，你知道的，非可操作的，而所有这些都可能是完全合理的答案。

But those are the, you know, it's non actionable, and all those could be perfectly fine answers.

如果它是可操作的，你会想，哦，是的，我想我得为妈妈和她的生日做点什么了，然后就有两个问题，你几乎会看到它们在旁边出现。

If it is actionable, you go, oh yeah, I guess I've to do something about mom and her birthday, Then there's two questions, and you see them almost sidebar there.

你会看到有一条虚线向上偏左延伸，标为‘期望的结果’。

You see that there's a little dotted line that goes up to the left called what's the desired outcome.

这意味着这件事不止一个步骤。

That means that there's more than one step to this.

如果你说，听着，我只想给妈妈打个电话，留个语音消息，祝她生日快乐，这花两分钟就能完成，那这根本就不是多步骤的事。

If you say, look, all I just want to do is come to call mom and leave her a message, wish her a happy birthday, and you can do that in two minutes, well that's just not a multi step thing.

那就是，好吧，下一步就是给妈妈打电话，你两分钟就能做完。

That's just, okay, that's the next action is call mom, you can do it in two minutes.

所以这符合两分钟法则，正如你在下面‘立即做’部分看到的那样。

So that would fit in the two minute rule as you see down there under do it.

所以你就直接去做吧。

So you would just do that.

如果很可能遇到这种情况，你会说：不，我们得给妈妈办个生日派对。

If likely, that kind of scenario, you say, No, we need to give mom a birthday party.

或者也许你会想：我需要和我妹妹商量一下，我们是否真的想为她做这件事，那我就称之为研发。

Or perhaps it's like, I need to look into whether my sister and I really want to do this or not for her, then that might be what I call R and D.

这是我对于‘调研项目’的简略说法。

That's my shorthand for look into project.

但不管怎样，这会是一个期望结果，如果你说：是的，我要么给妈妈办个生日派对，要么去调研一下，那么这就成了一个项目。

But anyway, that would be a desired outcome, which you see if I say, yes, either I'm going to give mom a birthday party or I'm going to research it, now you have a project.

所以你看到那个指向左侧的箭头了吗？

So you see that arrow going over to the left.

这就变成了一个项目。

And that becomes a project.

这就像一个必须安放的锚点，你需要把它放在某个地方，然后不断提醒自己，现在你已经有了这项承诺，必须完成它。

That's a stake in the ground you need to park somewhere and then keep reminding yourself that you have that commitment now to get that done.

所以，再次回到把事情完成的简单本质，就是明确‘完成’意味着什么。

So again, back to the simplicity of getting things done is defining what done means.

那么，关于妈妈和生日，‘完成’到底意味着什么？

Well, what does done mean about mom and birthday?

是仅仅完成了调研，做出一个做或不做的决定，还是你已经实际为她庆祝了生日？

Is it just that you've researched it to make a go or no go decision, or you've actually celebrated her birthday?

无论哪种情况，这都会被列入你的项目清单。

In either case, that would go on your project list.

当然，与此直接相关的是，下一步行动是什么？

And of course, tied very directly to that is what's the next action?

而下一步行动可能是，我想我得给姐姐打个电话，聊聊妈妈可能想要什么。

And then the next action might be, I guess I've to call my sister and see, let's chat about what mom might want.

太棒了。

Fabulous.

你能给姐姐打个电话，两分钟内搞定吗？

Can you call your sister and do that in two minutes?

不，大概不行。

No, probably not.

如果她接了电话，我们可能会聊很久。

If she answers the phone, we'd probably be on the phone a while.

很好。

Great.

你能把这件事委托给别人吗？

Can you delegate that to somebody?

大概不行。

Probably not.

这意味着我得把它推迟一下。

So that means I need to defer it.

你看到左边第三个泡泡了吗？

You see that as the third bubble up to the left there.

好的，现在我需要把这件事搁置一下。

Okay, now I need to park that.

我需要给姐姐打电话。

I need to call SIS.

现在没法做，或者我不想现在做，所以我得把这件事搁置。

Can't do it right now, or I don't want to do it right now, and I need to park that.

如果是这样，如果你说，好吧，我只能在周六给姐姐打电话，或者那是我最有可能联系到她的时间，那你或许可以把这件事安排到周六的日程里。

In which case, if you say, well, if I only can call SIS on Saturday, or that's the time I can probably reach her, then you might want to put it on Saturday's calendar.

这样你就不用再操心了，到了周六，这就会成为当天要完成的一件事，你可以在那天把它安排好。

So you don't need to think about it, but on Saturday that's just something to do that day, and you're going to do that on Saturday, you could park it there.

或者如果你说，不，我只想在忙完其他事情后尽快给姐姐打电话，那你就该把它放到你的下一步行动清单里，放在你看到的那个小A标记的地方，比如通话清单，或者你用来追踪这类事项的任何地方。

Or if you said, No, I'm just going to call my sister as soon as I can in and around all the other stuff I need to do, that's where you would defer it to your next action list, where you put it down where you see the little A there for the action list that would go on a calls list or wherever you wanted to keep track of that kind of thing.

基本上，如果你已经完成了所有这些步骤，做出了这些决定，并把它们妥善搁置了，那么接下来，我们在这里电话里能做的就是确保你有定期的回顾。

Basically, if you've done all that, you've made those decisions, parked them somewhere, And then, of course, what we can handle on the phone here is then making sure you have some regular review.

你要相信，你把事情搁置的地方，你确实会适时去处理。

You trust them that where you park these things, you're actually going to engage with appropriately.

你会查看那个项目清单，注意到妈妈的生日即将来临，从而确保不会错过。

You're going to look at that project list and see mom's birthday coming towards you frequently enough to make sure it doesn't slip.

你会在合适的时间和地点看到提醒，去打那个电话，确保及时完成。

And you're going to see the reminder to make the phone call in some appropriate time and place, so you can do that in time.

虽然说了这么多，但这个过程的本质其实很简单。

Now, that's a lot said, but that's basically the simplicity of the process.

这并不是某种理论上的猜测，‘也许这能行’。

This is not some sort of theoretical, gee, this might work.

这实际上是我们在实践中与成千上万的人一起反复验证的做法。

This is literally what we spend thousands of hours with folks doing.

对于熟悉GTD的人来说，你们知道，这就是如何让你的收件箱清空的方法。

And it's what, those of you familiar with GTD, you know that's how you get your end basket empty.

你不需要立刻完成妈妈生日这件事，但你需要明确它对你来说到底意味着什么，‘完成’的定义是什么，‘行动’又该怎么做，并把它们妥善安排好。

You don't have to finish mom and birthday, but you do need to clarify what exactly it means to you, what does done mean, and what does doing look like, and park those things appropriately.

所以，如果你全程认真参与了我们的讨论，希望你从这次对话中获得了极大的价值。

So if you played full on with us, then hopefully you've got some tremendous value out of that conversation.

如果你和我一样，你的收件箱只会更满一些，我们只想提醒你，还有数百份精心设计的内容，可以帮助你将GTD水平提升到新高度，这些内容都已准备好，等你前往GTD Connect获取。

If you're like me, your inbox is just a tiny bit more full, and we just want to remind you that that as well as literally hundreds of other pieces of amazing content designed to take your GTD game to the next level are available, ready, and waiting for you over at GTD Connect.

如果你在注册时想获得大幅折扣，请在结账时使用代码 podcast，你可以在 gettingthingsdone.com/podcast 上完成操作。

Now, if you'd like a significant discount while signing up, use the code podcast when checking out, and you can do that all over at gettingthingsdone.com/podcast.

好了，我们希望你们喜欢这三集《要事第一》的首发节目。

Well, hey, we hope you've enjoyed these three launch episodes of Getting Things Done.

这是一档每周更新的播客。

This is a weekly podcast.

我们会每周陪伴你，见证你的每一个成长历程，下周我们非常期待。

We're gonna be alongside you for your journey every single week, and next week, we are so excited.

大卫·艾伦公司的首席执行官迈克·威廉姆斯将采访一位在农业领域实践GTD的倡导者。

The CEO of David Allen Company, Mike Williams, is going to be interviewing a GTD champion who's working in the agriculture space.

也许这不是你以前听过的场景，但其中的内容绝对精彩。

So maybe not a, context that you've heard before, but some fantastic stuff there.

和以往一样，我们非常期待听到你的声音。

And as always, we want to hear from you.

你最喜欢这个播客的哪些方面？

What do you like about the podcast?

你希望看到更多什么内容？

What would you like to see more of?

你可以发送邮件到 podcast@davidcoe.com，我们非常期待你在 iTunes 上给予评分和评论。

You can send us an email over at podcast@davidcoe.com, and we would absolutely love your ratings and reviews in iTunes.

我们下周见。

We'll see you all next week.

在那之前，我是安德鲁·J·梅森，想问你：听完这个播客后，你的下一步行动是什么？

Until then, I'm Andrew j Mason asking you, now that you've listened to this podcast, what's your next action?