3. Batch Tasks Together

　　分批處理任務

　　When you're going through the workday, try to keep similar tasks together. When you switch from one thing to another, your brain takes a few minutes to catch up and settle in: constantly jumping between answering emails and writing a report and tidying up your desk just means you'll lose track of where you'd got to. You might feel like you're working super-efficiently (because your mind is buzzing all over the place), but you'll actually be wasting a lot of time.

　　工作時可以將相似的任務并在一起處理。當你從一個任務換到另一個任務時，大腦會花幾分鐘進行調整：同時既要回復郵件、撰寫報告，又要整理辦公桌，到頭來你可能會手足無措。雖然這樣你可能覺得自己效率超級高(因為大腦一刻沒停)，但其實并沒有優化利用時間。

　　If you need to answer a number of emails, do them all at once. The same goes for phone calls, filing, photocopying and other similar tasks.

　　如果要回復的郵件很多，那就一起處理掉。電話、整理文案、影印等同樣如此。