Secret #6: They use a notebook.
Richard Branson has said on more than one occasion that he wouldn't have been able to build Virgin1 without a simple notebook, which he takes with him wherever he goes. In one interview, Greek shipping2 magnate Aristotle Onassis said, "Always carry a notebook. Write everything down…That is a million dollar lesson they don't teach you in business school!" Ultra-productive people free their mind by writing everything down.
Secret #7: They process email only a few times a day.
Ultra-productive people don't "check" email throughout the day. They don't respond to each vibration3 or ding to see who has intruded4 their inbox. Instead, like everything else, they schedule time to process their email quickly and efficiently5. For some that's only once a day, for me, it's morning, noon and night.
Secret #8: They avoid meetings at all costs.
When I asked Mark Cuban to give me his best productivity advice, he quickly responded, "Never take meetings unless someone is writing a check." Meetings are notorious time killers6. They start late, have the wrong people in them, meander7 in their topics and run long. You should get out of meetings whenever you can, hold fewer of them yourself, and if you do run a meeting, keep it short.
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Secret #9: They say "no" to almost everything.
Billionaire Warren Buffet8 once said, "The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no' to almost everything." And James Altucher colorfully gave me this tip,"If something is not a "hell, YEAH! Then it's a "no!"
Remember, you only have 1,440 minutes in every day. Don't give them away easily.
Secret #10: They follow the 80/20 rule.
Known as the Pareto Principle, in most cases 80% of outcomes come from only 20% of activities. Ultra-productive people know which activities drive the greatest results, and focus on those and ignore the rest.
1 virgin
n.處女，未婚女子；adj.未經(jīng)使用的；未經(jīng)開發(fā)的
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Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去過原始森林嗎？ There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在邊遠(yuǎn)地區(qū)有大片大片未開墾的土地。
2 shipping
n.船運(yùn)（發(fā)貨，運(yùn)輸，乘船）
參考例句：
We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我們和一家美國船運(yùn)公司談成了一筆生意。 There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.價(jià)格之外另加五英鎊運(yùn)輸費(fèi)。
3 vibration
n.顫動(dòng)，振動(dòng)；擺動(dòng)
參考例句：
There is so much vibration on a ship that one cannot write.船上的震動(dòng)大得使人無法書寫。 The vibration of the window woke me up.窗子的震動(dòng)把我驚醒了。
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4 intruded
n.侵入的，推進(jìn)的v.侵入，侵?jǐn)_，打擾( intrude的過去式和過去分詞 )；把…強(qiáng)加于
參考例句：
One could believe that human creatures had never intruded there before. 你簡直會(huì)以為那是從來沒有人到過的地方。 來自辭典例句 The speaker intruded a thin smile into his seriousness. 演說人嚴(yán)肅的臉上掠過一絲笑影。 來自辭典例句
5 efficiently
adv.高效率地，有能力地
參考例句：
The worker oils the machine to operate it more efficiently.工人給機(jī)器上油以使機(jī)器運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)更有效。 Local authorities have to learn to allocate resources efficiently.地方政府必須學(xué)會(huì)有效地分配資源。
6 killers
兇手( killer的名詞復(fù)數(shù) )； 消滅…者； 致命物； 極難的事
參考例句：
He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要將殺人兇手繩之以法的決心一直沒有動(dòng)搖。 They were professional killers who did in John. 殺死約翰的這些人是職業(yè)殺手。
7 meander
n.河流的曲折，漫步，迂回旅行；v.緩慢而彎曲地流動(dòng)，漫談
參考例句：
Visitors and locals alike meander along the sidewalks of the Seine River.游客與當(dāng)?shù)厝搜刂{河岸漫步聊天。 They tumble down mountainsides and meander through flat farmlands.它們滾滾沖下山脊，蜿蜒穿過平坦的農(nóng)田。
8 buffet
n.自助餐；飲食柜臺(tái)；餐臺(tái)
參考例句：
Are you having a sit-down meal or a buffet at the wedding?你想在婚禮中擺桌宴還是搞自助餐？ Could you tell me what specialties you have for the buffet?你能告訴我你們的自助餐有什么特色菜嗎？
《15個(gè)保持高效工作的秘訣 中》添加時(shí)間：2024-12-14；更新時(shí)間：2025-03-09
