31. Stop trying to do things perfectly¹. 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，当你做完的时候你就成功了。抱着这样的心态去做所有的事情，然后着手下一步。

32. Take a minute and just breathe a couple of times a day. This will help you to reduce the stress and overwhelm² 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.每天花一分钟深呼吸几次。这样能帮助你减压，忘掉白天的纷纷扰扰。让你的思绪回到当下这一刻，形成谨慎生活的习惯，把你的注意力集中到此刻发生的事情上来。

33. Spend just 20% of your time on dwelling³ on a problem and 80% of your time focusing on a solution. Instead of the other way around.

33.完成工作的时候要用20%的时间细想问题，80%的时间找出解决办法。而不是反过来。

34. Focus on a few priorities⁴ 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 distracted⁵ by all those many other things you want to do or that feel you need to do too.

34.集中考虑生活中需要优先完成的事情。简化问题，让你能够投入所有的努力，注意力和能力来解决最重要的问题。而非把问题扩展成无穷小的部分，或者几乎不能完成的事情，继而被许多其他需要你去完成或者你想做的事情弄的心烦意乱。

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.按时写日记。通过记录下事情的面貌，你的想法和感受，可以帮你完成挑战或者找出解决办法。你也可以通过记日记来写下你生活的真实结果，而不是瞎猜你到底过的怎么样。这样也能记住你完成的好的事情，或者你经常担心但是没什么大碍的事情，或者一些负面情绪。

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.不要再做你讨厌做的事情了。生活在改变，你也一样。如果你特别讨厌做某事那就不要再做了（及时这将花去你一段时间，比如换工作）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 distractions⁶ here. Just me, the computer and the water.

37.拥有一个简单的工作空间。我的工作间只是个木头的黑色小桌，上面摆一台笔记本电脑。我有一把舒服的椅子，笔记本旁边放着一杯水。就这些了。没有其他让我分心的食物，只有电脑，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 clarity⁷, get more of the most important things done next week and minimize⁸ stress.

38.每个周末抽出15分钟计划下周的事情。写下你下周的计划，整理出下周优先要做的事情，并在之前做好准备。这将帮你把下周最重要的事情变明了，从而减少压力。

39. Cancel subscriptions⁹ for TV-channels, newsletters and magazines you rarely get around to watching or reading anyway.

39。退订那些你很难抽空去看或者读得电视节目，新闻邮件，杂志。

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.询问而不是猜测。读心是很难的。因此，要去询问别人并交流。这会帮你避免不必要的冲突，误会，节省你的时间和精力。