The ratio of planning and doing 计划和行动的比例
Managing all our activities with in the time available to us is a very high responsibility. In order to match the available time with the various activities that we have to discharge by virtue of our responsibilities calls for a lot of meticulous planning. We need to plan for the long-term goal, intermediate goal and immediate goal. We need to do a lot of thinking. It calls for a certain amount of tact and smartness.
管理我们可利用时间内的所有活动是我们的重要责任。为了使复杂多变的活动与我们的可利用时间相匹配必须进行一些小心翼翼的计划。我们需要对长期目标、中间目标和直接目标进行计划。我们需要进行大量的思考。It calls for a certain amount of tact and smartness。
At the same time we need to be aware that too much planning and too little execution is not also good. There has to be a healthy ratio between the time spent on planning and the time spent on executing the plan. Some times we are tempted to plan a lot of things and after some time the law of diminishing returns operates.
与此同时我们需要注意到太多的计划和太少的执行也是不好的。在计划花费的时间和执行计划花费的时间之间存在一个合适的比例。有时我们被吸引去计划许多的事情，然后在未来某个时间发现收益递减规律开始发挥作用了。
The planning time should be spent on the following areas:
1. Time spent on long-term goals and strategy: This is a very important phase. This will give the over all road map.
2. Time spent on medium term goals and tasks: This includes six monthly and weekly schedules.
3. Time spent on daily activities: This is for a day-to-day planning of the activities.
计划时间应该消耗在下面的范围：
1、长期目标和策略的时间消耗：这是非常重要的阶段。这个阶段将给出全部的路线图。
2、时间消耗在中期目标和任务：包括半年和每周进度表。
3、时间消耗在每日活动：这是活动的每天计划。
Time spent on planning will have to take into account the above issues. Too much of time should not be spent for day-to-day planning. At the same time too little time spent for planning for the long- term issues will not help reaching the goals. The weekly planning lies somewhere in between.
计划的时间消耗必须考虑以上问题。太多的时间不应该消耗在每日计划上。同时用于长期计划的时间消耗太少将难以达到目标。周计划在两者之间。
Perhaps the following thumb rule may be considered:
? About half an hour per day for drawing a to do list.
? About one hour every week end introspecting how the week was spent and how to plan for the next week.
? At the end of the year allotting about 10 to 15 days for planning for long term and break through issues. This will include taking stock of what happened in our life so far and considering what we are going to be in future.
或许下面的大拇指规则应该被考虑：
每天大约半小时用于规划to-do列表。
每个周末用大约一个小时反思本周的时间消耗和怎样做下周的计划。
年底分配10到15天的时间进行长期目标计划和难题突破。包括斟酌到目前为止我们生命中发生过的事情、考虑将来我们将成为什么。
Planning is a useful tool and it has to be used effectively.
计划是有用的工具而且必须有效的使用它。