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10 work habits to help avoid late nights

许多上班族总是觉得上班很辛苦，老是要加班，其实很多时候并不是工作真的很多，而是他们不知道

怎么安排他们的工作，怎么合理利用他们的时间。

如果你就是这样，那看看这十条建议吧！

Use these 10 tips to approach each day with a clear vision of what needs to be accomplished and a strategy for getting it done.

1. Start each day with a plan.

Before checking your e-mail or voice mail, spend the first 15 minutes of your day writing down a to-do list. When you're done, note which items need to be completed today, which need to be finished over the next few days, and which are longer-term goals. This will help you pinpoint priorities for the day, and keep you from being sidetracked by less important items. It will also give you the big picture of what you have to accomplish if you plan to stop work at a reasonable hour.

2. Delegate.

After you create your to-do list, scan it for items that can be delegated appropriately to someone else on your team. By identifying these items early in the day, you can get team members started on them right away, doubling the rate that you're moving through your list. Co-workers also will appreciate having a full day in which to juggle tasks, rather than hearing about them toward the end of the day, after they may already have a plan for their last few work hours.

3. Control interruptions.

Don't let unexpected e-mails, phone calls and meetings interrupt your day and force you into a late night. Instead, keep unplanned events in check by reviewing e-mail once every few hours instead of every 10 minutes, letting calls go into voice mail and returning only urgent ones immediately, and requesting that meetings be scheduled at a time that's convenient for you.

4. Get to work earlier and leave earlier.

Working late can start a vicious cycle — when you work later, you're likely to wake up later, and then get to work later, and so on. For one week, force yourself to get to your desk earlier than usual and leave it earlier. This may be difficult initially, but you will probably discover that getting started earlier in the day will make your workday more productive by giving you planning time in the morning, before everyone has arrived for the day.

5. Avoid personal tasks at work.

Some workers allow themselves to be distracted during the workday by personal issues that need their attention. While it's hard to avoid personal needs completely during work, regularly handling things like bill paying, thank-you card writing and other tasks eats into productivity. The time you spend on such non-work items adds up, usually at the expense of leaving on time.

6. Let the phone ring after 5 p.m.

After regular business hours end, let incoming calls go into your voice-mail system. This will keep you from being drawn into late-night work requests and will help you stay focused on the priorities you identified for the day.

7. Rely on e-mail.

Many daily communications can be accomplished with less fanfare via e-mail than by phone. Using e-mail will help you avoid the necessary chitchat that accompanies calls, and may also seem like less of a workflow interruption that a conversation. Needless to say, some business must be handled by talking to people directly. But most workers can handle more communications via e-mail than they currently do.

8. Review your technology.

Updates to computer and office equipment may make your work more efficient, allowing you to finish the day earlier. For instance, a more powerful computer may allow you to finish Web research faster or run multiple software applications at the same time.

9. Automate.

Look for work tasks that can be automated with new technology tools. For example, if you handle the management of an e-mail subscription list, use a tool such as bCentral's List Builder to automate subscription management, so you don't waste time manually processing subscription additions and deletions.

10. Let the day end.

Many people who run small companies burn the midnight oil because they just can't get themselves to leave. Resist the temptation to work into the wee hours. Giving into it can actually make you less productive and put you on a path toward burnout. Set a firm time when your workday will end and stick to it — even if you haven't finished all the tasks you set out to handle.

Julie

Difference between the person you love and like
In front of the person you love, your heart beats faster.
But in front of the person you like, you get happy.

In front of the person you love, winter seems like spring.
But in front of the person you like, winter is just beautiful winter.

If you look into the eyes of the one you love,you blush.
But if you look into the eyes of the one you like,you smile.

In front of the person you love, you can't say everything on your mind.
But in front of the person you like, you can.

In front of the person you love, you tend to get shy.
But in front of the person you like, you can show your own self.

You can't look straight into the eyes of the one you love.
But you can always smile into the eyes of the one you like.

When the one you love is crying, you cry with them.
But when the one you like is crying, you end up comforting.

The feeling of love starts from the eye.
But the feeling if like starts from the ear.

So if you stop liking a person you used to like,all you need to do is cover your ears.
But if you try to close your eyes, love turns into a drop of tear and remains in your heart forever ...

Julie

Romantic Countries in the World
These are some of the romantic countries in the world.

H.O.L.L.A.N.D. - Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies.
I.T.A.L.Y. - I Trust And Love You.
L.I.B.Y.A. - Love Is Beautiful; You Also.
F.R.A.N.C.E. - Friendships Remain And Never Can End.
C.H.I.N.A. - Come Here.. I Need Affection.
B.U.R.M.A. - Between Us, Remember Me Always.
N.E.P.A.L. - Never Ever Part As Lovers.
I.N.D.I.A. - I Nearly Died In Adoration.
K.E.N.Y.A. - Keep Everything Nice, Yet Arousing.
C.A.N.A.D.A. - Cute And Naughty Action that Developed into Attraction
K.O.R.E.A. - Keep Optimistic Regardless of Every Adversity.
E.G.Y.P.T. - Everything's Great, You Pretty Thing!
M.A.N.I.L.A. - May All Nights Inspire Love Always.
P.E.R.U. - Phorget Everyone... Remember Us.
T.H.A.I.L.A.N.D - Totally Happy. Always In Love And Never Dull.

Julie
Jerry Maguire
United States 1996
U.S. Release Date:
12/13/96 (wide)
Running Length: 2:18
MPAA Classification: R (Profanity, sexual situations, nudity)

Theatrical Aspect Ratio:		 1.85:1
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renee Zellweger, Regina King, Bonnie Hunt, Jay Mohr,  Jonathan Lipnicki, Kelly Preston
Director: Cameron Crowe
Producer:
James L. Brooks
Screenplay: Cameron Crowe
Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski
Music: Nancy Wilson
U.S. Distributor: TriStar Pictures

  1996年，好莱坞帅哥汤姆?克鲁斯以一个体育经纪人的身份在大片Jerry Maguire中再一次向人展示了他精彩的演技和难以抵挡的魅力。影片上映不久就引起了轰动，观众这样评价“Every time I think Hollywood has slipped beyond redemption, someone in the system produces a film like Jerry Maguire that renews my faith. Apparently, creativity is not dead in the mainstream movie market -- not entirely, at least. This is the kind of movie that reminds me why I started reviewing in the first place. Jerry Maguire is magic on celluloid -- fresh, funny, romantic, and upbeat. You'll leave the theater with a smile on your face and perhaps a tear in your eye.”

  影片Jerry Maguire讲述了体育经纪人Jerry Maguire在事业高峰时，突然感到自己就像是“Just another shark in a
suit”，所以他花了一整夜写了一份Mission Statement called "The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of
Our Business" 。The essay attacks the sports agency business, advocating a more humane approach. 第二天，
a copy is distributed to everyone in the office. 虽然Jerry Maguire的同事都称赞"Somebody finally said what
had to be said",但他还是因此失了工作。他留住了唯一一个客户，并在Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger), who is
so moved by Jerry's Mission Statement that she's willing to throw away a safe job to be part of his new
venture.的帮助下重新开始了新的事业，最终成功。
    整个影片中，男女主人公的感人的爱情故事也给观众留下了深刻的印象，发人深省。

在现实的经济社会中，他们纯洁的爱情不能不说是给人们带来了真爱的希望。


影片中另一个亮点就是Cuba Gooding Jr，他把和Jerry Maguire的友情演绎得淋漓尽致，他挂在嘴

边的一句话“show me the money”也成为经典对白。
  
Tom Cruise

Born: July 3, 1962

Birth Place: Syracuse, New York

Nationality: American

Engagingly sexy with a wall of perfect teeth and a grin to defrost the coldest of hearts, Tom Cruise exploded onto screens during the mid-1980s in a series of teen roles that made the most of his athleticism and revealed the boyishly handsome star's charisma.
The actor quickly graduated to adult superstar status and by decade's end had held his own opposite both Paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman as each garnered Best Actor Oscars in his company.
By the mid-90s, he was indisputably the most powerful movie star of his generation, only bested by the relatively grizzled Harrison Ford as the world box-office champ, and by the end of the millennium he had surpassed even Ford, becoming Hollywood's most bankable star with five consecutive films grossing in excess of $100 million prior to the release of the hotly anticipated "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), Stanley Kubrick's directorial swan song.

Julie

FUNERAL OF DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES----- 英国王妃戴安娜葬礼


Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I arn nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. and though I give my body to be burned. And have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly. seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues. they shall cease; whether tliere be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part. And we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: hut when I became a man. I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ——英国首相布莱尔


Julie

HOW TO BE A GOOD LISTENER

When I first went to London as a student I sat alone during parties with my glass of wine. I hoped people would think that someone might come up to me and say, ‘Excuse me! I hope you won’t mind my coming up to you like this, I don’t want to interrupt your thoughts…but really， you are the only interesting looking person in the room! May I talk to you?”
It never happened!
Here is some advice if you would like to be a good conversationalist: be an attentive listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. To be interesting, be interested! Ask questions that other people will enjoy answering. Encourage hem to talk about themselves and what they have done.
Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their problems than they are in you and your problems. A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills I million people. A pain in one’s arm interests one more than 40 earthquake in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a conversation.
Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who is supposed to have lived in a barrel, said, ‘The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so that we may listen more and talk less!’
Do you know how to get on with people? Do you ever feel shy? What situation makes you shy? Do you sometimes feel as if you don’t know how to interest and amuse people and have conversations with them? Do you search desperately in your head for something to say? Do people find an excuse to leave you as soon as they can?

Try listening! Here are some more recommendations about listening: (A neighbor of mine talking about her child) ‘One evening last week I was sitting with Hannah, and she said to me, “You are a marvelous mum!” And I said, “Well do you say that suddenly?” And she said, “Well, although you are always busy you always stop what you are doing to listen to me.”’(From How to Talk your Way to Success in Selling) ‘You have to force your buyer to talk …to enter the conversation…if you expect to talk your way to successful sale. The only way you can do this is to stop talking yourself and listen.’
(From Hamlet)

‘Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.’

Airline employees are taught how to listen to complaints. If they are able to show sympathy and to listen long enough the passenger’s problem will begin to seem less important.

Psychologists, counselors and doctors also know that listening is part of their job. If they listen with care and concern the patient may even solve the problem! They are professional listeners. Here is some advice they give.
I: Show the other person that you are listening.
     让别人感到你在听他们说话
II:Look at them.
     看着对方
III:Smile and nod quite often,
     常常面带微笑，频频点头表示你听懂了对方。
IV:and shake you head or raise your eyebrows if you don’t follow what         they are saying.
       如果 不懂就摇摇头或者皱皱眉，让对方知道调整讲话内容。
V: Don’t tap your foot because this will show impatience.
      别用脚敲地板，免得别人误会你听得不耐烦啦
VI:Don’t look at your watch unless you really have to know the time,(and         then you should           tell the other person why you need to know the         time). If you show impatience then the            other person will lose the          moment of friendship which they are offering.
       别看手表啊！
A good listener has magic! A good listener has the ability to make people feel good, and is as valuable at a party as a good talker. But just listening isn’t enough. One should listen intelligently by trying to find out what the other person would really like to communicate.

Look at these two short bits of conversation. What is the person really saying?
‘I work for a small firm which makes shirts. They are high quality shirts, the sort that cost about ￥40. It’s a good job, really, and it keep me pretty busy .I was promoted to the job of export manager last year because the previous man retired. I suppose they couldn’t find anyone else. I’ve never actually been abroad. I suppose it’s a really…’

The way the man says these things and how he moves and behaves will show what he is thinking. He may really be wanting to say how he feels very inadequate to do the new job. Another example:

‘Oh, I live a very ordinary life really. Nothing much happens to me I seem to spend all my time shopping cooking, washing up, listening to other people’s problems, not that I mind too much …’

This person is saying that their life is boring and that they have nothing to talk about. But they might love to talk about their children and in their descriptions show what their interests, their hopes and their difficulties are. it need not be boring. After all, many great stories are based on families.

Julie
How to improve your spoken English 如何提高英语口语



Since many Chinese students feel that their spoken English is poor although they can do a good job at grammar, it is important to find out the reasons why they often have such a problem. I think there may be four main reasons.

Limited vocabulary:
First they feel it is very difficult to find suitable words to express themselves. Sometimes they know how to answer. But as soon as they try to speak, they hesitate for times to search out the words they want. So they’ll feel less and less confident to speak English.

Not listening:
The second reason is that they don’t pay enough attention to listening. The reason why we have two ears and one mouth is to let us listen more. So we should do more listening. The more you put in, the more you’ll get out. Imagine that you can’t understand what others say, how can you know what to say and how to say.

No confidence
Third, they are not confident enough and afraid of making mistakes. But the more fearful they are, the more mistakes they’ll make. What I want to ask is that who wants to talk with a person even dared not speak.

Reactive learning
Forth, most Chinese students are reactive rather than proactive language learners. Instead of actively seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English they passively wait for speaking opportunities to come to them and wonder why their English always remains poor. Native English speakers will not come to you asking, “Would you like to practice English with me?”. So what you need to do is to maximize your speaking opportunities.

Now we know the reasons why many people have problem in spoken English. In fact that’s not very important. The most important thing is to find ways to solve the problem. There are some strategies that you can use with great effect to improve your spoken English.

Be confident自信
Be persistent 坚持不懈
Expand your vocabulary 扩大词汇量
Do more listening 多练听力
Do more thinking 多思考
And say to yourself every day: “I can do it perfect.”

Julie

Love Letter No. 1 ---- Proclamation
Dearest Julie:

Just as a poet needs inspiration to write a masterpiece
I need you ...

Just as an artist needs a subject for his work of art,
I need you ...

Just as a teacher needs a pupil to mold into greatness,
I need you ...

Just as a composer needs a theme to create a timeless melody,
I need you ...

For without you, Julie, my life would be empty of all inspiration. There will be no work of art for me to gaze at; no person of greatness before me; no timeless melody to listen to. My life will exist in shades of gray instead of vibrant colors, and I will be less than whole.
In the past, the proper words have escaped me, and my innermost feelings have been kept locked away in the depths of my heart. No more - for through this letter, I proclaim to you, Julie, my undying love and eternal devotion.
Yours forever,

Tony

Julie
Love Letter No. 2 --- True Love

Dearest Julie:

It is very important for me to express to you how much you really mean to me. I wish I could do this in person while holding you in my arms and gazing into your eyes. But since we are physically separated by miles of emptiness, this expression must come in the form of letters such as this.

Julie, I know it is difficult for you, as it is for me, to be separated for so long. Life seems to be full of trials of this type which test our inner strength, and more importantly, our devotion and love for one another. After all, it is said that "True Love" is boundless and immeasurable and overcomes all forms of adversity. In truth, if it is genuine, it will grow stronger with each assault upon its existence.

Julie, our love has been assaulted many times, and I am convinced that it is true because the longer I am away from you, the greater is my yearning to be with you again. You are my (enchanted Princess/Charming Prince), and I am your devoted
(consort/Prince/Princess). I cherish any thought of you, prize any memory of you that rises from the depths of my mind, and live for the day when our physical separation will no longer be.

Until that moment arrives, I send to you across the miles, my tender love, my warm embrace, and my most passionate kiss.

Love always,
Tony
Julie

Love Poetry by Pablo Neruda--If You Forget Me
I want you to know one thing
You know how this is
If I look at the crystal moon at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window
If I touch near the fire the impalpable ash, or the wrinkled body of the log
Everything carries me to you
As if everything that exists
Aromas, light, medals,
Or little boats that sail toward
Those isles of your that wait for me
注释
1） impalpable: adj. 摸不着的，难以捉摸的
2） aromas: n. 香味，特指某物、某处的香味
3） isle: n. 岛、屿（诗中用语）

如 果 你 忘 了 我

希望你知道
这是我的想法
当凭窗凝望
姗姗而来的秋日
红枝上的明月
当轻触火堆旁
似有似无的尘烬
或是褶皱层层的木柴
我的心儿就会飞向你
似乎一切都有了
芬芳、光明和荣誉
就像小舟荡向岛屿
那里，你等候着我

Julie

莎士比亚经典独白
Romeo:
My love ! My wife !
Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breach,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Thou are not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.
Dear Juliet,
Why are thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
That unsubstantial Death is amorous,
Keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour?
Here. O, here will I set up my everlasting rest
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh.
Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you
注释
1） ensign: n. 旗帜、印记
2） set…rest: 决定永远留下来
3） inauspicious: a. 不吉利的

译文
罗密欧：我的爱人！我的妻子！
死神虽然吸干了你甜蜜的气息，
却没有力量摧毁你的美丽。
你没有被征服，美丽的红旗仍然轻拂着你的嘴唇和面颊，
死神的白旗还未插到里。
亲爱的朱丽叶，
你为什么依然如此美丽？难道要我相信无形的死神很多情，
把你藏在这暗洞里做他的情妇？
这儿，啊，我要在这儿永远安息
从我这厌恶人生的躯体上
挣脱厄运的奴役。
眼睛，最后再看一次！
手臂，最后拥抱一次吧！嘴唇，啊！


Julie

To Make the United Nations More Effective by Recognizing Its Shortcoming
“It would be easy on this anniversary simply to praise and to express support. But if we really mind about the United Nations…then we must make it more effective by recognizing its shortcomings and putting them right.” True, there had not been another world war, but that was “little consolation” to the millions killed, maimed or made homeless in over 140 or lesser conflicts. There were still Governments that blatantly disregarded basic human rights because they had “no place in their political systems”.

United Nations resolutions were not always objective; some reflected double standards. South Africa was properly condemned for its degrading treatment of black people, yet where were the resolutions on the treatment of Soviet Jewry? The Organizations had not yet been able to deal with terrorism. In some nations, justice was still a remote ideal. If the majority of members wanted to influence one Government, they “must offer not rhetoric and abuse but encouragement when steps are taken in the right direction”. In South Africa, for example, there was a chance for progress if negotiations were accompanied by suspension of violence on all sides.

There had been fruitful work by the Organization over the past 40 years: it had shown it could be a force for action-in crisis management, setting the stage for negotiations, pursuing its peacekeeping role. But the United Nations was not a world government, as wishful thinking had led some to believe. It was “only a mirror held up to our own uneven, untidy and divided world. If we do not like what we see, there is no point in cursing the mirror, we had better start by reforming ourselves”.


Written by Margaret Thatcher(1925----)玛格丽特?撒切尔 1979年5月——1990年11月任英国首相。本文是她在1985年10月24日联大40周年特别纪念会议上的讲话摘要

Julie

Travel in Shanghai
First stop:

Do you know where is the city’s first “art street” in Shanghai? It’s Taikang Road.

The 420-meter-long road is quietly tucked between Ruijin and Sinan roads. From the outside, Taikang Road, with its small framing shops, grocery market and bland galleries, is not really worth a passing glance. But talk to artists and trendy(showing or following the latest trends of fashion) fashion mavens, and a different Taikang Road emerges. Over the past 4 years, art studios, fashion boutiques(small shops selling clothes and other articals of the latest fashion), restaurants and pubs have opened, all tucked into a facade(front of a building) that is both 1950s postmodern and classic early 20th-century “shikumen”(stone-gate). The mystery of Taikang Road lies in not what you immediately catch on the street, but what lies behind it. Chen Yifei and Deke Erh, two of the nation's most creative dynamos, have set up shops there, sending property values sky high and imbuing the street with a "hip factor" that money can't buy.

Taikang Road have also attracted many foreign artists and designers. For them , the special postmodern aura(distinctive atmosphere) that permeates(enter sth and spread to every part) this street is reminiscent(reminding one of sth) of established artistic communities, like New York’s Soho, similarly sited in old factories. Besides, the amount of space and the cheap rental is also what attracted them. And another reason is that the special environment can bring them great creativity.

Taikang Road is very different now. Maybe no one can imagine what it was like in the early 1950s when food, textile and equipment factories were built along it where was thick with shuttling trucks and smoke from the factories.

Now Taikang Road is going to be turned into a unique venue(place where people agree to meet), where art melds with industry, postmodernism meets fashion. It will attract more and more people and be known better.

Julie