by James Harwood

如果没有完整的项目列表，你便无法从每周检视中获得更高的视角来看待你的世界。

You won’t get the great benefit of seeing your world from a higher perspective in your Weekly Review® without first having a complete Projects list.

直到你从“每周检视”中的更高视角看到您的世界之前，你也不会完全理解为什么应该有一份完整的项目列表。

You won’t fully understand why you should keep a complete Projects list until you’re getting the benefit of seeing your world from a higher perspective in your Weekly Review.

鸡和鸡蛋： 先有哪个？

Chicken and egg: which came first?

最近有一位一直使用GTD®的人参加了我们的初级课程。 之后，他告诉我，他意识到他没有有效地跟踪项目，而且他对每周评论的习惯也很挣扎。

Someone who had been using GTD® for a number of years recently came to one of our Level 1 Fundamentals public seminars. Afterwards, he told me that he realised he hadn’t been tracking Projects effectively and that he had always struggled with the Weekly Review habit.

大部分人在学习了一些“速效” 之后，会采用 GTD 方法论的两个部分。 （例如改进的捕获实践，根据实情分列表和使用两分钟规则） ; 我当然会。

Most people would admit to adopting these two parts of the GTD methodology after some of the easier ‘quick wins’ (such as improved capture practices, dividing lists by contexts and using the two-minute rule); I certainly would.

那些速效方案将立即提高你的工作效率。 没有错。 只需对你的工作方式进行3个改变，你就可以在承诺，电子邮件和行动上获得掌控。 所以，你会前进地更快，但你怎么知道你朝着正确的方向前进？

Those quick wins will make you more productive immediately. Nothing wrong with that. You’ll be able to get more on top of your commitments, emails and actions just with those three changes to your way of working. So, you’ll be moving faster – but how do you know you’re going in the right direction?

我们建议每周一次进行暂停。 不止是暂停，你需要停止。 查询一下每天你需要打的电话和发的邮件，你需要打印的，购买的和发送的东西。 考虑一下是否所有的电话，谈话，电子邮件，打印，购买和邮寄都是引领您走向未来几周和几个月想要实现的目标。

Once a week, we recommend that you pause. More than pause; that you stop. Look up from the daily grind of who you’ve got to call and speak to and email, what you’ve got to print and buy and send, and to consider if all the calling, speaking, emailing, printing, buying and sending is leading you towards what you want to achieve in the next weeks and months ahead.

最简单的方法来思考你是否走在正确的轨道上并向前移动，以便从更高的视角看待你的世界，在那里你想要终结，完成，推出和发布，那就是列出你所有这些项目，这样可以轻松而周到地反思。 如果没有这个列表，主要问题不在于总体很难实现，而是你根本不会实现一切，然后项目会停滞不前，从你的注意力中消失并迷失在你身上。

The easiest way to consider if you’re on the right track and to move up to view your world from the higher horizon where you want to finalise, complete, roll-out and launch, is to have a list of all these Projects which you can easily and thoughtfully reflect on. Without that list, the main problem isn’t that this overview will be hard to achieve, it’s that you won’t do it at all and then Projects will stall, drift out of your attention and be lost to you.

你也不会感受到你所取得的进步。或者，用 David Allen 的话来说： “如果你没有明确目的，你就无法获胜”。

You also won’t feel the progress you have made as potently. Or, in David Allen’s words: “You can’t win if you haven’t defined the purpose”.

保持完善的项目列表将为您提供许多好处，包括帮助您充分从每周检视中获利。

Keeping a complete and full Projects list will give you many, many benefits including helping you get the most out of your Weekly Reviews.

跟上每周检视的节奏将为您带来许多好处，包括从项目列表的更高角度看世界。

Keeping up with your Weekly Reviews will give you many, many benefits including seeing your world from the higher perspective of your Projects list.

鸡和鸡蛋： 你会先从哪步着手？

Chicken and egg: which will you start working on first?

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