她补充说，在工作上她有“时间卫士”的名号，“因为我百分百赞成为了让会议按时结束而打断某人的做法”。“会议进行一半时，我就会说，‘各位，我们还剩下30分钟，”——之后再提醒还剩10分钟，等等。这个技巧的有益效果是迫使某些长篇大论的同事抓住重点（这绝不是什么坏事）。

    3.设定唯一的日程表。泰勒在事业初期有工作和家庭两套独立的日程表，它意味着“我分裂了自己的生活，因此我也感受到了分裂的感觉。这种感觉不好。一旦会议和预约发生冲突，我就分身乏术，会错过一些东西。”在同一个日程表上标注个人和职业事项就能防止发生这种情况。

    4.周末工作。“周日是我的秘密武器，”泰勒写到。“没人喜欢在周日工作。这意味，空荡荡的办公室，整层楼，甚至可能整栋楼都任由我安排。”

    因此，她带她的两个孩子到办公室去：“我带上游戏、贴纸和白板笔，把他们安顿在我办公室旁的会议室里。另外，在空荡荡的办公室里，他们也可以自由自在地跑来跑去而不会打扰到任何人。孩子们过得很开心，而泰勒可以为下一周做好准备。

    5.备有多个日间看护计划。“小孩没人照看让任何职场母亲都很头痛，”泰勒写道，对此她有过惨痛的教训：那一次她丈夫出差，她有一个非常重要的会议快要迟到了，却不得不解雇了一名糟糕透顶的保姆。幸运的是，那一次，她母亲开车过来救急——但自那以后，泰勒至少备有一个后备计划，以防万一。

    6.学习如何分配工作。很多年前，泰勒刚刚入职期望已久的US West新产品开发总监职位6个月。泰勒在书中写道：“我想我必须得辞职了，因为我不想留下被公司开除的耻辱记录。我没法按时或准确地完成工作，虽然我比以往任何时候都要努力。

    “我的问题是我不知道如何分配工作，如何通过他人实现领导，以及如何拒绝，”她解释说。“幸运的是，我有一位愿意指导我的老板，他告诉我，我需要寻求帮助。

    像第2点一样，分配工作有时候意味着要遏制自己内心的完美主义：“我必须接受一个事实，没人会按我的方式去做，但这没什么，”泰勒写到。“我接受了这一点，充分信任别人。后来，我们的团队成为这家公司表现最优秀的团队之一，这最终成全了我下一次的升职。”

    更多一点建议：无论多忙，“都要把家庭生活放在首位，”泰勒敦促读者道。“如果你的个人生活一团糟，你永远不会在工作中做到最好……你不能将职业女性的母亲角色剥离，也不能剥离母亲的职业女性角色，不妨运用好这两种角色……重要的是，不要认为你的生活是零和游戏，也不要认为它是一个必须平衡的等式。”祝你好运。

    反馈：您有什么样的时间管理方法，帮助您将事业与生活结合在一起？欢迎留言。（财富中文网）

    At work, she adds, she was known as the Time Warden, "because I am 100% comfortable with cutting someone off" in order to keep a meeting within its time limit: "Halfway through the meeting, I'll say something like, 'Everyone, we have thirty minutes left'" — and then 10 minutes, and so on. This tactic has the salutary side-effect of forcing certain longwinded folks to get to the point, which is never a bad thing.

    3. Keep one calendar. Early in her career, Taylor kept separate calendars for work and home, which meant "I bifurcated my life, and as a consequence I felt bifurcated. This was not pleasant. Meeting and appointment overlaps occurred, and I dropped the ball and missed a few things." Noting personal and professional items on the same calendar prevents that.

    4. Work on weekends. "Sunday was my secret weapon," Taylor writes. "Nobody likes to work on Sundays. This meant that I had an empty office, a floor, or possibly the whole building at my disposal."

    So she brought her two kids to the office: "I'd pack games, stickers, and dry-erase markers and they'd set up in the conference room adjacent to my office. In addition, in that wasteland of empty offices, they were able to run freely down the halls without disturbing anyone." They had a blast, and Taylor was able to get a jump on the week ahead.

    5. Have a day-care Plan B (and C, and D). "Day care failure. Three words that panic any working mother," Taylor writes. She learned this the hard way when obliged to fire a Babysitter From Hell on a day when her husband was out of town and she was late for a big meeting. On that occasion, luckily, her mom rode to the rescue -- but from that point on, Taylor always had at least one backup plan, just in case.

    6. Learn how to delegate. Many years ago, six months into a new, long-desired job as director of new product development at US West, Taylor writes, "I thought I was going to have to resign, because I did not want the shame of being fired. I couldn't deliver anything on time or accurately, yet I was working harder than ever.”

    "My problem was that I did not know how to delegate the work, lead through others, or say no," she explains. "Luckily, I had a boss who was willing to mentor me and who taught me that I needed to ask for help."

    As with No. 2 above, delegating sometimes means shushing one's inner perfectionist: "I had to make peace with the fact that nobody was going to do it my way, but that was okay," Taylor writes, adding, "When I let go and trusted others, our team became one of the best-performing teams at the company, which eventually led to my next promotion."

    One further suggestion: However busy you get, "make your home life a priority," Taylor urges. "If your personal life is a mess, you'll never be your best at work ... You can't take the mother out of the career woman or the career out of the mother, so use both to your advantage ... Above all, try not to think of your life as a zero-sum game, or an equation that has to be balanced." Good luck.

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