How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam | TED

Translator: Leslie Gauthier Reviewer: Camille Martínez

Prevoditelj: Tilen Pigac - EFZG Recezent: Ivan Stamenković

When people find out I write about time management,

Kada ljudi čuju da pišem knjige o organizaciji vremena,

they assume two things.

pretpostavljaju dvije stvari.

One is that I'm always on time,

Pomisle da nikad ne kasnim,

and I'm not.

a zapravo kasnim.

I have four small children,

Imam četvero male djece,

and I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness,

i voljela bih okriviti njih za svoja povremena kašnjenja,

but sometimes it's just not their fault.

no ponekad to zaista nije njihova krivica.

I was once late to my own speech on time management.

Jednom sam zakasnila na vlastiti govor o organizaciji vremena.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

We all had to just take a moment together and savor that irony.

Svi smo na trenutak uživali u toj ironiji.

The second thing they assume is that I have lots of tips and tricks

Druga stvar koju pretpostave jest da imam puno savjeta i trikova

for saving bits of time here and there.

kako uštedjeti nešto vremena tu i tamo.

Sometimes I'll hear from magazines that are doing a story along these lines,

Ponekad čujem od raznih časopisa da pišu članak o ovoj temi,

generally on how to help their readers find an extra hour in the day.

o tome kako pomoći čitateljima da pronađu jedan dodatni sat dnevno.

And the idea is that we'll shave bits of time off everyday activities,

Bit je u tome da skratimo vrijeme za svakodnevne aktivnosti,

add it up,

pribrojimo to vrijeme,

and we'll have time for the good stuff.

i naći ćemo vremena za dobre stvari.

I question the entire premise of this piece, but I'm always interested

Uvijek preispitujem takvu ideju, ali mi je uvijek zanimljivo

in hearing what they've come up with before they call me.

saslušati što su smislili prije nego me pozovu.

Some of my favorites:

Najdraže ideje su mi:

doing errands where you only have to make right-hand turns --

ići u nabavku samo ondje gdje moraš skrenuti desno --

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Being extremely judicious in microwave usage:

Biti izuzetno pametan pri korištenju mikrovalne:

it says three to three-and-a-half minutes on the package,

ako piše tri do tri i pol minute na pakiranju,

we're totally getting in on the bottom side of that.

definitivno ćemo ući malo dublje u to.

And my personal favorite, which makes sense on some level,

I moj osobni favorit, za koji ima smisla na nekoj razini,

is to DVR your favorite shows so you can fast-forward through the commercials.

jest snimiti vaše najdraže emisije kako bi mogli premotati reklame.

That way, you save eight minutes every half hour,

Tako uštedite osam minuta svakih pola sata,

so in the course of two hours of watching TV,

tako da tijekom dva sata gledanja televizije,

you find 32 minutes to exercise.

imate trideset dvije minute za vježbanje.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Which is true.

To je istina.

You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise?

Znate kako još pronaći trideset dvije minute za vježbu?

Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right?

Ne gledajte televiziju dva sata dnevno, točno?

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Anyway, the idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, add it up,

Dakle, bit je uštedjeti nešto vremena kad stignemo, pribrojimo to vrijeme,

we will finally get to everything we want to do.

i napokon ćemo imate vremena za sve što poželimo.

But after studying how successful people spend their time

Nakon što sam proučavala kako uspješni ljudi troše svoje vrijeme,

and looking at their schedules hour by hour,

i gledajući njihove rasporede za svakih sat vremena,

I think this idea has it completely backward.

mislim da je ova ideja nešto sasvim suprotno.

We don't build the lives we want by saving time.

Ne gradimo živote kakve želimo štedeći vrijeme.

We build the lives we want,

Gradimo živote kakve želimo

and then time saves itself.

i vrijeme štedi samo sebe.

Here's what I mean.

Malo ću to pojasniti.

I recently did a time diary project

Radila sam na dnevniku vremena

looking at 1,001 days in the lives of extremely busy women.

gledajući 1001 dan u životima previše zaposlenih žena.

They had demanding jobs, sometimes their own businesses,

Radile su zahtjevne poslove, ponekad u svojim tvrtkama,

kids to care for, maybe parents to care for,

brinule su se o djeci, možda i o roditeljima,

community commitments --

obveze u zajednici,

busy, busy people.

vrlo zaposleni ljudi.

I had them keep track of their time for a week

Tjedan su dana vodili evidenciju o svome vremenu,

so I could add up how much they worked and slept,

da bih mogla zbrojiti koliko su radile i spavale,

and I interviewed them about their strategies, for my book.

te sam ih intervjuirala o strategijama za svoju knjigu.

One of the women whose time log I studied

Jedna od žena čiji sam raspored pratila,

goes out on a Wednesday night for something.

izašla je jedne srijede uvečer po nešto.

She comes home to find that her water heater has broken,

Dok se vratila kući, pokidao se bojler

and there is now water all over her basement.

i poplavio joj podrum.

If you've ever had anything like this happen to you,

Ako vam se ikad ovakvo što dogodilo,

you know it is a hugely damaging, frightening, sopping mess.

tada znate da je to štetan, zastrašujući i mokar nered.

So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath that night,

Ona se tu večer suočava s neposrednim posljedicama,

next day she's got plumbers coming in,

sljedeći dan dolaze vodoinstalateri,

day after that, professional cleaning crew dealing with the ruined carpet.

dan poslije, ekipa za čišćenje dolazi počistiti uništeni sag.

All this is being recorded on her time log.

Sve je to zapisala u raspored.

Winds up taking seven hours of her week.

Izgubila je sedam sati od tjedna.

Seven hours.

Sedam sati.

That's like finding an extra hour in the day.

Kao da je pronašla jedan dodatni sat dnevno.

But I'm sure if you had asked her at the start of the week,

Ali sigurna sam kada bi je na početku tjedna pitali,

"Could you find seven hours to train for a triathlon?"

"Možeš li izdvojiti sedam sati za trening za triatlon?"

"Could you find seven hours to mentor seven worthy people?"

"Možeš li izdvojiti sedam sati da podučavaš sedam vrijednih ljudi?"

I'm sure she would've said what most of us would've said,

Sigurna sam da bi rekla ono što bi rekli i mi ostali,

which is, "No -- can't you see how busy I am?"

a to je: "Ne, ne vidiš li koliko sam zaposlena?"

Yet when she had to find seven hours

Ali kada je morala pronaći sedam sati

because there is water all over her basement,

jer joj je podrum bio napunjen vodom,

she found seven hours.

pronašla je sedam sati.

And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic.

I to nam pokazuje da je vrijeme vrlo rastezljivo.

We cannot make more time,

Ne možemo stvoriti više vremena,

but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it.

ali se vrijeme rasteže da se prilagodi onome što odlučimo staviti u njega.

And so the key to time management

Zato je ključno u organizaciji vremena

is treating our priorities

odnositi se prema svojim prioritetima

as the equivalent of that broken water heater.

jednako kao prema pokidanom bojleru.

To get at this,

Da bih objasnila bit,

I like to use language from one of the busiest people I ever interviewed.

volim se služiti jezikom najzasposlenije osobe koju sam intervjuirala.

By busy, I mean she was running a small business

Vodila je malu tvrtku

with 12 people on the payroll,

s 12 ljudi na platnoj listi

she had six children in her spare time.

i šestero djece u slobodnom vremenu.

I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview

Bile smo u kontaktu da dogovorimo intervju

on how she "had it all" -- that phrase.

o tome kako "ima sve što želi."

I remember it was a Thursday morning,

Sjećam se da je bio četvrtak ujutro,

and she was not available to speak with me.

i nije bila slobodna za razgovor.

Of course, right?

Naravno, zar ne?

But the reason she was unavailable to speak with me

Razlog zbog kojeg je bila nedostupna za razgovor

is that she was out for a hike,

je zbog toga što je izašla pješačiti,

because it was a beautiful spring morning,

jer je bilo prekrasno proljetno jutro,

and she wanted to go for a hike.

i htjela je ići pješačiti.

So of course this makes me even more intrigued,

Naravno da me to još više zaintrigiralo,

and when I finally do catch up with her, she explains it like this.

i kada sam je napokon uhvatila, objasnila mi je.

She says, "Listen Laura, everything I do,

Rekla je: "Slušaj Laura, sve što radim,

every minute I spend, is my choice."

svaka minuta koju potrošim, moj je izbor."

And rather than say,

I umjesto da je rekla:

"I don't have time to do x, y or z,"

"Nemam vremena za ovo ili ono,"

she'd say, "I don't do x, y or z because it's not a priority."

rekla bi, "ne radim ovo ili ono jer mi to nije prioritet."

"I don't have time," often means "It's not a priority."

"Nemam vremena" često znači "nije mi prioritet".

If you think about it, that's really more accurate language.

Ako razmislite o tome, to je i točnije rečeno.

I could tell you I don't have time to dust my blinds,

Mogla bih vam reći da nemam vremena očistiti rolete,

but that's not true.

ali to nije istina.

If you offered to pay me $100,000 to dust my blinds,

Ako bi mi ponudili 100.000$ za čišćenje roleta,

I would get to it pretty quickly.

ubrzo bih se prihvatila posla.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Since that is not going to happen,

Budući da se to neće dogoditi,

I can acknowledge this is not a matter of lacking time;

mogu priznati izgovor nije manjak vremena,

it's that I don't want to do it.

već volja da to napravim.

Using this language reminds us that time is a choice.

Korištenje ovih riječi podsjeća nas da je vrijeme izbor.

And granted,

I zasigurno,

there may be horrible consequences for making different choices,

mogu postojati strašne posljedice za različite odluke,

I will give you that.

to ću vam priznati.

But we are smart people,

Ali mi smo pametni ljudi,

and certainly over the long run,

i zasigurno gledajući na duže staze,

we have the power to fill our lives

imamo moć ispuniti svoje živote

with the things that deserve to be there.

stvarima koje zaslužuju biti u njemu.

So how do we do that?

Kako to postići?

How do we treat our priorities

Kako se odnositi prema

as the equivalent of that broken water heater?

prioritetima jednako kao prema pokidanom bojleru?

Well, first we need to figure out what they are.

Najprije moramo razmisliti što su nam prioriteti.

I want to give you two strategies for thinking about this.

Želim vam pokazati dvije strategije za razmišljanje.

The first, on the professional side:

Prva je s profesionalne strane:

I'm sure many people coming up to the end of the year

Sigurna sam da mnogi ljudi kada se približava kraj godine

are giving or getting annual performance reviews.

naprave ili dobiju godišnju procjenu radnog učinka.

You look back over your successes over the year,

Tada pregledate uspjehe u protekloj godini,

your "opportunities for growth."

svoj "prostor za napredak".

And this serves its purpose,

I to ima svoju svrhu,

but I find it's more effective to do this looking forward.

ali smatram da je učinkovitije raditi to s pogledom u budućnost.

So I want you to pretend it's the end of next year.

Želim da se pretvarate da je sada kraj sljedeće godine.

You're giving yourself a performance review,

Pravite si godišnju procjenu radnog učinka,

and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you professionally.

i prošla je godina za vas bila vrlo uspješna poslovna godina.

What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing?

Koje ste tri do pet stvari napravili a koje su učinili tu godinu uspješnom?

So you can write next year's performance review now.

Sada možete napisati svoju procjenu učinka rada za sljedeću godinu.

And you can do this for your personal life, too.

A to možete učiniti i za svoj osobni život.

I'm sure many of you, like me, come December,

Sigurna sam da mnogi od vas, poput mene, u prosincu,

get cards that contain these folded up sheets of colored paper,

dobiju čestitke u kojima se nalaze šareni papiri

on which is written what is known as the family holiday letter.

na kojima su ispisana praznična obiteljska pisma.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Bit of a wretched genre of literature, really,

Pomalo pokvaren stil pisanja, ako razmislite,

going on about how amazing everyone in the household is,

o tome kako su svi ukućani odlično,

or even more scintillating,

ili čak još sjajnije,

how busy everyone in the household is.

kako su svi ukućani zaposleni.

But these letters serve a purpose,

Ali ovakva pisma imaju svrhu,

which is that they tell your friends and family

a to je da pokažu vašim prijateljima i obitelji

what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the year.

da ste radili nešto vama značajno u osobnom životu tijekom godine.

So this year's kind of done,

Budući da je ova godina završila,

but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year,

stoga želim da se pretvarate da je kraj sljedeće godine,

and it has been an absolutely amazing year

i bila je to zaista savršena godina

for you and the people you care about.

za vas i ljude koje volite.

What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing?

Koje ste tri do pet stvari učinili koje su je učinile toliko uspješnom?

So you can write next year's family holiday letter now.

Sada možete napisati svoje obiteljsko pismo za sljedeću godinu.

Don't send it.

Nemojte ga poslati.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Please, don't send it.

Molim vas, ne šaljite ga.

But you can write it.

Ali možete ga napisati.

And now, between the performance review and the family holiday letter,

Sad, između godišnje procjene radnog učinka i obiteljskog pisma,

we have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next year.

imamo listu od šest do deset ciljeva na kojima možemo raditi nagodinu.

And now we need to break these down into doable steps.

Sada ih moramo raščlaniti na izvedive korake.

So maybe you want to write a family history.

Recimo da želite napisati obiteljsku povijest.

First, you can read some other family histories,

Najprije možete pročitati druge obiteljske povijesti,

get a sense for the style.

kako bi vidjeli stil pisanja.

Then maybe think about the questions you want to ask your relatives,

Zatim razmisliti o pitanjima koje biste htjeli pitali rodbinu,

set up appointments to interview them.

dogovoriti sastanke za razgovore.

Or maybe you want to run a 5K.

Ili možda želite trčati 5 kilometara.

So you need to find a race and sign up, figure out a training plan,

Dakle, potrebno je pronaći utrku i prijaviti se, napraviti plan treninga,

and dig those shoes out of the back of the closet.

i iskopati te tenisice iz kraja ormara.

And then -- this is key --

A onda -- to je ključno --

we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater,

odnosimo se prema našim prioritetima, kao što bi se prema pokvarenom bojleru,

by putting them into our schedules first.

stavljajući ih u našim rasporedima na prvo mjesto.

We do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them.

To činimo tako da razmišljamo o našim tjednima prije nego dođu.

I find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoons.

Otkrila sam kako je to dobro raditi u petak popodne.

Friday afternoon is what an economist might call

Petak poslijepodne je ono što bi ekonomisti mogli nazvati

a "low opportunity cost" time.

vrijeme "niskog oportunitetnog troška."

Most of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoons saying,

Većina nas ne sjedi tamo petkom popodne govoreći:

"I am excited to make progress

"Uzbuđen sam što ću napredovati

toward my personal and professional priorities

ka mojim osobnim i profesionalnim prioritetima

right now."

sada."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

But we are willing to think about what those should be.

Ali, spremni smo razmišljati o tome što oni trebaju biti.

So take a little bit of time Friday afternoon,

Dakle, odvojite malo vremena petkom popodne,

make yourself a three-category priority list: career, relationships, self.

napravite svoju listu prioriteta sa tri kategorije: karijera, odnosi, ja.

Making a three-category list reminds us

Izrada liste sa tri kategorija nas podsjeća

that there should be something in all three categories.

kako bi trebalo biti nešto u svakoj od te tri kategorije.

Career, we think about;

Karijera, o njoj razmišljamo;

relationships, self --

odnosi, ja --

not so much.

i ne baš toliko.

But anyway, just a short list,

Svejedno, samo kratka lista,

two to three items in each.

dvije do tri stvari u svakoj od njih.

Then look out over the whole of the next week,

I onda promatrajte cijeli listu kroz cijeli idući tjedan,

and see where you can plan them in.

i vidite gdje ih možete uplanirati.

Where you plan them in is up to you.

Gdje ih isplanirate ovisi potpuno o vama.

I know this is going to be more complicated for some people than others.

Znam da će ovo biti kompliciranije za neke ljude u odnosu na druge.

I mean, some people's lives are just harder than others.

Mislim, životi nekih ljudi su teži od drugih.

It is not going to be easy to find time to take that poetry class

Neće se lako naći vremena da se pohađa taj razred poezije

if you are caring for multiple children on your own.

ako sami brinete o nekoliko djece.

I get that.

Shvaćam.

And I don't want to minimize anyone's struggle.

I ne želim umanjiti ničiju borbu.

But I do think that the numbers I am about to tell you are empowering.

Ali mislim kako su brojke koje ću spomenuti ohrabrujuće.

There are 168 hours in a week.

Imamo 168 sati u tjednu.

Twenty-four times seven is 168 hours.

dvadeset četiri put sedam je 168 sati.

That is a lot of time.

To je puno vremena.

If you are working a full-time job, so 40 hours a week,

Ako radite posao na puno radno vrijeme, dakle 40 sati na tjedan,

sleeping eight hours a night, so 56 hours a week --

spavati osam sati na noć, dakle 56 sati na tjedan --

that leaves 72 hours for other things.

to vam ostavlja 72 sata za druge stvari.

That is a lot of time.

To je puno vremena.

You say you're working 50 hours a week,

Recimo da radite 50 sati tjedno,

maybe a main job and a side hustle.

možda glavni posao i nešto sa strane.

Well, that leaves 62 hours for other things.

Pa, to vam ostavlja 62 sata za druge stvari.

You say you're working 60 hours.

Recimo da radite 60 sati.

Well, that leaves 52 hours for other things.

Pa, to vam ostavlja 52 sata za druge stvari.

You say you're working more than 60 hours.

Kažete da radite više od 60 sati tjedno.

Well, are you sure?

Pa, jeste li sigurni?

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

There was once a study comparing people's estimated work weeks

Jednom su radili istraživanje koje je uspoređivalo procijenjeni radni tjedan

with time diaries.

sa dnevnikom vremena ljudi.

They found that people claiming 75-plus-hour work weeks

Otkrili su da ljudi koji tvrde da imaju 75 plus-satni radni tjedan

were off by about 25 hours.

su promašili za nekih 25 sati.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

You can guess in which direction, right?

Možete pogoditi u kojem smjeru, zar ne?

Anyway, in 168 hours a week,

U svakom slučaju, u 168 sati tjedno

I think we can find time for what matters to you.

mislim kako možemo naći vremena za ono što nam je važno.

If you want to spend more time with your kids,

Ako želite provesti što više vremena sa svojom djecom,

you want to study more for a test you're taking,

želite učiti više za test koji polažete,

you want to exercise for three hours and volunteer for two,

želite vježbati tri sata i volontirati dva,

you can.

možete.

And that's even if you're working way more than full-time hours.

A to je, čak i ako radite puno više od punog radnog vremena.

So we have plenty of time, which is great,

Dakle, imamo dosta vremena, što je super,

because guess what?

ali znate što?

We don't even need that much time to do amazing things.

Nije nam potrebno toliko vremena da radimo izvanredne stvari.

But when most of us have bits of time, what do we do?

No, kada većina nas ima komadiće vremena, što mi činimo?

Pull out the phone, right?

Izvadimo telefon, jel'da?

Start deleting emails.

Počinjemo brisati e-mailove.

Otherwise, we're puttering around the house

Ili se petljamo oko kuće

or watching TV.

ili gledamo TV.

But small moments can have great power.

Ali mali trenuci mogu imati veliku moć.

You can use your bits of time

Možete koristiti svoje komadiće vremena

for bits of joy.

za komadiće radosti.

Maybe it's choosing to read something wonderful on the bus

Možda je to odabir čitanja nečeg prekrasnog u autobusu

on the way to work.

na putu do posla.

I know when I had a job that required two bus rides

Znam kad sam imala posao koji je zahtijevao dvije autobusne vožnje

and a subway ride every morning,

i vožnju podzemnom svakog jutra.

I used to go to the library on weekends to get stuff to read.

Običavala sam ići u knjižnicu vikendom da uzmem stvari za čitanje.

It made the whole experience almost, almost, enjoyable.

To je učinilo cijeli doživljaj gotovo, gotovo, ugodnim.

Breaks at work can be used for meditating or praying.

Pauze na koslu se mogu koristiti za meditaciju ili molitvu.

If family dinner is out because of your crazy work schedule,

Ako obiteljsku večeru imate vani zbog svog ludog radnog rasporeda,

maybe family breakfast could be a good substitute.

možda bi obiteljski doručak mogao biti dobra zamjena.

It's about looking at the whole of one's time

Radi se o cjelovitom pogledu na svoje vrijeme

and seeing where the good stuff can go.

i vidjeti gdje se mogu staviti dobre stvari.

I truly believe this.

Doista vjerujem u to.

There is time.

Ima vremena.

Even if we are busy,

Čak i ako smo zauzeti,

we have time for what matters.

imamo vremena za ono što je važno.

And when we focus on what matters,

A kada se usredotočimo na ono što je važno,

we can build the lives we want

možemo graditi živote koje želimo

in the time we've got.

u vremenu koje imamo.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)